Epidemiological studies have suggested that the association between city upbringing and minority status with risk for schizophrenia can be explained by social mechanisms. Neuroimaging approaches hold promise for investigating this claim. Recent studies have shown that in healthy individuals, city upbringing and minority status are associated with increased activity in brain circuits involved in...

OBJECTIVE Among the instruments aiming to assess perceived parenting attitudes during the childhood period, EMBU (Egna Minnen Barndoms Uppfostran; My memories of upbringing) is one of the frequently used scales. It is a self-report instrument in which adult participants are asked to report their perceptions of the attitudes of their parents during their childhood on the dimensions of emotional ...

Results of a study of psychologic environmental factors and their effects on siblings in terms of fear from dental interventions are presented. Thirty pairs of siblings aged 6-15 years, treated at the Zagreb University Institute of Pediatric and Preventive Dental Medicine in Zagreb, were included in the study. The main criterion for inclusion in the study was the fact that one child accepted th...

Lawson Wilkins is well known as the "father" of the field of pediatric endocrinology, and his scientific accomplishments and legacy are thoroughly documented in this edition and elsewhere. Less well known, though, is what the man himself was like. Here, his daughter, Elizabeth McMaster, recalls the personal side of Dr. Wilkins including his upbringing as the son of a prominent Baltimore doctor,...

The linguistic and axiological features of the conceptualization pedagogical views in reflective discourse Michel Montaigne are studied. A feature chosen research problem is consideration text corpus historical personality 16th century from point view reflexive representation. relevance topic due to importance addressing historically formed cultural ideals (education, science, upbringing). stud...

We recruited 367 current daily smokers via the Internet and randomized them to rate the causes of an inability to stop smoking, inability to stop problem alcohol use, or inability to lose excess weight in a fictional scenarios. Most smokers attributed inability to stop smoking to addiction (88%), habit (88%) and stress (62%). Surprisingly, equal numbers of smokers agreed and disagreed that inab...

" Pedagogika. " " K voprosy o genezise funktsii i structure emotsional'nykh protsessov u rebenka, " in Zaporozhets: izbrannye trudy, ed. V. The study of emotions and their development is very important in the investigation of general problems of the ontogenesis of human psyche, because the latter cannot be reduced to the development of intellect. The periodic changes in cognitive activity that ...

The l i te ra ture is contradictory regarding t h e parents of ~schizophrenics. This study is a trial to discuss the concept of schizophrenogenic parents in cases of hebephrenic type and )their impact on different sex patients. From Benha hospital for mental health and Benha University hospital, fifty cases of hebephrenic schizophrenia, thirty cases of schizophrenia other 1 ypes than hebephreni...