We present results from a study connecting status characteristics theory and affect control theory. Replicating a previous study (Dippong and Kalkhoff 2015), we examine the relationship between affective impressions and general performance expectations. The current study builds on previous work by employing an experimental setting specifically designed to isolate status as the sole basis of soc...

Resumo: Relato de um caso de síndrome de Reiter em paciente jovem, do sexo masculino, com lesões dermatológicas típicas e achado positivo para o antígeno do complexo de histocompatibilidade HLA-B27. O quadro surgiu após infecção intestinal por Salmonella enteritidis, evoluindo com melhora após utilização de tetraciclina, prednisona e indometacina. Episódio recidivante foi tratado com metotrexat...

El cardiólogo se enfrenta a diario con decisiones clínicas que requieren un entendimiento claro, a la vez práctico y sucinto, de conceptos básicos de Epidemiología Clínica. Definida por Sackett y colaboradores,1 como una “ciencia básica para la medicina clínica”, este conocimiento le permite establecer un criterio acerca de la respuesta a ciertas preguntas que sus pacientes le presentan. En los...

background : studies have emphasized on the frontal eeg  symmetry as a mediator of emotional states. this research was aimed to examine the overall and asymmetric activities of the brain lobes under the affective states. methods : a coupling eeg was recorded in an eye closed awakened condition from 40 right handed female students under the baseline and affective states. results : bilaterally de...

Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is defined by episodes of involuntary crying and/or laughing as a result of brain injury or other neurological disease. Epidemiology studies show that 5.3%-48.2% of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) may have symptoms consistent with (or suggestive of) PBA. Yet it is a difficult and often overlooked condition in individuals with TBI, and is easily confused with d...

Objective: To explore psychiatrists’ opinions on the effectiveness and side-effects of current pharmacological antidepressant treatments in Australia. Method: A postal survey was sent to all consultant psychiatrists in Australia. Results: A total of 412 psychiatrists replied. The mean remission rate for depression reported by the sample was 54%. Following a partial but inadequate response to an...

Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder affecting approximately 1% of the world's population. This disease is associated with considerable morbidity placing a major financial burden on society. Antipsychotics have been the mainstay of the pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia for decades. The traditional typical and atypical antipsychotics demonstrate clinical...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate psychopathological disturbances in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MD) and compare patients with MD to both patients with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) and healthy control subjects. METHODS A semistructured interview was used to determine DSM III-R criteria for major depressive episodes, dysthymic episodes, and generalised anxiety. The Montgomery and Asberg and ...

Sir, We would like to respond to the article titled "Re-emergence of positive symptoms of schizophrenia during the course of treatment with risperidone" (Bajaj et al.), that was published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.41/No.2/April, 1999. It was quite interesting to note that these authors had observed a re-emergence of positive symptoms in 7 patients, out of 30 patients of schizophr...

It has frequently been observed that negative moods potentiate the startle re ̄ex to unexpected, threatening stimuli. However, recent work from our laboratory suggests that this e€ect relates primarily to the emotion of fear or anxiety, while stimuli which evoke powerful feelings of disgust can in some circumstances inhibit the startle re ̄ex. In this study we reanalyse data from 42 subjects in w...