As human beings we are endowed with gregarious tendencies. Like most other primates we need to live in groups. Since we are also endowed with the capacity to communicate in sophisticated ways, particularly through language, we create cultural milieus. Cultural milieus prescribe and proscribe behavior, that is, what people should do and should not do given their social surroundings and circumsta...

In this paper, we are clarifying the youth's needs for the consumption of music. As it is said music and its varieties are changing rapidly because of modern possibilities among the societies. As the function of society is altering accordingly, the need for the music is subject for a big change as well. This study was done on the method of survey and the subjects were selected on a random class...

introduction: this study aimed to investigate the effect of music on pain, anxiety and vital signs in children undergoing colonoscopy.   method and materials: this randomized study was carried out on 101 children (7 to 14 years old) requiring colonoscopy. children were randomly allocated to a control or case group. the case group was played relaxing music (by clayderman) during the procedure. s...

There has recently come under my observation the rather unusual case of a girl who exhibits kleptomaniac tendencies only during her menstruation periods. A diagnosis of kleptomania seems to be fully justified, although the author is not unmindful of the fact that genuine cases of this disorder are exceedingly rare, and that kleptomania is not only subject to wide variation in definition, but is...

In social contexts, reading subtle changes in others' facial expressions is a crucial communication skill. To measure this ability, we developed an expression-change detection task, wherein a series of pictures of changes in an individual's facial expressions within contextual scenes were presented. The results demonstrated that the detection of subtle changes was highly sensitive to contextual...

Sleep is a basic behavior in humans. There are some research reports on the cyclical patterns of different types of sleep and their relationship to breathing, heart rate, brain waves, and other physical function. More recently, scientific research has begun to show how music therapy interacts with relaxation and sleep cycle. This research is focusing on the following hypotheses: 1. Music could ...