Emotional and motivational disorders in adults are often considered to be the result of altered neurodevelopment. Clinical and experimental data provide evidence that serine protease dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV, EC 3.4.14.5) is involved in the pathophysiology of psycho-emotional disorders. Recently, we have shown that adolescent and adult rats exhibit an increase in anxiety and depression-r...

We present an architecture for orientation selective image filtering that includes competitive interactions between different arrays tuned to different orientations. We prove that the presence of these interactions sharpens the spatial frequency tuning of the filters in comparison to a similar architecture which lacks these interactions.

Background: Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is stressful for the patient. Aim:  to determine the influence of Orientation technique on anxiety levels and pulse rate in patients before ERCP in Talaghni hospital in 2011. Method: This study was a randomized controlled clinical trial which carried out on 70 subjects with gastrointe...

Abstract In several online retail contexts, such as grocery retailing, customers have to be present at the moment of delivery, that is, an attended home delivery service is in place. This requirement adds new challenges this channel, often leading narrow profitability. From operations perspective, performed with retailer offering multiple time slots for customer choose from. Retailers target a ...

High trait anxiety has been associated with detriments in emotional face processing. By contrast, relatively little is known about the effects of state anxiety on emotional face processing. We investigated the effects of state anxiety on recognition of emotional expressions (anger, sadness, surprise, disgust, fear and happiness) experimentally, using the 7.5% carbon dioxide (CO2) model to induc...

This study was done to verify a prediction in achievement goal-orientation theory in a Korean physical education setting. It was hypothesized that the interactions of situationally induced motivational climates (Task and Ego) and perceived competence would differentially influence anxiety and performance in tennis classes. 60 undergraduate men were assigned to a Task-involving and an Ego-involv...

Alcoholism is characterized by successive periods of abstinence and relapse, resulting from long-lasting changes in various circuits of the central nervous system. Accumulating evidence points to the endocannabinoid system as one of the most relevant biochemical systems mediating alcohol addiction. The endocannabinoid system regulates adult neurogenesis, a form of long-lasting adult plasticity ...

background and objective: amygdala contains central nucleus which is the region rich of γ-aminobutyric acid (gaba-a) receptors and plays a key role in modulating behavior and sleep homeostasis. furthermore, dysfunction of amygdala probably contributes to anxiety and mood disorders. in this study, we evaluated the association between acute sleep deprivation (asd) and anxiety through gaba-a recep...

The Congressional Budget Office, the Rand Corporation, and the Urban Institute have estimated that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will leave employer-sponsored coverage largely intact; in contrast, some economists and benefit consultants argue that the ACA encourages employers to drop coverage, thereby making both their workers and their firms better off (a "win-win" situa...

p u rpose: this study was conducted to determine the relationship between depression and anxiety with love among married peoples. m ethods: it was a post event study performed on 90 married peoples and the sample was randomly selected. married people were invited to volunteer by calling and they were entered to study after filling consent form. then participants were evaluated by demographic, b...