BACKGROUND We studied the intention of a group of insurance physicians to use the guidelines for depression, and their behaviour in disability assessments. We considered attitude, social norm and self-efficacy, knowledge/skills and stimuli, based on the Attitude-Social norm-self-Efficacy model (ASE model) as possible determinants of both intention and behaviour.The aim of this study was to unde...

OBJECTIVE To describe differences in trajectories of self reported health in an ageing cohort according to occupational grade. DESIGN Prospective cohort study of office based British civil servants (1985-2004). PARTICIPANTS 10 308 men and women aged 35-55 at baseline, employed in 20 London civil service departments (the Whitehall II study); follow-up was an average of 18 years. MAIN OUTCO...

The current study aimed to replicate and expand upon research conducted by Bagley, Abramowitz and Kosson (2009) to examine categorization of emotional sentences among non-psychopathic individuals. 36 monolingual English-speaking undergraduate participants categorized spoken English sentences (produced with neutral prosody but containing semantic cues to emotion) and French sentences (produced w...

By Arthur Falek, Ph.D. What is known about the genetic aspects of opiate addiction? Opiates such as heroin and dilaudid are drugs which have long been known to relieve or depress pain but increased consumption frequently result in uncontrolled drug use and addiction. These properties of opiates led to the discovery that there are specific opiate receptors in the brain and that the central nervo...

objective some lines of evidences demonstrate that opioids are involved in water and food intake. on the other hand the dopaminergic mesolimbic system that consists of ventral tegmental area (vta), nucleus accumbens (nac) and medial prefrontal cortex is considered to be crucial in the rewarding actions of opiates. there are also reports showing that this system has some roles in appetite and dr...

BACKGROUND 600 mcg of oral misoprostol reduces the incidence of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), but in previous research this medication has been administered by health workers. It is unclear whether it is also safe and effective when self-administered by women. METHODS This placebo-controlled, double-blind randomised trial enrolled consenting women of at least 34 weeks gestation, recruited ove...

In light of recent challenges to the strength model of self-control, our study re-examines the effects of self-control training on established physical and self-report measures of self-control. We also examined whether beliefs about the malleability of self-control qualify any training effects. Participants in the training condition were assigned to increase use of their non-dominant hand for t...

Numerous studies exist examining how college students use Facebook and how this affects aspects of their college experience; however, all of these studies have relied on self-report measures of Facebook use. Research in other areas of human behavior has shown that self-report measures are substantially inaccurate when compared to actual behaviors. This study provides the first test of the crite...