. The treatment of maladjusted children is essential work in the mental health field since it may ^ell prevent serious disturbance in the adult. It is also important because it relieves the strain felt by the whole family who frequently suffer with the disturbed child. Together with other forms of menhealth services for children it should be conSldered as an investment for the future health of ...

Most persons would feel an unspeakable repulsion about ever living on death row of an American prison. The lights are kept on night and day. Guards watch closely so no inmate can quietly sneak into oblivion before the official governmentsanctioned ‘‘send-off’’ day. As the day of death comes closer, the physical and mental strain can be awful. How could anyone laugh for joy in a setting like thi...

In most developing countries health services are not orientated to the needs of older people, and welfare provision is rudimentary (The 10/66 Research Group, 2000; Shaji et al., 2002). Care has been considered to be the responsibility of families, however, the integrity of this traditional arrangement is increasingly threatened by rapid socio-cultural and economic change (Patel and Prince, 2001...

Depression and suicide are significant public health issues for older adults. Depression is one of the most common mental disorders experienced by elders, but fortunately is treatable by a variety of means. Current cohorts of older adults in the United States evidence lower rates of major depression than younger cohorts, but experience minor depression or significant subsnydromal depressive sym...

A novel version of the Mental Rotations Test (MRT) that alternated the standard block figures with three-dimensional human figures was administered to 99 men and 129 women. Women and men differed predictably in their retrospective reports of childhood play and digit ratios, a putative measure of prenatal androgen action. Compared to the block figure items, human figure items on the modified MRT...

The COVID-19 (2019 novel coronavirus) pandemic, which has been accompanied by an economic crisis and multiple restrictions on our lives, sparked renewed interest in the topic of loneliness as well its determinants. We examined (1) association between financial strain, occurring upon outbreak virus, among Israeli young people (aged 20–35); (2) associations cognitive social capital, psychological...

conclusions our results demonstrated the ability of pw-tdi and s/sr modalities in detection of the early subclinical abnormalities in asymptomatic patients with significant chronic ar. results ar group had significantly increased lv end systolic and end diastolic volumes, interventricular septum and posterior wall thickness compared to controls. in ar, sm and em of septal wall, sm of lateral wa...

biomechanical properties of soft tissue, such as liver, are important in modeling computer aided surgical procedures. experimental evidences show that liver tissue is transversely isotropic. in this article, considering the liver tissue as an incompressible fiber-reinforced composite with one family of fibers, an exponential strain energy function (sef) is proposed. the proposed sef is based on...

probiotics, living microorganisms which when used in adequate amounts, have health benefits on the host, have attracted a considerable deal of interest in the biotechnology market. various prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes have been studied for probiotic purposes in human and animals. lactobacillus and bifidobacterium are the main probiotic genera; however, there are reports on the probiotic p...