Several, although not all, studies suggest that prolonged duration of untreated illness (DUI) predicts poor outcome in psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. It is unclear whether this association can be explained by factors such as baseline deficits or poor premorbid adjustment. First episode psychotic patients were evaluated at 1 and 2 years following baseline evaluations. Predictive meas...

OBJECTIVE To assess blood pressure (BP) reactivity as recently separated adults completed a laboratory task asking to mentally reflect on their relationship experiences. Marital separations and the experience of divorce are associated with increased risk for early mortality and poor health outcomes. Few studies, however, have investigated the potential psychophysiological mechanisms that may ac...

According to two decades of research, parental sexual orientation does not affect overall child development. Researchers have not found significant differences between offspring of heterosexual parents and those of lesbian and gay parents in terms of their cognitive, psychological, or emotional adjustment. Still, there are gaps in the literature regarding social experiences specific to offsprin...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the relationship between involvement in bullying in childhood and adolescence and psychological difficulties in young adulthood. MATERIALS AND METHOD A total of 249 college students completed the Retrospective Bullying Questionnaire and Trauma Symptom Checklist. RESULTS The results showed significant differences in psychological adjustment among respondents...

The cornerstone to evidence-based health care is the systematic review, a process that involves identifying, judging, and summarizing evidence on a particular clinical question. An excellent article appeared in the April issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association, devoted entirely to describing how systematic reviews are conducted and identifying some systematic reviews that have b...

BACKGROUND Parenting and children's adjustment were examined in 30 surrogacy families, 31 egg donation families, 35 donor insemination families, and 53 natural conception families. METHODS Parenting was assessed at age 3 by a standardized interview designed to assess quality of parenting and by questionnaire measures of anxiety, depression, and marital quality. Children's adjustment was asses...

the present survey covers a number of 91 iranian repatriated war prisoners who, six months after their freedom, approached three psychiatric clinics in tehran during 1989 and spring 1990. of these, 34 persons (37.4%) who showed higher symptoms of disorders were hospitalized and 57 (62.6%) who showed milder signs of disorders were carefully diagnosed mentally and psychologically as outpatients. ...

Short children are often described as having psychosocial problems. These reports may be inaccurate as former studies have relied largely on parental report. Psychosocial functioning of short children was assessed with the aim of using them and their peers as informants. Twenty two short (mean (SD) height -2.53 (0.28) SD score) prepubertal children aged between 6 and 11 years were recruited fro...

The ancient Indian yoga text, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, describes six cleansing techniques. The objective of cleansing techniques is to purify and prepare the body for the practice of yoga postures, breath regulation, and meditation. Yogic visual concentration technique (trataka) is one of these techniques. A previous study showed an increase in critical flicker fusion (CFF) following yogic visual ...