OBJECTIVE Developing and validating an instrument to evaluate the playfulness of games in health education contexts. METHODOLOGY A methodological, exploratory and descriptive research, developed in two stages: 1. Application of an open questionnaire to 50 graduate students, with content analysis of the answers and calculation of Kappa coefficient for defining items; 2. Procedures for construc...

venous injections of iodine in this disease has been recognized by previous workers, I used it as a routine measure, giving injections containing from 2 to 1? grs. In spite of these injections most patients showed severe constitutional disturbances within 48 hours of commencing treatment, with delirium and restlessness. Severe asthenia would set in about the third day of treatment, and the prog...

During migration, birds undergo alternating periods of fasting and re-feeding that are associated with dynamic changes in body mass (m(b)) and in organ size, including that of the digestive tract. After arrival at a migratory stopover site, following a long flight, a bird must restore the tissues of its digestive tract before it can refuel. In the present study we examined how the availability ...

Though recovery of consciousness after drug overdose may occur within a day or two, the drug itself may not finally leave the brain for another one to three weeks, and at this late time a withdrawal syndrome can occur, with insomnia, restlessness, raised paradoxical (R.E.M.) sleep, epileptic phenomena, and even delirium. It is proposed that a high degree of drug-tolerance and dependence can be ...

CERTAIN birds when held in small cages during the migration seasons exhibit a nocturnal restlessness which has been interpreted as an expression of migratory condition and termed Zugunruhe. In 1949 the late Gustav Kramer demonstrated that Red-backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) and blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla), placed in cages under the night sky, often tended to orient their Zugunruhe toward th...

Using G.29.505 the incidence of excitatory phenomena occurring after premedication with atropine and opiate was insignificantly different from that after atropine alone, whereas after hyoscine it was three times as high. Respiratory disturbances were significantly less frequent when an opiate was used with atropine than after atropine or hyoscine alone. G.29.505 was compared with nitrous oxide ...

Phenothiazine derivatives are widely used and their toxic effects in adults are well recognized. They include dizziness, mild skin reactions, jaundice, motor restlessness, and occasionally neuromuscular reactions. Dystonia and symptoms resembling parkinsonism usually occur only at high dosages. These are well-recognized complications in mental hospitals when drugs are being used to treat psycho...

A 16 year old unmarried girl presented with complaints of abdominal distension, vomiting, constipation, difficulty in breathing and restlessness. On examination abdomen was grossly distended with fluid thrill. Ultrasonographic examination revealed that there was a huge cystic collection with internal debris, multiple septations involving the whole abdomen and pelvis originating from right ovary...

Carisoprodol is a centrally acting skeletal muscle relaxant whose active metabolite is meprobamate. There have been few reports of carisoprodol abuse from India. This is a report of a case with carisoprodol dependence. The patient also had poly substance abuse of alcohol, nicotine, benzodiazepine and dextropropoxyphene. Although no specific withdrawal syndrome could be identified, the patient h...