The reliability and concurrent validity of the 15-item Death Obsession Scale [Abdel-Khalek, A. M. (1998a). The structure and measurement of death obsession. Personality and Individual Di€erences, 24, 159±165] is examined among 174 English university students (83 men, 91 women) and 105 English adults (42 men, 63 women). Consistent with previous ®ndings when using the Death Obsession Scale, the s...

Kudos for thinking about how your behavior might affect your long-term health and writing in to ask about it! What you describe may be considered behavior associated with pica, which is considered a craving to eat non-nutritive, non-food items. The research is unclear as to why some people exhibit pica behavior, but there are some potential correlations (read on for more). Depending on the subs...

objective: attention is an important factor in information processing; obsessive- compulsive disorder (ocd) and generalized anxiety disorder (gad) are two main emotional disorders with a chronic course. this research examined the relationship among attentional control and intrusive thoughts (worry, rumination and obsession) in these disorders. it was hypothesized that attentional control is a c...

Dear Sir, It was of interest to read the case report on musical obsessions (Journal 1999, 41,77-78). The clinical picture, especially the phenomenon of a particular set of known musical notes repeatedly being perceived resembles Palinacousis. This phenomenon was descnbed by Jacob and associates in 1973 as persistent or recurring paroxysmal auditory illusions in which enviornmentally produced au...

September–October 2002 0740-7475/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE DEVICE SCALING has long been an accepted mantra, even an obsession, in the semiconductor industry, and if recent predictions are true, the march of deep-submicron (DSM) devices into the nanoscale era will continue. Process and device engineers will somehow find a way to overcome the looming technical challenges, just like they always have f...