OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of animal facilitated therapy with dolphins, controlling for the influence of the natural setting, in the treatment of mild to moderate depression and in the context of the biophilia hypothesis. SETTING The study was carried out in Honduras, and recruitment took place in the United States and Honduras. DESIGN Single blind, randomised, controlled trial...

BACKGROUND The present study was designed to verify the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral group therapy (CBGT) in reducing obsessive-compulsive symptoms and the intensity of overvalued ideas, as well as in improving the patient's quality of life. METHODS Forty-seven patients meeting DSM-IV criteria for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) were randomly assigned to either 12 weekly CBGT sessions...

The optimal visiting problem is the optimization of a trajectory that has to touch or pass as close possible collection target points. does not verify dynamic programming principle, and it needs specific formulation keep track visited In this paper, we introduce hybrid approach by adding discontinuous part switching between group discrete states related targets. Then, show well-posedness Hamilt...

In the present paper, we study the group SL 2 (H Z) of (2 2)-matrices with reduced norm 1 over the noncommutative ring of Hamilton quaternions with integral coeecients. In section 1, we obtain a presentation for SL 2 (H Z) in terms of generators and deening relations. In section 2, we exhibit a subgroup of nite index of SL 2 (H Z) with a nonabelian free quotient of rank 3. It is well known that...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To define the effects of group psychotherapy in women with a history of sexual abuse, to find possible predictors for dropout and treatment outcome rates and to find which therapeutic factors of group psychotherapy are perceived by group members to be most helpful. BACKGROUND Sexual abuse of women is a global concern and causes many psychiatric and psychological sequelae. ...

  Background :5HTTLPR polymorphism (5- Hydroxytryptamine transporter linked promoter region polymorphism) is the most widely studied genetic variant in psychiatry. The present study is a modest effort at ascertaining the role of 5HT transporter linked promoter region polymorphism (5HTTLPR) in anxiety and depressive disorders in Kashmir (India).The aim of this study was to examine 5-Hydroxy tryp...