Sir, We would like to respond to the article titled "Re-emergence of positive symptoms of schizophrenia during the course of treatment with risperidone" (Bajaj et al.), that was published in the Indian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol.41/No.2/April, 1999. It was quite interesting to note that these authors had observed a re-emergence of positive symptoms in 7 patients, out of 30 patients of schizophr...

OBJECTIVE A ruminative cognitive style has been associated with a variety of mood and anxiety disorders. This study examined whether a ruminative cognitive style is associated with health anxiety, even when controlling for negative affect. METHOD College students (N=198) completed measures of health anxiety, rumination, and negative affect and estimated the likelihood that ambiguous symptoms ...

In the present study, the authors tested the hypothesis that nicotine would provide greater relief from negative affect for more impulsive smokers than for less impulsive smokers. Euthymic adult smokers (N=70) participated in 2 laboratory sessions, during which they underwent a negative mood induction (music + autobiographical memory), then smoked either a nicotinized or de-nicotinized cigarett...

This study examines the effects of negative political campaigns on voter turnout over the last 10 years. Voter turnout in the United States is extremely low in comparison to other advanced industrialized nations, and the negativity that surrounds our elections may be the key to understanding why. The study is also a response to recent scholarship with conflicting conclusions on how the tone of ...

BACKGROUND It is well documented that positive rather than negative moods encourage integrative processing of conscious information. However, the extent to which implicit or unconscious learning can be influenced by affective states remains unclear. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task with sequence structures requiring integration over past trials was adopted to e...

BACKGROUND There is discordance among studies assessing the impact of race on outcome of patients with Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC). We assessed survival outcomes for African American (AA) versus Caucasian (CA) women with TNBC treated at an urban cancer center in Memphis, TN with a predominant AA patient population. METHODS Patients with Stage I-III TNBC were identified from our breas...

objectives: resilience is one of important subjects in health psychology. a lot of studies have investigated factors that are connected to resilience. the objective of this research was to determine role of the positive affect, negative affect and optimism, as predicting variables. method: the participants in the research were 201 students of shiraz university (100 males, 101 females) who exper...