This study examined whether college students reporting frequent nightmares would score differently on scales of the Ausburg Multidimensional Personality Instrument (AMPI; Kelly, 2012) relative to a comparison group. University students (N=373) completed the AMPI and a questionnaire to assess how frequently they experienced nightmares. The results indicated that individuals with frequent nightma...

This review traces, through psychiatric textbooks, the history of the Kraepelinian concept of paranoia in the 20th century and then relates the common reported symptoms and signs to the diagnostic criteria for paranoia/delusional disorder in DSM-III through DSM-5. Clinical descriptions of paranoia appearing in 10 textbooks, published 1899 to 1970, revealed 11 prominent symptoms and signs report...

Delusions involving technology, and specifically the internet, are increasingly common, and fear-reality statistics suggest computer-related fears are very widespread. These fears form a continuum from the widely understandable and realistic to the unrealistic, and frankly paranoid. The present study investigated the validity of this construct in a non-clinical population by constructing a nove...

The postmodern subjective representation of reality in our minds has two stages: 1) reconstruction of reality (rather than simple reflection) based on cognitive, emotional and behavioral mechanisms and 2) subjective evaluations of reality. The 20 century postmodern turn in science went straight to 2) without uncovering and quantifying 1). The need for a 21 century “postmodern turn in science ve...

Recent evidence suggests that sleep problems are associated with psychotic like experiences including paranoia. However, the mechanisms underpinning this association are not well understood and thus studies modelling hypothesised mediating factors are required. Alexithymia, the inability to recognise and describe emotions within the self may be an important candidate. In two separate studies we...

current researches have showed that n3, n5-diaryl-2, 6-dimethyl -1, 4-dihydropyrine-3, 5- dicarboxamide analogues demonstrate notable anti-tubercular activity. in this study, hantzsch condensation was used to design and synthesize new analogues of dihydropyridine (dhp). different diary carboxamides were inserted at positions 3 and 5 of the dhp ring. 4(5)-chloro-2-ethyl-5(4)-imidazolyl moiety wa...

a series of 1,4-dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers bearing 1-(4-x -benzyl)-5-imidazolyl substituent at 4 position (5a-e) (x=h, f) were synthesized and tested for antihypertensive activity in desoxycorticosterone acetate (doca)-induced hypertension in rats. amlodipine was used as the standard dihydropyridine. all compounds tested showed lower antihypertensive activity than that of amlodipi...