Pea (Pisum sativum L.) is moderately tolerant to salinity, early vegetative stage being more sensitive salinity. In view of this, twenty pea genotypes collected from IIVR, Varanasi were screened for salt tolerance in terms physiological and biochemical traits. The experiment was conducted randomized complete block design pots filled with soil (EC 20.47 dS/m) 3 replications. Osmotic stress creat...

Reports an error in "Psychometric Properties of the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale for DSM–5 (PDS–5)" by Edna B. Foa, Carmen P. McLean, Yinyin Zang, Jody Zhong, Mark B. Powers, Brooke Y. Kauffman, Sheila Rauch, Katherine Porter and Kelly Knowles (Psychological Assessment, Advanced Online Publication, Dec 21, 2015, np). In the article, the third sentence of the Internal Consistency subsection of...

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INTRODUCTION Increased mortality in people with schizophrenia, compared to the general population, has been consistently reported worldwide. This mortality has been attributed predominantly to "unnatural" deaths-suicide, accidents, and homicide. Recent studies have shown an increase in natural causes of death. Our objective is to compare the mortality of schizophrenic and schizoaffective subjec...

BACKGROUND About one third of cancer patients suffer from a psychiatric disorder. However, only few studies feature long-term assessment of psychiatric disease in cancer patients, covering a broad range of diagnoses, and employing high-quality instruments. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 62 patients underwent assessments during a 3-year follow-up period after initial cancer diagnosis. The Cli...

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OBJECTIVE The prevalence of lifetime alcohol abuse and/or dependence (alcoholism) in patients with bipolar disorder has been reported to be higher than in all other axis I psychiatric diagnoses. This study examined gender-specific relationships between alcoholism and bipolar illness, which have previously received little systematic study. METHOD The prevalence of lifetime alcoholism in 267 ou...

BACKGROUND The vulnerability-stress hypothesis is an established model of schizophrenia symptom formation. We sought to characterise the pattern of the cardiac autonomic response to mental arithmetic stress in patients with stable schizophrenia. METHODS We performed heart rate variability (HRV) analysis on recordings obtained before, during, and after a standard test of autonomic function inv...

Submitted: July 29, 2013; Accepted: November 2, 2013 Hummadi and AlObaidi I represents a model of the challenging mental health needs of children in conflict-affected, low-income countries. Long-term instability, violent conflict and wars undermine health and mental health status of people in Iraq, particularly children, who form half its population. Raising the level of knowledge and recogniti...