This study reports the executive function profile in people with schizophrenia, with a simultaneous comparison of chronicity and of those with predominately disorganization versus psychomotor poverty symptoms. The patients were split into one set defined according to symptoms (29 with disorganization, 29 with negative symptoms) and the other representing chronicity (22 first-episode, 35 chronic...

The presence of numerous abnormally arranged cardiac muscle cells in the ventricular septum has been considered a characteristic anatomic feature of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. To determine the specificity of this histologic marker for patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, we used a quantitative method to determine the area of myocardium occupied by disorganized cells. In hy...

Myelin sheaths present two distinct domains: compacted myelin spirals and flanking non-compacted cytoplasmic channels, where lipid and protein segregation is established by unknown mechanisms. Septins, a conserved family of membrane and cytoskeletal interacting GTPases, form intracellular diffusion barriers during cell division and neurite extension and are expressed in myelinating cells. Septi...

Deposition of polymerizing fibrin on the vascular endothelium is the final event in intravascular coagulation. Exposure of fibrin clots to confluent monolayers of cultured human endothelial cells for 4 to 24 hours resulted in the disappearance of their normal cobblestone morphology and in the formation of endothelial cell aggregates. The present study was designed to evaluate the conditions and...

This study aims to determine the factors that cause divorce in Muslim families Muncar District, Banyuwangi Regency. uses a qualitative research method, where researcher goes directly field and talks with informants. Data collection techniques this are observation, interviews documentation. Based on findings of data field, is caused because between husband wife do not carry out their functions a...

Urban communities can benefit from behavior regulation of their members in the interest of collective values. The absence of such control is related to the concept of social disorganization and is hypothesized to be associated with crime and anti-social behavior in neighborhoods. Social disorganization is, however, hard to quantify due to the lack of data and the inherent complexity that emerge...

Observing the activities of PSF (Health Family Program) in São Sebastião, it was detected low offer of the education actions in health, as part of the activities of this Program. The aims of this work were to identify what was causing all this, according to the professionals’ understanding about Education in Health and also to identify difficulties that was faced to develop those actions. It wa...