BACKGROUND The high-risk method is an important strategy for studying the antecedents and causes of schizophrenia and other psychoses. The Swedish High-Risk Project is a prospective longitudinal study of offspring of women with a history of schizophrenic, schizoaffective, affective, or unspecified functional psychoses and control women with no history of psychosis. The offspring and their envir...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of symptoms related to mental disorders (distress, anxiety/depression, sleep disturbance, adverse alcohol behaviour, adverse smoking behaviour, adverse nutrition behaviour) among retired professional footballers, and to explore their associations with stressors i.e. determinants such as severe injury, surgery, life events and...

An initial survey was carried out in Glenside Hospital in 1960 because it was felt that "a large proportion of all patients under care in mental hospitals show no serious disturbance of behaviour, and their retention is determined largely by social factors."' That survey was followed four years later by a similar review,2 which recommended a precise overall national plan for the future of menta...

T he effect of mental activity on the cardiovascular system has been well known since ancient times. Hippocrates had already observed that “... fear, intimidation, sorrow, anger ...” may lead to palpitations. In his initial report on a “disorder of the breast” William Heberden mentions a “disturbance of the mind” among other incidents triggering angina pectoris attacks. Recent data provide evid...

Script-driven imagery was used to assess nightmare imagery-evoked physiological-emotional reactivity (heart rate, skin conductance, facial electromyogram, subjective ratings) in trauma-exposed persons suffering from chronic nightmares. Goals were to determine the efficacy of nightmare imagery to evoke physiological-emotional reactivity, correlates (mental health, nightmare characteristics) of r...

A postal questionnaire was used to study 49 individuals with Cornelia de Lange syndrome (including both the classical and the mild forms) to ascertain behavioural phenotype. Ages ranged from early childhood to adulthood (mean age, 10.2 years; SD, 7.8) and the degree of mental retardation from borderline (10%), through mild (8%), moderate (18%), and severe (20%) to profound (43%). A wide variety...

objective: breast cancer as a most common invasive cancer in women, provoking mental disorders for patients. to adjust with this situation, patients use kind of coping style. in present study, we aimed to determine the relationship between mental disorders and coping style in women with breast cancer.  methods: this research was a correlational study. 127 women among all women with breast cance...

The timing, location, and magnitude of major disturbance events are currently major uncertainties in the global carbon cycle. Accurate information on the location, spatial extent, and duration of disturbance at the continental scale is needed to evaluate the ecosystem impacts of land cover changes due to wildfire, insect epidemics, flooding, climate change, and human-triggered land use. This pa...