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We measured the frequency of perceived stigma and discrimination among caregivers of veterans with TBI and examined whether perceived stigma and discrimination are associated with caregiver strain, social isolation, depression, and anxiety.
Seventy caregivers of veterans with TBI com...
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PMID: 21723524
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To describe the incidence of dementia in a representative sample of elderly Yoruba Nigerians and provide information about the risk factors.
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PMID: 21568957
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Oral Oncology (47)7 2011
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We assessed risk factors for advanced stage disease in a population-based study. Study population was all Ontario patients with anterior tongue or floor of mouth cancers diagnosed between 1991 and 2000 (n=2033). Data are from a retrospective chart review. Risk factors included: demographic character...
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PMID: 21612975
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Xenobiotica (41)5 2011
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Nurse educators are challenged by students who did not learn Standard American English as a primary language. It is not only language that makes these students stand out-cultural beliefs, values and practices need to be appreciated as well. The purpose of this article is to synthesize the current qu...
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PMID: 19645373
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Psychological Reports (108)2 2011
Comparative analysis of a client's verbal responses in counseling sessions: quantitative case study.
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This study investigated how the in-session change in a client's verbal behavior might influence the effectiveness of counseling sessions. 10 sessions of counseling with a male undergraduate suffering from depressive mood were conducted by a humanistically oriented counselor. The two...
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PMID: 21675577
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (30)4 2011
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The practising midwife (14)3 2011
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Midwives face great challenges in practice in caring for women with multiple medical, social and psychological needs. This article highlights the issues such as extreme grief reaction, fear of abandonment and stigma and prejudice that women face when they are diagnosed HIV positive during pregnancy....
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PMID: 21473320
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La Revue du praticien (61)2 2011
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The occurrence of suicide series in the professional setting seems to be a relatively recent phenomenon, even though past and current epidemiological data are lacking to assess their progression. Causes of suicidal gesture are subject to recurrent controversies. Contradictory theories (structuralist...
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PMID: 21618768
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Presse Medicale (40)3 2011
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The aim of this study is to report the observation of the pandemic of influenza A (H1N1 virus) from August to September 2009 on the island of Futuna, in a context of isolated island that may mimic an environment closed.
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PMID: 21251791
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We show that reduced gene flow can evolve in a population due to a link between host preference and assortative mating, although this result was not found in all lines. However, consistent with models of speciation, assortative mating alone is not sufficient to maintain reproductive isolation when i...
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PMID: 21297947
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We discuss these results in relation to research and theory on racial identity and intersectionality. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)....
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PMID: 21341901
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Examination of 1,051 completed suicides from an Australian state showed that 33% left a suicide note. Those leaving a suicide note were more involved in interpersonal conflicts (including divorce), were less often psychiatrically disturbed, and were less likely to be under medical su...
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PMID: 21748922
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This study examines the perceptions of health, health seeking behavior, access to information and resources, work related hazards, substance abuse, and social support of emancipated migrant youth (EMY) who come to the United States without their families to work.
Semi-structured interviews were perf...
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PMID: 21099073
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Annals of Medicine (42)7 2010
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More than six decades of empirical research have shown that psychosocial risk factors like low socio-economic status, lack of social support, stress at work and family life, depression, anxiety, and hostility contribute both to the risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) and the worsening of...
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PMID: 20839918
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Behavioural Pharmacology (21)5-6 2010
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The pathophysiological role of the neurosteroid 3alpha-hydroxy-5alpha-pregnan-20-one (allopregnanolone) in neuropsychiatric disorders has been highlighted in several recent investigations. For instance, allopregnanolone levels are decreased in the CSF of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder...
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PMID: 20716970
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Intellectual disability is a public health issue, which has largely been overlooked in Mexico. The magnitude of this problem is unknown; few programs exist for adults and mental health professionals focus mainly on identifying treatable comorbidities.
In Mexico, there is an example of a best practic...
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PMID: 20489641
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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the prevalence and characteristics of social isolation in elderly individuals living alone or with others in a dormitory suburb, and to examine the characteristics of non-responders to questions concerning social isolation.
Data were obtained from a survey of...
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PMID: 21061557
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Behavioural Brain Research (211)2 2010
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We hypothesized that exercise, as it has been shown in laboratory settings, would be able to prevent and counteract mood changes during isolation. Electrocortical data (EEG) and a self report on current psychological and physical state were recorded several times prior to and after exercise during t...
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PMID: 20346985
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Naturwissenschaften (97)8 2010
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We show that (a) fish from non-sulfidic sites (Poecilia mexicana) show high mortality (95 %) after 24 h when exposed to the toxicant, while locally adapted fish from sulfidic sites (Poecilia sulphuraria) experience low mortality (13 %) when transferred to non-sulfidic water. (b) Mate choice tests re...
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PMID: 20574847
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Psychiatrische Praxis (37)5 2010
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Psychological well-being of women in a remote mining community might be improved through better local medical services, increased efforts at social inclusion and community connectedness, greater access to child care and better community infrastructure and pleasant surrounds. The findings also questi...
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PMID: 20579023
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Foster care had a significant effect on growth, particularly with early placement and high-quality care. Growth and IQ in low-birth-weight children are particularly vulnerable to social deprivation. Catch-up growth in height under more nurturing conditions is a useful indicator of caregiving quality...
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PMID: 20368481
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Psychogeriatrics (10)2 2010
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We have evaluated the two concepts, from the perspective of their modern-day significance, with a view to the possibility that a more sophisticated exploration of the linkage among the various symptoms (symptomatology) and of the meaning inherent in the linkage of symptoms (psychopathology) in both...
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PMID: 20738812
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We conclude that it is the duty of health-care professionals, especially nurses, to first identify widows at risk, with the help of the contexts of experience of spousal death and the symptoms presented in this study, and then to provide hope therapy, which can facilitate positive bereavement outcom...
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PMID: 20602693
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This study examined the influence of child-care support by elderly persons on mothers' child care-related stress in Japan. A cross-sectional study was conducted from February to April 2007 by using an anonymous questionnaire. This study focused on the "child-care salon" (hereafter referred to as "sa...
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PMID: 20602690
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Ciencia and Saude Coletiva (15 Suppl 1) 2010
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We try to analyze the perception of some women, former leprosy patients, residents of Santa Teresa Hospital, located in the city of São Pedro de Alcântara, Santa Catarina State, on the stigma, prejudice and exclusion they suffered and still suffer today. We used the oral history of three women for...
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PMID: 20640261
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Biological Psychiatry (67)11 2010
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In adolescent marmoset monkey brains, reduced hippocampal expression of MR and GR are consistent chronic-indicators of ELS. It is unlikely that these chronic, mild, specific reductions were acute-mediators of the observed long-term emotional effects of ELS. However, they do suggest involvement of hi...
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PMID: 20132928
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Psychiatria Danubina (22)2 2010
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We will present a case of a 58 years old woman who has been suffering from alopecia areata that developed after her husband's death. The patient doesn't function well since then - she is socially isolated, she has lost self confidence and self esteem. As she has realised it was impossible to live li...
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PMID: 20562766
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We theorize that social isolation shelters children of immigrants from the U.S."obesiogenic" environment, but this protective effect is offset by immigrant parents' limited capacity to identify and manage this health risk in the United States. We further theorize that these factors affect boys more...
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PMID: 20617759
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We suggest hikikomori may be considered a culture-bound syndrome and merits further international research into whether it meets accepted criteria as a new psychiatric disorder. Research diagnostic criteria for the condition are proposed....
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PMID: 20531124
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Psychiatric Quarterly (81)2 2010
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The answer for treating pathologic aggression (PA) in children on inpatient psychiatry units (based on various factors like severity of aggression and co-morbidities) is less likely to be restrictive interventions or sedating the patient. Using seclusion and restraints or medications to calm down th...
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PMID: 20165915
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Psychology and Aging (25)2 2010
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We present evidence from a 5-year longitudinal study for the prospective associations between loneliness and depressive symptoms in a population-based, ethnically diverse sample of 229 men and women who were 50-68 years old at study onset. Cross-lagged panel models were used in which the criterion v...
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PMID: 20545429
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British Journal of Social Psychology (49)Pt 2 2010
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We are interested in the complex functions of walking, listening and reading as social practices central to how this man forges a life as a mobile hermit across physical and imagined locales. This highlights connections between physical place, use of material objects, imagination, and sense of self....
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PMID: 19531282
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The current study emphasizes the important role loneliness plays in older adults' health. The study further supports current division into situational vs. chronic loneliness, yet suggests that both types serve as substantial mortality risks....
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PMID: 20003631
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The prediction of behavioural intentions towards those with mental illness may be improved by increasing the specificity of the attitude measures to the behavioural intentions being predicted and including measures of perceived norms. Furthermore, the effectiveness of efforts to reduce the stigma of...
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PMID: 19592434
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Behavioural Brain Research (209)1 2010
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We tested the hypothesis that CRF(2) contributes to isolation rearing effects on emotional memory. At weaning, mice were housed either in groups of three or individually in standard mouse cages. In adulthood, isolation-reared mice exhibited significant reductions in context-specific, but not cue-spe...
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PMID: 20097235
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Psychosomatic Medicine (72)4 2010
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These results indicate that peripheral OT administration can inhibit atherosclerotic lesion development and adipose tissue inflammation, suggesting a potential role for this neuropeptide in mediating the benefits of stable group housing on atherosclerosis....
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PMID: 20368478
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We examined the contributions of gender, trait anxiety, and trauma-related distress to the development of PTSD after an industrial disaster.
Three months after a massive explosion in a fireworks factory in Kolding, Denmark, in November 2004, residents in the surrounding area were asked to complete t...
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PMID: 20435278
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The purpose of this study was to uncover the structure of the lived experience of feeling misunderstood. Parse's phenomenological-hermeneutic research method was used to answer the research question: What is the structure of the lived experience of feeling misunderstood? Extraction-synthesis reveale...
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PMID: 20378917
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This qualitative study examined 30 burn survivors' perceptions of the value of peer support in their own psychosocial rehabilitation. Little research is available that investigates the role of peer support in post-burn recovery in terms of perceived benefits and costs. Findings revealed strong posit...
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PMID: 20379901
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Regardless of disease severity, socially isolated HTx candidates who are also depressed may be at increased risk for clinical deterioration and mortality, indicating a need for psychosocial intervention....
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PMID: 19804987
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Health Communication (25)2 2010
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We clearly identify and define the nature of interactivity examined. We then develop and test a theoretical model of website interactivity on information processing, involvement with communication, and attitude change in the context of stigma of mental illness. The results of an experiment revealed...
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PMID: 20390680
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Women & Health (50)2 2010
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This evaluative study measured self-reported changes in abuse-related measures six months after routine screening for intimate partner violence. Participants were 122 women who disclosed abuse and 241 who did not report abuse, screened in antenatal, substance abuse, and mental health services accord...
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PMID: 20437301
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The SPAS group showed significantly higher prevalence of unhealthy lifestyle than controls, which did not hold up in multivariate analyses. The SPAS group showed significantly more alcohol problems and higher future risk of coronary heart disease among females, but not in males. Low level of physica...
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PMID: 19468662
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We carried out a qualitative study to identify the key aspects of social situations that affect health and well-being, from the perspectives of older people and professionals, to enrich and expand an existing health risk appraisal tool so that it could be used for self-assessment of health and socia...
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PMID: 19708867
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Health Psychology (29)2 2010
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Daily variations in loneliness predicted subsequent feelings of daytime dysfunction (B = 0.16, p < .05), and daytime dysfunction predicted subsequent loneliness (B = 0.07, p < .05), adjusted for covariates. Loneliness continued to predict subsequent daytime dysfunction when depressed affect was held...
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PMID: 20230084
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Leprosy Review (81)1 2010
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Forty (51-9%) out of 77 individuals reported significant participation restrictions, mainly related to work and mobility. Perceived participation restriction was significantly higher in people living in nursing units of the CCAD (P = 0-001), if diagnosis of leprosy was made before 1982 (P = 0.002),...
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PMID: 20496571
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I address this issue by considering the possibility that CCTV might be seen by some homeless men and women as offering: a) a measure of enhanced security for those living in the streets and in shelters, and; b) to the extent that security is conceived of as a social good, the receipt of which marks...
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PMID: 20377597
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Nutritional Neuroscience (13)1 2010
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To clarify whether L-ornithine and/or its metabolite involves sedative and hypnotic effects under social separation stress, the effects of intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of L-ornithine and polyamines (putrescine, spermidine and spermine) were compared in chicks. Birds were injected i.c.v...
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PMID: 20132650
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Deliberate self-harm in Oxford University students, 1993-2005: a descriptive and case-control study.
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Comparison of university students following DSH with age-matched controls has shown key differences in psychiatric characteristics, problems contributing to DSH and aftercare offered. These findings may help in the design of targeted self-harm prevention and management strategies for students....
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PMID: 19396386
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Behavioural Pharmacology (21)1 2010
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We aimed to develop a reliable animal model for studying the effects of environmental variables on drug-seeking behavior using the 'social isolation/social restriction' paradigm. Adult Wistar rats housed in short-term isolation (21 days) consumed significantly more morphine solution (0.5 mg/ml) than...
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PMID: 19949320
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Bioelectromagnetics (31)2 2010
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We investigated memory impairment in newly hatched chicks following in ovo exposure to a 50-Hz magnetic field (MF) of 2 mT (60 min/day) on embryonic days 12-18. Isolated and paired chicks were used to test the effect of stress during training, and memory retention was tested at 10, 30, and 120 min,...
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PMID: 19739132
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PDF is available here.
Bioelectromagnetics (31)2 2010
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We investigated memory impairment in newly hatched chicks following in ovo exposure to a 50-Hz magnetic field (MF) of 2 mT (60 min/day) on embryonic days 12-18. Isolated and paired chicks were used to test the effect of stress during training, and memory retention was tested at 10, 30, and 120 min,...
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PMID: 19739132
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PDF is available here.
Bioelectromagnetics (31)2 2010
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We investigated memory impairment in newly hatched chicks following in ovo exposure to a 50-Hz magnetic field (MF) of 2 mT (60 min/day) on embryonic days 12-18. Isolated and paired chicks were used to test the effect of stress during training, and memory retention was tested at 10, 30, and 120 min,...
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PMID: 19739132
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PDF is available here.
Bioelectromagnetics (31)2 2010
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We investigated memory impairment in newly hatched chicks following in ovo exposure to a 50-Hz magnetic field (MF) of 2 mT (60 min/day) on embryonic days 12-18. Isolated and paired chicks were used to test the effect of stress during training, and memory retention was tested at 10, 30, and 120 min,...
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PMID: 19739132
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PDF is available here.
Journal of Hypertension (28)2 2010
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We examined the degree to which observed associations persisted after statistical adjustment for factors known to covary with nocturnal BP, including objective measures of sleep, catecholamines, health behaviors, and comorbidities.
In fully adjusted models, there was a significant association betwee...
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PMID: 20051909
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