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The review focuses on rapidly growing body of data indicating that disturbances of the natural sleep and sleep deprivation lead to various visceral disorders. The review mentions consequences of sleep disturbances on the gastro-intestinal system, cardio-vascular and respiratory, immune, endocrine and...
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PMID: 21786642
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We describe how fatigue is assessed with muscle, exercise or competition performance measures. Muscle performance (single muscle test measures) declines due to peripheral fatigue (reduced muscle cell force) and/or central fatigue (reduced motor drive from the CNS). Peak muscle force seldom falls by...
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PMID: 21425889
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Cardiovascular reactivity to stress is most commonly studied in the laboratory. Laboratory stressors may have limited ecological validity due to the many constraints, operating in controlled environments. This paper will focus on paradigms that involve the measurement of cardiovascul...
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PMID: 20561941
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118 patients with gastric ulcer and 112 healthy people (control set) were examined. It is established that determination of connections between phenotype, responsiveness of general circulation, variability of cardiac rhythm, types of personality and levels of reactive anxiety allows to diagnose not o...
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PMID: 21488356
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The research aims to establish psychophysiological factors of maintaining health in individuals, in whose professional activities on the substantial level there is an extreme component. During the research it was established that the effective work of regulatory mechanisms contributes to the formatio...
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PMID: 21488359
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Psychophysiological research focusing on child development and on child and adolescent psychiatric disorders has provided many important insights. The use of cognitive neuroscience methods along with the assessment of peripheral psychophysiological measures - particularly functional magnetic resonan...
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PMID: 21128216
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Although the existence of empathy deficits in people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) is generally well accepted, it has been a topic of limited investigation. The current study examined the relationship between self-reported emotional and cognitive empathy and psychophysiological responding to emo...
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PMID: 20713073
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Blood-injection-injury (BII) phobia is an anxiety disorder that may be accompanied by vasovagal fainting during confrontation with the feared stimuli. The underlying pattern of autonomic regulation has been characterized as a diphasic response, with initial increases in heart rate and blood pressure...
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PMID: 20576505
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This study examined the neural pathophysiology of the theory of mind network by eliciting self-referential processing during an idea of reference evocating situation in patients with schizophrenia.
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PMID: 20712827
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We suggest that four autonomic responses may be differentially sensitive to abusers' potency in terms of the IA hypothesis of autonomic activity. The stronger BVP and RESPR responses and the weaker PTEMP reactions of the high-risk IA abusers indicate the sympathetic nervous system was heavily activa...
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PMID: 20712495
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Though it is well known that solving mental tasks elicits tonic increases in cardiovascular activity, a good theory explaining the specificity of this effect is lacking. It is also unclear why different kinds of mental tasks elicit different response patterns. The aim of the experiment was to compar...
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PMID: 20170707
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We induced a novel illusion of personal identity that we call "enfacement": The partner's facial features became incorporated into the representation of the participant's own face. Subjects reported that morphed images of themselves and their partner contained more self than other only after synchro...
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PMID: 19813138
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Affective instability is a prominent feature of a wide variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders, yet it has not been systematically studied. It encompasses a number of distinct phenomena, including: (1) frequent affective category shifts, (2) disturbances in affect intensity, (3) excessivel...
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PMID: 20205499
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Laboratory, clinical, and pathophysiological methods were used to examine servicemen presenting with hyperuricemia. Pronounced hypersympaticotony was accompanied by stabilization of cardiac rhythm. Neurotic personality profile was identified in 48% of the subjects, psychotic in 17.3%...
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PMID: 21395062
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In the early 20th century the first data were published in the scientific literature on the endocrine aspect of the pineal gland (on the relation between pineal tumours and precocious puberty), but its ultimate confirmation took place in 1958, with the isolation of melatonin by the team led by Aaron...
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PMID: 20112220
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The psyche is not a passive container (of emotions, memories, representations, objects, structures, drives, defenses, etc.), and not just an object-seeking organism; it acts on itself as the object of its own scrutiny, which can take many forms. Emphasis on the role of interpersonal object relations...
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PMID: 20301977
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We illustrate how these diverging interpretations result in radically different views on the identity of psychiatry and its relationship with the rapidly expanding domain of neurology/neuroscience....
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PMID: 21037408
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Evoked potentials changes were analyzed in 32 subjects in a task of observing whole and disintegrated images. In the occipital and parietal regions, reactions to a disintegrated image appeared early (within the period of P1 development), and their characteristics were determined by the magnitude of...
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PMID: 20873129
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We studied a range of short durations using quite a large number of stimuli (50 time intervals) with a small difference between each other (0.06 s) and were the first to determine the structure of short time interval rating scales. The analysis of the distribution of SD values of the interval durati...
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PMID: 20873132
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We assessed young, middle-aged, and older adults' ability to implement 3 emotion regulation strategies (detached reappraisal, positive reappraisal, and behavior suppression) in a laboratory setting, using standardized emotional stimuli and a multimethod approach to assessing regulation success. Resu...
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PMID: 20025404
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In 1977, Engel published the seminal paper, "The Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for Biomedicine" [Science 196 (1977) 129-136]. He featured a biopsychosocial (BPS) model based on systems theory and on the hierarchical organization of organisms. In this essay, the model is extended by the i...
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PMID: 19913665
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There was effectuated a testing of 500 recruits of Kirov region for purposes of detecting cognitive power, level of neuro-psychic resistance, evidence of dividual professionally important qualities. It was shown, that 11,8% of recruits are characterized by modesty and unsociability, 34,9%--are more...
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PMID: 20201366
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The present work examines the change in color reflection in psychogenic pain in patients with somatoform disorders (SFD) during psychotherapeutic treatment, for which empatho-techniques were used. At the start and end of the course the psychophysiological condition was determined according to psycho...
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PMID: 19899672
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Compared with baseline, cold pressor and serial subtraction stressor significantly increased systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate (P < 0.001). Heart rate reactivity was significantly different between the cold pressor and serial subtraction tasks (P < 0.001). Residualize...
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PMID: 19734781
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Drinking motivated by the desire to cope with painful emotions has been shown to be strongly related to alcohol dependence; the resulting maladaptive pattern of substance use can, therefore, be conceptualized as a form of experiential avoidance (an attempt to decrease contact with unpleasant interna...
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PMID: 19639484
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This study examined the relationship that personal pronouns spoken during a marital conversation have with the emotional qualities of those interactions and with marital satisfaction. Middle-aged and older couples (N = 154) engaged in a 15-min conflict conversation during which physiology and emotio...
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PMID: 19739916
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This study investigated M. Linehan's (1993) theory that individuals meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) have high biological vulnerability to emotion dysregulation, including high baseline emotional intensity and high reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli. Twenty individ...
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PMID: 19685950
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There is a wide array of nonpharmacological therapies to target the symptom of dyspnea by either changing physiologic factors or modifying the subsequent emotional response associated with the experience. Current research has been geared primarily toward patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary d...
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PMID: 19352183
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In order to investigate the role of central and peripheral mechanisms in nasal trigeminal sensitization/desensitization processes, the present work recorded psychophysical (intensity ratings) and psychophysiological (skin conductance) responses to allyl isothiocyanate volatile nasal stimulation--dur...
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PMID: 19593971
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We found a positive association between MBT use and several medical conditions including various pain syndromes and anxiety/depression. Among adults using MBT to treat specific medical conditions, MBT was most commonly used for anxiety/depression and musculoskeletal pain syndromes. More than 50% of...
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PMID: 19446710
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The diversity of research methods applied to psychiatric disorders results in a confusing plethora of causal claims. To help make sense of these claims, the interventionist model (IM) of causality has several attractive features. First, it connects causation with the practical interests of psychiatr...
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PMID: 18845010
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This study examines the role of self-reported trait positive affect (PA) on skin barrier recovery after skin disruption, and whether the role of trait PA in wound healing is consistent with the direct effects model or the stress-buffering model of PA and health.
Sixty healthy participants (mean age...
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PMID: 19450044
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We present a conceptual model that integrates patterns of change at the physiological and molecular levels. In addition, we point to future research opportunities and discuss how repeated elicitation of these responses could influence the health of patients....
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PMID: 19552264
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Simultaneous stimulation with adjacent electrode contacts in the basal end of the cochlea was generally able to produce a single, gradually shifting intermediate pitch percept. Simultaneous stimulation beyond the first cochlear turn, sequential stimulation and simultaneous stimulation with non-adjac...
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PMID: 19117170
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A number of studies showed association of mental status with heart rate variability. This work discovered a feature of frequency structure of heart rate variability that is associated with mental readiness. In three independent groups of 64, 39, and 19 volunteers by the factor analysis of heart rate...
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PMID: 19505039
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Among the fears of aging are loss of memory, cognitive decline, and loss of independence. Baby boomers have entered the "aged" cohort and are actively seeking ways to maintain strong bodies and strong minds. Bench to clinical research suggests that keeping physically active and engaged in moderate t...
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PMID: 20048497
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Psychophysical olfactory testing is a useful method to assess olfactory function in patients with olfactory loss and may help us to obtain a semi-objective and a basal evaluation of the olfactory performances. Feasibility and usefulness of CSERPs are also underlined in this study with only a limited...
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PMID: 19382491
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Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is an important parameter for the study of brain function. The present paper examines to what extent CBF in a resting state reflects a stable latent trait and to what extent it reflects phasic situational effects. In 38 healthy subjects resting CBF was measured with continu...
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PMID: 18838099
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To determine the influence of gravity during critical periods of development is important in the perspective of long-term spaceflight and exploration, data coming from this kind of studies providing insight into basical biological phenomena underlying the development of the nervous system and its pl...
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PMID: 18775454
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We simply do not know enough about the physical world of matter at this time but eventually perhaps discoveries about the nature of matter may solve the problem. But as of now, the implication of this impasse is that the introspective data of consciousness are ontologically subjective, pointing to t...
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PMID: 19591564
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There are different changes in psychophysiologic behavior of the students with different adaptation grade to examination stress. Examination stress in the students with a low adaptation grade resulted in increase of response against a background of reduction of attention. The lowest changes in the i...
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PMID: 19957719
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A phenomenological study was conducted to investigate RN to BSN students' experiences in a holistic nursing course. A purposive sample of 19 RN to BSN graduates participated. Five theme clusters emerged when the formulated meanings were organized into categories: (1) uncertain beginnings, (2) shifti...
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PMID: 19104274
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The aim of this work was to study age-related dynamics of the development of higher psychic functions and manifestations of CNS fatigue in 1-4-form schoolchildren in relation to the duration of schooling. Psychophysiological studies in several Moscow schools included evaluation of cognitive and psyc...
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PMID: 19507349
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