The influx of displaced persons to refugee camps within the Middle East presents a challenge to mental health professionals due to the elevated mental health symptom burden and substantial mental-health stigma within these communities. Individual-level interventions using “gold-…
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Background: High rates of unintended and unplanned pregnancies in the United States result in challenges to quality of life, negative maternal and neonatal outcomes, and increased federal spending. While several socioeconomic and environmental factors have been associated with i…
There are two binaural cues for localizing sound in the horizontal plane: the difference in the time of arrival of a sound at the two ears (binaural time-difference cue) and the difference in the intensity of a sound at the two ears (binaural intensity-difference cue). When loca…
The problem. The problem of the study was to investigate the relationship of self-esteem, depression, control over destiny, anxiety, preoccupation with self, identity stability, independence versus dependence, well-being, body image, occupational status, future aspirations, and …
The first series of experiments examined whether putative satiety hormones reduce feeding in Syrian hamsters. Feeding in fasted hamsters was measured after peripheral injections of cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8), bombesin (BBS), thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH), and calc…
Circadian rhythms in Syrian hamsters can be phase shifted by behavioural arousal during the usual rest phase of the circadian rest-activity cycle. Phase shifts can be greatly potentiated by prior exposure to constant light for 2 cycles. This could reflect nonphotic input pathway…
To monitor relative drug efficacy, serial monthly triple-dose (0.3 mmol/kg) Gadopentetate Dimeglumine (Magnevist, Befex, Montville, NJ) is being used for MRI's for more than eighteen consecutive occasions (every 4 weeks) in 75 patients. To our knowledge, no prior study has emplo…
Day and night are often simulated for nocturnal rodents in the laboratory with 24 h lighting regimes alternating between moderate indoor light levels and complete darkness. Sometimes, complete darkness is replaced by dim illumination to aid human vision, with the assumption that…
In this dissertation, the early visual system is used to explore the role of efficiency in the general organization of the nervous system. Efficient representation theory predicts that neurons dynamically change their responses to changes in the environment in order to maintain …
Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder of childhood. Age-inappropriate daytime and nighttime locomotor overactivity and disturbed sleep have been well documented in ADHD. This study's objective was to examine the relati…
This study compared Persian Gulf Veterans who complained of memory difficulties to those who did not complain on neuropsychological measures of memory and MMPI-2 scores on measures of depression. The Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised-Logical Memory I & II, Wechsler Memory Scale-Revi…