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J Res Med Sci    

The effect of psychiatric symptoms on the internet addiction disorder in Isfahan's University students.

Alavi SS, Maracy MR, Jannatifard F, Eslami M

Management and Medical Informatics Faculty, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Internet addiction disorder is an interdisciplinary phenomenon and it has been studied from different viewpoints in terms of various sciences such as ... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 7  

Disorder-specific mental health service use for mood and anxiety disorders: associations with age, sex, and psychiatric comorbidity.

Mackenzie CS, Reynolds K, Cairney J, Streiner DL, Sareen J

Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. corey_mackenzie@umanitoba.ca.

Background: The objectives of this study are to examine the prevalence of disorder-specific mental health service use for mood and anxiety disorders, ... Read More

Source: PubMed

Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci.    

Why disgust matters.

Curtis V

Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, , Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK.

The new synthesis about disgust is that it is a system that evolved to motivate infectious disease avoidance. There are vital practical and intellectu... Read More

Source: PubMed

Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci.    

Disgust: the disease-avoidance emotion and its dysfunctions.

Davey GC

School of Psychology, University of Sussex, , Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.

This review analyses the accumulating evidence from psychological, psychophysiological, neurobiological and cognitive studies suggesting that the dise... Read More

Source: PubMed

Cell    

Molecular mechanisms of fear learning and memory.

Johansen JP, Cain CK, Ostroff LE, Ledoux JE

Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA; Laboratory for Neural Circuitry of Memory, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.

Pavlovian fear conditioning is a particularly useful behavioral paradigm for exploring the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory because a well-... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Oct 1  

The structure of posttraumatic psychopathology in veterans attending primary care.

Forbes D, Elhai JD, Lockwood E, Creamer M, Frueh BC, Magruder KM

Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Level 1/340 Albert St., East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia.

This study attempted to extend research indicating that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) factors of Re-experiencing, Avoidance and Hyperarousal ar... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 29  

Clinical practice : Fear effects by the media.

Custers K, Van den Bulck J

Leuven School for Mass Communication Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Parkstraat 45, Box 3603, 3000, Leuven, Belgium, kathleen.custers@soc.kuleuven.be.

Both news media and entertainment fiction may lead to short-term and enduring fright reactions. Even TV programs, movies and news made for children ma... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 30  

[Medicolegal assessment of post-traumatic vertigo.]

Thömke F, Dieterich M

Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, 55131, Mainz, Deutschland, frank.thoemke@unimedizin-mainz.de.

Post-traumatic vertigo refers to a group of different disorders which occur following trauma, mainly closed head injury and whiplash injury of the cer... Read More

Source: PubMed

    

Emotional variability and sustained arousal during exposure.

Culver NC, Stoyanova M, Craske MG

UCLA Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In traditional exposure therapy for phobias and anxiety disorders, reduction of fear responding is used as an index of lear... Read More

Source: PubMed

    

Does 'Yuck' mean 'Eek'? Fear responses in children after a disgust manipulation.

Muris P, Huijding J, Mayer B, de Vries H

Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Clinical Psychology Science, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Disgust is a basic emotion that is thought to play a role in the development of animal phobias. This study was conducted to... Read More

Source: PubMed

    

Does 'Yuck' mean 'Eek'? Fear responses in children after a disgust manipulation.

Muris P, Huijding J, Mayer B, de Vries H

Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Clinical Psychology Science, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Disgust is a basic emotion that is thought to play a role in the development of animal phobias. This study was conducted to... Read More

Source: PubMed

J Res Med Sci    

The effect of psychiatric symptoms on the internet addiction disorder in Isfahan's University students.

Alavi SS, Maracy MR, Jannatifard F, Eslami M

Management and Medical Informatics Faculty, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Internet addiction disorder is an interdisciplinary phenomenon and it has been studied from different viewpoints in terms of various sciences such as ... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 7  

Disorder-specific mental health service use for mood and anxiety disorders: associations with age, sex, and psychiatric comorbidity.

Mackenzie CS, Reynolds K, Cairney J, Streiner DL, Sareen J

Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. corey_mackenzie@umanitoba.ca.

Background: The objectives of this study are to examine the prevalence of disorder-specific mental health service use for mood and anxiety disorders, ... Read More

Source: PubMed

Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci.    

Why disgust matters.

Curtis V

Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, , Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK.

The new synthesis about disgust is that it is a system that evolved to motivate infectious disease avoidance. There are vital practical and intellectu... Read More

Source: PubMed

Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci.    

Disgust: the disease-avoidance emotion and its dysfunctions.

Davey GC

School of Psychology, University of Sussex, , Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.

This review analyses the accumulating evidence from psychological, psychophysiological, neurobiological and cognitive studies suggesting that the dise... Read More

Source: PubMed

Cell    

Molecular mechanisms of fear learning and memory.

Johansen JP, Cain CK, Ostroff LE, Ledoux JE

Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA; Laboratory for Neural Circuitry of Memory, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.

Pavlovian fear conditioning is a particularly useful behavioral paradigm for exploring the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory because a well-... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Oct 1  

The structure of posttraumatic psychopathology in veterans attending primary care.

Forbes D, Elhai JD, Lockwood E, Creamer M, Frueh BC, Magruder KM

Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Level 1/340 Albert St., East Melbourne, Victoria 3002, Australia.

This study attempted to extend research indicating that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) factors of Re-experiencing, Avoidance and Hyperarousal ar... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 29  

Clinical practice : Fear effects by the media.

Custers K, Van den Bulck J

Leuven School for Mass Communication Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Parkstraat 45, Box 3603, 3000, Leuven, Belgium, kathleen.custers@soc.kuleuven.be.

Both news media and entertainment fiction may lead to short-term and enduring fright reactions. Even TV programs, movies and news made for children ma... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 30  

[Medicolegal assessment of post-traumatic vertigo.]

Thömke F, Dieterich M

Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurologie, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, 55131, Mainz, Deutschland, frank.thoemke@unimedizin-mainz.de.

Post-traumatic vertigo refers to a group of different disorders which occur following trauma, mainly closed head injury and whiplash injury of the cer... Read More

Source: PubMed

    

Emotional variability and sustained arousal during exposure.

Culver NC, Stoyanova M, Craske MG

UCLA Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In traditional exposure therapy for phobias and anxiety disorders, reduction of fear responding is used as an index of lear... Read More

Source: PubMed


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