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12 "superfoods" You Should Be Eating. Want to Improve Your Health and Prevent Disease? Incorporate These Nutrition-Packed Foods Into Your Diet.

...  were invited to comment on potential facilitators/barriers to participation and were probed on attitudes towards meal replacement and Internet/social media tools. Recurring themes were identified through qualitative content analysis of discussion transcripts.Among the 1,201 contacted and 79 eligible/interested, 29… Continue reading

Distressed Personality Without a Partner Enhances the Risk of Depression in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease.

...  higher mean scores on the STAI-S and CES-D as well as perception of their health. In cases of depression, CHD patients with Type D personality and without partner showed about a 50-fold increase in odds ratio when compared with… Continue reading

Pharmacogenetic Randomized Trial for Cocaine Abuse: Disulfiram and ?1A-Adrenoceptor Gene Variation.

...  who carried at least one T allele of rs1048101 (TT or TC genotype) reduced their cocaine positive urines from 84% to 56% on disulfiram (p=0.0001), while the 22 patients with the major allele CC genotype showed no disulfiram effect.… Continue reading

Antidepressant Medication Use Among Patients With Depression: Comparison Between Usual Care and Collaborative Care Using Care Managers.

...  other depressive disorders. The autosomal dominant nature of HD and the existence of models with excellent construct validity provide a unique opportunity to understand the pathogenesis of depression and associated gene-environment interactions. Thus, understanding the pathogenesis of depression in… Continue reading

Kinetic Factors of Vertical Jumping for Heading a Ball in Flexible Flatfooted Amateur Soccer Players With and Without Insole Adoption.

Kinetic factors of vertical jumping for heading a ball in flexible flatfooted amateur soccer players with and without insole adoption. Prosthet Orthot Int. 2013 Jul 4; Arastoo AA, Aghdam EM, Habibi AH, Zahednejad S Background:According to literature, little is known regarding the effects of orthotic management of flatfoot on kinetics of vertical jump.Objectives:To compare the kinetic and temporal events of two-legged vertical jumping take-off from a force plate for heading a ball in normal and flexible flatfoot subjects with and without insole.Study design:A functional based interventional controlled study.Methods:Random sampling method was employed to draw a control group of 15 normal foot subjects to a group of 15 flatfoot subjects. A force platform was used to record kinetics of two-legged vertical jump shots.Results:Results indicate that insole did not lead to a significant effect on kinetics regarding anterior-posterior and mediolateral directions (p > 0.05). Results of kinetics r ...

Differential Impact of a Complex Environment on Positive Affect in an Animal Model of Individual Differences in Emotionality.

...  Scale. A broad range of demographic, military, health, and psychosocial variables was also assessed.44% of veterans reported feeling lonely at least some of the time (10.4% reported often feeling lonely). Greater age, disability in activities of daily living, lifetime… Continue reading

Signal Enhancement in the Output Stage of the Basal Ganglia by Synaptic Short-Term Plasticity in the Direct, Indirect, and Hyperdirect Pathways.

...  whether depressed adolescents differed from non-depressed adolescents in terms of constructs consistent with those that are proposed to underpin interpersonal psychotherapy. In particular, it was hypothesized that compared with non-depressed adolescents, depressed adolescents would demonstrate a greater number of… Continue reading

Prior Sexual Trauma and Adjustment Following the Virginia Tech Campus Shootings: Examination of the Mediating Role of Schemas.

...  However, few studies have evaluated potential mechanisms through which the experience of multiple traumas leads to elevated distress. The current study sought to evaluate differences between sexual trauma victims and women who had not experienced sexual trauma in their… Continue reading

Incidence and Risk Factors of Chronic Daily Headache in Young Adolescents: A School Cohort Study.

...  and survival in patients with advanced disease; and (ii) whether the strength of spiritual belief changes as death approaches. METHODS: We conducted a prospective cohort study of 170 patients receiving palliative care at home, 97% of whom had a… Continue reading

Update on Antidepressant Use During Breastfeeding.

...  (PSD) and polymorphism in HTR2C. A cohort of 223 patients with acute lacunar stroke admitted to the stroke unit of a university-affiliated regional hospital in Hong Kong was recruited. Three months after the onset of the index stroke, a… Continue reading