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A PLAY-based approach for adolescent patients: the importance of panksepp’s primary emotional system of PLAY in engagement with adolescent psychiatric patients
No full textProfessionals working with adolescents invest enormous resources and energies to find a tailored approach to improve patients’ compliance and promote their access to care. As a result, Panksepp’s Primary Emotive Systems (PES) can be useful instruments to develop tailored treatment plans specific for this age. We aimed to find a PES specific for adolescence, correlated to psychopathological features, in order to guide mental health professionals in approaching and treating adolescent psychiatric patients. This is a cross-sectional study. We recruited 156 patients seeking help during their first evaluation and divided the sample into two different age groups: 114 were 14-19 years old (ADO) and 42 were 20-65 years old (ADULT). They performed a psychopathological evaluation. We found strong associations between PLAY PES and psychopathological features in the ADO group (not in the ADULT group). Then we sub-divided the ADO and the ADULT group in HIGH-PLAY(HP) and LOW-PLAY(LP) and performed a One-Way ANOVA. In the ADO group, we found significant differences between HP and LP group psychopathological features, but the same was not found in the ADULT group. PLAY is an emotive system that is highly correlated with psychopathological features in our sample of adolescents seeking help. This correlation was not found in ADULT patients. For these results, we suggested PLAY can be a useful instrument to treat help-seeking adolescents with mental health issues
In vitro effects of 50 Hz magnetic fields on oxidatively damaged rabbit red blood cells
No full textThe aim of this study was to investigate the effects of 50 Hz magnetic fields (0.2-0.5 mT) on rabbit red blood cells (RBCs) that were exposed simultaneously to the action of an oxygen radical-generating system, Fe(II)/ascorbate. Previous data obtained in our laboratory showed at the exposure of rabbit erythrocytes or reticulocytes to Fe(II)/ascorbate hexokinase inactivation, whereas the other glycolytic enzymes do not show any decay. We also observed depletion of reduced glutathione (GSH) content with a concomitant intracellular and extracellular increase in oxidized glutathione (GSSG) and a decrease in energy charge. In this work we investigated whether 50 Hz magnetic fields could influence the intracellular impairments that occur when erythrocytes or reticulocytes are exposed to this oxidant system, namely, inactivation of hexokinase activity, GSH depletion, a change in energy charge, and hemoglobin oxidation. The results obtained indicate the a 0.5 mT magnetic field had no effect on intact RBCs, whereas it increased the damage with Fe(II)/ascorbate to a 0.5 mT magnetic field induced a significant further decay in hexokinase activity (about 20%) as well as a twofold increase in methemoglobin production compared with RBCs that were exposed to the oxidant system alone. Although further studies will be needed to determine the physiological implications of these data, the results reported in this study demonstrate that the effects of the magnetic fields investigated are able to potentiate the cellular damage induced in vitro by oxidizing agent
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Inactivation of rabbit red blood cell hexokinase activity promoted in vitro by an oxygen-radical-generating system.
No full textStress eritrocitario nel trattamento emodialitico extracorporeo: effetti sul trasporto di membrana
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