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Non suicidal self-injury in adolescence (NSSI). From the descriptive perspective to the motivational dimension
No full textSummary. Non suicidal self-injury (NSSI) – a largely diffused problem among adolescents – can be defined as a repetitive behaviour that damages the surface of the body without suicidal intent. In the last few years, the large diffusion of this practice required an increased attention of the psychiatric community and it led to the inclusion of the NSSI in the DSM-5 as a condition in need of further studies. This paper is located in the direction of this comprehension process. Specifically, through a review of the literature, the focus of the study is intentionally extended from the descriptive dimension to the motivational dimension, in order to deepen some of the meanings underlying the self-injury behavior
Divergence of central nervous system involvement in 2 Italian sisters with congenital muscular dystrophy: A clinical and neuroradiological follow-up
No full textWe report the clinical and neuroradiological follow-up of 2 Italian sisters, 10 and 6 years of age, affected by congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD) with divergent CNS involvement. In both, CMD was diagnosed by finding dystrophic alterations in muscle biopsy and muscular deficit at birth. The elder sister suffered also from marked intellectual deficit and epilepsy, as usually reported in children with Fukuyama CMD. In the same patient, at 2 years of age, CT scan showed severe hypodensity of cerebral white matter and severe ventricular dilatation of occipital horns. At 8 years of age, MRI also showed clearcut pachygyria mainly in the parietal and occipital lobes. MRI and CT scan at the same age showed improvement of the leukoencephalopathy and unchanged ventricular dilatation, as reported for patients with Fukuyama CMD. Unlike Japanese cases, however, she showed no progression in her muscular deficit and her muscle immunostaining of laminin M chain (merosin) was normal. The younger sister had normal mental development, never experienced epileptic fits and had always normal EEG. However, as often seen in classical CMD, her CT scan showed moderate hypomyelination of cerebral white matter and mild dilatation of lateral ventricles. MRI did not show any other brain abnormalities. Sequential CT scan at 2, 4 and 6 years of age showed improvement of the leukoencephalopathy. Her muscular deficit had a stationary clinical course. Her immunostaining of muscle merosin was moderately reduced. The finding of Fukuyama-like and classical CMD in 2 sisters indicates the possibility that different forms of CMD may be different expressions of the same genetic disease
The indirect effect of a focus group for psoriatic patients on their caregivers
Full text linkPsoriasis is a chronic skin disease involving not only epidermic damages but also psychological distress for patients and their family caregivers. Little is known about the effects of a psychological support for psoriatic patients on their caregivers' well-being. The goal of the present study was to investigate the indirect effects of the participation in a dynamic focus group reserved for psoriatic patients on their caregivers in terms of quality of life. The study involved 52 psoriatic patients and 41 family caregivers. Patients' wellbeing was assessed using the dermatology quality of life index, hospital anxiety and depression scale. The impact of the disease on caregivers was assessed using the family dermatology life quality index (FDLQI). Data were analyzed with linear mixed models. The caregivers of psoriatic patients involved in the psychodynamic focus group reported levels of FDLQI that decreased over time, therefore showing an improvement in their quality of life in relation to the pathology of their relatives; the caregivers of patients who did not participate in the psychodynamic focus group, instead, had levels of FDLQI that were stable over time. The results provide preliminary evidence that the group setting of the Psychodynamic Focus Group may alleviate the negative impact of psychosomatic disease on the caregivers
The power of extraversion? Reduced false memories for positive events
No full textEvidence on the relation between personality traits and false memories is scarce and partly contradictory. For example, extraverts have been found to be less suggestible to induced memory distortion (through the misinformation paradigm); however, they tend to produce a higher amount of spontaneous false memories (through the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm). Whether Extraversion influences false memories for positive and negative events is unclear. The current study was aimed at clarifying the effects of Extraversion (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) on false memories using an ecological paradigm for emotional events. Participants were 151 volunteering undergraduate students. Results showed that Extraversion predicted reduced false memories for positive events, compared to negative ones. No effects of Neuroticism and Psychoticism were found. Results are discussed in terms of the stable characteristics of the rememberer that may affect memory distortions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
So-stare in quarantena: percezione del cambiamento di abitudini ed emozioni in un gruppo di adolescenti italiani durante la pandemia da Covid-19
No full text«I'm here too!» siblings of children with chronic neurological disease. A quantitative and qualitative study with a clinical interview
No full textLo studio si propone di indagare gli aspetti peculiari ed eventualmente problematici dell’e- sperienza fraterna in famiglie dove sia presente un bambino affetto da patologia comportante una disabilità neuro-psicomotoria. Fratelli e sorelle di pazienti con disabilità afferiti ad un Servizio di neuro-riabilitazione per l’età evolutiva sono stati confrontati con fratelli di bambini senza disturbi rispetto alle competenze e al profilo psicopatologico stilato da genitori ed insegnanti. Inoltre i 54 genitori dei pazienti con disabilità hanno partecipato ad un’intervista clinica volta ad indagare i loro vissuti ed eventuali relazioni di questi con le difficoltà dei fratelli. Difficoltà affettivo-relazionali appaiono infatti presenti in maggior misura nei fratelli dei bambini con disabilità rispetto ai fratelli di bambini senza disabilità. Fra le implicazioni terapeutiche, una comunicazione aperta intorno alla disabilità costituisce la base per relazioni fraterne più spontanee e uno sviluppo più libero
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