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Soggetti psicopatici e socialmente pericolosi: uno studio caso-controllo per valutare i fattori di rischio per la recidiva di comportamento violento
Full text linkBackground Since 2008 people considered Non-Guilty in Reason of Insanity (NGRI) and socially dangerous, are sectioned in the residential forensic units called R.E.M.S (Residences for Execution of Security Measures), exclusively managed by health operators, without policemen support. In judiciary laws, social danger is considered as the risk for a person to commit future crimes in reason of mental disorder. For this reason, the assessment of mental and behavioral parameters is fundamental to connect clinical facets with recidivism and to predict the risk of violence.
Violent behavior can occurs in Psychosis and Mood Disorder, often in acute phases, whereas is very common in about 80% of people Personality Disorder, above all Borderline and Antisocial too. Literature suggest that Psychopathy represent the trans-dimentional clinical condition that correlates with longer criminal careers and high level of violent behavior. In fact psychopathic suffer from a profound affective deficit, including shallow emotion and inability to experience empathy, guilt or remorse.
Methods We developed a protocol to assess both psychological and biological aspects in patients admitted in R.E.M.S. of Mental Health Department of ASL Rm5 in order to evaluate neurocognitive/psychiatric pathways and to compare differences between psychopathic and non-psychopathic groups. Psychopathy assessment require PCL-r, that is the gold standard reference scale. Case and Control are adults male 20 admitted in REMS since 2016, classified as psychopathic if their PCL-r scores is ≥ 20. All participants underwent clinical evaluation and MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) study with specific sequences to examine possible dysfunction in neural connectivitiy.
Results Preliminary results demonstrate that psychopathic participants (7 adults, mean age: 42,71 yo, PCl-r: 23,92) had many lifetime’s criminal records, while non-psychopatic (6 adults, mean age 46,17 yo, PCL-r: 10,35) are admitted in forensic units for the first time in their life. First results suggest that PCL-r total score represent the most important pathway to predict recidivism of violent acts, measured with Harm-FV (Hamilton anatomy of Risk Managent – forensic version), instead of PD (psychopathic deviation) scale of MMPI-II that appears elevated in both groups, without differences between psychopathic and non-psychopathic. Moreover, psychopathic traits may be correlated with different patterns of atypical neural connective activity
Age Estimation in Children by Measurement of Open Apices in Teeth
No full textThis paper concerns a method for estimating the age of children based on their teeth. The sample consisted of 455 Italian white children (213 boys, 242 girls) aged between 5 and 15 years. The purpose of the present investigation was to present a method for assessing chronological age based on the relationship between age and measurement of the open apices in teeth. Pearson’s correlation coefficients between age and these variables showed that the correlations between age and the open apices in teeth were significant and negative. Furthermore,gender and the number of teeth with the apical end of the root canals completely closed (N0) showed a significant correlation with chronological age. With the aid of a stepwise multiple regression model, a linear relationship between open apices, N0, and age was shown. Statistical analysis indicated that these morphological variables explain 83.6% of the variations in estimated chronological age. The median of residual errors between the actual and estimated ages was −0.035 years [interquartile range (IQR)=1.18 years]
Osservazioni medico-legali sulla valutazione della collocabilità nella prospettiva dell'inserimento al lavoro protetto dei portatori di handicap
No full textFunzioni e prestazioni medico-legali non sono attività di competenza dei dipartimenti di prevenzione: l’esempio della Regione Marche
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Precision and Reliability of Pulp/Tooth Area Ratio (RA) of Second Molar as Indicator of Adult Age
No full textLa responsabilità professionale in ambito odontoiatrico. Esperienza dell’Istituto di Ancona.
No full textGoing 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
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