IMPACT FACTOR: 1.8
Short Name: J Psychiatry Behav Sci
ISSN: 2637-8027
Publisher: MedDocs Publishers LLC
Objective: The term “Stress prone type A personality” is defined as a personality type that is unable to cope well with stress. Type A people are prime candidates for stress and stress-related illnesses. Anxiety is characterized by a diffuse, unpleasant, vague sense of apprehension, often accompanied by autonomic symptoms. The stress and anxiety are psychological characteristic that are somehow related to heart diseases. The main purpose of this study was to examine the role of stress prone type A personality and anxiety among heart patients and normal people.
Objective: Present study was conducted to find out gender differences in the relationship between social support, emotional behavioral disturbances and self-esteem among adolescents.
Method: The sample was collected from secondary schools of Islamabad with the permission of school authorities. It consisted of 100 girls and 100 boys i.e., the total sample consisted of 200 adolescents. The age range was 11 to 18 years. The instruments used for present study were self-esteem scale, social support scale and emotional behavioral disturbance scale.
Background: Suicide is a leading cause of death world-wide and becoming a public health concern among adolescents. However, adolescent suicidal behaviour is a neglected public health issue, especially in low-income countries such as Bangladesh. Of great importance is the understanding of which factors might be related to this growing public problem.
Objectives: To determine the pattern of psychiatric disorders of elderly clients aged ≥ 60 years, attending the old age psychiatry unit, Ibn-Rushed psychiatric teaching hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
The present study aimed to explore the moderating role of optimism and pessimism on the relationship of perceived inter-parental conflict and aggression among adolescents. Adolescents are distinct group to study, as they are free from societal pressures to act in certain ways. Thus, present study is planned to study the role of optimism-pessimism in adolescent’s personality how this orientation contributes in perceiving inter-parental conflict. Differences regarding demographic variables like gender are also explored on inter-parental conflict, aggression and optimism-pessimism.
Designers often engage in imaginative activities and their performance largely reflects their unique distinct experiences. Few studies have examined the relationship between creative imagination and designer experience. Thirty visual designers were invited to participate in this study, which examined the differences in the brain activities of Experienced Designers (EDs) and Novice Designers (NDs) engaged in initiating imagination stimulated by abstract images. The following results were obtained.
Mitochondrial dysfunction is associated with abnormal glucose metabolism, inflammation and greater oxidative stress in the brain, each of which may contribute uniquely and perhaps synergistically to HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND) risk. The ketogenic (i.e., low carbohydrate) diet provides the brain with a highly efficient mitochondrial fuel and is associated with improved cognitive performance in older adults with impaired neurocognitive functioning secondary to ageing, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s disease.
A 43-year-old female presented to the Insomnia clinic with sleep disturbances that caused her to feel tired in the day and drowsy at mid-afternoon. She has a positive medical history for hypertension, hypothyroidism, cholesteremia and day time social anxiety disorder controlled by medication. The patient's neurological EEG study ruled out seizure disorder. Her BMI is 30.1. The patient denied OTC supplements/herbal use, cigarette smoking and recreational drug use. The patient drinks alcohol mildly—1-2 glasses per week.
Objective: To characterize the socio-demographic profile of otherwise healthy blood donors with self-reported ADHD symptoms...
Aim: To inform service improvement by describing the process and impact of an initiative designed to enable metabolic monitoring among people with severe mental illness who are homeless and avoid services...
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Authors
Anna Praskova1,2; Sue Patterson1,2*; Deanna Erskine1 ; Barbara Baumgartner1 ; Caroline Bennett1 ; Vinit Sawney1 ; Brett Emmerson1,3
1Metro North Mental Health, Metro North Hospital, Australia
2Metro North Mental Health, Griffith University, Australia
3Metro North Mental Health, University of Queensland, Australia
Received: Mar 23, 2018
Accepted: Aug 02, 2018
Published Online: Aug 09, 2018
Authors
Louise K Hoeffding1 ; Maria H Nielsen1 ; Maria Didriksen1 ; Trine Schow 2; Thomas Werge3,4,5; Kaspar R Nielsen6 ; Christian Erikstrup7 ; Ole B Pedersen8 ; Henrik Hjalgrim9,10; Jens RM Jepsen11,12; Thomas F Hansen13; Karina Banasik14; Henrik Ullum1 ; Kristoffer S Burgdorf1*
1 Department of Clinical Immunology, the Blood Bank, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2 Brain Injury Center - BOMI, Roskilde, Denmark.
3 Institute of Biological Psychiatry, Mental Health Centre Sct. Hans, Copenhagen University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark.
4 Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
5 The Lundbeck Foundation Initiative for Integrative Psychiatric Research, iPSYCH, Denmark.
6 Department of Clinical Immunology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
7 Department of Clinical Immunology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
8 Department of Clinical Immunology, Naestved Hospital, Naestved, Denmark.
9 Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
10 Department of Hematology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
11 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centre, Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark.
12 Lundbeck Foundation Center for Clinical Intervention and Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CINS) and Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Psychiatric Center Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark.
13 Danish Headache Center, Department of Neurology, Glostrup Research Institute, Copenhagen University Hospital RigshospitaletGlostrup, Glostrup, Denmark.
14 Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Received: May 07, 2018
Accepted: Aug 10, 2018
Published Online: Aug 20, 2018
Authors
Kathy Sexton-Radek
Suburban Pulmonary and Sleep Associates, Westmont, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL USA
Received: Aug 21, 2018
Accepted: Sep 26, 2018
Published Online: Sep 28, 2018
Authors
Shannon A Morrison, PhD, CRNP1*; Pariya L Fazeli, PhD2 ; Barbara Gower, PhD3 ; Jarred Younger, PhD4 ; Amanda Willig, PhD, RDN5 ; N Markie Sneed, MSN, CRNP6 ; David E Vance, PhD, MGS7
1 Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
2 Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
3 Professor and Director of the Metabolic Core, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
4 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA
5 Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
6 PhD Student, UAB School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
7 Professor and Director of Research and Scholarly Development, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Received: Aug 29, 2018
Accepted: Nov 02, 2018
Published Online: Nov 06, 2018
Authors
Chaoyun Liang1 *; Yu-Cheng Liu2
1 Professor, Department of Bio-Industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Bio-Industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Received: Aug 20, 2018
Accepted: Nov 08, 2018
Published Online: Nov 12, 2018
Authors
Muhammad Kamran Chaudhry1 *; Fakiha Shabbir2
1 Foundation University, Rawalpindi Pakistan
2 Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad Pakistan
Received: Aug 21, 2018
Accepted: Nov 09, 2018
Published Online: Nov 14, 2018
Authors
Shalan Joodah Rhemah Al Abbudi1 *; Khalida Ibraheem Ezzat2
1 Department of Medicine, Al-Imamein Al-Kadhimein Medical City, Iraq
2 Counseling, Social worker, Ibn-Rushd Mental Hospital, Iraq
Received: Aug 21, 2018
Accepted: Nov 12, 2018
Published Online: Nov 15, 2018
Authors
Afroza Begum1 ; Eija Viitasara1 ; Joaquim Soares1 ; AKM Fazlur Rahman2 ; Gloria Macassa1,3*
1 Department of Health Sciences, Mid-Sweden University, Sundsval, Sweden
2 Department of Epidemiology, Bangladesh University of Health Sciences, Dhaka, Bangladesh
3 Department of Occupational and Public Sciences, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden
Received: Jul 21, 2018
Accepted: Dec 27, 2018
Published Online: Dec 31, 2018
Authors
Gina Tomé*; Margarida Gaspar de Matos; Inês Camacho; Paulo Gomes; Marta Reis; Cátia Branquinho
FMH/University of Lisbon, Portugal
Received: Mar 14, 2018
Accepted: Jun 19, 2018
Published Online: Jun 22, 2018
Authors
Helen Lazaratou; Zacharias Kalogerakis*; Alexandra Petroutsou; Panagiota P Bali; Angeliki Konsta; Mara Pirlympou; Leonidas Papadakos; Anna Bechraki; Dimitris Dikeos
Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Received: Mar 29, 2018
Accepted: Jun 07, 2018
Published Online: Jun 12, 2018
