Sniffing out olfactory reference syndrome
Olfactory reference syndrome is characterised by the erroneous belief that one emits an unpleasant body odour. This results in significant distress and is often accompanied by repetitive behaviour such as frequent showering in an attempt to camouflage ...
Eileen Thomas+4 more
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Parent and child agreement for acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychopathology in a prospective study of children and adolescents exposed to single-event trauma [PDF]
Examining parent-child agreement for Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents is essential for informing the assessment of trauma-exposed children, yet no studies have examined this relationship ...
A. A. Thabet+49 more
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Post-traumatic stress disorder [PDF]
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may affect 10% of women and 5% of men at some stage, and symptoms may persist for several years. Risk factors include major trauma, lack of social support, peritraumatic dissociation, and psychiatric or personality factors.We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following clinical questions: What ...
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Stress, asthenia and cognitive disorders
Asthenia is a clinical syndrome that nearly any somatic and neurological pathologies can manifest with. Being is essence a defense mechanism that signals the depletion of energy resources, asthenia can become a pathological, extremely disabling condition, and even transform into a nosology of its own - the chronic fatigue syndrome, an immune-mediated ...
E.E. Vasenina, O.A. Gankina, O.S. Levin
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Stress, Anxiety, and Depression among Teachers during the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
Background: Mental disorders have become especially important in the current stressful world. Among these disorders, anxiety, and depression are highly prevalent. Stress is also a very common phenomenon.
Asiyeh Pirzadeh+2 more
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A Robot Model of Stress-Induced Compulsive Behavior [PDF]
Stress is one of the potential mechanisms underlying compulsive behavior in obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders. In this paper, we present a robot model and experiments investigating the interactions between internally- and externally-induced stress ...
Cañamero, Lola, Lewis, Matthew
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Predictability and Strength of a Heterogeneous System : The Role of System Size and Disorder [PDF]
In this work I have studied the effect of disorder and system size in fiber bundle model with a certain range of stress redistribution. The strength of the bundle as well as the failure abruptness is observed with varying disorder, stress release range and system sizes.
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Background: Protracted methamphetamine (MA) use is associated with decreased control over drug craving and altered brain volume in the frontostriatal network.
S.J. Brooks, PhD+7 more
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Evolution of the human fear-circuitry and acute sociogenic pseudoneurological symptoms: The Neolithic balanced-polymorphism hypothesis [PDF]
In light of the increasing threat of large-scale massacres such as terrorism against non-combatants (civilians), more attention is warranted not only to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also to acute sociogenic pseudoneurological ("conversion ...
Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan+3 more
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Resilience of networks to environmental stress: From regular to random networks [PDF]
Despite the huge interest in network resilience to stress, most of the studies have concentrated on internal stress damaging network structure (e.g., node removals). Here we study how networks respond to environmental stress deteriorating their external conditions.
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