Development and Initial Validation of a Rock Climbing Craving Questionnaire (RCCQ)
Conceptual similarities have been identified between experiences of extreme sports athletes and those with drug and behavioral addictions. Evidence suggests rock climbers experience craving and other withdrawal-like states when abstinent from their sport.
Gareth Roderique-Davies +3 more
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Deprivation Has Inconsistent Effects on Delay Discounting: A Review
Delay discounting, the tendency for outcomes to be devalued as they are more temporally remote, has implications as a target for behavioral interventions.
Haylee Downey +4 more
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Alcohol Withdrawal – Therapeutical Management in Surgical Patients with Upper Intestinal Bleeding [PDF]
Psychological dependence involves a desire to use a drug to avoid the unpleasant withdrawal syndrome that results from cessation of exposure to it. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is one of the most feared complications of alcohol addiction and sometimes can
Bogdan, Popescu +5 more
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Characterizing socially avoidant and affiliative responses to social exclusion
Humans have a fundamental need for social relationships. From an evolutionary standpoint, the drive to form social connections may have evolved as an adaptive mechanism to promote survival, as group membership afforded the benefits of shared resources ...
Katherine Elizabeth Powers +1 more
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Assessing the 2004-2018 fentanyl misusing issues reported to an international range of adverse reporting systems [PDF]
© 2019 Schifano, Chiappini, Corkery and Guirguis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Chiappini, Stephania +3 more
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Safe discontinuation of nilotinib in a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia: a case report [PDF]
Case presentation. We report the case of a 64-year-old Caucasian man diagnosed with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia in April 2005. After 4 years of treatment with imatinib, he became intolerant to the drug and was switched to nilotinib.
CAOCCI, GIOVANNI +2 more
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Differential Changes in Expression of Stress- and Metabolic-related Neuropeptides in the Rat Hypothalamus during Morphine Dependence and Withdrawal [PDF]
Chronic morphine treatment and naloxone precipitated morphine withdrawal activates stress-related brain circuit and results in significant changes in food intake, body weight gain and energy metabolism.
Ferenczi, Szilamér +6 more
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Background/Objectives: The search for non-therapeutic ways to reduce emotional and behavioral symptoms is an important task. The aim of this study was to assess the potential of pretend play and art-based project activity as easily implementable ways to ...
Alexander Veraksa +4 more
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As awareness increases about the side effects of opioids and risks of misuse, opioid use and appropriate weaning of opioid therapies have become topics of significant clinical relevance among pediatric populations.
Genevieve D’Souza +5 more
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Kaposi's sarcoma in a patient with erythroblastopenia and thymoma: Reactivation after topical corticosteroids [PDF]
We report a 69-year-old female with erythroblastopenia and thymoma who developed lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) after thymectomy, 2 months after the initiation of therapy with methylprednisolone.
Alomar, A. +8 more
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