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Photosensitivity Associated With Antipsychotics, Antidepressants And Anxiolytics.

November 17, 2018October 25, 2017 by admin

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Photosensitivity reactions evoked by systemic agents are the result of the effects of the agent combined with subsequent exposure to light. Photosensitivity induced by exogenous parenteral agents accounts for an increasing portion of the total undesirable effects caused by environmental chemicals. The exponential increase in the number of new drugs introduced each year may be one of the factors explaining the increased number of reports describing photosensitivity induced by exogenous agents. There are many reports of photosensitivity caused by antipsychotic and antidepressant agents. Although the majority of the research was focused on the photosensitising potential of chlorpromazine, other antipsychotics and antidepressants have been shown to cause cutaneous photosensitivity. An extensive drug history must be taken whenever a patient presents with a reaction limited to, or accentuated in, light-exposed areas. It should be remembered that these...

Missing White Woman Syndrome How Media Framing Affects Viewers’ Emotions

November 17, 2018October 25, 2017 by admin

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In this experiment, the study of missing white woman syndrome is extended to video coverage to determine whether visual framing and race have an effect on the emotions of viewers. Missing white woman syndrome relates to the idea that stories about attractive, young, white females who go missing are more prevalent in the news to the exclusion of similar stories about other demographics. This study examined the relationship between race and framing effects through a factorial design experiment and posttest questionnaire. Experimental conditions compared television news stories about women of different demographics who are portrayed differently in both visual and nonvisual frames. Results showed that visual framing did affect the emotions of viewers, but the race of the missing person did not...

Objective Assessment Of Sexual Arousal In Women With A History Of Hysterectomy

November 17, 2018October 25, 2017 by admin

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Objective The potential contribution of psychological and anatomical changes to sexual dysfunction following hysterectomy is not clear. Radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer causes surgical damage to the autonomic nerves which are responsible for the increased vaginal blood flow during sexual arousal. Simple hysterectomy causes more limited nerve disruption. Photoplethysmographic assessment of vaginal pulse amplitude objectively measures vaginal blood flow during sexual arousal. We hypothesised that damage of the autonomic nerves results in a disrupted vaginal blood flow response during sexual stimulation.

Design Between-groups comparison of vaginal pulse amplitude.

Setting University hospital.

Sample Twelve women with a history of radical hysterectomy, 12 women with a history of simple abdomonal hysterectomy and 17 aged-matched controls.

Methods Photoplethysmographic assessment of vaginal pulse amplitude during sexual stimulation by erotic films. Self-reported ratings of subjective sexual arousal were collected after each erotic stimulus condition...

Working with Sexual Offenders via Psychodrama

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

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Aim/Background: This paper describes a program providing group therapy to adjudicated adult male sex offenders and sex addicts via Psychodrama and discusses its format and program evaluation data. Topics treated in the sessions and means of approach are described. The format of work is outlined in manual form, rationales given for treatment choices, and evaluations of the program by the men in it are reported on.

Materials/ Methods: A description of procedures used and a manual are provided for others who may wish to use the practices described. Data are taken from program evaluations and self-reports.

Results: Numerical data and essay style quotes from program evaluations are provided which show that the men in the program find psychodramatic work personally meaningful and developing social bonding.

Conclusions: What the data reveal, limitations, and what directions we would like to move in future are described....

Chapter 2: Sexual Etiqutte in Islam

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

Sexual intercourse and the sexual j with a legal spouse are governed by nature, and at the same time is a sunnah of the Prophets and the Ahlul Bayt (as). It has even been referred to as the most pleasurable thing in life. A group of companions and Shī°as of Imām as-Ŝādiq (as) narrate that the Imām asked us: “What is the most pleasurable thing?” We said: “There are many pleasurable things.” Imām said: “The most pleasurable thing is making love with (your) spouses.”1

It is also narrated from Imām as-Ŝādiq (as): “Whether in this world or in the hereafter, one has not, and will not, perceived a pleasure more pleasurable than sexual relations with women, and certainly this is the commentary of the words of Allāh (SwT) in the Qur`an, in Surat Āli-’ Imrān, verse 14 where He states: “To mankind has been made...

The Child Sexual Ause Accommodation Syndrome.

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

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Child victims of sexual abuse face secondary trauma in the crisis of discovery. Their attempts to reconcile their private experiences with the realities of the outer world are assaulted by the disbelief, blame and rejection they experience from adults. The normal coping behavior of the child contradicts the entrenched beliefs and expectations typically held by adults, stigmatizing the child with charges of lying, manipulating or imagining from parents, courts and clinicians. Such abandonment by the very adults most crucial to the child's protection and recovery drives the child deeper into self-blame, self-hate, alienation and revictimization. In contrast, the advocacy of an empathic clinician within a supportive treatment network can provide vital credibility and endorsement for the child. Evaluation of the responses of normal children to sexual assault provides clear evidence that societal definitions of "normal" victim behavior are inappropriate and procrustean, serving...

Friendship: The Laws of Attraction

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

My best friend, Olivia, and I met in a fiction-writing class many years ago. We bonded in an instant during the discussion of one poor soul's incomprehensible story involving a woman who'd undergone surgery and was described delicately as having lost "that which made her a woman." Suddenly, out of my mouth sprang my impersonation of Monty Python's Eric Idle, "Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?" Every other student in the room looked at me as if I'd lost my mind, but Olivia snorted with laughter. Thus, a friendship was born.

When people are asked, "What gives meaning to your life?" friendship figures at the top of the list. Yet the dynamics of friendship have remained mysterious and unquantifiable. Like romantic love, friendships were thought to "just happen." New research shows that the dance of friendship is nuanced far more complex than commonly thought....

Effects of Arousal on Attraction: Physical Characteristics and Trait Information

February 21, 2019October 24, 2017 by admin

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This study is designed to investigate the effects of physiological arousal on attraction when faces are accompanied by mitigating information. 54 participants were asked to report their level of attraction to photographs of faces that were accompanied by positive or negative traits. We manipulated the level of arousal of those in the experimental groups with electric shock and exercise, while those in the control group received no shock or exercise. We expected participants who were aroused to report being more attracted to the attractive faces, and less attracted to unattractive faces than participants who were not aroused. We also expected participants who were aroused to neglect trait information more than participants who were not aroused. The misattribution effect, in which subjects are more attracted to attractive faces when aroused than when not aroused, has been widely researched. While many studies support the theory of...

What Every Hospital Discharge Planner Should Know About Homeless Patient Resource Connections

February 21, 2019October 24, 2017 by admin

Learning Objectives

1. Overview of a social model of Recuperative Care (aka Medical Respite)

2. Provide insights on how to ensure successful care transition to a Medical Respite Care facility

3. Discuss the resource connections provided to clients at a Medical Respite including an overview of criteria, costs and timelines

4. Overview of Social Security benefits with respect to disabilities

What is Recuperative Care?

Recuperative Care (aka Medical Respite) provides care to homeless persons recovering from an acute illness or injury, no longer in need of acute care but unable to sustain recovery if living on the street or other unsuitable place.

Combined with effective case management and possible housing placement, recuperative care program allows individual with complex medical and psycho-social needs the opportunity to recover in a stable environment while reducing potential health complications and subsequent hospital readmissions....

Dealing With A Problem That Doesn’t Exist? Professional Responses To Female Perpetrated Child Sexual Abuse

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

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Female involvement in sexual offences against children is more common than is generally thought and has serious implications for the long-term emotional and psychological well-being of victims. Drawing on findings from: a comprehensive review of the literature; an overview of relevant literature and legislation; and an electronic survey of Multi-Agency Public Protection Panels; this paper explores the criminal justice response to female sex offending in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The literature highlights that the way in which professionals identify and respond to child sexual abuse has been shown to be influenced by the gender of the perpetrator. Equally, whilst similar to male sex offending in terms of the intrusiveness and seriousness of the abuse, some aspects of female sex offending can cause particular problems for professionals. The fact that some sexual abuse can be disguised as childcare can make it difficult for professionals...

Drug-Induced Compulsive Behaviors: Exceptions to the Rule

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

To the Editor: We are intrigued by the recent article by Bostwick et al1 on the emergence of impulse control behaviors after treatment with dopamine agonists. It is amazing how these gambling and hypersexuality adverse effects occur and then seem to immediately abate simply by discontinuing the Parkinson disease medication without need for any additional addiction-related treatment. Ropinirole was recently investigated in a phase 4 clinical trial as a treatment for sexual dysfunction secondary to antidepressant pharmacotherapy,2 which speaks to its possible effects on sexual behavior. Dopamine agonists may affect the mesolimbic pathway, as do drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, whose behavioral properties are attributed to this dopaminergic activity; sexual compulsivity is a well-established adverse effect of these medications.3 Furthermore, dopamine dysregulation syndrome, an addictive use pattern of dopamine agonists, causes the same behaviors observed in cocaine-dependent patients, such as punding, a stereotypical motor behavior...

Efficacy Of Lithium Carbonate On Public And Compulsive Masturbation: A Female Case With Mild Mental Disability.

December 25, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

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The efficacy of lithium carbonate in the first reported case of a female with mild mental disability who engaged in public and compulsive masturbation is described. The patient was born in 1975, and was 19 years old at first admission. A diagnosis of schizophrenia was initially suspected, therefore the patient was given medication including pimozide, haloperidol, carbamazepine, diazepam and levomepromazine. These medications, however, did not control the symptoms, and the patient showed several side effects, such as incontinence. Only lithium carbonate was efficacious among the medications administered; the patient's abnormal sexual behavior was significantly reduced and no conspicuous side effects were recognized. The mechanisms of lithium carbonate in controlling abnormal sexual behavior are discussed...

Causal Attributions and Affective Responses to Provocative Female Partner Behavior by Abusive and Nonabusive Males

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

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The present study examined the effects of the degree of female partner provocation on cognitive attributions and affective responses in verbally abusive and nonabusive college males. In Phase 1 (N = 116), subjects listened to audiotapes of hypothetical dating situations in which the female partner's behavior was nonprovocative or moderately provocative; in Phase 2 (N = 105), the female partner's behavior was nonprovocative or highly provocative. The major hypothesis was that abusive males would make greater negative intent and responsibility attributions and report more powerful feelings of jealousy, rejection, and abandonment in response to moderately and highly provocative partner behavior but not in response to nonprovocative partner behavior than would nonabusive males. Results from Phase 1 showed that abusive males reported reliably greater negative attributions and feelings of jealousy, rejection, and abandonment in response to moderately provocative partner behavior than did nonabusive males. No group

Prevalence Of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Female Prostitutes In Fukuoka, Japan.

January 21, 2019October 24, 2017 by admin

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To assess the risk of sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV), we surveyed female prostitutes to determine the prevalence of antibody to HCV (anti-HCV) and HCV RNA. Anti-HCV was examined with a second generation anti-HCV test employing a passive hemagglutination assay. HCV RNA was detected by two-stage polymerase chain reaction with primers deduced from the 5'-noncoding region of the HCV genome. All studies were performed in Fukuoka, Japan, from 1989 through 1992 and all subjects were Japanese and had no history of intravenous drug abuse. The prevalence of anti-HCV was significantly higher in the prostitutes (10.1%; 61/604) than in the controls (female blood donors; 0.8%; 52/6632) (P < 0.001). HCV RNA was found in 73.2% of the anti-HCV-positive prostitutes. The prevalence of anti-HCV among prostitutes increased with the number of years spent in prostitution (P < 0.05). Prostitutes with a history of syphilis had a higher prevalence of anti-HCV than those with no history of syphilis, irrespective of the number of years in...

Spontaneous Abortions Among Nickel-exposed Female Refinery Workers.

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

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A case-control study to investigate whether women employed in nickel-exposed work areas in early pregnancy are at elevated risk of spontaneous abortion (SA). Data about pregnancy outcome and maternal factors were obtained about each delivery and SA from women in selected work places. Each pregnancy record was assigned a categorical nickel (Ni) exposure rating according to the women's occupations at pregnancy onset. The guidelines were the water-soluble Ni subfraction of the inhalable aerosol fraction obtained by personal monitoring for nickel- and copper-refinery workers or/and measured urinary-Ni concentrations. The unadjusted odds ratio for the association between the maternal exposure to Ni and an SA for Ni-exposed women was 1.38 (95% confidence interval: 1.04-1.84), and the adjusted was 1.14 (0.95-1.37). In conclusion, there was no statistical association between maternal occupational exposure to water-soluble Ni in early pregnancy and the risk of self-reported SA....

Injuries Of The Female Genitalia In Cases Of Sexual Assault

November 17, 2018October 24, 2017 by admin

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Sexual violence is a global problem that particularly affects women and children. A retrospective analysis of 390 clinical-forensic examinations and 120 autopsies regarding injuries of the female genitalia in cases of sexual violence was performed. In the majority of cases no injuries of the female genitalia were found. Autopsy cases showed significantly more (and more serious) injuries of the genitalia than clinical forensic examinations (43 % vs. 25 %; p = 0.0004). Predominantly found were injuries of the external anogenital area, mostly tears or soft tissue lesions. In the current literature, data regarding the rate of injuries in victims of sexual violence vary strongly and their comparability is limited. Regarding the reconstruction of an offence, a forensic examination with an appropriate documentation of the injuries is evidently crucial.