submitted by Cristoba 18 minutes ago
The medial preoptic area is a structure located in the hypothalamic anteroventral third ventricle region, and is closely related to the olfactory brain development and sexual differentiation of the brain. The medial preoptic area surrounds the organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis, and both...
submitted by livooxgaycyc 22 minutes ago
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma has a high rate of neural invasion (80 to 100%) and can be associated with moderate to severe pain in pancreatic cancer. Treatment of pain with celiac plexus blockage (CPB) combined with the three-step ladder utilization of pharmaceutical analgesics following WHO ...
submitted by amorsolih2 28 minutes ago
We investigated the effects of tivozanib, an oral vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, on experimental choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in mice. C57BL/6 mice were treated with tivozanib (1 mg/kg/day) or vehicle at the onset (day 0) of the study and exper...
submitted by rodasistros 37 minutes ago
There is increasing evidence of clustering of certain cardiac amomalies in some families. The frequency and echocardiographic features of such anomalies among the relatives of the patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) or other left-sided cardiovascular anomalies (LSCAs) were evaluated. The pa...
submitted by BryanJer 1 hour ago
The second to fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) indicates androgen exposure during early development. Numerous methods are used in the assessment of 2D:4D, however, some are not reliable enough and others are difficult to perform in large epidemiological studies. We assessed the reliability of 2D:4D usi...
submitted by lhat 1 hour ago
Empathic and moral processing correlates of psychopathic personality have seldom been studied in women. In this study, we experimentally tested associations between psychopathic personality traits and empathic and moral processing in a female sample, and further directly compared them to results ...
submitted by chorlisd88 1 hour ago
Schizophrenia risk alleles are expected to mediate effects on cognitive task performance, and aspects of personality including schizotypy, in nonclinical populations. We investigated how 32 of the best-validated schizophrenia risk alleles, singly and as summed genetic risk, were related to measur...
submitted by Roy1487 1 hour ago
We investigated relationships among five higher-order strengths factors, subjective well-being, and general self-efficacy in participants that live under challenging conditions. Therefore, a sample of 396 Israeli adolescents (aged 13–18years) completed the Values in Action Inventory of Strength...
submitted by KarsonCol 1 hour ago
Indecisiveness is an inability to make a decision, manifest across a number of behaviours. We explore the influence that both direction and strength of hand preference may have on this construct, examining it in relation to the revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (rRST). Indecisiveness Scale...
submitted by BryCory 1 hour ago
This paper describes a study examining the impact of item order in personality measurement on reliability, measurement equivalence and scale-level correlations. A large sample of university students completed one of three forms of the International Personality Item Pool version of the Big Five pe...
submitted by mhkholif 1 hour ago
Dispositional mindfulness, or the tendency to be more mindful in daily life, has been associated with better psychological functioning and reduced overall distress. This study investigated the degree to which dispositional mindfulness was associated with sleep disturbances in cancer patients with...
submitted by TravRap 1 hour ago
The study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and several addiction-related behaviours (gambling problems, Internet abuse, and computer gaming misuse) in two adolescent samples: 270 clinical outpatients (180 males and 90 females) and 256 special needs students (160 males...
submitted by tetas3119 1 hour ago
Organizational psychologists examining personality’s relation to work behavior have focused largely on the “normal” traits comprising the Five Factor Model (FFM). However, given the aversive nature of sub-clinical psychopathy (e.g., callous affect, impulsivity), we posit that this toxic per...
submitted by IceclibreMede 1 hour ago
This study examined the role of suppressor effects on age differences in anxious emotion. Children and adolescents (n= 1099) ages 7–18years were assessed for separation anxiety, social anxiety, and generalized anxiety. of zero-order correlations indicated a significant negative association betw...
submitted by dedek009 1 hour ago
In this study we attempt to determine whether dysgenic fertility is associated with the Jensen effect. This is investigated with respect to a US population representative sample of 8110 individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for whom there exists complete data on IQ and fertil...