PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN IDIOPATHIC TRANSVERSE MYELITIS
Consecutive patients with idiopathic transverse myelitis and first-episode stroke (30 each) underwent two-stage screening for psychiatric morbidity. A high prevalence of psychological distress, psychiatric morbidity (principally major depression), and cognitive impairment was found in idiopathic TM, comparable to that found among patients with stroke. This morbidity was associated with greater disability.

Subho Chakrabarti
Chandigarh, In

  

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MARITAL ADJUSTMENT OF SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER PATIENTS
Substance dependence patients have significant better marital adjustment compared with bipolar affective disorder patients. Substance dependence patients have significantly better social and sexual adjustment than patients with bipolar affective disorder as well as significantly better sexual adjustment than schizophrenia patients.

Suprakash Chaudhury
Loni, In

  

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PSYCHO-SOCIAL STRESS AND COMMUNITY HEALTH OUTCOMES IN A PENNSYLVANIA ENERGY BOOMTOWN
Ethnographic methodology within an environmental justice framework can be useful in monitoring the psychological and socio-cultural determinants of community health in unconventional oil and gas fields. This paper provides examples of such an approach via an ethnographic case study from fieldwork conducted from 2009-2011 in the Marcellus shale gas fields of rural Pennsylvania.

Simona Perry
Montgomery Village, Us

  

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ENERGY EXPLORATION BRINGS UP RADIATION CONTAMINATION
Development of a mobile radiation instrument with advanced algorithmic isotope identification feature allows for the first accurate on-site survey of radioactivity levels caused by energy exploration from hydraulic fracturing.

Leong Ying
Hoboken, Us

  

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DIFERENCIAS ENTRE SÍNTOMAS DE DEPRESIÓN Y TRASTORNO DEPRESIVO EN MÉDICOS RESIDENTES
Las exigencias de la residencia producen manifestaciones de malestar emocional más evidentes en individuos predispuestos.

José Luis Jimenez López
México D.F., México

     

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