(1) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(2) Besides the notion of psychosomatic medicine as a way of viewing, there is need of a definition of so-called psychosomatic diseases from the aspect of demarcation against general bio-psycho-social interactions.
(3) Seventy-nine per cent of all one year survivors have had excellent psycho-social rehabilitation.
(4) DynaTAC became the phone of choice for fictional psychopaths, including Wall Street's Gordon Gekko, American Psycho's Patrick Bateman and Saved by the Bell's Zack Morris.
(5) For this purpose, the author relies on the observations of a group of doctors during a 5-year attempt to interest neurotic patients in this stratum in a psycho-therapeutic discussion at a medical ambulant clinic.
(6) Made 24 Hour Psycho, Zidane, and this spring installed a new work at Tate Britain, London.
(7) Further severe limiting factors, for more prolonged manned space missions, are the so called "human factors" including psycho-emotional and social behaviour, especially regarding the future of astronauts after their return to earth.
(8) Such an analytical investigation enables the author to conclude that one must admit that helicopter piloting involves a psycho-physical workload certainly no less than that required by more powerful and faster aircraft.
(9) The findings support and extend theories of biologically-based and bio-psycho-social typology.
(10) Optimal treatment of mood disorders and prevention of suicide requires biological and psychosocial methods, therapeutic alliance and psycho-education.
(11) In this article medical, psycho-social, economic, legal and ethical effects have successively been investigated.
(12) A study among a sample of Israeli primary care physicians and a comparison group of hospital physicians revealed an empirical 'structure of committedness', ascertaining that the committedness to practice primary care is contingent on the 'intrinsic' satisfaction and rewards as well as the 'extrinsic' rewards from the professional community (namely, prestige), derived from bio-medical (but not psycho-social) intervention activities.
(13) It is not yet clear if the observed mental retardation is directly related to malnutrition or more to psycho-social deprivation, but is is anyhow an important problem.
(14) Through a statistical analysis on the mothers population during one year (1986 Nov-1987 Nov) a significant reduction of maternal delivery stress and neonatal risk has been found in relation to the "participation to the psycho-prophylactic courses" and to the "presence of fathers during delivery".
(15) Two bereaved groups of families (one of which received preventive intervention service) and one non-bereaved group were compared in an outcome design and were assessed for indices of illness, psycho-social disturbance, and general quality of life.
(16) All working-aged patients in Piedmont receiving dialysis treatment were asked to fill in a questionnaire which aimed to highlight socio-working adjustment by assessing not only the optimal nature of dialytic treatment but also its repercussions in psycho-affective, socio-economic and cultural terms.
(17) Psycho- and autonomotropic drugs, acupuncture, and psychotherapeutic conversations were used for the correction of psychologic abnormalities in 49 vitiligo patients, presenting with impaired sociopsychological adaptation and autonomic imbalance.
(18) Reflections of his psychic growth are first underscored and clarified, and then elements of the psycho-analytic experience that prompted this change and growth are delineated and discussed.
(19) The work methodology of PHC requires care of the individual as a bio-psycho-socio-affective being integrated into a particular environment; none of the aspects of being should be neglected or given priority.
(20) The anxiety parameter was evaluated as a specific index in the psycho-behavioral modifications induced by MR examination.
Psychology
Definition:
(n.) The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
(2) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(5) Psychological well-being and the level of psychological autonomy were studied in a group of 109 Jewish late adolescents in the USSR.
(6) Contrary to expectations, it was found that psychological variables had some prognostic significance for outcome assessed by medical measures of illness severity.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(9) There is no doubt that psychological, reactive and environmental factors do play a certain role too.
(10) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
(11) However, the test by itself should not be construed as an unequivocal measure of hysteria as defined psychologically by the MMPI.
(12) From a psychological-vertical aspect the group is rather a common situation in which the individual members remain in their experience separated from each other.
(13) It may be better for patients if they are given opportunities to psychologically prepare themselves well in advance of the operation.
(14) For many it had still a moderating effect on distress at the present but appeared to be mainly used out of "psychological dependence".
(15) Implications are discussed for the psychological assessment of bilinguals as well as for psychotherapy.
(16) Lastly, sexually tortured women manifest greater psychological and sexual dysfunction.
(17) Psychological features of isolator treatment in ten patients with acute leukemia are described and suggestions proposed for psychological management of patients under isolator conditions.
(18) More recently, it has been reported that individuals strongly reactive to psychological stress are also strongly reactive to nicotine.
(19) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(20) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.