Search results for "Polar"

Funcionamiento neurocognitivo y psicosocial de pacientes con trastorno bipolar en una unidad de salud mental

2018

INTRODUCCION: Existe evidencia de que los pacientes que padecen Trastoro Bipolar (TB), e incluso sus familiares sanos, presentan patrones característicos de afectación de ciertos dominios neurocognitivos que persisten tras la remisión clínica o período de eutimia. La pérdida de funcionalidad psicosocial de estos pacientes se predice mejor con la presencia de alteraciones cognitivas que con variables clínicas o evolutivas. El clínico asistencial debería conocer si existe afectación o deterioro en las funciones neurocognitivas de sus pacientes pero en el medio asistencial cotidiano es difícil poder evaluar adecuadamente las funciones cognitivas y tampoco se acostumbra a cuantificar la funcion…

Behavioral genetics of suicidality in Bipolar Disorder: the interaction between SERT and CLOCK polymorphisms and early-life stress

Il suicidio è un problema di salute pubblica sottostimato, così come è un lutto almeno parzialmente prevenibile: ogni contributo alla conoscenza dei fattori di rischio ad esso associati possono aiutare lo sviluppo di interventi terapeutici efficaci rivolti a fasce vulnerabili della popolazione. Più del 90% delle persone che si suicidano, o provano a farlo, hanno una malattia psichiatrica diagnosticabile e circa il 60% di tutte le morti per suicidio si verificano nel contesto di un disturbo dell’umore, soprattutto di tipo bipolare. Il suicidio ha oltretutto alta familiarità: la suicidalità è ereditabile, indipendentemente dalla diagnosi associata. Lo stress è un fattore di rischio sia prossi…

Data from: Factors associated with first- versus second-generation long-acting antipsychotics prescribed under ordinary clinical practice in Italy

2019

Background. For many years, long-acting intramuscular (LAI) antipsychotics have been prescribed predominantly to chronic and severe patients, as a last resort when other treatments failed. Recently, a broader and earlier use of LAIs, particularly second-generation LAIs, has been emphasized. To date, few studies attempted to frame how this change in prescribing took place in real-world practice. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the clinical features of patients prescribed with LAIs, and to explore possible prescribing differences between first- and second-generations LAIs under ordinary clinical practice in Italy. Methods. The STAR Network "Depot" Study is an observational, longitudin…

Un disturbo bipolare stabilizzato con aripiprazolo

2008

The 'Extreme Female Brain' : Increased Cognitive Empathy as a Dimension of Psychopathology

2016

Abstract Baron-Cohen's ‛extreme male brain' theory postulates that autism involves exaggerated male-typical psychology, with reduced empathizing (considered here as social–emotional interest, motivation and abilities) and increased systemizing (non-social, physical-world and rule-based interest, motivation and abilities), in association with its male-biased sex ratio. The concept of an ‘extreme female brain', involving some combination of increased empathizing and reduced systemizing, and its possible role in psychiatric conditions, has been considerably less well investigated. Female-biased sex ratios have been described in two conditions, depression and borderline personality disorder (BP…

Simultaneous Support for and Opposition to Brands : A Study on Brand Love and Hate - the Two Poles of Brand Polarisation

2023

This chapter discusses the drivers of brand polarisation (i.e. simultaneously loving and hating a brand). Despite its relevance for brand managers and public relations executives, brand polarisation remains heavily understudied among scholars. This study addresses the focal phenomenon by examining consumers and the role of social media within the research context. The key theoretical concepts introduced in this chapter include brand polarisation, brand attitude, brand relationships, brand love, brand hate, brand experience and social media brand communities. Using ten in-depth, semi-structured interviews, 36 loved and/or hated brands were discussed by the study participants. The findings de…

Refractive index of GaTe under high pressure

2000

In this paper we describe two experiments, in the near- and mid-infrared, designed to investigate the evolution under pressure of the GaTe refractive index for polarization parallel and perpendicular to the crystallographic c-axis (in the layer plane). The refractive index dispersion for both light polarizations has been determined up to 5.5 GPa. It is found that the refractive index increases faster in the direction perpendicular to the c-axis than along the c-axis. To find out the origin of such a difference we used a Phillips-Van Vechten model and arrived at the conclusion that it is due to the different pressure behaviour of the Penn gap for each polarization.

Bipolar disorder: An evolutionary psychoneuroimmunological approach

2021

Abstract Bipolar disorder is a mental health disorder characterized by extreme shifts in mood, high suicide rate, sleep problems, and dysfunction of psychological traits like self-esteem (feeling inferior when depressed and superior when manic). Bipolar disorder is rare among populations that have not adopted contemporary Western lifestyles, which supports the hypothesis that bipolar disorder results from a mismatch between Homo sapiens’s evolutionary and current environments. Recent studies have connected bipolar disorder with low-grade inflammation, the malfunctioning of the internal clock, and the resulting sleep disturbances. Stress is often a triggering factor for mania and sleep probl…

A real-time auto calibration technique for stereo camera

2020

Calibration of the internal and external parameters of a stereo vision camera is a well-known research problem in the computer vision. Usually, to get accurate 3D results the camera should be manua...

Robust auto calibration technique for stereo camera

2017

Calibration of the internal and external parameters of a stereo vision camera is a well-known research problem in the computer vision. Usually, to get accurate 3D results the camera should be manually calibrate accurately as well. This paper proposes a robust approach to Auto Calibration stereo camera Without intervention of the user. There are several methods and techniques of calibration that have been proven, in this work we exploiting the geometric constraint, namely, the epipolar geometry. We specifically focuses to use 7 techniques for Features Extraction (SURF, BRISK, FAST, FREAK, MinEigen, MSERF, SIFT), however tries to establish the correspondences between points extracted in stere…