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Characterization of postural control impairment in women with fibromyalgia
2018
[EN] The main goal of this cross-sectional study was to detect whether women with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) have altered postural control and to study the sensory contribution to postural control. We also explored the possibility that self-induced anxiety and lower limb strength may be related to postural control. For this purpose, 129 women within an age range of 40 to 70 years were enrolled. Eighty of the enrolled women had FMS. Postural control variables, such as Ellipse, Root mean square (RMS) and Sample entropy (SampEn), in both directions (i.e. mediolateral and anteroposterior), were calculated under five different conditions. A force plate was used to register the center of pressur…
Thermal imaging ruled out as a supplementary assessment in patients with fibromyalgia: A cross-sectional study
2021
Background The diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) syndrome is often complicated and relies on diagnostic criteria based mostly on the symptoms reported by patients. Implementing objective complementary tests would be desirable to better characterize this population. Objective The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to compare the skin temperature at rest using thermography in women with FMS and healthy women. Methods Eighty-six women with FMS and 92 healthy controls volunteered to participate. The temperature of all participants was measured by infra-red thermography, registering the skin surface temperature (minimum, maximum and average) at rest in different areas: neck, upper…
Temporal drivers of liking
2013
Abstract Generally liking is measured overall but is likely to vary over the food intake, like sensory perception. Replacing the attributes in Temporal Dominance of Sensations (TDS) by the categories of a usual ordinal liking scale makes it possible to monitor liking changes while eating a product (Sudre et al., 2012). This methodology allows for a better understanding of the influence of temporal dominance of sensations on liking and liking evolution over the time of product intake. Thus, it is possible to associate hedonic temporal data and descriptive temporal data (TDS profiles), which would identify drivers of liking, that is attributes which, when cited as dominant, would lead to a de…
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease: Genetic and clinical spectrum in a Spanish clinical series
2013
Objectives: To determine the genetic distribution and the phenotypic correlation of an extensive series of patients with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in a geographically well-defined Mediterranean area. Methods: A thorough genetic screening, including most of the known genes involved in this disease, was performed and analyzed in this longitudinal descriptive study. Clinical data were analyzed and compared among the genetic subgroups. Results: Molecular diagnosis was accomplished in 365 of 438 patients (83.3%), with a higher success rate in demyelinating forms of the disease. The CMT1A duplication (PMP22 gene) was the most frequent genetic diagnosis (50.4%), followed by mutations in the GJB1…
Parental Monitoring and Youth's Binge Behaviors: The Role of Sensation Seeking and Life Satisfaction
2019
Framed within an ecological perspective of the onset of adolescent problem behaviors, the current study explored the joint role of parent-adolescents’ relationships and youth's individual factors in binge eating and drinking. Firstly, in line with pieces of research highlighting the beneficial impact of effective parenting on youth development, the present paper sought to enhance the knowledge about the positive influence of parental monitoring on youth's binge drinking and eating. Moreover, since literature evidenced that the explanatory mechanisms of the association between parental monitoring and binge behaviors are not fully explored, the study focused on the potential intervening role …
Las finalidades de las relaciones de sucesos y los elementos que aumentan su efectividad: El caso de un mesonero avaricioso
2013
Resumen: Las «relaciones de sucesos», unos escritos de carácter fundamentalmente popular, tuvieron durante el siglo XVII una notable difusión. A menudo, la finalidad de estos impresos era moralizante. Es el caso de una jácara publicada hacia 1687, la cual constituye un ataque a la avaricia, personificada en un mesonero de Yebes, pueblo del término de Alcalá de Henares. Los elementos que aportan veracidad al relato, el sensacionalismo y la existencia de una serie de lugares comunes hacían aumentar la efectividad del exemplum. Por otra parte, este tipo de relatos solían acoger en sus páginas una visión de las estructuras económicas que interesaba a los poderes establecidos. Además, sus versos…
La Lucrècia Borja de ficció en el drama d’Hugo i els seus derivats
2015
Resum: El drama Lucrece Borgia de Victor Hugo confereix al personatge historic una serie d’atributs en sintonia amb el gust sensacionalista de l’epoca: en ser dona, poderosa, bella i formada. Lucrecia Borja es el millor exemple d’allo que Kristeva anomena «l’abjecte» en les Pouvoirs de l’horreur (1980). Una imatge de femme fatale lligada al veri o l’incest que es popularitzara gracies a les nombroses obres derivades del drama: de l’opera de Donizetti als romancos populars de manera que les caracteristiques del personatge de ficcio s’imposaran a l’historic en l’imaginari col·lectiu. Lucrecia Borja, que fins aleshores havia estat considerada un instrument al servei de les politiques familiars…
Patrones de consumo y variables de personalidad en drogodependientes a tratamiento
2012
El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la relación entre factores de personalidad y consumo de sustancias. Específi camente se busca analizar la impulsividad y la búsqueda de sensaciones como variables de personalidad derivadas de modelos psicobiológicos de personalidad, así como el autocontrol, para examinar su relación con los patrones de consumo de drogas. En el trabajo se exploran las características diferenciales en términos de personalidad en pacientes adictos a heroína y en pacientes adictos a cocaína, así como en otro grupo de consumidores que puede merecer especial atención, como es el caso de los antiguos consumidores de heroína que ahora son adictos a la cocaína. La muestra está…
Why Do We Take Risks? Perception of the Situation and Risk Proneness Predict Domain-Specific Risk Taking
2021
[EN] Risk taking (RT) is a component of the decision-making process in situations that involve uncertainty and in which the probability of each outcome - rewards and/or negative consequences - is already known. The influence of cognitive and emotional processes in decision making may affect how risky situations are addressed. First, inaccurate assessments of situations may constitute a perceptual bias in decision making, which might influence RT. Second, there seems to be consensus that a proneness bias exists, known as risk proneness, which can be defined as the propensity to be attracted to potentially risky activities. In the present study, we take the approach that risk perception and r…
Predictors of sports spectators' proclivity for riotous behaviour in Finland and Canada
1996
Male spectators (N = 178) attending hockey games in Finland and Canada provided ratings of the strength of their motives for attendance. Of six plausible reasons, liking to watch player fights was rated least important by the Finns whereas it was third in importance for Canadians. Subjects also provided information with regard to their age, fight history, the number of accompanying persons and completed a measure of sensation seeking. With the exception of the number of accompanying persons, all variables were related in both countries to subjects self-reported likelihood of escalating a crowd disturbance. The results were discussed in the context of previous findings from a series of field…