Disease relevance of Domestic Violence

• The number and complexity of problems in foster children and their families has been increased by acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, cocaine, and family violence [1].

Psychiatry related information on Domestic Violence

• RESULTS: Domestic violence survivors with PTSD, regardless of whether or not they had comorbid depression, had significantly lower baseline cortisol levels at 9:00 a.m. than the healthy subjects and trauma survivors with no diagnosis [2].

High impact information on Domestic Violence

• Increased urinary excretion of bufotenin by violent offenders with paranoid symptoms and family violence [3].
• Enhanced cortisol suppression following dexamethasone administration in domestic violence survivors [2].
• Domestic violence associated with anabolic steroid abuse [4].
• RESULTS: Lactate administration elicited intense emotional responses in the perpetrators of domestic violence [5].
• METHODS: Using a double-blind, placebo-controlled design, we infused 0.5 mol/L sodium lactate or placebo over 20 min on separate days to a select group of subjects who perpetrate acts of domestic violence and two nonviolent comparison groups [5].

Associations of Domestic Violence with chemical compounds

• The high heritability of testosterone level and its association with violent behaviour warrant the inclusion of this variable in studies of antisocial and criminal behaviour including domestic violence [6].
• Questions regarding domestic violence (60%), risk of burns (65%), and incidence of trauma deaths (82%) were answered correctly most often, while injury prevention theory questions, such as components of the Injury Prevention Triangle (5%), definition of YPLL (2%), and annual cost attributable to injury (19%) were least often answered correctly [7].
• Evaluation of the module on domestic violence at the UCLA School of Medicine [8].
• Serotonin, testosterone and alcohol in the etiology of domestic violence [9].
• In this current study, we compared the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) concentrations of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) and testosterone obtained from perpetrators of domestic violence and a group of healthy comparison subjects [9].

Gene context of Domestic Violence

• Helene Raskin White reviewed prospective data on how alcohol affects the intergenerational transmission of family violence [10].
• CONCLUSION: Men who present to the ED with injuries inflicted by their female partners have a high rate of domestic violence perpetration [11].
• The 1984 Attorney General's Task Force Report on Domestic Violence attested: Anyone who lives in a violent home experiences an essential loss [12].
• Voices from the margins Part 1: narrative accounts of indigenous family violence [13].
• The poor reputation of the NHS in dealing with domestic violence is not helped by a lack of evidence on effective approaches to it [14].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Domestic Violence

• The present study uses data from the 1992 National Alcohol and Family Violence Survey, a national probability sample of 1,970 individuals, to examine the prevalence, severity, and onset of wife assaults associated with pregnancy among Anglo and Hispanic families [15].
• A total of 110 participants (32 Black and 78 White) were obtained from the first time period of a longitudinal study examining the effects of domestic violence on women [16].

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