Disease relevance of Psychology

• The objective of this study was to explore psychosocial factors underlying decisions about use of prenatal diagnosis for cystic fibrosis (CF), among parents of affected children [1].
• OBJECTIVE--To describe the extent of intentional insulin omission in an outpatient population of women with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and examine its relationship to disordered eating, attitudes toward diabetes, other psychosocial factors, long-term complications, and glycemic control [2].
• This finding adds to our knowledge regarding the relationship between psychosocial factors and disease progression in RA [3].
• The objective of the current study was to compare psychosocial factors, clinical pain, and responses to experimental pain in NCA patients, patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD), and healthy control subjects [4].
• Thus, in addition to age, life-style factors and obesity, psychological factors may have an effect on insulin and glucose metabolism [5].

Psychiatry related information on Psychology

• These findings show that psychological factors do play a role in influencing prolactin secretion and are consistent with the idea that as the psychological stress imposed by a stimulus becomes habituated, the prolactin response to that stimulus also becomes habituated [6].
• It was therefore concluded that the sensory consequences of the physicochemical changes in smoke composition between the first and last puff or other as yet unknown psychological factors are more likely candidates than nicotine satiation for explaining the typical changes in puffing behavior along burning time of a cigarette [7].
• Perceived self-control of seizures, however, involves a complex interaction between epilepsy and psychological factors, with health locus of control an apparently important discriminator between High and Low Controllers [8].
• To determine whether psychological factors affect the cough response, we employed a classical conditioning procedure in which capsaicin challenge was paired with the presentation of an odor in awake guinea pigs [9].
• The intravenous anesthetic propofol is reported to have various psychological side effects as hallucinations, sexual disinhibition, or euphoria [10].

High impact information on Psychology

• Long-term, high-dose anabolic steroid use may lead to a preoccupation with drug use, difficulty stopping despite psychological side effects, and drug craving [11].
• (2) Since HSP72 is induced for 1 to 2 weeks, the prolonged psychological side effects of MK-801, ketamine, phencyclidine, and related drugs could be related to this injury [12].
• The predominant determinants of HAQ disability in RA are disease activity, pain, and psychosocial factors rather than structural abnormality [13].
• OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship of race, socioeconomic status (SES), clinical factors, and psychosocial factors to outcomes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) [14].
• Role of monoamine oxidase A genotype and psychosocial factors in male adolescent criminal activity [15].

Chemical compound and disease context of Psychology

• HbA(lc), LDL, HDL, and total cholesterol, triglycerides, fasting glucose, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, BMI, and psychosocial factors were measured at baseline and 1 year later [16].
• The relationship between psychological factors and blood glucose regulation in insulin-dependent diabetic adolescents [17].
• A longitudinal, as well as cross-sectional, view of the hormonal and clinical data suggests that the testosterone system is linked to both state and trait psychological factors, and this issue is discussed in the light of prior basic psychoendocrine research on this system [18].
• Melatonin is involved in the synchronization of exogenous zeitgebers with the endogenous rhythms, and it has effects on various psychological factors [19].
• AIMS: To determine whether premorbid levels of salivary cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) were associated with subsequent MDD and how these related to psychosocial factors known to increase the risk for MDD [20].

Biological context of Psychology

• Down-regulation of levels of nicotine while smoking in response to infusion of nicotine was imprecise, which may be a result of psychosocial factors influencing smoking behavior along with the development of tolerance to toxic effects of nicotine as a consequence of prolonged exposure to nicotine [21].
• We investigated whether various psychosocial factors can be associated with the levels of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG), a biomarker of cancer-related oxidative DNA damage, in peripheral blood leukocytes in 362 healthy workers (276 males and 86 females) [22].
• Postpartum blues: salivary cortisol and psychological factors [23].
• Somatic versus nonsomatic shoulder and back pain experience in middle age in relation to body build, physical fitness, bone mineral content, gamma-glutamyltransferase, occupational workload, and psychosocial factors [24].
• Serum sodium decreased from 141 +/- 0.3 mmol/l to 138 +/- 0.5 mmol/l. Two of the assessed psychological factors, general health and depressed mood, correlated with water intake in FD patients (Rho = 0.47, P < 0.01 respectively Rho = 0.41, P < 0.05) [25].

Anatomical context of Psychology

• This study had 3 aims: to determine whether rheumatoid arthritics had certain personality traits; to examine the relationship between psychological factors and the presence of rheumatoid factor in blood serum; and to explore the prognostic significance of psychological factors in the management of rheumatoid arthritis [26].
• These observations suggest that nociceptive sensitivity to noxious stimuli is affected by repeated stress and that modulation of neurotransmission by adenine nucleotides in spinal cord may be altered by the interaction of sexual hormones and psychological factors, such as exposure to stress [27].
• It is concluded that psychological factors can affect performance dependant on whether the situation is perceived as one of 'reward' or 'punishment'. A factor in the mediation of the adverse response is an inappropriate response of the autonomic nervous system [28].
• Cynomolgus macaque atherosclerosis induced by feeding cholesterol is a good model of human atherosclerosis because of similar gender-related differences in susceptibility to coronary artery atherosclerosis, a relatively high incidence of myocardial infarction, and characterized psychosocial factors that influence the development of atherosclerosis [29].
• These findings suggested that it was useful to differentiate the multiple symptoms, especially the psychological factors, by using the TMJ Scale for orthodontic patients with TMD [30].

Gene context of Psychology

• The goals of the present study were to describe rates of completing a psychosocial telephone counseling (PTC) intervention that was offered to female BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and to identify sociodemographic and psychological factors associated with decisions to complete the intervention [31].
• CONCLUSION: These findings provide new evidence that psychosocial factors play a significant role in autoimmune processes that underlie RA [32].
• In contrast, the correlations between psychological factors and IL-1ra levels were weak and non-significant, as were the correlations between inflammatory markers and depression [33].
• CONCLUSIONS: These findings are consistent with research on developmental ADHD that implicate psychosocial factors and prefrontal structural and functional differences between those with and without the disorder [34].
• CONCLUSION: Psychological factors play an important role in patients with BPPV [35].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Psychology

• This longitudinal study confirms a gradual decline in total testosterone levels with advancing age in older men and provides evidence that lifestyle and psychosocial factors are related to this decline [36].
• The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that psychological factors are determinants of anginal symptoms during positive exercise tests [37].
• Neither psychosocial factor was associated with response to primary meningococcal A polysaccharide vaccination [38].
• Drug dosages, length of stay (LOS), and incidence of psychological side effects of fentanyl and nalbuphine were compared in a randomized, double-blind study using unpremedicated female day-surgery patients undergoing diagnostic laparoscopy [39].
• Mean wheal size and titration gradient data from allergen reactions correlated strongly with the psychological factor of liveliness but not stress, although no manipulation of mood was involved [40].

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