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E Baruch

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PubMed1994

Mental health work with Gulf War evacuees: the use of a transitional therapeutic space.

This paper describes the intervention of a mental health team formed during the Persian Gulf War to provide assistance to people evacuated from their homes after they were seriously damaged or destroyed by Iraqi Scud missiles. The intervention was based on the view that a crisis upsets the person's emotional equilibrium, resulting in a new and alien emotional state, which is frightening to the person involved by virtue of its strangeness. The disturbance may result in the development of a frozen, rigid unadaptive internal state, i.e. trauma. The mental health team used the interaction between external and internal realities, within a transitional space which enabled the development of a potential space.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1989

Late development of chorioretinal lesions in birdshot retinochoroidopathy.

The clinical manifestations of diffuse retinochoroidopathy after recurrent episodes of vitriitis led to the diagnosis of birdshot retinochoroidopathy in two patients in whom the initial lesions were cystoid macular edema and papillophlebitis. Although the onset and clinical characteristics of the early lesions varied, both patients had manifestations of chronic retinal vasculitis. We observed the late appearance and evolution of the characteristic cream-colored depigmented spots which were not present in the early stages of the disease. In addition the second case also developed choroidal neovascularization. Serial electroretinographic examinations showed that this disorder has a progressive course from focal lesions to widespread diffuse changes.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Psychiatric combat reactions during the Yom Kippur War.

The authors explore the stress of war by reporting some selected epidemiological aspects of the psychiatric combat reactions among Israeli troops during a period of intensive hostilities in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. They examined the distribution of these casualties according to intensity of fire, age, rank, sociopsychological grading, and military assignment and measured treatment outcome at the end of the war and 18 months later.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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Calcium binding to bile salts.

Calcium binding to bile salt monomers and micelles is an important issue with respect to the possible (but rare) precipitation of calcium bile salts in the gallbladder. In the present work the binding of Ca2+ to six bile salts was measured in solutions containing 2 to 100 mM bile salts by means of a calcium-sensitive dye, murexide, which determines the ionic calcium concentration. In solutions containing bile salt at concentration higher than 20 mM most, if not all, of the bound Ca2+ is associated with micellar surfaces. The results were analyzed by employing a model which combines specific binding with electrostatic equations and accounts for the system being a closed one. The analysis of Ca2+ binding data considered explicitly the presence of Na+ ions and yielded intrinsic binding coefficients for Ca2+ and Na+ which were utilized to explain and predict binding results for various concentrations of Ca2+, Na+ and bile salts. The calculations indicate that in saline solutions most of the surface sites were bound by Na+, whereas less than 10% were bound by Ca2+ even in the presence of 8 mM Ca2+. The binding of Ca2+ to bile salt micelles increases with pH. An increase in temperature results in reduced binding affinity of Ca2+ to the bile salt micelles.

Bile Acids and Salts↗
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Pitfall of acquired ocular torticollis.

Following a posttraumatic concussion syndrome, a 24-year-old female presented at left clavicular fracture and dislocation with a compensatory head posture thought to be due to her sternocleidomastoid muscle involvement. Further investigation disclosed the existence of a concomitant superior oblique muscle palsy seemingly also of traumatic origin. The clinical course and the constellation of her symptoms are described.

Clavicle↗
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Benign palsy of superior oblique muscle.

Thirteen patients with nontraumatic superior oblique muscle palsy were examined during a four to seven year follow-up period. Extensive investigations disclosed no underlying systemic or neurologic diseases. In all patients a quick improvement and recovery of the motility imbalance occurred spontaneously in about 10 weeks, suggesting a benign prognosis in the condition.

Adult↗