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M Borzecki

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PubMed1988

The assessment of deviant sexual arousal as a function of intelligence, instructional set and alcohol ingestion.

Sexual offenders who had been referred for a forensic evaluation were assessed in terms of their deviant sexual arousal by means of standard penile plethysmographic procedures. The sample was divided into Rapist and Nonrapist groups according to their sexual history and criminal charges. Penile circumference responses (PCR) and self-reported arousal to consenting sex, sexual assault, and physical assault were monitored. The assessments were repeated following subject instructions to suppress their arousal and following the ingestion of alcohol. The overall correlation between PCR and self-reported arousal was .65. An Alcohol-by-Offender Type interaction revealed that the lowering effect of alcohol on PCR occurred only among the Nonrapists. The suppression instruction increased Rapists' PCRs to Rape and Physical Assault presentations relative to consenting sexual narrations. When the data were examined in relation to intelligence, low IQ Rapists displayed greater responses to rape than high IQ Rapists. Under the influence of alcohol, low IQ Rapists displayed greater arousal regardless of the stimulus, while high IQ Rapists showed no change, and Nonrapists responded less than they did without alcohol. Comments concerning the accurate assessment of deviant sexual arousal and the identification of precursors to deviant sexual behaviour are made in view of the current findings.

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Acupuncture and phonostimulation in pollenosis and vasomotor rhinitis in the light of psychosomatic investigations.

Patients with vasomotor rhinitis (28) and pollenosis (23) were subjected to psychosomatic examination and treated either by acupuncture or phonostimulation exclusively. Acupuncture was performed after the classical method in 22 patients and phonostimulation in 29. Evaluation of the results was based on laryngological examinations and appraisals entered by the patients in special personal diaries. In pollenosis the condition was unchanged by the treatment. In vasomotor rhinitis, on the other hand, in which psychic factors were of importance, some of the patients usually improved temporarily at the beginning of treatment, whereas a few suffered exacerbation. These effects may be attributable to suggestion.

Acoustic Stimulation↗
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Acupuncture applied as a method of analgesia for oral surgery with particular reference to dental operations.

The purpose of the first, experimental part of this work was an attempt to elaborate a simple method of analgesia by means of acupuncture for oral surgical procedures in out-patients. The experiments were carried out on 60 volunteers using various points and types of stimulation. Analgesia was obtained in 78.3% of cases but only in very small areas which could make possible procedures on premolar and molar teeth or in the vicinity of palatine tonsils. Stimulation with rectangular, alternating-current impulses applied through the needles was found to be most effective. The volunteers were divided into two groups--those in group I were told in advance what the procedure would be, these in group II were not. Similar results obtained in both groups would rule out the effects of suggestion or hypnosis as the mechanism of acupuncture. In the 2nd part of this work the method was applied in 10 patients undergoing dental surgery and sufficient analgesia was achieved in 7 cases. The unreliability of the method, the length of time necessary for induction of analgesia and the very small area of analgesia make this method unsuitable for widespread use in outpatient practice.

Acupuncture Therapy↗
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[Estimation of hypoalgesia by the cerebral evoked potentials method].

The authors used the method of somatosensory evoked potentials for estimating hypoalgesia obtained by stimulation of exteroceptors (by electrostimulation and acupuncture) and telereceptors (by phonostimulation and photostimulation). Estimation of hypoalgesia was performed at a remote site from the stimulated receptors and owing to this it was possible to confirm a general analgesic effect of all these methods. The method of evoked cortical potentials may be useful for estimation of hypoalgesia which manifests itself as a slight prolongation of latency (by several msec.) in most tested individuals in 6 successive potential waves. For estimation of the hypoalgesia the environmental conditions must be kept unchanged and the apparatus must be of highest quality.

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Assessment of acupuncture as a method of analgesia during operation.

The authors evaluated the method of acupuncture used for analgesia in various types of minor and major surgical operations in patients not previously tested for determination of susceptibility for this method. The report is a preliminary communication. For major operations the patients received premedication and during the operation they received additional local or general analgesics. Out of 13 patients in various age groups 5 evaluated this analgesia as very good and in 3 cases the degree of analgesia obtained was not sufficient to perform the operation. The authors regard that acupuncture has found its main application principally in the treatment of chronic pain, while as a method of analgesia for surgical operations it has many disadvantages and requires further experiences. The authors observed also certain features of acupuncture analgesia not observed in conventional methods of nerve conduction blockade, which may contribute to the explanation of the mechanism of acupuncture.

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