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M L Hamilton

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PubMed1977

Ideal sex roles for children and acceptance of variation from stereotypic sex roles.

In a sample of 50 child psychology students, 40% preferred that there be no differences between male and female children on 14 personality characteristics, while 60% preferred differences resembling current sex role stereotypes. For the latter students there was some preference for dominance, aggression, autonomy, exhibition, heterosexuality, and achievement to be more characteristic of males, and order, succorance, deference, nurturance, and abasement to be more characteristic of females. Both groups observed male and female peers describing themselves in a manner appropriate or not appropriate to current stereotypes. The students with a stated preference for no sex role difference among children did in fact express a more equal attraction to male or female peers whether they depicted sex appropriate or inappropriate roles.

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PubMed1976

Natural history of benign prostatic hypertrophy and acute urinary retention.

Twenty-six patients with prostatism due to benign prostatic hypertrophy were evaluated prospectively every three to six months for three years. Using both subjective and objective criteria significant deterioration was demonstrated. The rate of deterioration appeared independent of prostatic size. In the individual patient progression was variable. More than half of the patients were unchanged or improved after two years. Acute urinary retention appeared independent of the degree of prostatism and therefore unpredictable. The methods can be used to evaluate medical treatments of benign prostatic hypertrophy.

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Integrating behavioral and pharmacological interventions in treating clients with psychiatric disorders and mental retardation.

While the literature on treatment of dually diagnosed individuals continues to grow, few studies have examined the potential interactions between behavioral interventions and pharmacological interventions in treating persons with a developmental disability and a concurrent psychiatric disorder. The current theoretical paper discusses different manners in which psychotropic medications and behavioral interventions can interact, including the potential for facilitative or inhibitory effects of one treatment modality on the other. Possible permutations of these interactions are discussed. Case examples, including objective measures of psychiatric and behavioral symptoms over time, representing possible illustrations of these permutations, are presented. The authors argue that in many cases the potential effect of one treatment procedure on the efficacy of another may be an important consideration in treating dually diagnosed individuals.

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[Motor and sensory nerve conduction in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and diabetic polyneuropathy].

INTRODUCTION: The combination of carpal tunnel syndrome and diabetic polyneuropathy is common, and it is important to establish the correct diagnosis since carpal tunnel syndrome can be successfully treated by surgery, even in diabetic patients. Both conditions have similar clinical features and the usual neurophysiological investigations show very similar results. OBJECTIVE: To determine the differential diagnosis between carpal tunnel syndrome and diabetic polyneuropathyP. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Sensory and motor neuro-conduction studies were done on the median and ulnar nerves of a group of 30 healthy persons (group A), 30 patients with a history of carpal tunnel syndrome (group B) and 30 patients with diabetes mellitus type I or type II (group C) with diabetic polyneuropathy. The physiological variables in which the greatest differences were seen in the three groups were: the speed of sensory conduction in the palm-third finger segment of the median nerve, distal latency obtained on stimulation of the fourth finger, distal motor latency of the median nerve and distal latency of the sensory potentials obtained by stimulation at the wrist and recorded at the fourth finger. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: With these variables for prediction, carpal tunnel syndrome was detected in 30% of the patients classified initially on clinical grounds as having diabetic polyneuropathy, and 60% of the patients were correctly reclassified after being initially classified on clinical grounds as having carpal tunnel syndrome.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome↗
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[Evaluation of motor and sensory neuroconduction of the median nerve in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome treated with non-coherent light emitted by gallium arsenic diodes].

INTRODUCTION: The treatment selection in the carpal tunnel syndrome according to the damage of the median nerve is important and all of these have adverse effects. A good alternative without undesired reactions is irradiation of the carpal tunnel with not coherent light between 920 and 940 nm emitted by gallium arsenide diodes, resembling the physic and therapeutic laser effects. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Twenty-six female patients with idiopathic middle carpal tunnel syndrome were irradiated 15 minutes daily during three weeks. The median nerve motor and sensitive neuroconduction was studied before and immediately after the treatment. RESULTS: The abnormal neuroconduction variables (latency, amplitude and velocity conduction) did not modify when treatment concluded, in spite of all the patients reported disappearance of pain and numbness in damaged hands. CONCLUSIONS: Not coherent light does not change the fibers functional state explored by conventional neuroconductions techniques. It remains to know if this light produces fine fibers improvement.

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