Biomedical subjects

N Pediaditakis

Publications and source records attributed to N Pediaditakis.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1998

Factors and their origins in mate selection and choice among humans: implications for individual psychotherapy and counseling.

A mechanism of mate selection in humans is proposed and elaborated. It is further proposed that this mechanism constitutes one of the important factors for stability and the necessary longevity of the procreational dyad and therefore the procreational success of humans as a species. The concepts and mechanisms of assortative mating (homogamy) and that of complementarity of temperaments of the mates (heterogamy) which guide such selections are described, the relationships between the two are explored, and finally their possible early developmental origins are proposed. Evidence from a small study of 20 married couples' responses in temperament tests is offered as well as some illustrative case histories all pointing to those mechanisms. The argument is based mainly on principles of evolutionary psychology.

Adult↗

PubMed1998

Shared characteristics in the clinical expression and pharmacological responses of mental disorders and their possible collective significance.

This paper points out the existence of, and enumerates, common characteristics spanning the clinical expression and pharmacological responses of most mental disorders. Central to the developed argument, the paper also points out an important overall property of brain function which normally insures a coordinated smoothness and synchronism across the expression of all the higher mental functions. Evidence from positron emission tomography studies supports the existence of a common initial structural abnormality which renders the brain vulnerable to a periodic loss of synchronism. This loss then expresses itself in a kind of 'psychic Parkinsonism', as shown in the characteristic, antithetical, oscillating format of the familiar cluster of symptoms of most mental disorders. The arguments are based on clinical observations and supported by a survey of the clinical and experimental literature.

Animals↗

PubMed1992

Deterministic nonlinear chaos in brain function and borderline psychopathological phenomena.

There exists a fundamental overall property of the brain which monitors, modulates, and ensures a smoothness of function and which further determines elegance and grace in functioning. This property also imparts a quality of, or a sense of proportion among all other faculties of the brain. It is postulated in this paper that such a property/function, up to now almost taken for granted, is maintained/exercised by a nonlinear deterministic chaotic mode of brain function. If this is the case, borderline psychopathological phenomena, when they flare up, can be explained as resulting from sudden reduction of such a deterministic chaotic mode and the emergence of a pathological order, as the system becomes an oscillating one.

Borderline Personality Disorder↗