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Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology, biopsychology, or psychobiology is the application of the principles of biology (in particular neurobiology), to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in human and non-human animals. It typically investigates at the level of nerves, neurotransmitters, brain circuitry and the basic biological processes that underlie normal and abnormal behavior.
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Objectives: Fatigue is prevalent in people with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (I-RMDs) and recognised as one of the most challenging symptoms to manage. The existence of multiple factors associated with driving and maintaining fatigue, and the evidence about what improves fatigue has led to a multifaceted approach to its manag...
The World Health Organization has defined collective violence as the instrumental use of violence by people who identify themselves as members of a group against other individuals and have political, economic, or social objectives. In Chile, the "Social Outbreak" was used to describe an episode of collective violence, which began on October 18, 201...
Despite the rising prevalence of substance use disorders, there's insufficient emphasis on addiction training within psychiatry curricula. Studies reveal a lack of formal training, especially for sub-specialists in addiction, leading to a significant gap in providing quality care. This commentary advocates for integrating addiction management as a...
Background: Studies suggested that body image is influenced by biological, psychological, historical, individual, cultural, and social factors. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between body image, lifestyle, social pressure, and social media in Palestinian female university students. Method: A sample of 905 female undergraduate stud...
Introductions: Mental disorders are a group of symptoms that co-occur in individuals at a particular time. Symptoms of mental disorders can include physical, biological, psychological, and cognitive symptoms. Mental disorders are considered a silent epidemic in rural areas. This condition is caused by the lack of access to health service centers, e...
Religion is something that is learned through social interactions. People receive their religion from others and develop religious values along the way. Socialization can be defined in different ways, but it refers to a process of social life in which people adopt the cultural norms they see in their social environment. Socialization is a process b...
Introduction: The elderly is someone who experiences biological, psychological, social, and spiritual decline which can affect mood and lead to depression. This study aims to identify the incidence of depression in the elderly. Methods: This study uses a quantitative design with a descriptive approach. The population is the elderly at the Gresik Al...
Suicide is an important public health problem, fundamentally affecting the younger
population and responding to multiple biological, psychological, and social causes. The objective of this study was to characterize changes suicide mortality, suicide methods and years of potential life lost during 2005 and 2019 in Paraguay. This observational, descr...
INTRODUCTION: The transition from the reproductive phase to the non-reproductive phase is considered a period with several changes. These changes can be metabolic and hormonal that have great reflections on the physiological and psychosocial aspect of this woman's life, that is, she goes through physical and psychological changes. The symptoms in t...
Background and aim: Reproductive difficulties are likely to induce psychological disorders in the affected individuals. The aim of this study was to identify the nature of the specific vulnerability factors (biological, psychological, and socio-cultural) that induce psychological distress (such as anxiety and mood disorders and other psychopatholog...
Background
Oesophago-gastric cancer is an aggressive disease with a high rate of recurrence and mortality across the disease trajectory. Reduced psychosocial functioning has been evidenced amongst those with advanced disease, however little is known about the contributing factors. Determining these factors is an important clinical consideration to...
This study focuses on the perception of aging and death among the elderly, addressing the contribution of psychology to help them face the challenges related to these natural and inevitable processes in human life. Aging is a period of biological, psychological, socioeconomic and cultural changes, often accompanied by significant losses. Family sup...
Understanding the intricate interplay between the brain and sexual behaviour is fundamental to human sexuality research. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the current understanding of the sexual brain, encompassing the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie sexual arousal, desire, and pleasure. The review begins by exploring the cr...
Background
Anxiety is a substantial and developing health issue with significant consequences for psychosocial functioning and quality of life. The onset and severity of mental health problems have been linked to a number of biological, psychological, and behavioral factors.
Purpose
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between...
Alcohol use disorders (AUD) are the most prevalent psychoactive substance use disorders worldwide, caused by several biological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors.
Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is a frequent complication of those who met the criteria for alcohol dependence. Its intensity may vary from symptoms such as insomnia, tremors,...
Overview
Parents play a dynamic part in child development. Mothers have a great responsibility towards the upbringing child. Previous research has demonstrated that parenting stress levels are high among Parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Aim
Parenting stress affects the psychological well-being of the mother...
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are common and affect the overall functioning of adults, but there is a need to understand how to better address the health impact of ACEs on adults in primary healthcare settings. A narrative review was utilized to extract data from seminal articles to (1) operationalize the influence of ACEs on health outcomes...
In this cross-sectional descriptive study, conducted at the Fortportal Regional Referral Hospital HIV Clinic in the Kabarole District of Uganda, the prevalence and risk factors for depression were examined. Using the Kish Leslie method, 345 people were chosen, of whom 193 (56%) were female and 152 (44%) were male, yielding the necessary sample size...
Suicide is a serious public health problem whose causes are biological, psychological, social, and cultural, factors that are mostly preventable if they are known and treated on time. In the transition from adolescence to adulthood, the university population is vulnerable to developing emotional disorders. Among them, medical students are the ones...
Gender can be a significant factor in successful (and unsuccessful) communication.
This chapter examines the biological, psychological and sociological foundations of gender in human communication.
Chronic pain is a public health concern affecting over 100 million U.S. adults. Because chronic pain is multifactorial, it requires a biopsychosocial approach to understand how biological, psychological, and social factors contribute to both the development and maintenance of pain. On average, individuals with chronic pain report higher levels of e...
Introduction:-Substance abuse is a growing problem throughout the world and unfortunately that is more common among young children and adolescents, where they are about to being their career but get involved in these problems due to various reasons. Substance abuse refers to use of drugs, alcohol and any other mind-altering agent to such an extent...
Across the world, diabetes, depression, and anxiety symptoms have gained widespread recognition as significant public health issues. Recent research has unveiled a mutually influential relationship between diabetes and these two mental health conditions, where each disorder impacts the course and outcomes of the others. The role of nutrition emerge...
Background
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a complex condition with neurological symptoms but no clear structural or biochemical explanation. Myths and misconceptions about FND can lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment. This study aimed to assess knowledge and common myths about FND among medical students and practitioners.
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The scientific aim of the article is to learn the relationship between the integral human development and the development of harmonious passion (HP) and the human integral development and upbringing. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The research problem of the conducted research is contained in the question: What is the relatio...
We define aging as a characteristic deterioration in one (or more) observable attributes of an organism that typically occurs during later life. With this narrow functional definition, we gain the freedom to separate aging from other processes of age-related change (e.g., maturation, growth, illness, terminal decline). We introduce a structural mod...
Language and embodied cognition in light of ‘co-dependently arising’ signs: Putting a cybersemiotic spotlight on prajñapti objects in Buddhist phenomenological analysis
This paper is going to consider the possible contribution that Buddhist philosophy can make to the study of such cognitive embodied habits as are typically associated with the self...
This article analyzes the challenges, strengths, and opportunities that were recognized from the pilot phase of the Aula Lili program of Fundación Valle del Lili. The document is the product of the systematization of the pilot phase of the program, carried out between 2021 and 2022, through the recovery of the voices of the participating actors. It...
The ‘Oslo Chronic Fatigue Consortium’ consists of researchers and clinicians who question the current narrative that chronic fatigue syndromes, including post-covid conditions, are incurable
diseases. Instead, we propose an alternative view, based on research, which offers more hope to patients. Whilst we regard the symptoms of these conditions as...
Chronic nonmalignant pain is recognized as a complex, dynamic, phenomenological interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors that are individual to the person suffering from it. Therefore, its management and treatment ought to entail the individual’s biopsychosocial aspects that are often addressed by collaborative, inter/multidi...
Background
Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is associated with a wide range of physical manifestations for which international clinical recommendations for diagnosis and management have been established. TSC is, however, also associated with a wide range of TSC-Associated Neuropsychiatric Disorders (TAND) that are typically under-identified and und...
The experience of pain spans biological, psychological and sociocultural realms, both basic and complex, it is by turns necessary and devastating. Despite an extensive knowledge of the constituents of pain, the ability to translate this into effective intervention remains limited. It is suggested that current, multiscale, medical approaches, largel...
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The perinatal period is a crucial time for women, as they experience various biological, psychological, and social stressors. Due to the complexity of this vulnerable time, there is a high prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders among pregnant women. In 2019, the Health Commission of Shenzhen initiated perinatal mental health scre...
By the end of early childhood, children indicate that prayer is more effective than wishes or magic to prevent an unwanted, negative outcome from occurring. However, research has not yet delineated whether children would ask God to resolve a problem by changing the internal state of the person facing the problem (e.g., changing someone’s desires or...
The biopsychosocial model (BPSM) was proposed by George Engel in 1977 as an improvement to the biomedical model (BMM), to take account of psychological and social as well as biological factors relevant to health and disease. Since then the BPSM has had a mixed reputation, as the overarching framework for psychiatry, perhaps for medicine generally,...
In the present paper, we carry out a replication of a seminal paper by Kahneman, D. & Beatty, J. (1967). Perception & Psychophysics, 2(3),101–105 for using pupillometry as an implicit measure of auditory processing load, specifically, non-verbal auditory processing. While numerous papers since have supported the notion that pupillometry is a fairly...
Biomedyczne aspekty kształtowania płci somatycznej. Znaczenie prenatalnego okresu życia Biomedical aspects of the development of somatic sex. The importance of the prenatal development period Abstract Human sexuality affects many biological, psychological and social aspects. It is connected with gender identity, procreation, experiencing and giving...
The integration of the NANDA, NIC and NOC taxonomies, is part of the purpose of Nursing training, offered by UNAN-Managua, as part of the study plan of the career; promoting contact with reality, through the application of a systematic and structured intervention and research method called "Attention Process in Nursing” (PAE), The objective was to...
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Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most debilitating and prevalent disorders. The prevalence of LBP ranges from 30% to 80%, depending on the population, and increases with age. Causes of LBP are typically classified as spinal and non-spinal. The main goal of this study was to investigate the non-spinal causes of LBP, since negl...
Nature-based solutions including urban forests and wetlands can help communities cope better with climate change and other environmental stressors by enhancing social-ecological resilience. Natural ecosystems, settings, elements and affordances can also help individuals become more resilient to various stressors, although the mechanisms underpinnin...
Aggression is a global problem and complex social behavior. In Indonesia, some common manifestations of aggression are sexual harassment, domestic violence, and the stigmatization of other people. However, unlike men, aggression in women is still rarely studied, whereas facts find that many conditions can make women more vulnerable. There are vario...
Menopause represents a pivotal period in a women’s life, encompassing significant biological, psychological, and social transformations. The majority of women going through menopause commonly encounter the challenge of experiencing recurring and frequent insomnia. Objective: To determine the prevalence of insomnia in menopausal women in Rawalpindi...
Aging increases susceptibility both to psychiatric and medical disorders through a variety of processes ranging from biochemical to pharmacologic to societal. Interactions between aging-related brain changes, emotional and psychological symptoms, and social factors contribute to multimorbidity – the presence of two or more chronic conditions in an...
Eating disorders (ED) are complex mental health conditions characterized by persistent disturbances in eating behaviour that alter the consumption and metabolism of foods 1. Individuals who exhibit ED symptomologies often experience disordered eating behaviours (e.g., binge eating, food restriction, and inappropriate compensatory behaviours), but m...
In 2021, food industry workers represented approximately one-tenth of the total labour force in Malaysia. There was an estimated 15% of working-age adults who experienced a mental disorder worldwide in 2019. To make the situation worse, service workers in food retail and food services face tremendous stress and mental health consequences during the...
The purpose of the paper is to encourage a critical attitude and shed light on the background and perception (and not the definition) of “normal” through the prism of society, which to a large extent conditions human functioning and well-being. Understanding the variability of normality and mental health as a socially defined and ever-changing conc...
Purpose: Understanding health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents, during a pandemic and afterwards, aids in understanding how circumstances in their lives impact their well-being. We aimed to identify determinants of HRQOL from a set of biological, psychological and social factors.
Methods: Data was taken from a longitudina...
Humanitarian work has proven to be dangerous over the years, causing, over time, emotional or physical trauma in many professionals who deal with natural disasters that have affected large nations. These professionals need to be able to deal flexibly and adapt quickly to the reality of the current context, running the risk of developing symptoms of...
Bullying is a social phenomenon that often occurs in society, especially in adolescents. There are many biological, psychological, and social changes that can cause conflict problems between themselves and the surrounding environment. This causes the emergence of victims of bullying which causes anxiety in the teenager. This study aimed to determin...
Snow sports such as alpine skiing or snowboarding are associated with a high risk of injury and reinjury and are subject to a very special environment with specific rehabilitation challenges that must be addressed. Due to geographic decentralisation, seasonal climatic limitations, alternation of training in off-snow and on-snow settings and unique...
Background: Health inequalities are typically presented with respect to separate groupings or bases of categorization, such as income-related health inequality or life expectancy by education. We sought to characterize the cognitive consequences of presenting health inequality by bases of categorization.
Methods:Across two studies (N = 1,321), UK a...
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that affects individuals in various ways involving biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects. There is currently no comprehensive treatment that effectively addresses all aspects of pain. This integrative review aimed to analyze the spiritual aspect of pain relief. Following the...
Mainstream psychiatry is unable to decide on its model of mental disorder. While the great bulk of research is biologically oriented, many practitioners prefer a more holistic model integrating biological, psychological, and social factors. The “biopsychosocial model” attributed to George Engel appears to offer theoretical support, but the evidence...
Explanations for human behaviour can be framed in many different ways, from the social-structural context to the individual motivation down to the neurobiological implementation. We know comparatively little about how people interpret these explanatory framings, and what they infer when one kind of explanation rather than another is made salient. I...
The paper aims to develop a critical sociocultural understanding on the epistemological and historical analysis of evidence-based (EB) paradigm in contemporary psychological knowledge-production (research) and knowledge-application (practice). It firstly retraces the emergence of EB in medical disciplines, its paradigmatic status, and its subsequen...
Background: Low back pain (LBP) has been shown to have various biological, psychological, and social factors that affect prognosis. However, it is unclear how personality may influence self-reported outcome measures and therapeutic alliance (TA). Methods: Eysenck’s personality inventory was used to assess personality, while the numeric pain rating...
Over 700,000 people die by suicide every year (World Health Organization [WHO], 2021). Despite increasing investment in suicide prevention activities from many
governments worldwide, rates have continued to rise over the past 30 years (Yip et al., 2022). This is because suicide is complex and addressing this complexity is our Achilles heel. There a...
Background:
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a serious parasitic zoonotic disease that resembles malignancy with clinically silent infiltrative growth predominantly involving the liver. AE patients show high levels of comorbid psychological burden and fear of disease progression. This study aimed to examine AE patients' perspective on their disease...
Variationist sociolinguists must commit to developing age-comprehensive theories of sociolinguistic variation and lifespan change. They must extend analyses of patterns of language variation and change to include the oft-neglected later life-course, and must embrace cross-disciplinary knowledge exchange to identify and explore those ageing-associat...
Pain is a deeply personal experience, with interindividual differences in its chronification and treatment presenting a formidable healthcare challenge. The biopsychosocial model (BPSm) has been hugely influential within nascent attempts at precision pain medicine, steering the field away from a reductionist biomechanical viewpoint and emphasising...
Introduction: Bullying is a social phenomenon that often occurs in society, especially in adolescents. There are many biological, psychological, and social changes that can cause conflict problems between themselves and the surrounding environment, causing bullying victims which have an impact on the emergence of anxiety in these adolescents. The p...
The increase in the elderly population has several impacts on various aspects of life, such as social, economic and health. Moreover, various physical, cognitive and psychological changes occur in older people in the health field. Besides, life expectancy and quality of life are also significant for older people. The main goal of this study was to...
Gender is one of the most important issues the lives of adolescents. It relates to sexual identity and role, sexual orientation, lust, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction. Gender affects people"s thoughts, dreams, desires, beliefs, values, behaviours, practices, roles and relationships. But gender is also affected by biological, psychological, soci...
Can the study of epigenetics, physiology and cognitive science contribute to the investigation and understanding of social-cultural systems while respecting the autonomy of social research? I present a developmental system theory (DST) approach, which takes the unit of analysis to be the system of self-sustaining interactions among multiple biologi...
According to the Biopsychosocial-Spiritual model all facets such as biological, psychological, social, and spiritual must be considered for whole person-centered care. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic rheumatic autoimmune disorder wherein the immune cells start attacking the body's own healthy tissues and organs. Numerous studies su...
Depression is a type of mood disorder that can impact individuals of any age. A variety of factors, including biological, psychological, and environmental factors, can contribute to the likelihood of developing depression. If the environment in which a person exists does not support its occurrence, the disorder may not manifest. The current researc...
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Survival in cancer patients is associated with a multitude of biological, social, and psychological factors. Although it is well established that all these factors add to overall mortality, it is not well understood how the predictive power of these parameters changes in a comprehensive model and over time.
Methods:
Patients who atte...
Introduction
Suicide in older people is a critical public and mental health issue which requires attention, given that the ageing population is increasing.
Multiple factors, including biological, psychological, and social stressors increase suicidal susceptibility. Unfortunately, elderly are more susceptible to these, such as psychiatric disturbanc...
Introduction
Auditory Hallucination(AH) is a core & one of the most common symptom seen in schizophrenia. A prevalence study found that 1yr prevalence of AHs is 70% among patients of schizophrenia. Most theories of AHs discuss biological & psychological factors in phenomenology of voices. There definitely is a role of biological & neuroanatomical b...
Introduction
Multiple sclerosis(MS)is a chronic immune-mediated, inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. Depression is one of the most common psychiatric conditions associated with MS. Lifetime prevalence of major depression has been estimated to be around 50%.
Objectives
Although the prevalence of depression in MS patients has been sh...
Anxiety and depression are commonly experienced by individuals with heart conditions, significantly impacting their overall well-being and prognosis. This review aims to provide an updated examination of the relationship between anxiety, depression, and heart disease.
The review begins by exploring the prevalence of anxiety and depression in heart...
Introduction
Violence is a common behavioral and health concern among adolescents, aged 12 to 18 years old. In fact, aggressiveness may result in severe outcome in a critical age characterised by biological, psychological, and social changes. Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic condition, with elevated level of aggressiveness. Since unaffected bi...
Introduction
This study establishes research priorities for Medically Not Yet Explained Symptoms (MNYES). A significant number of patients suffer from these symptoms, also known as MUS, that are likely to cause work disability and impact on quality of life. Research into MNYES in general has been poorly funded over the years, has been primarily res...
Background and aims
Considering the growing number of gamers worldwide and increasing public concerns regarding the negative consequences of problematic gaming, the aim of the present systematic review was to provide a comprehensive overview of gaming disorder (GD) by identifying empirical studies that investigate biological, psychological, and soc...
Diabetes and mental disorders have been recognized as two significant public health concerns globally. Recent research indicates that there is a bidirectional relationship between these two conditions, with each influencing the other's course and outcomes. Nutrition plays an essential role in the prevention and treatment of both mental disorders an...
Approximately 2.3 million children are living with HIV globally. During childhood fundamental biological, psychological, physical, and social developments occur that become compromised by HIV/AIDS. The issues concerning HIV infections among children are complex and interrelated. Cognitive and social development, care and treatment, laws and policie...
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Anxiety and alcohol use commonly co-occur. Previous research has demonstrated the bidirectional and mutually reinforcing nature of this relationship, with an increasing body of research investigating the mediating and moderating mechanisms driving this association. Within the existing mediation and moderation research, however, there h...
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Child development is a complex biological, psychological, and emotional process. Timely screening for developmental delay allows early interventions. Therefore, this study sought to assess the frequency and characteristics of developmental delay in children < 5 years of age who attended the Pediatric Rehabilitation Service of a referra...
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Chemsex refers to the use of specific drugs before or during sex to sustain, enhance, disinhibit, or facilitate the sexual experience, primarily amongst gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. The main drugs associated with Chemsex are crystal methamphetamine, gamma-hydroxybutyrate/gamma-butyrolactone, mephedrone and ketamine. There...
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed more than anticipated about global human functioning and resiliency. This Philippines-based study replicated a recent U.S. COVID analysis on psychological well-being (PWB). Factors examined herein were grouped into categories for analysis: 1) predictors of PWB, 2) areas of greatest stress or worry (biggest concerns),...
Chronic pain is a complex condition influenced by a combination of biological, psychological and social factors. Using data from the UK Biobank (n = 493,211), we showed that pain spreads from proximal to distal sites and developed a biopsychosocial model that predicted the number of coexisting pain sites. This data-driven model was used to identify...
Purpose of review
Optimal treatment requires a thorough understanding of all factors contributing to pain in the individual patient. In this review, we investigate the influence of cultural frameworks on pain experience and management.
Recent Findings
The loosely defined concept of culture in pain management integrates a predisposing set of divers...
Background
Adolescent physical activity is influenced by biological, psychological, sociocultural, and environmental factors; however, no review has yet explored the effect of family structure (usually defined based on the relationships between people living in a household) on adolescent physical activity levels.
Methods
Databases MEDLINE, EMBASE,...
Transhumanism is defined as a human movement that believes in and attempts to implement ideas and practices aimed at developing and empowering the biological, psychological, and cognitive abilities of humans and helping them become superior to their current biological state through modern science and technological tools. Considering its promises an...
Pasien yang dirawat inap terutama di ruang penyakit dalam memiliki permasalahan yang lengkap tidak hanya dalam aspek biologis namun juga aspek psikologis, sosiologis dan spiritual. Dengan demikian perawat mempunyai peran yang sangat penting dalam memberikan pelayanan secara holistik. Dalam kenyataannya, pelayanaan keperawatan di rumah sakit secara...
INTRODUCTION: The transition from the reproductive to the non-reproductive phase is considered a period with several changes. These changes may be metabolic and hormonal that lead to great reflections in the physiological and psychosocial aspect of this woman's life, that is, she undergoes physical and psychological changes. The symptoms in these p...
Background: The postpartum period is a transitional period associated with many physical and emotional changes for women. The vulnerability to change can lead to problems such as postpartum blues. This condition shows mood changes, crying, sleep disturbances and fatigue, which can be caused by biological, psychological and social and cultural facto...
The genogram is a tool that can be used by health professionals to provide a comprehensive, holistic picture of the client and his environment. The realization of the genogram in medicine allows recognizing, clarifying and expanding information on risks and health problems in the individual and the family, both of a biological, psychological and so...
