Equine-assisted psychotherapy with traumatized couples-Improvement of relationship quality and psychological symptoms.

Many traumatised individuals suffering from deployment related PTSD report severe problems in their relationships. Up until now, the therapeutic interventions used by the German Armed Forces have rarely targeted these problems through the integration of partners. For this reason, a Program designed specifically for couples was developed.

Does inert gas narcosis have an influence on perception of pain?

The effect of an increased nitrogen partial pressure under hyperbaric conditions is known as nitrogen narcosis (NN). At an ambient pressure of about 4 bar, reduced cognitive performance as well as euphoric effects are reported. We examined the effect of NN on pain perception.

Neuropsychological deficits in scuba divers: an exploratory investigation.

Objective: To investigate whether divers with varying levels of experience and without a history of reported decompression sickness (DCS) show neuropsychometric alterations possibly as a result of so-called repetitive "silent" paradoxical gas embolisms.

Methods: Using reaction time as a psychometric measure, 17 experienced military divers (ED, logging between 150 and 1,200 diving hours) and eight very experienced military divers (VED, logging between 2,800 and 9,800 diving hours) with no decompression sickness (DCS) in their medical histories were compared to 23 healthy controls without any diving history, matched as closely as possible with respect to age for the two diving groups. Motor reaction time, decision reaction time and error rates were measured during completion of both simple and complex reaction time tasks.

Investigation of Prx1 protein expression provides evidence for conservation of cardiac-specific posttranscriptional regulation in vertebrates.

Gene targeting experiments have defined that the homeobox gene Prx1 is essential for normal craniofacial, limb, and vascular development. Although its RNA expression pattern is well established, Prx1 protein expression in the developing embryo has not been examined. A novel Prx1 antibody was produced to define the normal Prx1 protein expression pattern in the developing mouse embryo.