Bioenergetic exercises in inpatient treatment of Turkish immigrants with chronic somatoform disorders: a randomized, controlled study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine whether bioenergetic exercises (BE) significantly influence the inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment results for Turkish immigrants with chronic somatoform disorders.

Method: In a 6-week randomized, prospective, controlled trial, we treated a sample of 128 Turkish patients: 64 were randomly assigned to BE and 64 participated in gymnastic exercises in lieu of BE. The Symptom Checklist (SCL-90-R) and State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) were employed.

Influence of family therapy on bullying behaviour, cortisol secretion, anger, and quality of life in bullying male adolescents: A randomized, prospective, controlled study.

Objective: To determine the influence of brief strategic family therapy (BSFT) on salivary cortisol, anger, and health-related quality of life (QoL) in adolescent boys with bullying behaviour.

Method: We selected a sample of 72 boys demonstrating bullying behaviour from the general population and treated 36 with BSFT for 12 weeks. The other 36 boys formed the control group.

Pregnant women with bronchial asthma benefit from progressive muscle relaxation: a randomized, prospective, controlled trial.

Background: Asthma is a serious medical problem in pregnancy and is often associated with stress, anger and poor quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) on change in blood pressure, lung parameters, heart rate, anger and health-related quality of life in pregnant women with bronchial asthma.

Methods: We treated a sample of 64 pregnant women with bronchial asthma from the local population in an 8-week randomized, prospective, controlled trial.

Aripiprazole in the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Objective: Aripiprazole is a relatively new atypical antipsychotic agent that has been successfully employed in therapy for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders. A few neuroleptics have been used in therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder, which is associated with severe psychopathological symptoms. Aripiprazole, however, has not yet been tested for this disorder, and the goal of this study was to determine whether aripiprazole is effective in the treatment of several domains of symptoms of borderline personality disorder.

[Treatment results from inpatient psychosomatic rehabilitation of Turkish migrants: a prospective study].

Psychosomatic rehabilitation and the concluding social-medical assessment constitute a particular challenge. The aim of this study was to examine whether inpatient psychosomatic rehabilitation in the context of an integrated treatment concept, conducted in Turkish and German, is effective in the rehabilitation of Turkish migrant laborers, and what concluding socio-medical assessment results from this treatment. 195 Turkish patients--44 male and 151 female--received inpatient psychosomatic treatment for approximately 40 days.

[Treatment motivation and results of inpatient psychotherapy for women with depressive disorders: a prospective study].

Whether the treatment results in inpatient psychotherapy are significantly influenced by the patient's motivation is a subject of discussion. The goal of this study was to assess whether the primary motivation for therapy in depressive women influences the results of psychotherapeutic treatment. In a prospective study, the monitored results from 64 female inpatients (32 who were highly motivated to enter therapy, and 32 who were minimally motivated) were compared to each other.

Topiramate treatment for women with borderline personality disorder: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

Borderline personality disorder is a common and severe psychiatric illness. The goal of this study was to determine whether topiramate can influence patients' borderline psychopathology, health-related quality of life, and interpersonal problems. Women meeting the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Structured Clinical Interview II criteria for borderline personality disorder were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to topiramate titrated from 25 to 200 mg/d (n = 28) or placebo (n = 28) for 10 weeks.

Change in instrumental activities of daily living disability in female senior patients with musculosceletal pain: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial.

Previous studies found that depressive symptoms and low functional self-efficacy are associated with the occurrence of disabling musculoskeletal pain, and diminished quality of life in elderly people. The target of this study was to consider the change in instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) disability and health related quality of life after integrative psychotherapeutic treatment program of depressive symptoms in senior female patients with musculoskeletal pain. In an 8-week outpatient-based, random, prospective, controlled trial, 36 female patients between 70 and 79 with a history of clinically evident musculoskeletal pain and afflicted with depressive symptoms, but who were able to bathe, walk, dress, and transferring inside the house were evaluated.

Magnetic ordering and spin-glass behavior in first-row transition metal hexacyanomanganate(IV) Prussian blue analogues.

Magnetically ordered Prussian blue analogues with the general formulation of M[Mn(CN)6] (M = V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni) were made in aprotic media utilizing [MnIV(CN)6]2-. These analogs are valence-ambiguous, as they can be formulated as MII[MnIV(CN)6] or MIII[MnIII(CN)6]. The X-ray powder diffraction of each member of this family can be indexed to the face-centered cubic (fcc) Prussian blue structure type, with atypically reduced unit cell parameters (a approximately 9.

A reappraisal of cryosurgery for eyelid basal cell carcinomas.

Background/aims: Liquid nitrogen spray freezing has been successfully applied for basal cell carcinomas in the eyelid region, but is not yet in general use. The reasons for this were analysed and the development of a more reliable, safer cryosurgical technique aimed for.

Methods: New cryosurgical apparatus, contact probes with increased freezing power, and a special application technique were developed and clinically tested in a consecutive series of 221 patients with primary basal cell carcinomas of the lid region.

Reaction of the uranyl(VI) ion (UO(2)(2+)) with a triamidoamine ligand: preparation and structural characterization of a mixed-valent uranium(V/VI) oxo-imido dimer.

The synthesis and structural characterization of a mixed-valent uranium(V/VI) oxo-imido complex are reported. Reaction of the uranyl chloride complex [K(18-crown-6)](2)[UO(2)Cl(4)] (1) with the triamidoamine ligand Li(3)[N(CH(2)CH(2)NSiBu(t)Me(2))(3)] yields oxo-imido [K(18-crown-6)(Et(2)O)][UO(mu(2)-NuCH(2)CH(2)N(CH(2)CH(2)NSiBu(t)Me(2))(2))](2) (2) as the major isolated uranium product in moderate yield. The reaction that forms 2 involves activation of both the triamidoamine ligand and the uranyl dioxo unit of 1.

Tetracyanomanganate(II) and its salts of divalent first-row transition metal ions.

The first known paramagnetic, tetrahedral cyanide complex, [Mn(II)(CN)(4)](2)(-), is formed by the photoinduced decomposition of [Mn(IV)(CN)(6)](2)(-) in nonaqueous solutions or by thermal decomposition in the solid state. In acetonitrile or dichloromethane, photoexcitation into the ligand-to-metal charge transfer band (lambda(max) = 25 700 cm(-1), epsilon = 3700 cm(-1) M(-1)) causes the homolytic cleavage of cyanide radicals and reduction of Mn(IV). Free cyanide in dichloromethane leads to the isolation of polycyanide oligomers such as [C(12)N(12)](2)(-) and [C(4)N(4)](-), which was crystallographically characterized as the PPN(+) salt C(40)H(30)N(5)P(2): monoclinic space group = I2/a, a = 18.

Analysis of the heel pad fat in rheumatoid arthritis.

The heel fat pad is organized, both in structure and in composition, to bear the stresses and strains of normal activities and to permit pain-free weightbearing. The fatty acid composition of heel pads in 11 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a disease process frequently associated with heel fat pad atrophy, was analyzed using gas-liquid chromatography and was compared with that of patients without systemic disease. The heels of patients with rheumatoid arthritis demonstrated a significant change in the composition of saturated fatty acids when compared with heels of nonrheumatoid patients.

Mn [Mn (CN) ]-A Magnetic Interpenetrating Three-Dimensional Diamondlike Solid.

Three-dimensional extended diamondlike networks containing four-coordinate metal centers can be constructed from [Mn (CN) ] building blocks. Besides the title compound, which was prepared and its magnetic properties studied in detail, other novel magnetic solids might be able to be synthesized.

Structure and Properties of Tetracyanomanganate(II), [Mn (CN) ] , The First Paramagnetic Tetrahedral Cyanometalate Complex.

A place in the sun for solutions of [(Ph P) N] [Mn(CN) ] provides-by photochemical degradation-[Mn (CN) ] ions, the only homoleptic cyanide complex ion that is high spin (structure depicted on the right). Magnetic measurements indicate a high-spin A ground state (S=5/2), and the cyanide ligands are virtually entirely σ donors, without significant binding contributions from d-π* back-bonding.

Histology and histomorphometric analysis of the normal and atrophic heel fat pad.

Light and electron microscopy was used for a histologic examination of normal heel fat pads and atrophic heel fat pads from patients with peripheral neuropathies. Histomorphometric analysis revealed an average 30% smaller mean cell area and 16% smaller mean cell diameters in the atrophic pads compared with the normal heel fat pads. Septal walls in the atrophic fat pads were often fragmented and approximately 75% wider than normal.

Fatty acid composition of normal and atrophied heel fat pad.

Capillary gas-liquid chromatography was used to analyze the fatty acid composition of normal heel fat pads from subjects without systemic disease (N = 8) and atrophied heels from patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (N = 4), rheumatoid arthritis (N = 1), peripheral vascular disease (N = 1), and hereditary sensory neuropathy (N = 1). In the normal subjects, the fatty acid composition of subcutaneous abdominal fat was also obtained for comparison. Three saturated fatty acids (myristate, palmitate, and stearate) and four unsaturated fatty acids (palmitoleate, oleate, vaccenate, and linoleate) comprised over 90% of the total fatty acid composition.

[N2 cryotherapy and excision. Indications and limits in eyelid basalioma].

Some ophthalmic surgeons have preferred N2-cryosurgery for many years. Others feel that only excisional surgery should be used. In this article both possibilities are discussed in an effort to facilitate a well-balanced choice.

Sophisticated instrumentation and ophthalmic ultrasonography.

Formerly, ophthalmic ultrasonography was leading in view of high-performance apparatuses and transducer probes: e.g., the first array-scanner in the world was built for ophthalmic use.

Magnetic resonance imaging of anomalous leg muscles: accessory soleus, peroneus quartus and the flexor digitorum longus accessorius.

Since the availability of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the suspected diagnosis of an accessory muscle of the lower extremity can now be confirmed without the need for invasive procedures. The accessory soleus, peroneus quartus, and flexor digitorum longus accessorius are anomalous muscles of the lower extremity that can be diagnosed by MRI. These accessory muscles are probably more common than once thought and can now be easily distinguished from other space occupying lesions that can occur around the ankle.