Stress plays a role in the association between cognitive constructs and measures of eating disorders in male subjects.

Objective: Several theorists have hypothesized that stressful situations may trigger abnormal eating and even eating disorders in predisposed people. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a stressful situation would reveal an association between perfectionism and low self-esteem, and measures of eating disorder symptoms in male high school students.

Method: A sample of 61 male high school students completed the Eating Disorder Inventory, the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, and the Self Liking and Competence Scale three times: on an average school day, on the day of an exam and on the day the subjects received the results of that exam.

Ethnopharmacognostic survey on the natural ingredients used in folk cosmetics, cosmeceuticals and remedies for healing skin diseases in the inland Marches, Central-Eastern Italy.

An ethnopharmaceutical study focused on domestic cosmetics, cosmeceuticals, and remedies to heal skin diseases traditionally used in the inland part of the Marches region (Central-Eastern Italy) has been conducted. At present, traditional knowledge concerning home-made phytocosmetics is represented by both the remnants of an orally transmitted folk heritage and also by new forms of knowledge, sometimes coming from popular phytotherapeutical books and the mass media (out of the scope of this survey), but also as a result of recent migration trends from Eastern Europe. We recorded approximately 135 cosmetic or cosmeceutical preparations prepared from more than 70 botanical species and a very few animal or mineral ingredients.

TNF alpha released in the early post-operative period is influenced by anaesthesia.

In this study we tested for TNF alpha concentrations 45 subjects undergoing elective prostatectomy performed under two different anaesthetic regimens. In addition, given the influence of neuroendocrine axis on immunological homeostasis, we also determined post surgery cortisol and norepinephrine levels. The patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups: group 1 (no.

[Thoracoscopic bilateral sympathectomy in Raynaud's syndrome. Anesthesiology problems].

The objective of this paper was to examine the major anaesthetic problems during transthoracic endoscopic sympathectomy without artificial pneumothorax and to present our experience of 16 cases suffering from Raynaud's disease. For the perioperative management we used a double lumen endo-bronchial tube and balanced anaesthesia (intravenous agents plus isoflurane). Arterial pressure, heart rate, ECG, end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration, SatO2, blood gases and peak inspiratory pressures were monitored.