Stimulus-Stimulus-Pairing to Reduce Stereotypies in Three Children with Autism during Movie Watching.

Autism spectrum disorders represent a challenge for professionals, who must include in their individualized educational interventions goals for core symptoms (social-communication and stereotypies/restricted interests) and comorbidities. The narrowness of interests and the high frequency of repetitive behaviors in children with autism often constitute an obstacle for learning and the quality of life, and for their caregivers as well. In the scientific literature, behavioral interventions based on both aversive and, less commonly, positive procedures have been implemented to reduce the frequency of stereotypies.

Anxiety symptoms as a moderator of the reciprocal links between forms of aggression and peer victimization in middle childhood.

The current short-term longitudinal study evaluated whether anxiety symptoms moderated the bidirectional associations between forms (i.e., physical and relational) of aggression and peer victimization over a 1-year period during middle childhood.

Links between stressful life events and proactive and reactive functions of aggression.

Recently, more attention has been devoted to understanding how stressful life events might relate to proactive and reactive aggression. Findings suggest that stressful life events are more strongly linked to reactive, than proactive, aggression; however, it is unclear whether the impact of stressful life events on proactive and reactive aggression might vary as a function of the level of exposure to or type of stressful life event. The current study examined how level of exposure to stressful life events (i.

Psychomotor symptoms and treatment outcomes of ziprasidone monotherapy in patients with major depressive disorder: a 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, sequential parallel comparison trial.

The aim of this study was to evaluate efficacy of ziprasidone monotherapy for major depressive disorder (MDD) with and without psychomotor symptoms. In accordance with the sequential parallel comparison design, 106 MDD patients (age 44.0±10.

The evaluation of a culturally appropriate, community-based lifestyle intervention program for elderly Chinese immigrants with chronic diseases: a pilot study.

Background: The 'Healthy Habits Program' is a 6-month community-based program, which offers exercise facilities, training and weekly health education group to underserved elderly Chinese Americans with chronic medical diseases in their native languages. This pilot study evaluates the acceptability and the health effects of the 'Healthy Habits Program'.

Methods: Ninety-nine subjects participated in the 'Healthy Habits Program' in 2011.

[Scientific evidence in occupational medicine: meta-analysis of the data regarding the effects of working with video terminals on the psycho-physical well-being].

Psycho-physical well-being of video display terminal (VDT) workers is often neglected. The aim of this study is to evaluate, through the comparison of controlled studies published in scientific literature, the psycho-physical well-being of VDT workers and, in particular way, the phenomena of strain and mental fatigue with their neuro-physiological, behavioural and subjective components. Seven-hundreds articles have been found from which we have selected twenty-one articles on the basis of the following inclusion criteria: controlled studies and evaluation of variables about mental fatigue; finally, only fifteen articles were utilized in the analysis due to the variability of data needed in the computation of effect size.

Semileptonic decays of d mesons in three-flavor lattice QCD.

We present the first three-flavor lattice QCD calculations for D-->pilnu and D-->Klnu semileptonic decays. Simulations are carried out using ensembles of unquenched gauge fields generated by the MILC Collaboration. With an improved staggered action for light quarks, we are able to simulate at light quark masses down to 1/8 of the strange mass.

Zonula occludin toxin, a microtubule binding protein.

AIM:To investigate the interaction of Zot with microtubule.METHODS:Zot affinity column was applied to purify Zot-binding protein(s) from crude intestinal cell lysates. After incubation at room temperature, the column was washed and the proteins bound to the Zot affinity column were eluted by step gradient with NaCl (0.