Publications by authors named "E Poplavskaya"
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disease that can seriously impair one's quality of life; patients complain of excessive fatigue and myalgia following physical exertion. This disease may be associated with abnormalities in genes affecting exercise tolerance and physical performance. Adenosine monophosphate deaminase (AMPD1), carnitine palmitoyltransferase II (CPT2), and the muscle isoform of glycogen phosphorylase (PYGM) genes provide instructions for producing enzymes that play major roles in energy production during work.
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- - The study explores how psychiatric diagnostic labels, specifically borderline personality disorder (BPD), can influence mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards a patient receiving treatment.
- - Researchers showed a video of a patient with panic disorder to 265 clinicians, assigning them to different groups based on the information they received about the patient.
- - Findings revealed that those informed about the BPD label reported significantly less optimism regarding the treatment outcome, suggesting that such labels may lead to negative biases and highlight the importance of reducing stigma in clinical practice.
Many patients with chronic pain also exhibit elevated levels of health anxiety. This study examined the effect of health anxiety on the use of safety-seeking behaviors (SSBs) in pain-provoking situations. Participants were 20 chronic back pain patients with high health anxiety (Group H), 20 with low health anxiety (Group L) and 20 pain-free controls (Group C).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUSE OF SYNTHOMYCIN-CONTAINING MEDIUM FOR INCREASING GROWTH RATE OF SHIGELLAS.
Fed Proc Transl Suppl
December 1996