Predictors of violent behavior among acute psychiatric patients: clinical study.

Aim: Violence risk prediction is a priority issue for clinicians working with mentally disordered offenders. The aim of the present study was to determine violence risk factors in acute psychiatric inpatients.

Methods: The study was conducted in a locked, short-term psychiatric inpatient unit and involved 374 patients consecutively admitted in a 1-year period.

Jealous love and morbid jealousy.

Jealous love and morbid jealousy, although inextricably linked, cannot be considered the same: jealous love (trait jealousy) is the behavioral and cognitive-affective precondition of morbid jealousy (state jealousy). Love is jealous when it is devoured by the desire for the exclusive and total possession of the partner, whose unconditional and continued presence is avidly requested. This type of love, in addition, is permeated by the need to know what the other is thinking, in order to scrutinize every minimal flaw in the faithfulness of the partner even in his or her innermost thoughts and fantasies; in it, jealousy is virtually always present, even in the absence of a triggering event, because captative love, by its very nature, includes the expectation of a conflict which inevitably actually takes place in reality.

Medical observation, compared with parathyroidectomy, for asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism: a prospective, randomized trial.

Context: The clinical presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) has changed during the last half century, and the diagnosis is now more often made by chance in patients with no specific symptoms.

Objective: The present study is a randomized, controlled trial that investigates the effects of parathyroidectomy or medical observation in mild asymptomatic pHPT on morbidity and quality of life (QoL).

Design/setting/patients: A total of 191 patients (26 men) with asymptomatic pHPT [mean age 64.

Self-centrality, psychosis and schizotaxia: a conceptual review.

The phenomenon of self-centrality denotes a qualitative modification of the psychotic experience. Transitory experiences of self-reference have regularly been found in subjects in the prodromic phase and at the beginning of psychosis or in the post psychotic phase, and are specifically identified in the semeiotics of Basic Symptoms. However, self-centrality, in addition to being a morphological organizer in the psychotic crisis, also manifests itself in schizotypal personality disorders and in first-degree relatives of schizophrenics (where it is correlated to the degree of schizotypal traits).

Presence of an enamel matrix protein derivative on human teeth following periodontal surgery.

An enamel matrix protein derivative (EMD) has been successfully employed to restore fully functional periodontal ligament, cementum, and alveolar bone in patients with severe attachment loss. When applied to denuded root surfaces, EMD is believed to assemble into a matrix that locally stimulates regenerative responses in the surrounding tissues. Since wound healing and induction of regeneration are biological processes typically running from weeks to months after treatment, the EMD matrix must be present on the root surface over a biologically significant time period to be effective.