Haptic Resources in Pain Communication: New Amputees Redirecting Doctors' Professional Touch at the Prosthetic Clinic.

Pain assessment is key in deciding whether amputee patients are fit to receive a prosthesis, but its interactional accomplishment is still underexplored. This study adopts multimodal conversation analysis to investigate how pain assessment is carried out during medical visits at an Italian prosthetic clinic involving 77 patients and 24 health professionals. In the analyzed data, doctors carry out pain assessment by asking patients whether they feel pain during palpation of the stump, and patients respond by elaborating on their sensations and using touch in turn.

Interventricular Septal Hematoma Complicating Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing: A Case Report-The Devil Is Not So Black as He Is Painted.

Background: This case report outlines the presentation of an emerging complication arising from left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP).

Case Summary: A 43-year-old male with no history of cardiac problems experienced recurrent episodes of syncope with no prodromal symptoms. During monitoring in the emergency department, the patient underwent an episode of asystole, leading to LBBAP implantation.

Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Model for Behavior Change in People With Asthma: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Asthma is a common lung condition that cannot be cured, but it can usually be effectively managed using available treatments. Despite this, it is widely acknowledged that 70% of patients do not adhere to their asthma treatment. Personalizing treatment by providing the most appropriate interventions based on the patient's psychological or behavioral needs produces successful behavior change.

Eco-design and tunable structure-properties of chitosan-epoxy-glycerol-silicate biohybrids using integrated crosslinking.

Tunable structure-properties were achieved for chitosan-epoxy-glycerol-silicate (CHTGP) biohybrids, eco-designed via integrated amine-epoxy and waterborne sol-gel crosslinking reactions. Medium molecular weight chitosan (CHT), with 83 % degree of deacetylation was prepared by microwave-assisted alkaline deacetylation of chitin. The amine group of chitosan was covalently bonded to the epoxide of 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane (G) for further crosslinking with a sol-gel derived glycerol-silicate precursor (P) from 0.

A Different Conversation: Psychological Research and the Problem of Self in Autism.

Observations about peculiarities in the autistic population concerning type and frequency of references to subjective states, and lack of perspective taking, have been on the whole referred to as the paradox of the autistic self, i.e. a co-presence of ego-centeredness and weak self-referentiality (Lombardo & Baron Cohen 2010).

Rethinking Intrusiveness: Exploring the Sequential Organization in Interactions Between Infants and Mothers.

To date, studies investigating maternal postpartum depression (PPD) have mainly focused on identifying failures in interactions of postpartum depressed mothers and their infants, often attributed to single dysfunctional maternal behaviors. Intrusiveness has been identified as a dysfunctional behavior characterizing mothers suffering from PPD. However, this research does not consider the co-constructed and sequential nature of social interactions, in which single behaviors cannot be conceived as isolated or disconnected units.

MRI ultrasound fusion biopsy in prostate cancer detection: Are randomized clinical trials reproducible in everyday clinical practice?

Introduction:: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI)-ultrasound (US) fusion-targeted biopsies (TB) in men with primary and repeated biopsies comparing the cancer detection rate (CDR) of random biopsies (RB) + TB versus only TB.

Methods:: The present study is a real-life study on patients with primary and prior negative prostate biopsies with suspicious PCa. A total of 130 men with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value >2.

Prostate-specific antigen increase during dutasteride to indicate the need for prostate biopsy: influence of prostatic inflammation.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to analyze the significance of an increase in total prostate-specific antigen (PSA) serum levels despite dutasteride treatment as a predictor of prostate cancer (PC) at biopsy. We focused our attention on the rate of the first PSA increase and on the influence of prostatic inflammation.

Methods: From 2011 to 2016, 365 men with a previous negative prostate biopsy and persistent elevated PSA levels received dutasteride treatment.

Find the Hidden Object. Understanding Play in Psychological Assessments.

Standardized psychological assessments are extensively used by practitioners to determine rate and level of development in different domains of ability in both typical and atypical children. The younger the children, the more likely the trials will resemble play activities. However, mode of administration, timing and use of objects involved are constrained.

Planting the seeds of change: Directionality in the narrative construction of recovery from addiction.

Objective: The dominant theoretical perspective that guides treatment evaluations in addiction assumes linearity in the relationship between treatment and outcomes, viewing behaviour change as a 'before and after event'. In this study we aim to examine how the direction of the trajectory of the process from addiction to recovery is constructed in personal narratives of active and recovering users.

Design: 21 life stories from individuals at different stages of recovery and active use were collected and analysed following the principles of narrative analysis.

A meta-analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials with degarelix versus gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists for advanced prostate cancer.

Our aim was to systematically evaluate the benefits of degarelix as antagonist versus agonists of gonadotropin-releasing hormones (GnRH) for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer (PC). This comparison was performed either in terms of biochemical or oncological or safety profiles. To this end we, carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature.

Asking 'What about' questions in chronic illness self-management meetings.

Objectives: This study investigates 'What about' questions asked by patients in the course of diabetes self-management groups led by nurses, and explores their functions in these empowerment-informed settings.

Methods: Conversation Analysis of 24 video-recorded sessions of a Start Insulin Group Programme for patients with type 2 diabetes, in a diabetes centre in the South of England. The groups included 2-7 patients and were led by 5 nurses, all of whom had received training in the empowerment approach.

Not Just Being Lifted: Infants are Sensitive to Delay During a Pick-Up Routine.

In the present study we observed whether infants show online adjustments to the mother's incipient action by looking at their sensitivity to changes as the pick-up unfolded. Twenty-three 3-month-old infants and their mothers were observed in the lab, where mothers were instructed (1) to pick-up their infants as they usually did (normal pick-up), and then (2) to delay the pick-up for 6 s after placing their hands on the infants' waist (delayed pick-up). In both Normal and Delayed conditions infant's body tension, affective displays and gaze shifts were coded during three phases: Approach, Contact, and Lift.

Recovery of Urinary Continence After Radical Prostatectomy Using Early vs Late Pelvic Floor Electrical Stimulation and Biofeedback-associated Treatment.

Objective: To compare the early vs late use of pelvic floor electrical stimulation (FES) plus biofeedback (BF) in terms of time to recovery and rate of continence after radical prostatectomy (RP).

Materials And Methods: Between April 2007 and April 2012, a total of 120 patients who underwent RP were prospectively included in the study. In group 1 (60 cases), we included patients who presented a urinary leakage weight ≥50 g for 24 hours, 14 days after catheter removal.

Do We Really Want a Future as Qualitative Psychologists?

In this article I pick up some threads from the contributions in the previous special issue of IPSB dedicated to the future of qualitative psychology, and elaborate on them around two main points. The first is the status of qualitative psychology as a social and institutional category; the second is what we mean by experience. As concerns the first point, I argue that using the label of qualitative psychology may separate us from the rest of psychology, also creating a false impression of homogeneity among qualitative approaches and a false opposition with quantitative methods.

We can work it out: an enactive look at cooperation.

The past years have seen an increasing debate on cooperation and its unique human character. Philosophers and psychologists have proposed that cooperative activities are characterized by shared goals to which participants are committed through the ability to understand each other's intentions. Despite its popularity, some serious issues arise with this approach to cooperation.

Changing the game: exploring infants' participation in early play routines.

Play has proved to have a central role in children's development, most notably in rule learning (Piaget, 1965; Sutton-Smith, 1979) and negotiation of roles and goals (Garvey, 1974; Bruner et al., 1976). Yet very little research has been done on early play.

Complete sustained reversal of cyclic ST-segment elevation (coronary cyclic flow variations) by low-dose intravenous nitroglycerin during acute coronary syndrome.

Background: Recurrent ST-segment elevations in acute coronary syndromes have been attributed to coronary cyclic flow variations (CCFVs) possibly due to coronary vasospasm and unstable platelet aggregation in partially occluded arteries.

Methods: We describe the case of a patient with an acute myocardial infarction, recurrent ST-segment elevations and diffuse disease of the left anterior descending artery.

Results: The post-angiography 12-lead continuous ECG monitoring revealed cyclic anterior ST-segment elevations that were completely abolished with continuous intravenous infusion of low-dose isosorbide-dinitrate.

Incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes mellitus in Gomel, Belarus.

Background: The importance of genetic and environmental factors in causing type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) in many European countries is unknown. We studied this question by assessing the incidence of the disease in children in Gomel, Belarus, in the years subsequent to the Chernobyl disaster, comparing it to the antecedent period.

Methods: We identified all new patients with DM1 under 15 years at onset who presented between 1976 and 1999; we used as denominator the number of children aged 0-14 born in Gomel, to calculate the incidence.

Establishment of a pediatric surgery center: increasing anesthetic efficiency.

Study Objective: To examine whether the establishment of dedicated pediatric operating rooms (ORs) staffed exclusively by pediatric anesthesiologists has had a significant impact on anesthetic efficiency during surgery.

Study Design: Before and after design.

Setting: General and pediatric operating rooms at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Evaluation of glucose tolerance and insulin secretion in cystic fibrosis patients.

Unlabelled: Blood glucose profile and insulin levels during the oral glucose tolerance test were retrospectively analyzed in 52 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients aged 10-33 years (mean 18 years). Thirty-seven subjects (71.1%) had normal glucose tolerance; 6 patients (11.

Rhetorical intentionality attribution: its ontogenesis in ordinary conversation.

This paper addresses the assumption that the epistemological dichotomy between reality and its construction is an everyday rhetorical tool children and adults use in their explanations and arguments. Within a discursive psychology perspective, the phenomenon of attribution of rhetorical intentionality (AIR) is theoretically defined developing the notion of prepackaged interest attribution technique (Edwards & Potter, 1992). AIR consists in an explanation of others' discursive moves in terms of a rhetorical-argumentative activity; that is, in terms of a deliberate attempt aimed at construing and presenting reality as a function of the speaker's point of view, perspective and interests, in order to affect the listeners mental state (belief, knowledge, intention) or action.

[Epidemiologic data on breast feeding in Florence and the province. Survey carried out in 1364 children born between 1985 and 1987].

We have studied the breast-feeding frequency in Florentine Area. We investigate a group of 1364 children born between January 1985 and June 1987. We collected following data: 1) Kind of feeding at birth.