Examining Negativity Biases in Facial Emotion Reactions in Young Persons First Presenting with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Introduction: Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are thought to experience specific biosocial vulnerabilities that give rise to a maladaptive negativity bias in the perception and expression of emotions. However, while this negative bias has been identified in adults with full threshold BPD or high BPD features, it is unclear whether it is evident earlier in the course of the disorder - that being, young persons with first-presentation BPD meeting three or more BPD features, as defined by early intervention models.

Methods: The current study compared patterns of facial responding in individuals aged 15-25 years first presenting to a specialist outpatient service with three or more BPD features (n = 32) to age-matched healthy controls (n = 46).

Temperament predicts challenging behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder at age 5.

Background: Challenging behaviors during early childhood have a significant impact on cognitive and social development. The present study aimed to identify the developmental predictors of these behaviors in preschool aged children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at 2-year follow-up. We examined temperament, which has been identified as key to emotion regulation in typical development, as well as developmental level and ASD symptom severity, as potential predictors of parent-reported challenging behavior.

[Efficacy of prostaglandin E1 and systemic antibacterial therapy application in patients with diabetes mellitus and purulent-necrotic lesions of the foot].

The results of prostaglandin E1 et systemic antibacterial therapy use in 1836 patients, suffering purulent-necrotic affection of foot, were summarized. There was established, that cefuroxym constitutes the first line preparation for the ostheoarthropathy focus elimination, when the affection is limited and the patient state is stable, and meronem--for extended affection and unstable patient's state. In the pronounced ischemia of the foot the initial administration of cefepim is the most effective.

Pesticides in Uruguay.

This is a review, from an independent and scientific point of view, of the different aspects involved in the issue of pesticides in Uruguay. In its preparation, the University, responsible official institutions, nongovenment environmental organizations, and independent experts have been consulted. As to the legal framework, the responsibilities of the institutions are described and evaluated.

Long-acting and therapeutic properties of some Soviet and other penicillin preparations in experimental conditions.

The authors describe the results of studies carried out in rabbits infected with syphilis on the therapeutic properties and duration of penicillinaemia of a number of penicillin preparations manufactured in the USSR and of certain others from Czechoslovakia and the USA. These products were studied after intramuscular administration, mainly in doses of 42 000, 84 000 or 168 000 units per kg of body-weight.With all the preparations tested, the first of these doses proved inadequate.