Guided imagery: an innovative approach to improving maternal sleep quality.

Mothers of preterm infants are at risk for poor sleep quality, which may adversely affect their health, maternal-infant attachment, and infant caretaking activities. This study examined the relationship of an 8-week relaxation guided imagery intervention on sleep quality and the association between sleep quality and maternal distress (perceived stress, depressive symptoms, and state anxiety) in 20 mothers of hospitalized preterm infants. Mothers received a CD (compact disc) with three 20-minutes recordings and were asked to listen to at least 1 recording daily for 8 weeks.

An open trial of pregabalin as an acute and maintenance adjunctive treatment for outpatients with treatment resistant bipolar disorder.

Background: Pregabalin is a structural analog of GABA, similar to gabapentin. It does not have a FDA indication for any psychiatric disorder in the USA. There has been one case report of the successful use of pregabalin as an augmenting agent in a patient with Bipolar Disorder (BD).

Experimental and modeling study of thermal rate coefficients and cross sections for electron attachment to C(60).

Thermal electron attachment to C(60) has been studied by relative rate measurements in a flowing afterglow Langmuir probe apparatus. The rate coefficients of the attachment k(1) are shown to be close to 10(-6) cm(3) s(-1) with a small negative temperature coefficient. These results supersede measurements from the 1990s which led to much smaller values of k(1) with a large positive temperature coefficient suggesting an activation barrier.

Electron attachment to halomethanes at high temperature: CH(2)Cl(2), CF(2)Cl(2), CH(3)Cl, and CF(3)Cl attachment rate constants up to 1100 K.

We have used a high-temperature flowing-afterglow Langmuir-probe apparatus to measure rate constants for electron attachment to halomethanes which attach electrons very inefficiently at room temperature, yielding Cl(-) ion product. We studied CH(2)Cl(2) (495-973 K), CF(2)Cl(2) (291-1105 K), and CF(3)Cl (524-1004 K) and include our recent measurement for CH(3)Cl (700-1100 K) in the discussion of the electron attachment results. The measured attachment rate constants show Arrhenius behavior in the temperature ranges examined, from which estimates of rate constants at 300 K may be made: CH(2)Cl(2) (1.

A new instrument for thermal electron attachment at high temperature: NF3 and CH3Cl attachment rate constants up to 1100 K.

A new high temperature flowing afterglow Langmuir probe (HT-FALP) apparatus is described. A movable Langmuir probe and a four-needle reactant gas inlet were fitted to an existing high temperature flowing afterglow apparatus. The instrument is suitable for study of electron attachment from 300-1200 K, the upper limit set to avoid softening of the quartz flow tube.

Mood-elevating effects of opioid analgesics in patients with bipolar disorder.

Opioids can have mood-elevating effects in healthy subjects and have been used successfully to treat refractory depressed patients. A few case reports indicate that opioid analgesics can induce mania. The authors investigated the mood reaction of opioid analgesics in patients with bipolar disorder.

An open case series on the utility of tiagabine as an augmentation in refractory bipolar outpatients.

Background: Tiagabine (Gabitril) is a GABA uptake inhibitor recently introduced in the United States as an adjunctive treatment for partial complex seizures. Three published studies have addressed the use of tiagabine for bipolar disorder (BPD); two described positive results and one negative results. We assessed the efficacy of add-on tiagabine in a larger sample of adult BPD outpatients.