Parental competitive victimhood and interethnic discrimination among their children: The mediating role of ethnic socialization and symbolic threat to the in-group.

Links between competitive victimhood and discrimination are well documented. However, the mechanisms how victimhood beliefs remain relevant for decades and how conflict survivors can shape attitudes and behaviours of the post-conflict generations are little understood. Following the Transgenerational Transmission Hypothesis and the Integrated Threat Theory, we propose that the link between parental competitive victimhood and discrimination among their children is mediated through family ethnic socialization and symbolic threat to the in-group.

Clinical and patient reported outcomes of bleaching effectiveness.

Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate clinical and patient reported outcomes of different bleaching products.

Materials And Methods: Thirty participants were randomly divided into three bleaching groups (n = 10). Bleaching was performed with high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (HP) - Boost (40%) and Dash (30%), and with prefabricated splints Bite&White (6% HP).

Peripheral neuropathies in Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia.

Objective: We sought to determine the prevalence, clinical features, and laboratory characteristics of polyneuropathies in Waldenström's macroglobulinaemia (WM), a malignant bone marrow disorder with lymphocytes that produce monoclonal IgM.

Methods: We prospectively studied 119 patients with WM and 58 controls. Medical history was taken, and neurological examinations, electrodiagnostic tests, and serum studies were performed by different examiners who were blinded to results except the diagnosis of WM.

Sensory exam with a quantitative tuning fork: rapid, sensitive and predictive of SNAP amplitude.

Background: In the standard neurologic examination, outcome measures of sensation testing are typically qualitative and subjective. The authors compared the outcome of vibratory sense evaluation using a quantitative Rydel-Seiffer 64 Hz tuning fork with qualitative vibration testing, and two other features of the neurologic evaluation, deep tendon reflexes and sensory nerve conduction studies.

Methods: The authors studied 184 subjects, including 126 with Waldenström's macroglobulinemia and 58 controls, over the course of a weekend.

Secondary nonresponsiveness to new bulk botulinum toxin A (BCB2024).

We report on a patient with cranio-cervical dystonia injected with the new, lower protein formulation of botulinum toxin A who developed secondary resistance to this toxin. Subsequent injections with botulinum toxin B provided substantial reduction of blepharospasm. This is the first reported case of secondary resistance to the new preparation of botulinum toxin A.