The alternative five-factor model of personality, nicotine dependence and relapse after treatment for smoking cessation.

Personality is one of several factors that have been related to the initiation, maintenance and cessation of smoking. This paper aims to analyze the relationship between the alternative five-factor model of personality (AFFM), nicotine dependence (ND), nicotine use (NU) and cessation after twelve months of a cognitive-behavioral therapy combined with medication. In this prospective study, a sample of 103 smokers who were taking part in a workplace smoking cessation intervention, answered the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire.

Dynamics of brain responses to phobic-related stimulation in specific phobia subtypes.

Very few studies have investigated to what extent different subtypes of specific phobia share the same underlying functional neuroanatomy. This study aims to investigate the potential differences in the anatomy and dynamics of the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) responses associated with spider and blood-injection-injury phobias. We used an event-related paradigm in 14 untreated spider phobics, 15 untreated blood-injection-injury phobics and 17 controls.

[Initiation cocaine use in elderly patients: a case report].

Introduction: Cocaine use is an uncommon condition in older people, a population in which cocaine use is probably overlooked. Cases initiation of use in late adulthood as well as elderly relapsing to use from youth drug use have been reported.

Clinical Case: We report a woman of 61 years of age hospitalized in the detoxification unit for cocaine dependence tratment (used 1-1,5g/ day).