Relationship between Executive Functions, Social Cognition, and Attachment State of Mind in Adolescence: An Explorative Study.

Background: The passage from pre-adolescence to adolescence is presented as a turning point for the achievement of those abilities in social understanding as they commonly appear in adulthood. Developmental perspectives point to the possible role of neuro-cognitive maturation and social experiences to facilitate this growth. This paper has the goal to goalsto propose a valid and reliable measure of the new quantitative and qualitative advancements in social understanding occurring in the adolescent passage; relying on this, the research has two main objectives (a) to establish the associations between the advancements in social understanding and the executive functions held responsible for the neuro-cognitive rearrangements of adolescence; (c) to evidence the significant associations between attachment models and the development of social understanding in this phase of life.

[Caudal radiography versus computerized axial tomography in the diagnosis of lumbosacral radiculitis].

The advantages and disadvantages of caudoradiography and computed tomography in the diagnosis of compressive sciatic radiculitis are compared. With this in mind, the data on 103 patients admitted to Giaveno Hospital in 1986-1987 are analysed. In this series 99 were subjected to CAT scans, 21 to caudoradiculography (7 to both examinations) and 41 to surgery.

[Caudography with Dimer-X in the diagnosis of lumbar and sciatic pain syndromes of orthopedic interest. Report of 100 consecutive examinations].

It was found that the employment of Dimer-X (methylglucamine jocarmate) as contrast medium greatly reduced the frequency of secondary phenomena in 100 caudographies performed in subjects with lumbar and sciatic pain syndromes of orthopaedic interest. Comparison between the clinical, caudographic and surgical findings showed how contrastography offered highly accurate information in support of the clinical diagnosis of disk compression in case of sufficiently severe lumbar and sciatic pain.

[Final results of ultra-early diagnosis in congenital hip dislocation in the newborn infant population].

Data relating to the first year's work in ultra-early mass diagnosis of cases of congenital dysplasia of the hip are presented. Stress is laid on the importance of this type of screening as a means of preventing the crippling sequelae that this disease. Attention is drawn to the simplicity and cheapness of the examination.

[Etiopathogenesis of juvenile osteochondrosis of the hip. Apropos of 2 cases observed in bicorial twins].

Two cases of juvenile osteochondrosis of the hip in biovular twins form the basis for bibliographical research into the aetiopathogenesis of the disease. Although pathogenesis is now known to be a more or less severe trophic disturbance of the head of the femur caused by faulty arterial flow through the local circulation, the prime causes of such circulatory arrest remain doubtful. Critical examination of studies carried out on the question would seem to point to a Perthes disease aetiology which would fit most of the more authoritative theories.

[Aetiopathogenetic, clinical and statistical aspects of coccygodynia].

The Protean clinical and aetiopathogenetic features of coccygodynia are discussed. The causes and pathogenetic mechanisms of this disease, together with its dependence on or concomitance with other forms, are not fully understood, with the result that treatment cannot be precisely prescribed. In most cases, indeed, treatment is more often entrusted to the mental attitude and specialist activity of the person whose task it is to handle the particular pathological situation than based on a sound knowledge of the real nature of events of this kind.