The Impact of Parental Styles on the Development of Psychological Complaints.

The main aim of the present study was to test Rogers' theory, stating that parental styles characterized by unconditional positive regard (UPR) promote healthier adults than parental styles characterized by conditional regard (CR). For both caregivers CR was found to be associated with significantly higher scores on psychological complaints than UPR (on nearly all SCL-90 scales and the SCL-total score), even when controlling for gender. Although lack of emotional warmth by the father and harsh discipline by the mother were significant predictors of SCL-90-Total (indicating state neuroticism) it should be noted that both variables only explained a small amount of the total variance.

The cognitive and affective alexithymia dimensions in the regulation of sympathetic responses.

Objective: The literature regarding research into alexithymia and sympathetic responses is far from consistent. An explanation might be on the way subjects are classified. Generally, subjects are diagnosed as either alexithymic or non-alexithymic on the basis of questionnaires focusing on the cognitive aspects of alexithymia.

Cognitive neuropsychology of alexithymia: implications for personality typology.

Introduction: We examine the cognitive neuroscience of the five components of the alexithymia syndrome, and propose a classification of alexithymia types based on psychobiological traits.

Method: Literature review.

Results: The following neural structures have been shown to be prominent in emotional function: right and left hemisphere, corpus callosum, anterior commissure, anterior cingulate, prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and insular cortex.

Improvement of epidermal adhesion by surface modification of craniofacial abutments.

Craniofacial implants may present peri-implant inflammation because there is no close adhesion of the epithelium to abutments and because of bacteria infiltrating the subcutaneous tissue through the gap. Therefore an attempt was made to improve adhesion of epithelium to abutments. In an in vitro model, adhesion of epithelial cells (HaCat cells) to nonmodified and 3 modified Brånemark System abutment surfaces was quantified.