[Quality of life assessment in patients with malignant glial tumors].

Introduction: High-grade gliomas are the most common primary brain tumors. Dismal prognosis for the patients with a marked deterioration of the quality of life and a mean length of survival of 9-18 months are typical characteristics for this pathology. The aim of this study is to assess the most appropriate questionnaire for measuring the quality of life (QOL) in this group of patients.

Motives of smoking and inborn behavioral pre-program of the personality.

Assuming a neuropsychological hypothesis of connection of smoking motives with the inborn behavioral pre-program of the personality (including structures of the basic emotions, as well as structures reading, tuning, and attending their activity), the authors formulate 14 motives of smoking and try to prove them experimental-psychologically on 150 smokers by factor analysis. The analysis differentiates four factors or types of smoking: 1) Enjoying psychopharmacological effects of nicotine, 2) Intimacy seeking, 3) Provocative, and 4) Depressive.