Emotion Modulation through Music after Sadness Induction-The Iso Principle in a Controlled Experimental Study.

Music therapy intervention manuals suggest that individuals who suffer from affective disorders benefit from listening to music according to the iso principle. The iso principle comprises listening to music that matches the current mood of patients at first, and then to gradually shift to music that represents a desired mood. Within the current study, we investigate whether the sequence of music with different emotional valence can modulate the emotional state.

Don't drink and chill: Effects of alcohol on subjective and physiological reactions during music listening and their relationships with personality and listening habits.

Recent research indicates that favorite music can induce chills and alters physiological reactions. People frequently listen to music when they drink alcohol, for example in bars or discotheques. Alcohol has numerous effects on emotions, peripheral physiological and neural reactions.

The impact of attachment parameters in childhood on the personality of adults with mental disorders.

Background: Attachment parameters have an effect on later relationship patterns and the development of parameters of self-concept and personality. In the current study the role of attachment parameters on personality dimensions was investigated, especially with respect to personality disorders.

Subjects And Methods: 134 psychiatric inpatients were examined on attachment and personality parameters using the schedule FEB as a questionnaire on the parental attachment and the SKI as a self-concept inventory.

The effects of music therapy on the interaction of the self and emotions-An interim analysis.

Objectives: Music therapy is a well-established non-verbal treatment method in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. However, empirical data of its impact on emotion modulation processes and personality dimensions are still sparce. An interesting concept is the use of music for emotion modulation in everyday life.

Rhythmic Density Affects Listeners' Emotional Response to Microtiming.

Microtiming has been assumed to be vital for the experience of groove, but past research presented conflicting results: some studies found that microtiming is irrelevant for groove, others reported that microtiming has a detrimental effect on the groove experience, yet others described circumstances under which microtiming has no negative impact on groove. The three studies in this paper aim at explaining some of these discrepancies by clarifying to what extent listeners' emotional responses to microtiming depend on the distribution of microtiming deviations across instrumental parts (voicing) or other moderating factors like tempo or rhythmic density. The studies use data from two listening experiments involving expert bass and drums duo recordings in swing and funk style.

The Effect of Expert Performance Microtiming on Listeners' Experience of Groove in Swing or Funk Music.

This study tested the influence of expert performance microtiming on listeners' experience of groove. Two professional rhythm section performances (bass/drums) in swing and funk style were recorded, and the performances' original microtemporal deviations from a regular metronomic grid were scaled to several levels of magnitude. Music expert ( = 79) and non-expert ( = 81) listeners rated the groove qualities of stimuli using a newly developed questionnaire that measures three dimensions of the groove experience (, and the absence of ).

The Relationship Between Personality Traits, Flow-Experience, and Different Aspects of Practice Behavior of Amateur Vocal Students.

Most of the existing studies on musical practice are concerned with instrumentalists only. Since singers are seldom considered in research, the present study is based on an online-sample of amateur vocal students (N = 120; 92 female, 28 male). The study investigated the correlations between personality traits, flow-experience and several aspects of practice characteristics.

The Change of Music Preferences Following the Onset of a Mental Disorder.

A psychiatric population (n=123) was examined on how music preferences had changed after the onset of a mental disorder. Most patients did not change their previous music preference; this group of patients considered music helpful for their mental state, showed more attractivity and enforcement as personality traits and used music more for emotion modulation. Patients who experienced a preference shift reported that music had impaired them during the time of illness; these patients showed less ego-strength, less confidence and less enforcement and used music less for arousal modulation.

Effect of honey on serum cholesterol and lipid values.

Small studies have suggested that honey benefits patients with high cholesterol concentrations. The present study aimed to confirm this finding in a larger group of subjects. Sixty volunteers with high cholesterol, stratified according to gender and hydroxymethylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitor (statin) treatment (yes/no), were randomized to receive 75 g of honey solution or a honey-comparable sugar solution once daily over a period of 14 days.

Use of complementary and alternative medicine in departments of obstetrics in Germany.

Background: This nationwide study aimed to assess the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) methods in German departments of obstetrics.

Methods: All German departments of obstetrics were identified and were sent a questionnaire designed to assess which CAM methods, if any, they used during childbirth, how frequently, and why. SPSS software was used for statistical analyses (Spearman's bivariate correlation, cross-tabulation, and Pearson's chi-square test).

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Comparison of Current Knowledge, Attitudes and Interest among German Medical Students and Doctors.

Although it has been agreed that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) should be included in the German medical curriculum, there is no consensus on which methods and how it should be taught. This study aimed to assess needs for CAM education by evaluating current knowledge, attitudes and interests of medical students, general physicians and gynecologists. Two instruments based on established and validated questionnaires were developed.

Apitherapy: usage and experience in german beekeepers.

This study aimed to investigate the practice of apitherapy - using bee products such as honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee venom to prevent or treat illness and promote healing - among German beekeepers and to evaluate their experiences with these therapies. A questionnaire incorporating two instruments on beekeepers' physical and mental health and working practice was included in three German beekeeping journals and readers were asked to complete it. The instrument included questions on the use of apitherapy.

Aspects of Piaget's cognitive developmental psychology and neurobiology of psychotic disorders - an integrative model.

Psychological, neurobiological and neurodevelopmental approaches have frequently been used to provide pathogenic concepts on psychotic disorders. However, aspects of cognitive developmental psychology have hardly been considered in current models. Using a hypothesis-generating approach an integration of these concepts was conducted.

Relations between movement disorders and psychopathology under predominantly atypical antipsychotic treatment in adolescent patients with schizophrenia.

Objective: To examine relations between movement disorders (MD) and psychopathological symptoms in an adolescent population with schizophrenia under treatment with predominantly atypical antipsychotics.

Method: MD symptoms and psychopathology were cross-sectionally assessed in 93 patients (aged 19.6 +/- 2.

Glucocorticosteroid receptors in ovarian carcinomas.

The use of glucocorticoids (GCs) in oncology, including in the treatment of ovarian carcinomas, is controversial. In vitro experiments suggest that GCs negatively influence the response to chemotherapy, but the few available clinical data show only benefits. Glucocorticoid action is mediated via glucocorticoid receptors (GRs).

Can an instruction video or palpation aid improve the effectiveness of breast self-examination in detecting tumors? An experimental study.

Introduction: Although large randomized trials have not shown benefits for breast self-examination (BSE), many organizations still endorse the practice. This study aimed to determine whether an instruction video or palpation aid improved the effectiveness of BSE.

Methods: A total of 100 volunteers (50 men and 50 women) with no previous experience of BSE and/or clinical breast palpation were randomly assigned to the following intervention: instruction video seen versus not seen and use of palpation aids versus aids not used.

[Unconventional cancer therapies--comparisons of attitudes and knowledge between physicians in Germany and Greece].

Background And Objectives: Unconventional cancer therapies are becoming increasingly popular, especially in Germany. This study was conducted to determine if there are differences regarding perceived cancer etiology, knowledge and expected therapeutic success of unconventional cancer therapies between German physicians and their Greek colleagues. PERSONS AND METHODS: In 2002, a questionnaire on the topic, developed on the basis of earlier studies and the literature, was sent to 300 German physicians and distributed among 494 Greek colleagues.

Physicians and complementary and alternative medicine cancer therapies in Greece: a survey.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) cancer therapies and attitudes toward them in a nonrandom sample of physicians in Greece.

Subjects: Four hundred and ninety-four (494) physicians from private practices and hospitals in the Athens area were approached to complete a questionnaire on perceived cancer etiology, self-reported knowledge, and attitudes about CAM therapies used by cancer patients. Two hundred and thirty-six (236) (47.

[Does dark field microscopy according to Enderlein allow for cancer diagnosis? A prospective study].

Background: Dark field microscopy according to Enderlin claims to be able to detect forthcoming or beginning cancer at an early stage through minute abnormalities in the blood. In Germany and the USA, this method is used by an increasing number of physicians and health practitioners (non-medically qualified complementary practitioners), because this easy test seems to give important information about patients' health status.

Objective: Can dark field microscopy reliably detect cancer?

Materials And Methods: In the course of a prospective study on iridology, blood samples were drawn for dark field microscopy in 110 patients.

Glucocorticoid administration in antiemetic therapy: is it safe?

Background: Although glucocorticoids are often used in cancer therapy, in particular to enhance the effectiveness of antiemetic therapy, they have been associated with impaired tumor apoptosis and an increased frequency of metastases in some reports. The current study aimed to determine whether glucocorticoid treatment had an adverse effect on outcomes in patients with ovarian carcinoma.

Methods: Records of patients with ovarian carcinoma who were scheduled to receive at least six courses of systemic chemotherapy were reviewed.

Consequences of inadvertent, suboptimal primary surgery in carcinoma of the uterine cervix.

Objectives: Invasive cervical cancer that is discovered only after simple hysterectomy remains a problem. Little is known about the best management of this group since there are no relevant outcome studies. This study aimed to quantify the benefits of guideline-based treatment by comparing outcome data in patients treated by inappropriate simple hysterectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy with data in patients treated with primary radical surgery, radiotherapy, or radiochemotherapy.

Correlation between MIB1-determined tumor growth fraction and incidence of tumor recurrence in early ovarian carcinomas.

Purpose: The decision concerning adjuvant therapy remains difficult in patients with very early stage ovarian carcinomas [Fédération Internationale de Gynécologie et d' Obstétrique (FIGO) Ia/b]. Therefore, we compared the MIB1-determined tumor growth fraction in archival tumor tissue with tumor recurrence and outcome of disease, and in relationship to other stages and clinical and morphological findings.

Patients And Methods: Ninety-two patients were followed in early stages of ovarian carcinomas (FIGO I and II) with no tumor residuals and were analyzed for tumor recurrences and long-term overall survival (mean 6.

Post-therapy surveillance and after-care in ovarian cancer.

Objectives: Methods for surveillance of patients having completed primary cancer treatment are still not based on clinical studies, due to lack thereof. Therefore this study investigated how far surveillance as such, location of follow-up, method of detection, time of detection as well as early versus delayed start therapy for recurrence influences patients' overall survival.

Study Design: Seven hundred and four patient cases were retrospectively analyzed by chart review, each of whom had no evidence of tumor remaining after completion of primary cancer treatment.