A Novel Integrative Psychotherapy for Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures Based on the Biopsychosocial Model: A Retrospective Pilot Outcome Study.

Background: Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) represent one of the most sizable treatment challenges in neuropsychiatry. Although the underlying mechanism is far from being understood, several interventions have been suggested. However, patients with comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and epilepsy are excluded from most intervention studies.

The dietary composition of pre-fast meals and its effect on 24 hour food and water fasting.

Background: Fasting is required by the Jewish and Islamic religions, and may sometimes be necessary for non-religious reasons as well. Very little empiric data are available on the effect of 24 hours of food and water deprivation.

Objectives: To compare the effects of the dietary composition of different pre-fast meals on subjective discomfort and various other parameters of a 24 hour food and water fast.

Effect of food palatability on early (cephalic) phase of diet-induced thermogenesis in nonobese and obese man.

Objective: To study the effect on the early (cephalic) phase of diet-induced thermogenesis (EDT) of palatable vs unpalatable food, in nonobese and obese man.

Subjects: Twenty-four nonobese volunteers and 19 obese clinic patients.

Design And Measurements: A palatable, liquid formula meal of Ensure (1048 KJ, 450 ml), and of Ensure made unpalatable by addition of aqueous KCl, were sipped on nonconsecutive mornings.

Does religious observance promote health? mortality in secular vs religious kibbutzim in Israel.

Objectives: This study assessed the association of Jewish religious observance with mortality by comparing religious and secular kibbutzim. These collectives are highly similar in social structure and economic function and are cohesive and supportive communities.

Methods: In a 16-year (1970 through 1985) historical prospective study of mortality in 11 religious and 11 matched secular kibbutzim in Israel, 268 deaths occurred among 3900 men and women 35 years of age and older during 41347 person-years of observation.