Rhythmic auditory stimulation incorporated in training improved movements in individuals with psychotic-like experiences.

Movement abnormalities, including movement slowing and irregular muscle contraction, exist in individuals with psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) and serve as vulnerable factors of developing psychotic diseases in the psychosis continuum. To date scarce studies have developed early intervention programs tackling these initial impairments, which may be caused by basal ganglia alterations, in the early stage of the psychosis course. Rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) is a technique of neurological music therapy and has been proved effective in inducing faster movements in patients with psychotic diseases.

Time bound: the timescape of secondary trauma of the surviving teachers of the Wenchuan Earthquake.

This article introduces a timescape perspective to enrich our understanding of postdisaster secondary trauma and social capital. Drawing upon a 2-year ethnographic study in 2008-2010 of a high school most devastated by the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan, China, this article discusses how the national future-oriented timescape of recovery produced the secondary trauma among the surviving teachers. In particular, this article elucidates the pervasiveness of the industrial linear and mechanical calendar and clock time in the state and societal response.

Factors influencing attitudes towards seeking professional help among East and Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee women.

Background And Aims: It has been recognized that Asian immigrants in North America have lower rates of mental health service utilization. From the perspective of cross-cultural psychiatry, one of the most important cultural factors may be differences in the explanatory model of illness. This article examines the relationship of causal beliefs, perceived service accessibility and attitudes towards seeking mental health care.

Queen Mary Utilization of Antihypertensive Drugs Study: use of antihypertensive drug classes in the hypertension clinic 1996-2004.

Background: Utilization of antihypertensive drugs in the hypertension outpatient clinic is surveyed periodically in the Queen Mary Utilization of Antihypertensive Drugs Study (QUADS).

Methods: Two hundred and fifty-one patients (123 men, 128 women) were interviewed in April to December 1996, 439 patients (232 men, 207 women) in January to December 99 and 228 patients (109 men, 119 women) in April to May 2004. Their case notes were reviewed.

When Asian immigrant women speak: from mental health to strategies of being.

Immigrant women from 5 ethnic-cultural communities (Korean, Hong Kong Chinese, Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada participated in a focus group study (13 focus groups of 102 participants) of Asian immigrant women's conceptions of mental health. Their responses challenge the predominant conceptualizations of mental health in North America, the popular characterization of Asian culture as collectivistic, and the stereotypic image of Asian women as defining themselves in family relations. In trying to live a life they desire and to quest for a better state of well-being, these women have asserted their agency to articulate multiple strategies of being.