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E Torre

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[The influence of various personality traits in the choice of medical specialization: evaluation using EPI].

Personality data obtained from 78 medical students at the University of Turin were analysed using the Eysenck Personality Inventory, a 69-question psychometric test which evaluates levels of extroversion, neuroticism and psychoticism. Results were analysed by standard deviation and controlled with Student's test. With regard to extroversion, a contrast was found between aspiring surgeons and gynecologists who tended to be extroverts, and aspiring psychiatrists who tended to be introverts. A similar contrast was also found between two groups in terms of psychotism: aspiring surgeons tended to be less psychotic and aspiring pediatricians tended to be more psychotic. In conclusion, it is possible to hypothesise that the personality traits influence, in synergy with other factors, the choice of medical specialisation.

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[Alexithimia: psychosomatic structure or transcultural trait?].

The these put forward by Marty and Sifneos on the one hand and by Cremerius on the other regarding "psichosomatic structure" have been compared in 66 patients suffering from idiopathic cephalea. Of these, 49 were suffering from migraine and 17 from musculotensive cephalea. The conclusion was that the alexithimic trait is related to the sociocultural level of the patients, not to their clinical picture.

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[Depression, neurotic traits and angina type pains in women].

The study examines the relative influence of sundry psychological risk factors on the various forms of angina pectoris found in two groups of women with classic angina pains attributable in one group to critical organic lesions of the coronary arteries and in the other to functional spasm. In all 81 women were examined and no significant difference was found between the two groups.

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[Dreams and schizophrenia: a qualitative analysis].

The dreams of a group of 16 patients diagnosed to have schizophrenic disturbance according to DSM III and those of 16 individuals chosen from the general population using the standardised Sheppard and Saul method, have been examined. The results showed that schizophrenic patients present a weaker ego in their dreams. However, a single dream may not be typical of either group and a distinction is only possible on the basis of a series of dreams. Further differences were identified between the dreams of patients diagnosed as having paranoid type schizophrenic disturbance and those with undifferentiated schizophrenia.

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[Biopsychosocial profile of rural and metropolitan suicide in the Turin area].

The differences and similarities between urban and rural suicides in the province of Turin were examined. The study covered the 899 suicides recognised as such by the judicial authorities in the city and province of Turin in 1977-1981. Subsequently certain parameters were related to the geographical location of the suicide. With some significant exceptions a certain uniformity was identified in the urban and rural approaches to suicide in the Turin area.

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Non-associative learning in the mouse. Effect of morphine and naloxone.

The study evaluates the effect of morphine and naloxone on the process of non-associative learning in the mouse. Exploratory behavior was measured in thirty-six male albino mice (Suisse) placed on a Boissier and Simon hole-board, the procedure being repeated 24 h later after administration of naloxone and/or morphine, or bidistilled water i.p. The results show that the inhibitory effect naloxone has on the recollection process of the mnemonic traces appears to be masked by morphine.

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