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PubMed1997

Windows to their world: the effect of sensory impairments on social engagement and activity time in nursing home residents.

This study examined relationships between three sensory and communication abilities and two areas of nursing home resident behavior. Data from 18,873 nursing home residents include measures of hearing, visual, and communication abilities, and social engagement and time spent in activities. Increasing level of visual impairment is associated with low levels of social engagement and low time in activities. Both moderate and severe hearing impairment are associated with low time in activities, while inadequate communication is associated with limits in both social engagement and time in activities. The combined effects of visual and communications impairments are associated with low social engagement. Increasing attention to sensory and communication losses may lead to improve quality of life in this population.

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PubMed1985

Psychosocial adjustment and craniofacial malformations in childhood.

Forty-three children between the ages of 6 and 13 years with congenital facial anomalies underwent psychosocial evaluation prior to surgery. Also evaluated were healthy children matched to the craniofacial subjects by sex, age, intelligence, and economic background. Relative to this comparison group, the craniofacial children were found to have poorer self-concept, greater anxiety at the time of evaluation, and more introversion. Parents of the craniofacial children noted more frequent negative social encounters for their children and more hyperactive behavior at home. Teachers reported more problematic classroom behavior. Examination of these results revealed craniofacial malformations to be associated with psychosocial limitations rather than marked deficits. These children tended to function less well than the comparison children, but with few exceptions, they were not functioning in a psychosocially deviant range. Explanations for the observed circumscribed impact of facial deformity include the use of denial as a coping mechanism, possible diminished significance of appearance for younger children, and the restricted environment experienced by most of the subjects. It can be predicted that time would render these protective influences ineffective, so that adolescent and young adult patients could be at far greater psychosocial risk.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1975

Spatial associations and social interactions in a "solitary" ungulate: the bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas).

The bushbuck population in a study area of 0.7 km2 in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, was observed between June 22 and July 30, 1971. The animals (4 male male, 10 female female, 4 immat.) were individually recognizable. Observations consisted of census sightings and longitudinal observations; during the latter location, neighbours, social encounters and other behaviour of focal animals were recorded continuously. 71% of the census sightings were of single animals. Hardly any aggression was observed, nor did the bushbuck actively avoid oneanother. The definition of the term "solitary" and possible advantages of a dispersed social system for the bushbuck are discussed.

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PubMed1971

Lateral hypothalamus: reevaluation of function in motivated feeding behavior.

In contrast to the existing views of lateral hypothalamic function, food motivated behavior appears to be greatly enhanced in animals that have recovered from lateral hypothalamic lesions. In a familiar environment, these rats begin eating 4.8 times sooner than normal controls, 5.6 times faster than hyperphagic rats that have received ventromedial hypothalamic lesions, and 4.7 times faster than animals with septal lesions. The same relation holds for latencies to eat in a novel environment and for rate of acquisition of a simple food-rewarded discrimination task. The concept of a lateral hypothalamic "hunger center" is questioned.

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