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PubMed1981

Students' perceptions of favourite and disliked foods.

Secondary students and tertiary dietetics and health education students rated their Favourite and Most Disliked foods on 35 seven-point rating scales. The resulting data were subjected to a series of factor analyses which indicated little difference between the students' conceptions of their Favourite and Most Disliked foods. The main factors were named: "Fattening-poor aspects', "Healthy aspects', "Appeal', "Simplicity-convenience', "Hardness-crunchiness'. Discriminant analyses of the factor scores indicated significant differences in the ways students of different ages, and from different ethnic and educational backgrounds, construed the foods. The results are discussed in relation to adolescent development, and a social motivation model of food choice is proposed.

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PubMed1993

Rock Music and Music Videos.

Sex, violence, sexual violence, drugs, suicide, satanic worship, and racism are common themes in modern rock lyrics. The authors examine their effect on adolescent development and identity, concluding with a discussion of the roles of parents and health care professionals in addressing the problem.

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PubMed1994

Solid Organ Transplantation in Adolescents: The Blessing and the Curse.

This chapter addresses the medical dimensions of solid organ transplantation in adolescents, with particular emphasis on renal, liver, and heart transplantation. It frames the impact of organ transplantation in the context of adolescent development and recommends appropriate team strategies to manage these patients.

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PubMed1997

A Primer on Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

Because new applications for known medications are emerging, focusing on medications rather than syndromes enables the primary care physician to apply known medications to new indications. The article is accordingly organized around classes of medications rather than diagnostic entities. To be truly effective, adolescent psychopharmacology must be practiced in the context of a broader knowledge of adolescent development and psychodynamics.

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[Mitochondrial encephalopathies].

OBJECTIVE: We carry out a review of the current basic genetic, biochemical, clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of mitochondrial cytopathies due to deficiencies in the mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes, which appear clinically during childhood and/or adolescence. DEVELOPMENT: The clinical description has been divided into two groups: mitochondrial cytopathies secondary to alterations of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and mitochondrial cytopathies secondary to alterations of the nuclear DNA (nDNA); we also consider about the importance of such conditions at this age.

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PubMed2000

Attributing social meaning to ambiguous visual stimuli in higher-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome: The Social Attribution Task.

More able individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome (AS) have been shown to pass relatively high level theory of mind (ToM) tasks without displaying commensurate levels of social adaptation in naturalistic settings. This paper presents a social cognitive procedure the Social Attribution Task (SAT) that reduces factors thought to facilitate ToM task performance without facilitating real-life social functioning. Sixty participants with autism (N = 20), AS (N = 20), and normally developing adolescents and adults (N = 20) with normative IQs were asked to provide narratives describing Heider and Simmel's (1944) silent cartoon animation in which geometric shapes enact a social plot. These narratives were coded in terms of the participants' abilities to attribute social meaning to the geometric cartoon. The SAT provides reliable and quantified scores on seven indices of social cognition. Results revealed marked deficits in both clinical groups across all indices. These deficits were not related to verbal IQ or level of metalinguistic skills. Individuals with autism and AS identified about a quarter of the social elements in the story, a third of their attributions were irrelevant to the social plot, and they used pertinent ToM terms very infrequently. They were also unable to derive psychologically based personality features from the shapes' movements. When provided with more explicit verbal information on the nature of the cartoon, individuals with AS improved their performance slightly more than those with autism, but not significantly so.

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PubMed1992

[Depression in middle age patient].

"Middle age of life" should be considered more as a psychological concept than a chronological one. It may be defined very roughly as the forties but the limits are variable within the age range 35-50 years. This period is often one of existential crisis marking the access to the age of maturity. This "transition", or "maturescence", confirms or modifies life orientations previously selected by the subject according to modalities that are sometimes difficult to live and assume, hence the frequency of depressions. Among internal modifications, there is an important change in the way time is lived; from then on, the subject becomes clearly aware of his past lifetime and of his remaining lifetime. Time has come for him to draw a balance, which involves looking at himself from a distance, interrogating himself about his previous choices, a feeling of confinement, often a relative degree of disillusion. The subject must discover for himself a new form of presence in the world. In parallel, the members of his family environment also change: parents become old, adolescents develop their social autonomy, husband or wife follows his/her own existential route in an individual mode. All such modifications often promote a loss of the subject's usual landmarks, a relative degree of puzzlement, sometimes even a destruction of pre-existing harmony that may impair the psychological balance of the subject. Promoted by anxiogenic conflicts due to changes, depressions frequently occur in the middle-age group, depending on the above fragilizing factors, the particular circumstances, and the subject's background.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed2003

Overview of adolescent problems.

Adolescent care has ever been unsatisfactory. The author has discussed the need for adolescent care policy for India, the adolescent problems in India and the adolescent care policy instruments, in depth, looking at the possibility of empowering the adolescents--the future parents of India.

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[Epstein-Barr virus infection. Old and new immunological aspects].

EBV infection may have a wide range of clinical consequences: it is often asymptomatic; some cases-generally adolescents-develop the classic "infectious mononucleosis" syndrome; in rare cases the illness takes a severe, fatal course. EBV is also implicated in some geographic areas, in Burkitt' lymphoma and naso-pharyngeal carcinoma. Recent research has enrich our knowledge on the viral genome and the various viral antigen, but some problems are still unsolved. The "normal" immunological response to EBV infection is briefly summarized; then the abnormal immunological pattern is considered in relation to some conditions such as age, congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies and unusual clinical syndromes. Recently a group of not well defined, persistent illnesses (fever, fatigue, headache etc.) has been correlate to a "chronic" EBV infection. It becomes more and more evident that different clinical manifestations of EBV infection are always connected with a particular immunological response; between the "normal" cases and those with well defined immunodeficiency probably large group exists in which minor immunological abnormalities are responsible for a partial derepression of the virus.

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PubMed1983

Reciprocal relationship between home environment and development of TMR adolescents.

The reciprocal relationship between home environment and social competency of 112 TMR adolescents was examined over a period of 3 years. Assessment of home environment included child-rearing attitudes, educationally relevant stimuli and opportunities available at home, and general psychosocial climate among family members. Measures of social competency included the child's adaptive behavior, psychosocial adjustment, and self-concept. Partial correlation and multiple regression analysis revealed significant bidirectional effects between home environment and psychosocial adjustment of TMR adolescents. The environmental effects on the adolescents appear to be broad and dynamic whereas the adolescents' effects on the home environment appear to be direct and specific.

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PubMed1983

[Stunted growth].

According to recent investigations more than half of all growth disorders are due to growth hormone (GH) deficiency. I. The cause of the classic hypothalamo-pituitary dwarfism is: 1. perinatally acquired lesions of the hypothalamus; 2. suprasellar tumours; 3. brain malformations; 4. hereditary disturbances of GH-synthesis. - II. Constitutional delay of growth and adolescent development is clinically characterised by harmonious delay of growth, skeletal development and sexual maturation. The typical aspect of the pituitary dwarf is missing. Whereas provocation tests for GH do not show reliable deviations, assessment of the spontaneous GH secretion during sleep usually demonstrates a significant GH-deficit. - III. Impairments of GH synthesis with production of a hormone which reacts in the RIA but exhibits reduced biological effectivity causes the same clinical picture as constitutional delay. The disorders I--III can successfully be treated by GH. - IV. Familial short stature is based on the summation of hereditary anlages of the parents. In principle, it is no endocrine disorder. However, the combination with disorders II and III occurs frequently ("Small/Delay" acc. to Tanner). - V. Intrauterine growth retardation is caused by maternal, placental or fetal factors. With most of the "small for dates" growth prognosis is good. However, if teratogenic agents, particularly alcohol is involved, and if the damage occurs in the first months of gestation, the prognosis is unfavorable. - VI. A great number of genetic disorders is connected with pre- and/or postnatal growth retardation, combined with typical malformations. Apart from few exceptions these syndromes are rare. Endocrine deviations are missing. - The therapeutic possibilities of GH and anabolics are thoroughly discussed.

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PubMed1995

[Children of parents with mood disorders].

In recent years, child and adolescent psychiatry has recognized a high prevalence rate of mental disorders in affective disorders' offsprings. These can vary in their nature and severity. What is important is to bare in mind this risk condition. Many times prevention is possible, or early treatment is available. In an investigation that is actually being carried out in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Chile, that searches for understanding factors that severely deviate child and adolescent development, we found it is not unusual for the parents of the proband group to have affective disorders. In order to illustrate the discussion we describe three clinical histories.

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PubMed1998

Dysfunction of the hypothalamic-pituitary system in mitochondrial encephalomyopathies.

We investigated endocrine function in patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), myoclonus epilepsy associated with ragged-red fibers (MERRF), and chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO). Hypothalamic-pituitary function was impaired in all three patients with MELAS or MERRF, but none of four with CPEO. A MELAS patient with dwarfism and impaired adolescent development had decreased growth hormone, luteinizing hormone (LH), and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). A MERRF patient had emaciation and low adrenocorticotropin. A patient with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy transitional between MELAS and MERRF showed delayed, blunted LH and FSH response to LH-releasing hormone stimulation. We concluded that patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathies, especially MELAS or MERRF, are likely to have hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction.

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