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1. 11. Alexithymia : background and consequences

   Författare :Margareta Posse; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Alexithymia; somatization; depressive symptoms; personality traits; somatic and psychic anxiety; social disability; psychosocial stress; gastrointestinal symptoms; prevalence; primary care; occupational health; longitudinal study;

   Sammanfattning : Aims of the study: The aim of this thesis was to acquire a deeper understanding of alexithymia and its correlates by establishing its nature of state or trait (stability over time), its prevalence among primary care patients and its prevalence in a working female population. We also aimed at identifying some of the psychological factors that are predictive of alexithymia as well as some of its consequences. LÄS MER

3. 12. Autonomic reactivity in muscle pain : clinical and experimental assessment

   Författare :Nebojsa Kalezic; Eugene Lyskov; Stein Knardahl; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; autonomic reactivity; stress; chronic pain; experimental pain; back; shoulder; neck; Physiology; Fysiologi; Physiology;

   Sammanfattning : There are numerous indications of possible involvement of the autonomic nervous system in the genesis of chronic pain. The possibility exists that sympathetic activation is related to motor dysfunction and changes in sensory processing, which have otherwise been implicated in musculoskeletal disorders. LÄS MER

4. 13. Histopathological and immunocytochemical studies in age-associated dementias : the importance of rigorous histopathological criteria for classification of progressive dementia disorders

   Författare :Irina Alafuzoff; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : Dementia is an age-associated organic brain disorder, recogniz­able by the essential features of psychological or behavioral abnormality associated with permanent dysfunction of the brain interfering with social and occupational functioning.There are two clinical and three histopathological forms of dementia 1) primary degenerative dementia, (PDD), or Alzhei­mer's dementia/Senile dementia of Alzheimers type (AD/SDAT) which is associated with clinical features of uniform progres­sion and insidious onset of symptoms and histopathologically i- dentified by the occurrence of neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) and senile/neuritic plaques (SP/NP) in various cortical and subcor- tical regions; 2) vascular dementia, or multi-infarct dementia (MID), which is associated with clinical features of stepwise progress and patchy distribution of deficits, and histopatholo­gically identified by the occurrence of multiple large and/or small haemorrhagic and/or ischaemic infarcts in various cortical and subcortical regions and 3) intermediate form of dementia or "mixed” ("combined") dementia (AD-MID), which is histopatho- logically associated with the coexistance of symptoms and le­sions observed in AD/SDAT and MID, and clinically referred to the MID group. LÄS MER

5. 14. Socioeconomic status and cardiovascular vulnerability in women : psychosocial, behavioral and biological mediators

   Författare :Sarah P Wamala; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :Childhood circumstances; Coronary heart disease; Health behaviors; Hemostatic function; Lipids; Obesity; Physiological risk factors; Prognosis; Psychosocial stress; Socioeconomic status; Women;

   Sammanfattning : Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in both men and women in the industrialized world, and represents a major health and economic burden. Coronary heart disease (CHD), one of the most common of the cardiovascular diseases, is invariably more frequent in men and women of lower than higher socioeconomic status (SES). LÄS MER

7. 15. Voice use in teaching environments: Speakers' comfort

   Författare :Viveka Lyberg Åhlander; foniatri och audiologi Logopedi; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; voice; vocal load; teachers; voice quality; room acoustics; work environment; F0; Sound pressure level; vocal dose; high-speed imaging; voice accumulation;

   Sammanfattning : Teachers have high occupational voice demands and is a group frequently presented at voice clinics. Little is known about the teachers’ own view of the contribution from the environment and about the teachers’ voice use at their work-place. LÄS MER