CHRONOBIOLOGY TO CHRONOPSYCHOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

Chronobiology to Chronopsychology: Implications in Psychotherapy

Chronobiology is the study of biological rhythms.Biological rhythms are driven endogenously in the form of biochemical or physiological processes and are altered by external cues or stimuli.1 These external environmental cues or stimuli are the zeitgebers, the important one of these cues is daylight.Zeitgebers the stimuli which are capable to entra

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Fetal karyotype: can we always trust its result?

We retrospectively investigated six cases of discrepancy between prenatal fetal karyotype and postnatal findings.In five cases, the chromosomal abnormalities initially found by CVS or amniocentesis were not confirmed by later analyses and postnatal examination.In one case, the fetal karyotype found to be normal by CVS Dressing Stool had to be check

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Prosocial Virtual Reality, Empathy, and EEG Measures: A Pilot Study Aimed at Monitoring Emotional Processes in Intergroup Helping Behaviors

During a non-invasive procedure, participants both helped and Room Spray helped by a confederate with features that create social distance (membership in an ethnic outgroup or another social group).For this purpose, we created a set of virtual scenarios in which the confederate’s ethnicity (white vs.black) and appearance (business man vs.begg

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Abnormalities in the Polysomnographic, Adenosine and Metabolic Response to Sleep Deprivation in an Animal Model of Hyperammonemia

Patients with liver cirrhosis can develop hyperammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy (HE), accompanied by pronounced daytime sleepiness.Previous studies with healthy volunteers show that experimental increase in blood ammonium levels increases sleepiness and slows the waking electroencephalogram.As ammonium increases adenosine levels in vitro, and a

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