Prinz, A
specific societies or culture areas and are localized, folk, diagnostic categories that frame coherent meanings for certain repetitive, patterned, and troubling sets of experiences and observations…There is seldom a one-to-one equivalence of any culture-bound syndrome with aDSMdiagnostic entity. (p....
culture of the individual. For example, “susto” is a culture-bound syndrome found among Indian-origin Latinos in which the sufferer has an acute fright experience as a result of an interpersonal loss of face (or hex placed on them) followed by the “loss of their soul,” which results...
Culture-bound words were collected from the dictionary on the basis of semantic fields: kinship, headgear, footwear, overcoats, and food and drink. The entries were analysed and the data were examined, in a database, by comparison with those of a monolingual English dictionary. There is also...
Here, we identified soluble ST2 (sST2), a decoy receptor of interleukin-33–ST2 signaling, as a new disease-causing factor in AD. Increased circulating sST2 level is associated with more severe pathological changes in female individuals with AD. Genome-wide association analysis and CRISPR–Cas9 ...
The openness of Xi'an is not only reflected in international business, but also in people-to-people bonds. Xi'an has 40 sister cities worldwide, and over the past decade, inbound tourists made some 26 million visits to Shaanxi, according to data from local authorities. ...
Dhat syndrome – A culture-bound sex neurosis of the Indian subcontinent: A prospective randomized study Dhat syndrome is a culture-bound syndrome commonly reported in the Indian subcontinent, where sexual competence in man is the trademark of masculinity. Socio-demographic profile, phenomenology and...
Probably the CMP article that I know the best is this one: “Social defeat and the culture of chronicity: or, why schizophrenia does so well over there and so badly here” because I teach it almost every year, in both my graduate and undergraduate courses. It’s a big, important argume...
Menopausal syndrome refers to a series of physical and mental symptoms which include but not limited to hot flashes, night sweats, and vaginal dryness, with 50.3–82.1% of menopausal women reporting hot flashes or night sweats (Dibonaventura et al., 2013; ...
Streptomyces and Arthrobacter genera have been studied as possible “nanofactories” for the development of clean and nontoxic methods of the synthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles. A recent example of silver nanoparticle synthesis from an Actinobacteria Streptomyces sp. GRD was performed by Gopinath...