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Newcastle disease
Newcastle disease pneumoencephalitis, acute viral disease of domestic poultry. Newcastle disease is characterized by sneezing, coughing, and nervous behavior. Affected birds may show tremors, circling, falling, twisting of the head and neck, or complete paralysis. Mortality reaches 90% in very youn... Read more
Unabomber
Unabomber or Unabomer , name given by the FBI to the elusive perpetrator of a series of bombings (1975-95) in the United States that killed 3 and wounded 23. The targets were mainly academics in technological disciplines, airline executives, and executives in businesses thought to affect the env... Read more
intoxication
intoxication condition of body tissue affected by a poisonous substance. Poisonous materials, or toxins, are to be found in heavy metals such as lead and mercury, in drugs, in chemicals such as alcohol and carbon tetrachloride, in gases such as carbon monoxide, and in radioactive materials. Toxins ... Read more
enkephalin
enkephalin , one of several naturally occurring morphinelike substances ( endorphins ) released from nerve endings of the central nervous system and the adrenal medulla. They act as analgesics and sedatives in the body and appear to affect mood and motivation. ... Read more
epidemiology
epidemiology field of medicine concerned with the study of epidemics , outbreaks of disease that affect large numbers of people. Epidemiologists, using sophisticated statistical analyses, field investigations, and complex laboratory techniques, investigate the cause of a disease, its distribution ... Read more
frostbite
frostbite (chilblains), injury to the tissue caused by exposure to cold, usually affecting the extremities of the body, such as the hands, feet, ears, or nose. Extreme cold causes the small blood vessels in the extremities to constrict. The blood circulates more slowly and stagnation results. Event... Read more
liniment
liniment liquid preparation rubbed on skin, used to relieve muscular aches and pains. It contains some substance that when rubbed over the affected part causes mild irritation and often brings more blood to the painful part. Most liniments contain camphor, oil of turpentine, oil of wintergreen, or ... Read more
sarcoma
sarcoma , highly malignant tumor arising in connective- and muscle-cell tissue. It is the result of oncogenes (the cancer causing genes of some viruses) and proto-oncogenes (cancer causing genes in human cells). It may affect bone, cartilage, blood vessels, lymph nodes, and skin. See cancer ; neop... Read more
snow line
snow line altitude above which or latitude beyond which snow does not melt in summer (usually called the permanent snow line), or, in winter, the line to which snow extends at a given point in time. Factors affecting the location of the snow line are the quantity of snowfall, the steepness of the s... Read more
diabetes
diabetes or diabetes mellitus , chronic disorder of glucose (sugar) metabolism caused by inadequate production or use of insulin , a hormone produced in specialized cells (beta cells in the islets of Langerhans) in the pancreas that allows the body to use and store glucose. It is a leadin... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "isolation of affect"

Empiricism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...embedded in a network of commonsense or scientific theories, no statement can be verified in isolation. Confirmation or disconfirmation always affects a range of theories. That vast conglomeration of ideas typically labeled postmodern has also...
Congress, U.S.
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...preferences and needs into government policies. Because Congress does not make decisions in isolation, its interactions with other branches of government also affect its functions. Article 1, section 1 of the United States Constitution invests all...
Home-Based Business
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Small Business ...uncertain income, reduced benefits, isolation, and distractions. In addition, home...discipline to overcome the sense of isolation, frequent distractions, and lack of motivation and concentration that commonly affect
Affirmative Action (Issue)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...race would always create inferior institutions for black children because isolation "generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." In a commencement...
Mental Health Services
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Aging ...physical health problems, social isolation, risk of alcohol or medication...generational differences may affect the identification and/or...poor nutrition, social isolation, bereavement, and financial...at special risk of social isolation and loss of social supports...
Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed. ...Description The disorder typically affects up to 25 percent of all American...delivery of a child) may affect desire. Menopause is also...or hysterectomy which may affect how a woman feels about her...avoid the emotional pain and isolation that can lead to sexual dysfunction...any medications they ...
Butenandt, Adolf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He was best known for his isolation and analysis of sex hormones...1949 for his discovery and isolation of the hormones estrogen and...chemicals that animals secrete affect growth and behavior. Butenandt...examine how body chemicals affect human sexuality. At the same...
Family Composition and Circumstance
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...every aspect of a child's life that affects his or her ability to grow up healthy...many respects and cannot be viewed in isolation. In addition, while it is recognized...promote early learning activities that affect school readiness. Parents living in...have fewer friends, experience social ...
Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Encyclopedia entry from: Complete Human Diseases and Conditions ...for these conditions because they can affect all aspects of a person’...Disorders? Autism is a brain disorder that affects children within the first 3 years of...shares with autism the features of social isolation and lack of responsiveness to other...genetic* developmental condition that ...
Schizophrenia
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...psychosis (pronounced sy-KO-sis), it affects men and women equally, is found all...mental disturbances they experience also affect their emotions, their actions, and...behavior, dulled emotional responses, isolation and withdrawal that suggest a loss of...Any emotional or mental disorder that ...

Dictionary entries related to "isolation of affect"

Isolation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ISOLATION "Isolation" is the defense mechanism...obsessions, as a form of isolation: "defense against the...separating it from its affect; the idea itself [remains...wrote suggestively of "isolation" though still without...
Bouvet, Maurice Charles Marie Germain (1911-1960)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...states of depersonalization that occur whenever the patient is unable to defend himself through isolation because of the uncontrollable violence of his affects and the predominant anal-sadistic projection that characterizes such patients. This was...
Neurotic Defenses
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...vicissitudes of the links between affect and representation. In 1896...It was not until 1926 that "isolation" replaced repression as the...memory) from the drive and its affect, while this affect, through "displacement" or...
Cognitivism and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...understanding, has often neglected the role of affects and has not sufficiently taken into consideration...accustomed to question these disciplines in isolation (psychology, linguistics, logic modeling...benefit by escaping the intellectual isolation of their field. It is less obvious how...
Brain and Psychoanalysis, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...independent mechanisms that could be altered in isolation and that such specific alterations were...with self-stimulation leading to the isolation of structures of positive and negative...elementary cognitive mechanisms. This debate affects psychoanalysts and philosophers as well...
Hysterical Paralysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...known as associative links and breaks, isolation and repression. We see here too that...representation and the return of the related affect to its original innocent status as action. This disconnection between affect and symptom is what Charcot referred...
Identification with the Aggressor
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...instinctual demands) and defenses against affects. The former included defenses that had...formation, introjection, projection, isolation, and undoing, as well as vicissitudes...sublimation. Defenses against painful affects (which may be regarded as "preliminary...
Defense Mechanisms
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...at psychic transformation in response to representations and affects that are painful, intolerable, or unacceptable. He abandoned...identified: "regression, repression, reaction-formation, isolation, undoing, projection, introjection, turning against the...
Claus, Carl Ernst
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Monographie des Platins and der Platinmetalle (3)Despite his isolation in a frontier university of eastern Russia, Claus achieved...that on combination with metallic oxides, ammonia does not affect the saturation capacity of the metal and that it loses its...
Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Simon, an intellectual association that was profoundly to affect Comte ’ s later development. In 1825 he married...of his abuse of them), Comte died in relative poverty and isolation. Comte ’ s writings exhibit a remarkable scope and...

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Social Isolation Adversely Affects Breast Cancer; In mouse study, those living alone had larger tumors than those in groups.(Report)
News Wire article from: Consumer Health News (English); 9/29/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...have dramatic responses to isolation." "What we found was the...and a half weeks into the isolation, Conzen's team measured...the situation [besides the isolation]." Thea Tisty, a pathology...actual stress from outside can affect which genes get turned on...
Social links may counter health risks. (research on how social isolation affects mortality in older adults)
Magazine article from: Science News; 8/30/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Medicine in Iowa City. "Continued social isolation may be a more important determinant of...Volunteers who cited persistent social isolation died at a substantially higher rate than...lie at the root of prolonged social isolation, they say. In the second study, black...
Iran Faces New Difficulties; Isolation Affects Key Sectors
Newspaper article from: APS Review Downstream Trends; 3/22/1993; 700+ words ; ...the months ahead are "very critical for Iran" as the country is "sliding into isolation from main OECD banking communities". It is Iran's political isolation from the West which many companies fear most. Earlier this month, the US State...
Refrigerated centrifuge sputum processing does not affect mycobacterial isolation.
Newspaper article from: TB & Outbreaks Week; 3/11/2003; 634 words ; ...centrifuge to process sputum samples does not affect mycobacterial isolation rates although it can speed the isolation process. According to a study from...parts and randomly allocated for the isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with...
Silas Technologies launches Silas Reveille 2.0; Major New Version of Software Uniquely Fulfills Need for Proactive Isolation And Triage of Technology Problems That Affect Quality of Application Services.
PR Newswire; 7/22/2002; 700+ words ; ...in our customers' shoes, we know that proactive problem isolation and triage for application services is an important element...significant problem within IT operations of proactive problem isolation and triage at the application service level," said Rick...
Why Patients in Isolation Feel More Isolated.(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Internal Medicine Alert; 12/29/1999; 700+ words ; ...following contact with a patient in isolation and only 7% washed their hands...Whether restricting patients to isolation affects the quality of the care is not...investigators that patients in isolation feelmore isolated. (Dr. Kemper...
Why Patients in Isolation Feel More Isolated.
Magazine article from: Internal Medicine Alert; 12/29/1999; 649 words ; ...following contact with a patient in isolation and only 7% washed their hands...Whether restricting patients to isolation affects the quality of the care is not...investigators that patients in isolation feel--more isolated. (Dr...
Isolation a risk for seniors Studies show link to debilitating diseases.
Newspaper article from: Columbia Daily Tribune; 5/6/2007; ; 642 words ; ...disconnection, also called social isolation, affects millions of seniors, especially...rate, we must consider social isolation's effect; many seniors find...factors contribute to social isolation. These include the loss of a...
Woman Ends 111-Day Test in Cave; In France, Recording Isolation's Effect on the Body
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/1/1988; ; 586 words ; ...emerged from her near-total isolation Tuesday and said she had become...to end an experiment into how isolation affects the body. Photographers, television...having spent the longest time in isolation. Pale and wearing special sunglasses...
Anxiety and depression in hospitalized patients in resistant organism isolation. (Original Article).(research indicates that placement in resistant organism isolation may increase hospitalized patients' anxiety and depression)
Magazine article from: Southern Medical Journal; 2/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...others. (1) Both types of isolation may adversely affect the delivery of medical...There is concern that isolation may negatively affect a patient's mental health...researchers agree that isolation can affect a patient's emotional...