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The Impact Of The Chip Program On Depression And Well-Being: A Pilot Study, Carmen Diehl Thieszen
The Impact Of The Chip Program On Depression And Well-Being: A Pilot Study, Carmen Diehl Thieszen
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Reliable studies have demonstrated that intensive and comprehensive lifestyle changes can reduce coronary risk, which, in turn, can prevent, postpone, and reverse coronary heart disease (CHD) and affect its underlying atherosclerotic lesions. These well-established studies have focused their interventions on moderating biophysical risk factors. In the past 10 years, however, burgeoning research is supporting the idea that psychological factors, such as depression and well-being, are also important CHD risk factors. Little research has addressed, in a non-subjective way, how an intervention program focused on modifying biophysical risk factors may influence psychological factors. Using the Beck Depression Inventory-Short Form, the Dartmouth …
Validation Of A Serotonin Depletion Checklist In Parkinson’S Disease, Kelly Diane Darby Holder
Validation Of A Serotonin Depletion Checklist In Parkinson’S Disease, Kelly Diane Darby Holder
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The distinctive pathological marker of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the progressive death of neurons that produce dopamine; however, there are also major alterations in the production of quantities of other neurotransmitters, such as norepinephrine and serotonin that contribute to the signs, symptoms, neuropsychological manifestations of the diseases. PD patients can be divided into classes based on the manifestation of motor symptoms, type A, classified as tremor dominant, and type B PD, classified as akinetic. Type B PD patients, often manifest symptoms in which serotonin deficiency plays an important role, such as frontal cognitive impairments, which often includes a history of …
Thought Suppression Change In Cancer Patients And Survivors After Writing, Erin O'Carroll Bantum
Thought Suppression Change In Cancer Patients And Survivors After Writing, Erin O'Carroll Bantum
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Breast cancer is a debilitating and many times fatal disease that will affect approximately 215,990 women in the United States alone this year. Treatment for breast cancer can involve many physically and psychologically straining features. The illness perception theory states that individuals form illness representations to make sense of health threats and illness. These representations contain a number of individual, specific attributes about the illness identity, and cause, time-line, consequences of, and cure/control of the illness. Many women who have experienced breast cancer have also been found to be keeping their thoughts inside. Thought suppression has been linked to many …