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Showing 1 to 20 of 598 for “"relapse"”.
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Fatigue and Smoking Relapse
… help in understanding smoking maintenance and relapse. Prolonged fatigue is defined as self-reported, persistent fatigue lasting 1 month or longer. Emerging work suggests that prolonged fatigue is common among smokers and that nicotine may be used to combat fatigue. However, there has been no …
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Obesity Relapse in Women
Obesity and relapse after dieting pose a significant threat to an increasing number of adults in this country. Resistance to treatment and high relapse rates make this problem frustrating for patients and practitioners. There is limited research on relapse causation; research on social and life …
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Preventing relapse amongst South African psychiatric patients
The present investigation is a descriptive experimental study with two conditions (experimental and control conditions). The main aim was to develop, implement and evaluate a program directed at educating health professionals and families to accept and manage people presenting with mental health …
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Dual diagnosed clients and rate of relapse
… to which this has an impact on the rate of relapse or rehospitalization. The sample for the study consisted of 46 clients with an Axis I diagnosis of schizophrenia or a chronic mood disorder according to the DSM IV criteria along with poly substance abuse. The age of the clients ranged from …
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Chromatin Architecture Aberrations Contribute and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Relapse
… underlie B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia relapse. I found recurrent loss of DNA methylation in patient-matched relapse samples that indicate a more stem-like chromatin state. Together, my work investigates the relationship between multiple components of the chromatin architecture, and how …
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Deconvolution of Leukemic Evolution Through Initiation, Progression and Relapse
… shown that in the majority of B-ALL patients, relapse arises from a minor ancestral clone present in the diagnosis sample. An important question therefore arises as to what functional properties these clones possess and whether therapy resistance is acquired following treatment or is an …
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The effects of relapse prevention training on smoking cessation
… of this study was to test the effectiveness of a relapse prevention program which was designed to help smokers anticipate and avoid relapse. To do this, twenty-three male and thirty-seven female smokers who volunteered for an experimental stop smoking clinic were randomly assigned to one of four …
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Relapse prevention with adolescent substance abusers and their families
… alcohol/drug abuse as a primary problem, and on relapse prevention through psycho education, family therapy and contingency contracting. Twelve adolescents and their families participated in the treatment program. A one year follow up was conducted. This thesis reports on four of these families …
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Ribonucleotide Reductase Subunit Switching in Hepatoblastoma Drug Response and Relapse
… reducing tumor size, significantly delayed tumor relapse after drug withdrawal. In this study, we demonstrated an intriguing switching between two RNR subunits, RRM2 and RRM2B in HB cells undergoing drug treatment and during their recovery afterwards. Our data suggest that RRM2 supports HB growth …
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Factors Predicting Relapse from Substance-related Care and Support Services
Relapse is a common part of the recovery process for individuals with substance use disorders and is often defined as any return to substance use after a period of abstinence. Relapse occurrence interrupts the recovery process and places increased pressure on substance-related care and support …
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A study of relapse to cocaine seeking in the rat
… brief exposure to a stressor would provoke relapse to cocaine-trained behaviour and, if so, whether such an effect could be blocked pharmacologically. Rats were initially trained to self-administer cocaine HCl (1.0 mg/kg/infusion, IV; one 3-hour session/day; 9-12 days). Subsequently, …
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Struggling to hold addiction treatment talk and relapse in mind
Addiction is a common problem, as is relapse. People often struggle to come to terms with and manage the intoxicating effects of substances and consequently need treatment. This dissertation focusses on treatment talk as it relates to addiction counselling in a residential setting in order to …
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Neural Dysfunction during Decision-Making as a Predictor of Cocaine Relapse
… is a costly disorder characterized by recurrent relapse events. The current investigation used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during a decision-making task to predict relapse to drug use in a cocaine-dependent sample. Forty-five treatment-seeking cocaine-dependent subjects, two to …
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Enhancing skill maintenance through relapse prevention strategies: a comparison of two models.
… two posttraining interventions composed of relapse prevention (RP) strategies were compared and tested for the effects on participant transfer outcomes. Participant retention of training content, skill maintenance, use of relapse prevention strategies, and self-efficacy served as the …
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