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The third major symptom of PTSD is a state of perpetual physical and psychological arousal. It is as if the fear network of the brain, which includes the amygdala and other regions that we discussed earlier, is constantly active. People with PTSD are always vigilant and on the alert. They have trouble relaxing and their sleep is often severely disrupted. [Pg.39]

Savarese JJ et al Pharmacology of muscle relaxants and their antagonists. In Miller RD (editor) Anesthesia, 5th ed. Churchill Livingstone, 2000. [Pg.598]

In 1997 David Berliner, an anatomy professor turned entrepreneur, reported that when tiny amounts of a synthetic steroid were put on the VNO of men it made them relaxed and their heart rate and breathing rate slowed down. Clearly the VNO is not as inactive as we imagine. And searches for a human genome by a team at The Rockefeller University in New York in 2000 revealed that we still have five potentially functional genes that we share in common with the VNO pheromone receptors of mice. A human sex attractant may yet be developed and maybe sooner than we imagine because a great deal is being discovered about sexual chemistry - see box. [Pg.72]

CENTRALLY ACTING MUSCLE RELAXANTS AND THEIR ACTIONS ... [Pg.455]

The field-dependent expressions obtained in the previous sections for relaxation in an external magnetic field are applicable to both Neel and Debye relaxation and their specific application merely requires the use of the relevant time constant or t. ... [Pg.313]

The muscles of the gastrointestinal tract are usually relaxed, and their motility is decreased however, papaverine is not strongly constipating. Emesis is rare. Smooth muscles other than vascular or gastrointestinal show a decrease in tone and motility. In isolated eserinized strips of leech muscle, the contractions caused by acetylcholine are not inhibited by papaverine. [Pg.44]

Women generally report more musculoskeletal problems than men. The reason for this is not quite elear, but there are several possible erqrlanations (a) Women have less physical strength than men and gender diffeienees in terms of muscle fiber composition may be of importance (b) compared to men, women are overrepresented in jobs with a high incidence of muscular problems (e.g., repetitive assembly work) and they tend to stay longer in these jobs and (c) employed women are often exposed to more work overload and role conflicts than men, due to the combined load from paid and unpaid duties. As a consequenee, women have fewer opportunities than men for off-work relaxation and their muscles may therefore remain activated too long without rest and restitution. [Pg.342]

Thus, the fast component of dark relaxation of variable fluorescence is associated with electron transport from Q to Photosystem 1, whereas the slow one reflects the electron efflux from Q to the donor side of Photosystem 2, The contribution of these components in the dark relaxation and their rates depend on the electron transport rates on the acceptor side of Photosystem 1 and the donor side of Photosystem 2. [Pg.562]

The simulation of ultrafast observables such as TRPES allows to make direct comparison with experimental data and thus to reveal the dynamical processes involved in the excited state relaxation and their time scales. Moreover, the new methods for simulation of ultrafast processes challenge also the development of novel experimental techniques with increasing resolution. [Pg.307]

Selected measurements for simple phosphorus compounds are presented in Table 1. Unfortunately, the early studies did not have NOE measurements available to assess the dipolar contribution to the total relaxation, and their interpretations of relaxation mechanisms should be approached with caution. The first study to use NOE measurements was the work of Harris and McVicker, who found relaxation in P2Me4 to be largely due to spin-rotation at 35°C (NOE = 0.05) but with a substantial dipolar contribution at — 55°C (NOE = 0.85). The larger molecule P2BU4 relaxed mainly by a dipolar mechanism even at ambient temperature (NOE =1.12). In... [Pg.371]

SANS provides a unique tool to explore stmctural details of polymeric systems and allows kinetic studies with a resolution of a few seconds or less. Phenomena observed in polymer blends allow molecular interactions to be assessed as well as proof of theoretical predictions of static and kinetic properties of, respectively, critical phenomena and phase transition (Sections 2.11.3.2 and 2.11.3.3). Quenched SANS allows the evolution of anisotropic scattering patterns after application of sudden strain thereby extending the effeaive time window for the observation of polymer relaxation and their hierarchy in systems with more complicated architeaures from spin echo toward macroscopic times using time-temperature scaling (Section 2.11.3.4). [Pg.357]


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