• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.229-233
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• 2011

In the pediatric literature, excessive crying has been reported solely in association with 3-month colic and is described, if at all, as unexplained crying and fussing during the first 3 months of life. The bouts of crying are generally thought to be triggered by abdominal colic (over-inflation of the still immature gastrointestinal tract), and treatment is prescribed accordingly. According to this line of reasoning, excessive crying is harmless and resolves by the end of the third month without long-term consequences. However, there is evidence that it may cause tremendous distress in the mother-infant relationship, and can lead to disorders of behavioral and emotional regulation at the toddler stage (such as sleep and feeding disorders, chronic fussiness, excessive clinginess, and temper tantrums). Early treatment of excessive crying focuses on parent-infant communication, and parent-infant interaction in the context of soothing and settling the infant to sleep is a promising approach that may prevent later behavioral and emotional disorders in infancy.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.53-59
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• 2012

Objectives : Autobiographical memory (ABM) is a special type of episodic memory, containing events that have occurred in a personal life. Overgeneral tendency of ABM refers to the retrieval of memory with only general and categorical descriptions rather than specific events. ABM specificity in depression and posttraumatic stress disorder is a robust finding with relation to cognitive vulnerability, affect regulation, problem-solving ability. It is also implicated in bipolar disorder with frequent relapses. In this study, we investigated whether ABM specificity was related to manic or euthymic mood states in patients with bipolar disorder. Methods : Forty bipolar patients with manic and euthymic episodes and 25 healthy controls participated in this study. Prompted by 5 positively and 5 negatively valenced emotional cue words, each participant was instructed to recall positive or negative memories and describe them in detail. The One-way ANOVA was used to compare ABM scores and post-hoc analyses were done. Results : Comapred to the healthy persons, the bipolar patients reported significantly more general than specific negative memories in both manic and euthymic episodes (p = 0.003). However, there was no significant difference between manic and euthymic patients (p = 0.074). Conclusions : These results suggest that overgeneral tendency of negative ABM may be a trait abnormality in bipolar disorder. Moreover, this phenomenon might be related to underlying cognitive deficits or affect regulation irrespective of the mood state.

• 생물치료정신의학
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.129-141
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• 2018

Suicide is a behavior that is intended to cause death by itself and requires medical treatment, resulting in suicidal attempt or completion. Suicide causes loss of life, damages the body, costs a lot of medical expenses, and causes families to fall into sorrow and suffering therefore this suicide is a huge loss to family and society. There have been attempts to reduce and prevent suicide by understanding the mechanism of suicide. The mechanism of suicide can be thought of as psychological mechanism and biological mechanism. In the past, if we considered the psychological and biological mechanisms separately, the development of neuroscience now connects and integrates these two. Psychological factors affect biological factors and biological temperaments also affect perception or thinking about the situation and increase psychological vulnerability. Distant factors in suicidal behavior-such as childhood adversity and family and genetic predisposition-increase the lifetime risk of suicide. They alter the response to stress and other processes through changes in gene expression and regulation of emotional and behavioral characteristics. Distant factors affect the biological system and consequently changes in these systems can increase the risk of suicide. In other words, the distal factor does not directly induce suicidal behavior but rather acts indirectly through developmental or mediating factors. These mediating factors are impulsive aggressive and anxious trait, and chronic use of substances. The mechanism of this disorder is the abnormality of the serotonin system and the abnormality of the lipid level. Proximal factors are associated with the onset of suicide events and include changes in the major neurotransmitter systems, inflammatory changes, and dysfunction of glial cells in the brain. A series of studies, including a variety of research methods and postmortem and in-vivo imaging studies, show the impairment of the serotonergic neurotransmitter system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis stress response system for suicidal behavior. These disorders lead to suicidal behavior due to difficulty in cognitive control of mood, pessimism, reactive aggression, abnormality in problem solving abilities, excessive response to negative social signals, severe emotional distress, and cognitive dysregulation of suicidal ideation.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.393-403
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 음식 심리학과 관련한 문헌을 분석하여 음식이 가지는 심리적이고 정서적인 영향력을 이해하여 그 시사점을 도출하고자 하였다. 음식 심리학에 대해 탐색적으로 고찰한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 맛의 지각은 감각적 정보 뿐 아니라 개인의 내적 특성이 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되어 개인의 마음 상태와 관련이 있는 것을 알 수 있었다. 둘째, 음식 섭취의 심리적 측면을 이해하기 위한 이론에는 섭식억제이론, 정서 조절 이론, 자기주의이론에 근거한 폭식에 관한 도피모형 등이 확인되었다. 셋째, 음식 관련 진단도구에는 부모의 식사 중 행동척도, 까다로운 섭식 척도, 섭식억제 척도, 부정적 정서에 따른 섭식동기 척도, 보상적 섭식 욕구척도, 음식 갈망-특질 척도, 음식중독 척도, 적응적 섭식 척도에 대한 연구가 이루어져 폭식과 관련한 증상을 측정할 수 있는 도구가 많은 부분을 차지하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 음식 관련 심리장애에 대한 연구는 음식갈망, 폭식장애, 신경성 폭식증, 섭식억제, 건강음식집착증과 관련한 연구가 이루어졌다. 다섯째, 음식 관련 심리장애의 치료와 관련한 연구는 단기 심리교육, 억제통제훈련, 심상처치, 인지적 정서조절전략, 인지행동 집단치료를 중심으로 이루어져 인지행동치료적 접근에 초점이 맞추어져 있음을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구는 음식이 가지는 정서적인 영향력과 음식과 관련한 심리적 문제를 이해하고 개입하는데 있어서 기초자료가 될 것이다.