Psychiatric foster homes as care in the community: the view of the community and relevant stakeholders

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Kleur je gemeente Geel: de toekomst van de psychiatrische gezinsverpleging in Vlaanderen

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De plaats van de psychiatrische pleegzorg binnen het toekomstig GGZ beleid

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Psychiatric foster homes as care in the community: the view of the community and relevant stakeholders

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De plaats van de psychiatrische pleegzorg binnen het toekomstig GGZ beleid

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Begeleid Werken en Begeleid Leren: een transnationaal project

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Begeleid Werken en Begeleid Leren: een transnationaal project

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Cognitive functioning and psychiatric disorders in children with a metabolic disease

Objective To report on the intelligence scores and the psychiatric pathology of distinct groups of children with metabolic diseases. Methods The study population consists of 53 children between 0 and 18 years of age. Diagnostic assessment included a semi-structured interview, self-report questionnaires and a standard intelligence test. Results In 40% of the children older than 5 years, a child psychiatric diagnosis was made. While CBCL total and internalizing scores did not differ between metabolic disease groups, the CBCL externalizing scores for some groups did. Two fifths of the children showed a below normal intelligence, while a performal-verbal IQ discrepancy was found in half of the children. Of the school aged children almost one third attended a special needs school. Conclusion In spite of the small sample size, the results suggest substantial psychiatric problems in children with a metabolic disease. Further study on larger groups is warranted, which should enable further comparison of patients affected by specific metabolic diseases

ZENK activation in the nidopallium of black-capped chickadees in response to both conspecific and heterospecific calls

Neuronal populations in the songbird nidopallium increase in activity the most to conspecific vocalizations relative to heterospecific songbird vocalizations or artificial stimuli such as tones. Here, we tested whether the difference in neural activity between conspecific and heterospecific vocalizations is due to acoustic differences or to the degree of phylogenetic relatedness of the species producing the vocalizations. To compare differences in neural responses of black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus, to playback conditions we used a known marker for neural activity, ZENK, in the caudal medial nidopallium and caudomedial mesopallium. We used the acoustically complex ‘dee’ notes from chick-a-dee calls, and vocalizations from other heterospecific species similar in duration and spectral features. We tested the vocalizations from three heterospecific species (chestnut-backed chickadees, tufted titmice, and zebra finches), the vocalizations from conspecific individuals (black-capped chickadees), and reversed versions of the latter. There were no significant differences in the amount of expression between any of the groups except in the control condition, which resulted in significantly less neuronal activation. Our results suggest that, in certain cases, neuronal activity is not higher in response to conspecific than in response to heterospecific vocalizations for songbirds, but rather is sensitive to the acoustic features of the signal. Both acoustic features of the calls and the phylogenetic relationship between of the signaler and the receiver interact in the response of the nidopallium.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe