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CBT/DBT SKILLS TRAINING FOR ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD)
Background: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with marked impairments in familial, social, and
professional functioning. Although stimulant treatments can be effective in adult ADHD, some patients will respond poorly or not at
all to medication. Previous studies demonstrated that cognitive behavioural therapy- (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy- (DBT)
oriented interventions are effective in reducing the burden of the disease, which is mainly marked by depression, interpersonal
difficulties, low self-esteem, and low quality of life. In order to determine the effectiveness of this intervention, we assessed the
benefits of a CBT/DBT programme to reduce residual symptoms and help patients improve their quality of life.
Subjects and methods: 49 ADHD-patients, poor responders to medication, were enrolled in a one-year programme where they
received individual therapy, associated with weekly sessions of group therapy with different modules: Mindfulness, Emotion
Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness and Distress Tolerance, Impulsivity/Hyperactivity and Attention. Each subject was assessed
at baseline, at months 3 and 6, and at the end of the treatment for ADHD severity (ASRS v1.1), depression severity (BDI-II),
hopelessness (BHS), mindfulness skills (KIMS), anger expression and control (STAXI), impulsivity (BIS-11), quality of life
(WHOQOL-BREF), and social functioning (QFS). The 49 ADHD patients were compared with 13 ADHD subjects on a waiting list.
Linear mixed models were used to measure response to treatment.
Results: Overall, the psychotherapeutic treatment was associated with significant improvements in almost all dimensions. The
most significant changes were observed for BDI-II (b=-0.30; p<0.0001), ASRS total score (b=-0.16; p<0.0001), and KIMS AwA
(b=0.21; p<0.0001), with moderate to large effect sizes. Compared with the waiting list controls, ADHD patients showed a better,
albeit non-significant, pattern of response.
Conclusions: Individual and structured psycho-educational DBT/CBT groups support existing data suggesting that a structured
psychotherapeutic approach is useful for patients who respond partially or not at all to drug therapy
R & D for collider beauty physics at the LHC
We propose an R&D program for the development of a Beauty trigger and innovative elements of the associated spectrometer. A series of short test runs is proposed at the SPS p-pbar Collider with the minimal spectrometer which will allow a credible B signal to be obtained in an invariant mass spectrum of reconstructed B mesons. The program builds on the success of the recent collider run of the P238 Collaboration, in which clean signals from beam-beam interactions were observed in a large silicon strip microvertex detector running 1.5 mm from the circulating beams. A continuing successful R&D program of the type proposed could ultimately lead to a collider experiment at the LHC to study CP Violation and rare B decays
Direct photon cross sections in proton-proton and antiproton-proton interactions at GeV
We report results on inclusive direct photon , and production in both pp and \={p}p interactions at GeV in the transverse momentum range { GeV/} and rapidity range \mbox{}. The data were collected between 1988 and 1990 by the UA6 experiment at CERN, which employed an internal gas jet target in the S\={p}pS collider. The inclusive direct photon cross sections and the cross section difference \mbox{} expressed as functions of are compared w ith next-to-leading order QCD predictions
An Improved Measurement of Mixing-induced CP Violation in the Neutral B Meson System
We present an improved measurement of the standard model CP violation
parameter sin2phi_1 (also known as sin2beta) based on a sample of 85 times 10^6
B Bbar pairs collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the Belle detector at
the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. One neutral B meson is reconstructed
in a J/psi K_S, psi(2S) K_S, chi_{c1} K_S, eta_c K_S, J/psi K^{*0}, or J/psi
K_L CP-eigenstate decay channel and the flavor of accompanying B meson is
identified from itsdecay products. From the asymmetry in the distribution of
the time intervals between the two B meson decay points, we obtain sin2phi_1 =
0.719 +/- 0.074(stat) +/- 0.035(syst). We also report measurements of CP
violation parameters for the related B^0 -> J/psi pi^0 decay mode and the
penguin-dominated processes B^0 -> eta' K_S, phi K_S and K^+K^- K_S.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, contributed to ICHEP200
The NOMAD experiment at the CERN SPS
The NOMAD experiment is a short base-line search for oscillations in the CERN neutrino beam. The 's are searched for through their charged-current interactions followed by the observation of the resulting through its electronic, muonic or hadronic decays. These decays are recognized using kinematical criteria necessitating the use of a light target which enables the reconstruction of individual particles produced in the neutrino interactions. This paper describes the various components of the NOMAD detector: the target and muon drift chambers, the electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters, the preshower and transition radiation detectors, and the veto and trigger scintillation counters. The beam and data acquisition system are also described. The quality of the reconstruction of individual particles is demonstrated through the ability of NOMAD to observe K's, 's and 's. Finally, the observation of through its electronic decay being one of the most promising channels in the search, the identification of electrons in NOMAD is discussed
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