Social bonds have a profound impact on our everyday life. People differ in their capacity for establishing and maintain strong, intimate relationships. These differences are characterized as attachment styles. Particularly insecure attachment style may lead to developmental and psychiatric disorders, as well as to addictive behavior (Mikulincer & Shaver 2007), which cause large societal expenses due to treatment and sickness leaves. In addition to anti-nociception and reward, the endogenous opioid system has been proposed to regulate social bonding in mammals. That could explain the link between social distress and physical pain (Panksepp & Nelson 1997). However, the role of the endogenous opioid system in human social behavior remains poor...
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting 0.4-1% of the population worldwide. It is charac...
Developmental dyslexia is at the low end of a spectrum in reading and writing abilities, and may ari...
Cigarette smoking is, in developed countries, the leading cause of premature death. In tobacco smoke...
Behavioral addictions are psychiatric disorders, in which the object of addiction is not a drug but ...
The need for special education (SE) is increasing. The majority of those whose problems are due to n...
Obesity is a major challenge to human health worldwide. Little is known about the brain mechanisms t...
In humans the few months surrounding birth comprise a developmentally critical period characterised ...
Psychotic diseases are a great burden to both the affected individuals and society at large. Though ...
Neuropathic orofacial pain is challenging to treat. Limited knowledge of the underlying pain-syndrom...
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a complex disease characterized by the destruction of the articular cartilage...
Ensisijaisesti etenevän MS-taudin kliininen, immunologinen ja radiologinen kuva Multippeliskleroo...
This thesis explores the role of several actin-binding proteins in the regulation of brain physiolog...
Neuronal plasticity is a well characterized phenomenon in the developing and adult brain. It refers ...
BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances and mood alterations are highly interrelated. The majority of patients...
Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric illness afflicting approximately 1% of the world s popula...
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting 0.4-1% of the population worldwide. It is charac...
Developmental dyslexia is at the low end of a spectrum in reading and writing abilities, and may ari...
Cigarette smoking is, in developed countries, the leading cause of premature death. In tobacco smoke...
Behavioral addictions are psychiatric disorders, in which the object of addiction is not a drug but ...
The need for special education (SE) is increasing. The majority of those whose problems are due to n...
Obesity is a major challenge to human health worldwide. Little is known about the brain mechanisms t...
In humans the few months surrounding birth comprise a developmentally critical period characterised ...
Psychotic diseases are a great burden to both the affected individuals and society at large. Though ...
Neuropathic orofacial pain is challenging to treat. Limited knowledge of the underlying pain-syndrom...
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a complex disease characterized by the destruction of the articular cartilage...
Ensisijaisesti etenevän MS-taudin kliininen, immunologinen ja radiologinen kuva Multippeliskleroo...
This thesis explores the role of several actin-binding proteins in the regulation of brain physiolog...
Neuronal plasticity is a well characterized phenomenon in the developing and adult brain. It refers ...
BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances and mood alterations are highly interrelated. The majority of patients...
Schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric illness afflicting approximately 1% of the world s popula...
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting 0.4-1% of the population worldwide. It is charac...
Developmental dyslexia is at the low end of a spectrum in reading and writing abilities, and may ari...
Cigarette smoking is, in developed countries, the leading cause of premature death. In tobacco smoke...