Girls' and Boys' Differing Response to Pain Starts Early in Their Lives

Article Abstract:

Researchers discussed gender and pain at a National Institutes of Health conference in April. The younger the child, the greater their distress when they receive an injury that produces mild to moderate tissue damage. Girls tend to rate some injuries as more painful than boys and girls also experience more fear and anxiety. Younger children may consider mild to moderate tissue damage as very painful, but older children are less likely to do so. Sometimes pain in childhood may carry over into adulthood. Recognizing these precursors of adult pain in childhood could lower the incidence of adult disability.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Pain in children, Pediatric pain

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The Doctor Is Still In: Freud Exhibit Starts Its Tour at Library of Congress

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An exhibit called "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," has opened at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The exhibit includes more than 170 vintage photographs, books, manuscripts, letters, and artifacts, and approximately 200 video clips from films, cartoons, and television programs. The exhibit will be at the library through January 16th, at the Jewish Museum, New York, April 11-September 12, 1999, and the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, March 7-June 11, 2000. Parts of the exhibit are on the library's Web site at www.loc.gov/exhibits/freud.

Exhibitions, United States. Library of Congress, Freud, Sigmund

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Best Tactic for Clinician Safety: Be Prepared

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Psychiatrists discussed ways of reacting to violent patients at the 2000 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have a high risk of being assaulted by patients, and they should be prepared to defend themselves if they cannot defuse the situation.

Crimes against, Prevention, Psychiatrists, Violence

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