Defense mechanisms are rooted in Freud’s theory of personality.According to his model, the mind has three dueling forces: the id (unconscious and primitive urges for food, comfort, and sex), the ...
A joint research group team led by Sayuri Tsukahara and Tetsuji Kakutani of the University of Tokyo has clarified a mechanism of how retrotransposons, genetic elements that can "jump around ...
Reaction formation may be a temporary coping mechanism, but it’s unproductive in the long run. It ignores underlying beliefs or challenges that need to be addressed, which can hurt mental health.
A multifactorial approach should be used to account for all the factors involved-that is, the internal and external risk factors as well as the inciting event (the injury mechanism). Although such ...
For the multifaceted and complex diseases, multi-omics could define groups of patients with distinct endotypes exhibiting heterogeneous treatment responses due to their particular underlying molecular ...