COURSE OF PSYCHOTIC EXPERIENCES AND DISORDERS AMONG APPRENTICE TRADITIONAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA: 3-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY

Course of psychotic experiences and disorders among apprentice traditional health practitioners in rural South Africa: 3-year follow-up study

BackgroundCulture is inevitably linked with the experience, interpretation and course of what modern biomedicine understands to be psychotic symptoms.However, data on psychoses in low- and middle-income countries are sparse.Our previous study showed that psychotic and mood-related experiences, symptoms and disorders are common among individuals who

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Effect of Salt and Drought Stresses and Pretreatment of Salicylic acid on Seed Germination Characteristics of Lavender (Lavandula stricta Del.)

Introduction: Recently, medicinal and aromatic plants have received much attention in several fields such as agro alimentary, perfumes, pharmaceutical industries and natural cosmetic products.Although secondary metabolites in the medicinal and aromatic plants impressed conventionally by their genotypes, their biosynthesis is strongly influenced by

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Variability of PRDM9 in buffaloes

The buffalo population raised in Brazil tend to show loss of genetic variability over generations, with significant estimates of inbreeding depression.Besides mating genetically distant individuals, other tools can be used to maintain/increase the genetic variability of the population, such as the use of PRDM9 genotypes.The PRDM9 gene promotes the

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