Results from previous studies have shown that people with depression tend to have impaired executive functions, although it's not clear whether this is also true for Mild depression in young people. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Mild depressive symptoms and executive functions in young individuals. 60 participants, between 18-33 years of age, took part in this study. They were divided into two groups; a "depressed group" (n = 8), with Mildly depressed subjects, and a "none-depressed group" (n = 52). The depressed group was significantly impaired on several executive tests, namely TMT A (p = 0,025), TMT B (p = 0,040), FAS (p = 0,002), WAIS-R Digit Span Backwards (p = 0,047) and CWTa - subtest colour naming (p = 0,001), which evaluated abilities such as shifting, verbal fluency, working memory, attention and mental flexibility.

The aim of this study was to examine language abilities and their correlation to reading comprehension in 12 year old children with Mild tomoderate sensorineural hearing impairment. Eight children with Mild to moderate hearing impairment were tested in listening comprehension, grammatical comprehension, receptive vocabulary, phonological short termmemory, word finding, semantic relations, reading comprehension, comprehension of written words and decoding of words and non-words. The results were compared to results from a comparison group. The children with hearing impairment had significantly lower results in phonological short term memory and decoding. No significant difference was found between groups in reading comprehension.

The aim of our study has been to investigate what kind of space there is to exert influence for adult persons with Mild intellectual disabilities who live on group housing. We wanted to investigate what kind of hindrance and possibilities there were to exert influence for people on group housing. Our study has been built on qualitative group discussions with 9 persons with Mild intellectual disabilities and 6 care-keepers. We have analysed our discussions on the basis of the theory of empowerment. Our result indicates that there is different kind of factors that affect the possibilities for people with Mild intellectual disabilities to increase their influence, and it does not always have to do with the disability how the persons can make their voices heard.

This study focuses on young adults with Mild mental retardation and how their early adult life is a few years after leaving high school. They have grown up in a society where the view on mentally disabled has undergone big changes. Political decisions regarding handicapped, laws, official principles and social reforms have been dominated by the prinziple of normalization.The purpose has been to describe how the young adults themselves experience their life. The questions were: How is the every day life for young adults with Mild mental retardation? Do they have asset to community support in order to reach as normal life as possible? How satisfied are they with their life?The investigation is a quality study through interviews with four young adults and their parents.

Syftet var att utva?rdera hur det internetbaserade sto?dsystemet COMMIT fungerade som komplement till KBT face-to-face fo?r personer med Mild till ma?ttlig a?ngest och depression. Internetportalen COMMIT med funktioner anpassade fo?r att sto?dja behandling under och mellan samtal baserades pa? kunskap och teknik fra?n internetbehandlingsforskning.Totalt 15 klienter och 8 behandlare deltog i studien och behandlingarna pa?gick i a?tta till nio veckor. Under samtalen anva?ndes surfplatta (iPad 2, Apple) fo?r a?tkomst till COMMIT och mellan samtalen anva?nde klienter och behandlare dator med internetuppkoppling.

While reading in deaf children has been the object of a number of studies, the reading abilitiesof children with Mild and moderate hearing impairment and their relation to cognitiveprocessing have not received very much attention. Predictive factors of reading ability inhearing children are well known, with phonological and working memory abilities beingnecessary prerequisites for reading development. Existing studies suggest, however, thatcertain hearing-impaired children achieve a reading level comparable to that of hearingchildren in spite of impaired phonological abilities. In the present study, reading abilities anda range of cognitive processing abilities were measured in a group of hearing-impairedchildren and compared with hearing controls in equivalent school grades. Comparisons weremade at group and school-grade level, and the cognitive profile of hearing-impaired childrenat level with controls (those being within one standard deviation) was discussed.

The purpose of the study was based on scientific literature to describe the quality of life of persons who have undergone a total hip replacement. The method was a descriptive literature review. The results showed that pain was the most obvious change after surgery. Mild pain before surgery was strongly associated with Mild pain after surgery. But despite less pain were experienced early, it took 1 year to achieve the full benefits of improved physical function.

Beteendeaktivering är en effektiv behandling vid depression. Forskningen är mer begränsad gällande effekten av internetadministrerad beteendeaktivering. Denna studie utvärderade således behandlingseffekten av två olika internetadministrerade självhjälpsprogram med terapeutstöd.  Totalt 42 deltagare med Mild till måttlig depression randomiserades, efter bedömning, till två olika behandlingsgrupper och en kontrollgrupp. Behandlingen innehöll åtta textmoduler med tillhörande övningar.  En signifikant huvudeffekt av tid påvisades för alla grupper gällande depression och livskvalitet. En signifikant interaktionseffekt påvisades för ångest mellan behandlingsgruppen och kontrollgruppen.

Att leva med demens innebär att livet påverkas då tidigare förmågor inte längre kan tas för givna. Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva kognitiva störningars inflytande på dagligt liv hos en person med Mild Alzheimers sjukdom. Studien genomfördes som en fallstudie, där forskaren genom observationer och i intervjuer följde en hemmaboende kvinna i hennes dagliga aktiviteter. Fokus för studien var kvinnans sätt att ta sig an dagliga aktiviteter såsom enklare hushållsgöromål och vistelse i olika miljöer. Det insamlade datamaterialet analyserades med en metod för kvalitativ innehållsanalys med latent ansats.

Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is the causative agent of a complex of disease syndromes in cattle with high economical and welfare impacts. BVDV occurs as two biotypes; cytopathic (BVDVcp) and noncytopathic (BVDVncp) determined by differential effects on cultured cells and can also be divided into two genotypes (BVDV1 and BVDV2) on the basis of genomic diversity. The interaction between BVDV and the host?s immune system is regarded a key aspect in the sequel of BVDV infection. Infection with BVDV normally causes an acute transient infection, with Mild to subclinical signs, but occasionally results in severe and even fatal disease.

Bakgrund: Hypertoni är en vanlig folksjukdom i dagens samhälle och en vanlig riskfaktor för utveckling av bland annat kardiovaskulära, cerebrovaskulära och renala sjukdomar. Stress uppkommer vid fysiska och psykiska påfrestningar och ökar aktiviteten i det sympatiska nervsystemet i kroppen. Långvarig stress är en riskfaktor för att utveckla hypertoni. Livskvalitet är en subjektiv upplevelse som innefattar bland annat personers uppfattning av fysisk och psykisk hälsa, sociala relationer samt förväntningar och mål. Yoga är en träningsform som är känd för sin stressreducerande effekt och hälsofrämjande innebörd.

Isotretinoin är ett licensläkemedel som främst används för att behandla svår akne hos patienter som inte har blivit hjälpta av andra behandlingar och akne med risk för ärrbildning. Att akne är en mycket vanlig hudsjukdom visade man bland annat i en svensk undersökning där en av tre ungdomar har besvär som kräver behandling. Ca 85% av alla tonåringar har akne. Isotretinoin är det effektivaste medlet mot akne idag. Konventionell behandling med isotretinoin i doser mellan 0,5-1,0 mg/kg.dag är effektiv men ger ibland svåra biverkningar.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur stor effekt kombinationsbehandling med naproxen och sumatriptan har vid migrän hos vuxna människor jämfört med monoterapi med naproxen eller sumatriptan samt placebo. Studien utformades som en litteraturstudie och sökningar skedde i PubMed via Linnéuniversitetets bibliotek med sökorden ?migraine AND triptan* AND NSAID AND efficacy?, ?migraine AND sumatriptan AND naproxen AND combination AND efficacy? samt ?naproxen AND sumatriptan?. Sökningarna ledde till granskning av 6 studier.     Sammanfattningsvis hade kombinationsbehandlingen statistiskt signifikanta fördelar gällande flera effektmått vid behandling av migrän, bland annat smärtfrihet 2 timmar efter behandling och ihållande smärtfrihet upp till 24 timmar efter behandling, jämfört med såväl monoterapierna som placebo, medan biverkningsrisken inte ökade statistiskt signifikant med kombinationsterapin.

Lindrig kognitiv sto?rning (eng. Mild cognitive impairment, MCI) a?r en term som bo?rjade anva?ndas pa? 1990-talet fo?r att bena?mna personer med kognitiva tillsta?nd i gra?nsomra?det mellan normalt fungerande och demens. Syftet med MCI-forskningen a?r att identifiera individer med demenssjukdom i ett mycket tidigt skede av sjukdomen fo?r att i framtiden kunna sa?tta in behandling tidigare a?n idag.

The capacity to process and to remember information is a basic condition for language ability and for coming reading ability. Reading ability is strongly connected to phonological awareness, receptive vocabulary knowledge and working memory capacity. In what way hearing impairment in children affects development of cognitive skills and later on reading ability is an area that has attracted minor attention for research.The aim with this study was to investigate changes in cognitive skills and reading ability in children with Mild or moderate hearing impairment after one year of progress and furthermore if any connections between any increases of the abilities were to be found. Comparisons were made with results from age adequate normal hearing children. Moreover prosodic ability on word-level was tested this year.