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American psychologist Abraham Maslow set up "Maslow need level theory", which summaries
man's need into five levels. In order they are: physiological need; safety need; belonging to need,
love need; self-respect need; self-realizing need. The author holds that the sixth need is innovation,
which is the top among all needs.
5138.6 Quality of life of the man- strategy of personology of the XXTst century, Valentin
Yakovlevich Semke, Mental Health Research Institute, Russian Federation
Contemporary psychological and psychiatric science and practice find out a distinct trend toward
switching of attention of researchers from narrowly clinical aspects of psychology and
psychopathology to detailed study of mental patient from positions of the assessment of his
personality and social peculiarities influencing the dynamics of the illness, its outcomes and
prognostic conclusions. Quality of life reflects the assessment by the proband of his position in the
surrounding world, degree of satisfaction with social functioning. Quality of life is achievability of
the wanted and satisfaction with the achieved.
5138.7 Practice and the human sciences, Donald Polkinghorne, University of Southern
California, USA
There is controversy in psychology about what should be the source for the therapeutic actions
chosen by practitioners. For some, the source should be experimental studies which provide
support for the use of sets of techniques for the treatment of specific diagnostic mental disorders.
For others, the source should be the judgment of practitions based on experience and sensitivity to
the issues salient to a particular therapeutic situation. The case for practitioner judgment is made
based on Gadamer's idea of understanding through conversation and Gendlin's idea of embodied
meaning.
5138.8 Neural basis of verbal fluency in patients of schizophrenia, Siew-eng Chua, Charlton
Cheung, Isabel Lam, Vinci Cheung, Teresa Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam,
Hong Kong, China
The purpose of the study was to investigate how patients with Schizophrenia recruited speech and
language areas on a paced verbal fluency task. During fMRI, individual categories of words were
presented visually every 3 seconds (e.g. animals, fruits, occupations) and a microphone recorded
subject’s responses of words belonging to each category. Patients and healthy normal did not differ
on age, gender, handedness, education, nor verbal fluency performance. Neuroleptic dosage did
not correlate with task performance. SPM-99 analysis showed that bilateral speech and language
areas are preferentially activated in acutely psychotic patients which may have implications for
pathophysiology of the disorder.
5138.9 Presymptomatic verbal fluency deficit in Huntington’s disease, Tarja-Brita Robins
Wahlin 1, 2, 3 , Maria Larsson 2, 3 , 1 Competence Center for Elderly Care, 2 Neurotec Department,
Karolinska Institutet, 3 Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
This study examines presymptomatic neuropsychological impairment in Huntington Disease (HD).
A broad neuropsychological assessment battery was administered to 24 gene carriers and 30
non-carriers, without any neurological or psychiatric signs of HD. All subjects were tested
individually. The cognitive domains assessed included general intelligence (WAIS-R), verbal- and
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