TWIN-10: PROTOCOL FOR A 10-YEAR LONGITUDINAL TWIN STUDY OF THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MENTAL WELL-BEING AND RESILIENCE

TWIN-10: protocol for a 10-year longitudinal twin study of the neuroscience of mental well-being and resilience

Introduction Mental well-being is a core component of mental health, and resilience is a key process of positive adaptive recovery following adversity.However, we lack an understanding of the neural mechanisms that contribute to individual variation in the trajectories of well-being and resilience relative to risk.Genetic and/or environmental facto

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Preliminary experience with extraperitoneal endoscopic radical prostatectomy through duplication of the open technique

OBJECTIVE: To describe surgical and functional results with extraperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy with duplication of the open technique, from the experience obtained in the treatment of 28 initial cases.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a 36-month period, we prospectively analyzed 28 patients diagnosed with localized prostate cancer undergoin

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