Pain complaints are common among musicians, whose occupation is highly demanding on both a physical and a psychological level. The purpose of the present study was to better understand the severity of musculoskeletal pain in orchestra musicians by measuring the potential contributions of biological (medical diagnosis), psychosocial (age, gender, instrument, practice and exercising history, and occupational satisfaction), and psychological (pain-related anxiety, performance anxiety, and affect) variables. participants and procedureData were collected from 59 music students playing in a symphonic orchestra. Univariate analyses were performed to assess differences in biological, psychosocial, and psychological predictors, using the presence or absence of pain as the dependent variable. Regression analyses were performed to develop a model of variance to explain the severity of pain. resultsThe results revealed lower occupational satisfaction to be associated with the presence of pain. However, a greater proportion of variance (31%) in pain severity was explained by pain-related anxiety combined with performance anxiety. Thus, the model that would best explain playing-related pain in musicians would need to focus mainly on psychological variables, namely pain-related and performance anxiety. conclusionsFurther investigation is needed to determine how treatment of musculoskeletal pain in musicians should address these psychological variables.key words musculoskeletal pain; pain-related anxiety; performance anxiety; orchestra musicians Valérie Lamontagne

This single-case experiment evaluates the impact of an innovative rational-emotive cognitive treatment focused on hallucination and delusions on quality of life, depression, anxiety, and insight in a female patient suffering from schizophrenia. The cognitive treatment developed for this experiment was directly inspired by the work of Ellis and Chadwick, Birchwood, and Trower. The rational-emotive cognitive approach used in the present study effectively reduced the patient's anxiety and depression, increased the patient's overall quality of life and insight. The gains were maintained at 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month follow-up. Future investigations into treatments for psychosis should focus on patients' insight regarding the origin of their hallucinations. Further, the link between negative and positive psychotic symptoms should be explored.

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This paper investigates the role of the designer in the "opening" of culture in fashion and technology. In particular it explores the convergence of "open practices" in vanguard technologies and fabrication processes found in the history of Modernist fashion, as well as recent popular uses of technology, and engineering, and more specifically wearables design practices.

This paper seeks to formulate a theoretical ground from which to analyze wearables as performative. My aim is to argue that wearables are theoretically (and practically) situated somewhere between the performance art costume and that of the fashion garment.