Drive
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Does drinking lead to sex? Daily alcohol-sex behaviors and expectancies among college students.

30 Aug 2009 A within-person multilevel approach was used to model the links between alcohol use and sexual behavior among first-year college students, using up to 14 days of data for each person with occasions (Level 1, N = 2879 days) nested within people ... Read more...

Brain activation in restrained and unrestrained eaters: an fMRI study.

30 Jul 2009 Restraint theory has been used to model the process that produces binge eating. However, there is no satisfactory explanation for the tendency of restrained eaters (REs) to engage in counterregulatory eating, an ostensible analogue of binge eating. ... Read more...

The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal.

21 Jul 2009 This essay explores the possibility of an alternative hypothesis to the prevailing psychoanalytic instinctual drive theory whose theoretical and clinical validity has been variously critiqued and challenged. Arguments are suggested in support of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Drive'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Does drinking lead to sex? Daily alcohol-sex behaviors and expectancies among college students. 30 Aug 2009
• Brain activation in restrained and unrestrained eaters: an fMRI study. 30 Jul 2009
• The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal. 21 Jul 2009
• Discussion of Sander M. Abend's "Freud, transference, and therapeutic action". 29 Jun 2009
• Conceptualizing the relations between executive functions and self-regulated learning. 29 Jun 2009
• A confusion of tongues between psychoanalysis and philosophy: is the controversy over drive versus relational theory a philosophical one? 30 May 2009
• Recasting the primal scene of seduction: envisioning a potential encounter of otherness in Jean Laplanche and Sudhir Kakar. 30 May 2009
• Characteristics of muscle dysmorphia in male football, weight training, and competitive natural and non-natural bodybuilding samples. 29 Apr 2009
• Muscle dysmorphia symptomatology and extreme drive for muscularity in a 23-year-old woman: a case study. 29 Apr 2009
• The death drive: conceptual analysis and relevance in the Spanish psychoanalytic community. 30 Mar 2009
• Romantic interest in obese college students. 27 Mar 2009
• Modeling napping, post-lunch dip, and other variations in human sleep propensity. 27 Feb 2009
• What women want: psychodynamics of women's sexuality in 2008. 30 Dec 2008
• Concepts of intentional control. 30 Dec 2008
• Sexual arousal patterns: normal and deviant. 29 Nov 2008
• Basic science and neurobiological research: potential relevance to sexual compulsivity. 29 Nov 2008
• Drive for leanness, anorexia nervosa, and overactivity: the missing link. 29 Nov 2008
• Relevance of error: what drives motor adaptation? 17 Nov 2008
• Graduate students' social and emotional functioning relative to characteristics of eating disorders. 29 Sep 2008
• Aggression, suicide, and lithium treatment. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Drive'

Definition: A state of internal activity of an organism that is a necessary condition before a given stimulus will elicit a class of responses; e.g., a certain level of hunger (drive) must be present before food will elicit an eating response.

Descriptor UI: D004328

Alternative terms: Drive; Drives;

Related Mesh Headings: Instinct; Motivation;

Tree Number: F01.658.293;

History Note: 69(65); was see under MOTIVATION 1963-68

Technical Notes: human & animal; no qualif