Personal Space
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Increased personal space of patients with schizophrenia in a virtual social environment.

15 Sep 2009 Virtual reality may be a good alternative method for measuring personal space and overcoming some limitations in previous studies on the social aspects of schizophrenia. Using this technology, we aimed to investigate the characteristics of personal ... Read more...

A brief report of research: care activities for deceased patients of intensive care nurses at a private hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.

30 Aug 2009 The purpose of this study was to determine nursing care for deceased patients among intensive care unit nurses. This prospective, observational study was conducted in Istanbul, Turkey. The sample consisted of 20 intensive care nurses caring for 39 ... Read more...

Digital dental photography. Part 7: extra-oral set-ups.

6 Aug 2009 This part of our series specifically addresses extra-oral dental photography consisting of portraiture and dental laboratory pictures. Portraiture, which is achieved using three types of illumination, natural daylight, bi-lateral camera mounted ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Personal Space'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A piece of my mind. Curtains. 2 Nov 2009
• Increased personal space of patients with schizophrenia in a virtual social environment. 15 Sep 2009
• A brief report of research: care activities for deceased patients of intensive care nurses at a private hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. 30 Aug 2009
• Digital dental photography. Part 7: extra-oral set-ups. 6 Aug 2009
• Mind your own business! Longitudinal relations between perceived privacy invasion and adolescent-parent conflict. 30 Jul 2009
• [Definition and concepts related to touch in care] 29 Jun 2009
• The skin house: a psychoanalytic reading of 3-Iron. 30 May 2009
• Sibling family practices: guidelines for healthy boundaries. 29 Apr 2009
• Mirror neurons differentially encode the peripersonal and extrapersonal space of monkeys. 15 Apr 2009
• Sexual behaviour of institutionalised residents with dementia--a qualitative study. 30 Mar 2009
• Evaluation of human behavior in collision avoidance: a study inside immersive virtual reality. 30 Mar 2009
• Trusts told act now to end mixed-sex wards. 27 Feb 2009
• Are hugs the new handshakes? 21 Feb 2009
• "Smite this sleeping world awake": Edward Burne-Jones and "The legend of the briar rose". 30 Dec 2008
• Telling stories: keeping secrets. 30 Dec 2008
• The work of Buffalo Woman Ranch. 30 Dec 2008
• Sacred space, analytic space, the self, and god. 30 Dec 2008
• Visual search patterns in neglect: comparison of peripersonal and extrapersonal space. 28 Dec 2008
• A specific inhibitor of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 suppresses rat autoimmune myocarditis. 30 Oct 2008
• Interactions of different body parts in peripersonal space: how vision of the foot influences tactile perception at the hand. 6 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Personal Space'

Definition: Invisible boundaries surrounding the individual's body which are maintained in relation to others.

Descriptor UI: D010550

Alternative terms: Personal Space; Personal Spaces; Space, Personal; Spaces, Personal; Privacy of Space; Space Privacy; Body Buffer Zone; Body Buffer Zones; Buffer Zone, Body; Buffer Zones, Body; Zone, Body Buffer; Zones, Body Buffer;

Tree Number: F01.145.875.596;

Online Note: use SPATIAL BEHAVIOR to search PERSONAL SPACE 1974; use PERSONAL SPACE to search BODY BUFFER ZONE 1975-78, use SPATIAL BEHAVIOR 1974

History Note: 91(75); was see under SPATIAL BEHAVIOR 1974-90; BODY BUFFER ZONE was see under SPATIAL BEHAVIOR 1974-78

Technical Notes: no qualif