THERAPEUTIC ARCHITECTURE AND TEMPORALITY: EVIDENCE-BASED DESIGN FOR LONG-STAY FACILITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH SEVERE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR

Since individuals with severe and profound Intellectual Disabilities (IDs) have no concept of time, it is difficult for them to autonomously maintain daily structures.Those affected are dependent throughout their lives on external care structures.Even though research suggests that individuals with IDs should live in smaller facilities, individuals

Decline in the ovarian hormones with menopause may influence somatosensory, cognitive, and affective processing.The present study investigated whether hormonal depletion alters the nociceptive, depressive-like and learning behaviors in experimental rats click here after ovariectomy (OVX), a common method to deplete animals of their gonadal hormones