healthy children. There were minimum venous abnormalities in caseof generalized rare paroxysm. However, during frequent focalparoxysm and West syndrome venous blood flow exceed normalcondition in 3–5 times and it was asymmetric in basal veins ofRosenthal in 56% of cases. Venous abnormalities of children withepileptiform electroencephalographic activity (without clinical man-ifestation of epilepsy syndrome) moderately were higher than normalcondition. So, we can say about great importance of venous stagnationfor maintenance of high threshold of epilepsy activity of brain and wehave to consider this fact for treatment of such kind of patients.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.05.269

Mechanisms of psychocorrection of threatened abortion

T.N. Hodarevskayaa, L.I. Gubarevab, V.V. Posokhinaca Regional Clinic Perinatal Centre, Gynecological Department No. 2,Stavropol, RussiabState University, Department of Psychophysiology, Stavropol, Russia

cThe Regional Clinical Advisory–Diagnostic Center, Center of Planning

Family and Reproduction, Stavropol, Russia

Modern strategy and methodology of medical treatment of patientswith threat pregnancybreakingoff includes intensive pharmacotherapy,severe and long, limitation of physical efforts during all pregnancy. Suchapproach does not include the estimation of psychological status ofwomen and psychotherapeutic measures. These methods cannot beconsidered as physiological one and their efficiency can satisfy neitherdoctors nor patients. That is why it seemed important to hide effectivemethods of habitual pregnancy interruption psychocorrection and toinvestigate the mechanisms of such effects.

Research has been conducted in the gynecological departmentNo. 2 ofthe Regional clinic perinatal centre. 216 women aged from 19 to 40 yearsold with pregnancy date from 6 to 38weeks were examined. Two groupsof patients with a diagnosis of “Threatened abortion” took part in theresearch. In thefirst experimental group, psychotherapeuticmeasures notcarry out.With patients of the second group, correctionalworkwas spent.Women with normal currency of pregnancy were included in controlgroup. Psychocorrectional workwas carried out in individual classes witheach woman. Such methods as psychoanalytic consultation, somatic-focused psychotherapy, art-therapy, methods of psychic autoregulation,imagotherapy, and family therapy were included in the program.Immunoferment analysis of blood level of estriol, progesterone, humanchorionicgonadotpropine (HGT)wasmade. Psychological testing includedseveral methods: clinical questionnaire for estimation of neurotic status(K.Yahin, D. Mendelevich, 1978), level of pregnancy dominanta formation(Philippova G.G., 2002), level of uneasiness (LU) according to SpielbergerCh. D.

Results of this investigation showed differences in the hormonalstatus: women in the experimental group had estriol level 1, 4 timesbelow than the control group (pb0.05), progesterone — 1, 5 times(pb0.01), HGT — 1, 7 times (pb0.01). Hormonal disturbances cor-related with changes in the psychoemotional status, such as anincrease of common, personal and situational uneasiness, obsessive-phobic and vegetative disorder.

Immaturity or significant delay of pregnancy dominanta formationwas revealed at women with threat of abortion. Thus, functionaldisturbances of feminine generative system are determined as disorderin psychic status. Therefore, they lead to the disorder in formation ofpregnancy dominanta and to threat of abortion.

High efficiency of psychocorrection was revealed. Psychocorrec-tional measures directed against phobias, false installation, on theformation of realized acceptance of maternity role, on the decrease ofuneasiness and easing of neuropsychological stress were shown.

Psychocorrectional work leads to the prolongation of pregnancy,stabilization of progesterone, estriol, HGT level, decrease of uterustonus and psychoemotional strain and rovement of sleep.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.05.270

The effect of age on meta-cognition

K. Yalcina, S. Karakasba Ministry of Justice General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses,R&D Department, Ankara, TurkeybHacettepe University, Specialization Area of Experimental Psychology

and Cognitive Psychophysiology Research Unit, Ankara, Turkey

The cognitive system should protect schemas and sets, whennecessary, it should change and organize them, reproduce and protectthem against interference; it should scan memory, work on memorytraces; choose and utilize effective cognitive strategies; should be capableof making goal-directed plans. The systems that provide these pertain toexecutive functions and to meta-cognition. The characteristics given forthe formal operations stage in Piaget's Theory on Cognitive Developmentresemble the executive functions andmeta-cognitive features. The aim ofthe present study was to investigate age-related changes on executivefunctions and meta-cognition. The sample included 80 healthy children(39 girls, 41 boys) in the age range of 8–14 years (90–172 months).Participantswere distributed over Grades 2 to 8 of the elementary school.Executive functions were assessed using theWisconsin Card Sorting Test(WCST), Stroop Test TBAG Form (STP) and Raven Standard ProgressiveMatrices (RSPM) (assessing working memory, resistance to inhibition,reasoning and problem solving, respectively). Assessment of meta-cognition was based on the performance on the Word List Task; thescores included evaluation of the accuracy of knowledge (retrospectivemeta-memory) and feeling of knowing (prospectivememory). A criteriontest was used for assessing the accuracy of actual performance. LogicalThinking Test (LTT) was used for assessing the Piagetian developmentalstage of participants. Principal component analysis was performed on 66test scores. The factor structure for the older children (11–14 years of age)resembled that reported in the literature for adults (explained variance:62.56%). Multivariate analysis of variance showed a significant effect ofage. This effectwas obtained for scores on STP (with age, time to completedecreased in all five subtests), RSPM (with age, total scores of subtestsincreased and time to complete the subtests decreased), and LTT (scoresincreased with age). Accordingly, the capacity pertaining to executivefunctions (as measured by STP and RSPM) increased with age, and thisdevelopment was in line with Piaget's stages of cognitive development.Age did not affectmeta-cognition, and no relationwas observed betweenthese scores and the scoreson cognitivedevelopment. Thesefindingsmayindicate that the tasks that the present study used for measuring meta-cognitionwere not appropriately chosen. An alternative explanationmaybe thatmeta-cognitiveabilitiesdonot change in the studiedage rangeandthere is more to cognitive development than the formal operations stage.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.05.271

Positive and negative subgroups of schizopherenia aredifferentiated by meta-memory processes

M. Keighobadia, C. Kisaa, E. Gokaa, S. Karakasba Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Psychiatry Clinic,Ankara, TurkeybHacettepe University, Specialization Area of Experimental Psychology

and Cognitive Psychophysiology Research Unit, Ankara, Turkey

291Posters session 3 / International Journal of Psychophysiology 69 (2008) 276–316