Teresa A Ashman,Wayne A Gordon,Joshua B Cantor et al.
Teresa A Ashman et al.
At least 1.4 million people die, or receive hospital or emergency care every year in the United States as a result of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Many more are treated in other settings or receive no treatment at all. Thus TBI is often un...
Christopher R Bowie,Philip D Harvey
Christopher R Bowie
Our understanding of schizophrenia has increased substantially in recent years. This is due to technological advances that have improved our ability to assess neuropsychiatric function and the genetic underpinnings of the disease. While dia...
Dementia: a brief review [0.03%]
痴呆的概述
Hillel Grossman,Christine Bergmann,Susan Parker
Hillel Grossman
Dementia is an increasingly common diagnosis in our aging population, and the numbers are expected to rise exponentially in coming years. Alzheimer's disease alone now affects 4.5 million people in the US, while millions more are currently ...
Denise Nassisi,Beatriz Korc,Sigrid Hahn et al.
Denise Nassisi et al.
Delirium is an organic mental syndrome defined by a global disturbance in consciousness and cognition, which develops abruptly and often fluctuates over the course of the day. It is precipitated by medical illness, substance intoxication/wi...
Amy Aloysi,Kathleen Van Dyk,Mary Sano
Amy Aloysi
Recent interest in women's health has focused on the cognitive consequences of aging and hormonal changes. Based on hypotheses about estrogenic effects in the central nervous system (CNS), large-scale clinical trials were designed to addres...
Silvana Riggio
Silvana Riggio
Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is clinically characterized by altered mental status and the diagnosis is confirmed by electroencephalography. Absence status (AS) and complex partial status (CPS) are the two primary types of NCSE. P...
Developmental endocrine influences on gender identity: implications for management of disorders of sex development [0.03%]
内分泌对性别认同的影响：性发育障碍治疗的启示
William Byne
William Byne
When a baby is born, the first medical pronouncement is usually, "It's a boy," or "It's a girl." In most cases, this pronouncement is based simply upon the appearance of the child's external genitalia. Due to variations in the process of se...
Amir Garakani,Sanjay J Mathew,Dennis S Charney
Amir Garakani
The neurobiology of the anxiety disorders, which include panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and specific phobias, among others, has been clarified by advances in the field of classical or Pavlovian conditioning, and in o...
Research update: neurogenesis in adult brain and neuropsychiatric disorders [0.03%]
成人脑神经发生与神经精神疾病研究进展
Gregory A Elder,Rita De Gasperi,Miguel A Gama Sosa
Gregory A Elder
Until recently neurogenesis in mammals was considered to occur only during the embryonic and early post-natal periods and to have no significant role in the adult nervous system. However, it is now accepted that neurogenesis occurs in two b...
Metastatic signet ring adenocarcinoma: an unusual cause of cardiac constriction [0.03%]
心脏受压的罕见病因为黏液癌转移
Ather Anis,Rajeev L Narayan,Suraj Kapa et al.
Ather Anis et al.
Pericardial constriction secondary to metastatic adenocarcinoma is exceedingly rare. We present the first recorded case of pericardial constriction secondary to metastatic signet-ring mucinous adenocarcinoma diagnosed by echocardiography. T...