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Depression related to Clostridium difficile infection – is it a coincidence?
Clostridium difficile colitis has its source in an alteration of the normal bacterial flora of the colon and the release of toxins causing damage to the intestine. Several modifiable risk factors have...
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Ketamine as a potential antidepressant
Depressive disorders include the most common mental illnesses. Primary treatment of this type of disorders is pharmacotherapy which sometimes turns out to be ineffective itself. Scientists facing this...
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Would new conception of autism etiology allow for causal treatment?
Scientists report that they determined metabolic defect responsible for emergence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) comprises of autism, Asperger syndrome and pervasive...
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Focal patches of cortical layer disruption – did we solve the mystery of autism?
Scientists from the University of California, San Diego Health Sciences and Allen Institute for Brain Science discovered that six layered structure of cortex is focally disrupted in autistic patients....
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Depression related to Clostridium difficile infection – is it a coincidence?
Clostridium difficile colitis has its source in an alteration of the normal bacterial flora of the colon and the release of toxins causing damage to the intestine. Several modifiable risk factors have...
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Ketamine as a potential antidepressant
Depressive disorders include the most common mental illnesses. Primary treatment of this type of disorders is pharmacotherapy which sometimes turns out to be ineffective itself. Scientists facing this...
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Would new conception of autism etiology allow for causal treatment?
Scientists report that they determined metabolic defect responsible for emergence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) comprises of autism, Asperger syndrome and pervasive...
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Focal patches of cortical layer disruption – did we solve the mystery of autism?
Scientists from the University of California, San Diego Health Sciences and Allen Institute for Brain Science discovered that six layered structure of cortex is focally disrupted in autistic patients....
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Is laughing gas a new cure for major depression?
Currently, about thirty percent of patients with depression, who require hospitalisation, do not react to the available therapies. This situation indicates the need for new, more effective...
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – new facts
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been not only definitional problem, but also diagnostic and therapeutic one for medical world. Scientists from Center for Infection and Immunity and from Department...
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The effectiveness of The Early Start Denver model (ESDM) for children with...
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder. It is the third most common developmental disability – it is even more common than Down’s Syndrome. It typically appears during the first three years of a...
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Sniffling and autism – could it be a new way to diagnose?
The researchers report that people suffering from autism spectrum (ASD) have no natural sniffling habit in response to pleasant stimuli such as perfumes. Children with autism react with sniffing in the...
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Breastfeeding by mothers suffering from multiple sclerosis may prevent the...
For many years it was thought that women suffering from multiple sclerosis should not decide to become mothers because of the risk of worsening of their condition. Postnatal period was regarded as one...
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Language problems in women and insulin resistance – could it be a new...
Finnish researchers suggest that there is a link between insulin resistance (typical for type 2 diabetes) and language difficulties in women (a sign of cognitive disorders in dementia). The study...
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Brain imaging using fMRI and its impact on the monitoring of pharmacotherapy...
The scientists from New York discovered that functional nuclear MRI scan allows to monitor patient’s response to antipsychotic drugs used schizophrenia. The results were published in The American...
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Depression – new ideas for the diagnosis and treatment
It is currently believed that depression may be caused by improper functioning of immune system cells in brain. The scientists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem claim that treatment of depression...
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Mental health and the results of surgeries in patients with bladder cancer-...
The latest research show that patients’ mental health before surgery may influence postoperative results. Radical cystectomy (RC) is a very effective method in in the treatment of locally advanced...
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Blood-brain barrier defeated by a trick? The use of viral nanocontainers
Blood-brain barrier (BBB) has always posed a challenge for pharmacology. So far, there is no completely effective method to administrate peptide drugs, antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents through...
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A breakthrough in diagnostics of autism via the assessment of inhibitory...
Scientists from Harvard University have discovered the probable cause of autism. They were the first ones to connect a specific neurotransmitter in the human brain with the incidence of the disease....
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A dairy products rich diet has a beneficial effect on cognitive ability and...
Short-term memory is a type of memory that stores a relatively small amount of information for short period of time. Assessment of short-term memory is useful as a screening tool for mild cognitive...
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