... whether the same choice of therapies were to be used on the same clusters ofdiseases among the participants The par‐ ticipants’ choices on the therapeutic approaches provide a framework ofthe ... tions The content ofthe book does not cover all areas ofalternative medicine, but provides the reader with insights into selected aspects of established and new therapies The book will, therefore, ... relaxation, and the collection of en‐ ergy in the lower cinnabar field [6] 27 28 AlternativeMedicine As there are different traditions of qigong practice, therefore the way of practice is varied There...
... divalproex as the first medication choice for nonpsychotic mania Both the clinical experience ofthe clinician in the use of these agents and the side effects profile ofthe medication for a given ... and adolescents about thetreatmentof BPD-II, so no algorithms were developed for this Both treatment algorithms consist of six potential stages oftreatmentFor all thetreatment stages described ... through the process of grieving the loss of their healthy child This is particularly true for families in which the child experiences an acute onset of BPD Families need to mourn the loss of the...
... phenotype ofthe respective SPP/SPPL family member (Krawitz et al 2005) The formal proof ofthe requirement ofthe aspartate within the YD motif of SPPL family members is still missing The glycine ... focus for investigators seeking to understand the basis of common forms of AD and thereby uncover new therapeutic opportunities for its treatment and/or prevention The phosphorylation states of ... 2007) In the case of APP, the first cleavage at the ε -site releases the APP intracellular domain (AICD; Fig 4) into the cytosol The remaining part ofthe APP TMD is further cleaved at the ζ and...
... assessed at the first prenatal visit for history of exacerbations, hospitalizations, the use oforal steroids in the past, and the need for mechanical ventilation For multiparous women, their asthma ... are preferred forthe management of all levels of persistent asthma in pregnancy.17 Corticosteroids are the most effective treatmentforthe airway inflammation of asthma and reduce the hyperresponsiveness ... per day NPH is still dosed as 2/3 ofthe total daily dose Ofthe 2/3 daily dose of NPH, 2/3 is given in the morning, and 1/3 at bedtime The remaining 1/3 ofthe total daily dose is divided in...
... responsible forthe bulk ofthe deficits observed in SCI patients 14 Mattson IMPLICATIONS FORTREATMENT AND PREVENTION Rapid advances in our understanding ofthe molecular and cellular underpinnings of ... familial and sporadic forms Research into the role of oxidative damage in ALS has been fueled by the discovery that mutations in the gene for Cu/Zn-SOD1 are the cause of a subset of familial ALS (Rosen ... loss ofthe enzyme could alter nitrogen balance, pH, and glutathione synthesis in astrocytes Creatine kinase BB is a member ofthe CK gene family and the predominant cytosolic CK isoform in the...
... Review of Psychology 2002, 53:83-107 Dalgleish A: The relevance of non-linear mathematics (chaos theory) to thetreatmentof cancer, the role ofthe immune response and the potential for vaccines ... between the information sources and their paths By the arguments ofthe section above, this leads to phase transition punctuation of I[K], the mutual information between X and Y, under either the ... coefficient C as the proportion of triads in a network out ofthe total number of potential triads, i.e C= 3N∆ , N3 ( 5) where N∆ is the number of triads in the network and N3 is the number of connected...
... accessibility ofthe former within the framework of mean-field theory, as well as the finite connectivity ofthe latter Interest in these models has intensified lately since they occur in the context of random ... ‘energy’ states On the other hand, there is only one way of covering the graph with the + + + state, which of course corresponds to the global minimum ofthe ‘energy’ It is therefore more probable ... density increases The point where the height of these barriers scales with the system size marks a breaking ofthe ergodicity ofthe dynamics; an exponential number of valleys appears in the free-energy...
... method of giving them, and the length ofthetreatment depend on where the malaria was contracted and how sick the patient is For all strains except falciparum, thetreatmentfor malaria is usually ... ofthe information is inconsistent or even contradictory The Greenhaven Press series Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders offers a solution to the often overwhelming nature of researching diseases ... It was the bark ofthe cinchona tree, a close cousin of coffee Local people called the remedy quina quina (bark of barks)—and it was later distributed worldwide as quinine Word ofthe medicine, ...
... ofthe information is inconsistent or even contradictory The Greenhaven Press series Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders offers a solution to the often overwhelming nature of researching diseases ... two or more diseases at the same time Unfortunately for people with HIV, the risk of contracting other infectious diseases is high Because the two viruses share many characteristics—they are both ... been unable to fight off the virus Many of these chronically infected individuals are unaware of their infection and unknowingly can spread the disease to others The Centers for Disease Control...
... in the realm of those who have the authority to define a problem as medical In this sense it is the viability ofthe designation rather than the validity ofthe diagnosis that is grist forthe ... and move to the next one For those who stay the course there is the promise of a greater understanding ofthe contours ofthe medicalization process The earliest critiques argued that the medicalization ... with the development ofthe National Center for Complementary and AlternativeMedicine at the National Institutes of Health (www.nccam.nih.gov) and suggests a shift ofalternativemedicine in the...
... with the interpretation ofthe results, reviewed the manuscript and participated in the editing ofthe final version ofthe manuscript 20 21 22 23 24 Acknowledgements We thank the participants for ... [29,30] The system measures the forces underneath the foot as a function of time The system consists of a pair of shoes and a recording unit Each shoe contains load sensors that cover the surface of ... significantly affect the average stride time, the average swing time, or the stride-to-stride variability of these measures (p > 0.29) In contrast to the control group, the gait ofthe patients with...
... occurrence ofthe largest number of communicative acts per minute and the greatest proportion of responses Therefore if the aim ofthe assessment is to identify the best performance ofthe ASD child, the ... determination of individual profiles of abilities and inabilities and therefore provides information to the clinical intervention in language therapy for children ofthe autism The consistency of results ... that there was association of two types of variables ofthe same corpus These results reinforce the use of samples of spontaneous communication as a useful alternative to the assessment of children...
... may change the attitude ofthe parents is whether they themselves would accept medication [13,14] In the literature there are only a few reports regarding the attitudes and opinions ofthe general ... and adolescents under 18 years of age All were residents ofthe Byron-Kesariani area ofthe city of Athens, Greece Methodology The Service forthe Mental Health of Children and Adolescents is ... whether they believe that psychotropic drugs are effective in thetreatmentof mental disorders of childhood, whether they have a therapeutic effect or only act by chance, whether or not they...
... important forthe perception ofthe trauma and coping strategies The inclusion ofthe age extremities beyond the age of 54 seems otherwise relevant especially with an increasing tendency forthe average ... explanations forthe effect Summary The hypotheses made forthe present study are verified by the results found The first hypothesis, that the lifespan distribution of PTSD will be different for men ... (59.2%) women The age distribution ofthe participants ranged from 13 to 80 years of age The frequency ofthe 13 to 15 year olds was low in the trauma sample For both the total sample and the trauma...
... patients were indicative of isolated damage ofthe peroneal nerve None ofthe patients had abnormalities in the distribution of other peripheral nerve ofthe limb, indication of lumbosacral radiculopathy, ... electromyography of muscles in the lower limbs were performed In particular, the motor conduction velocity ofthe peroneal nerve at the ankle, below the fibular head and at the lateral popliteal fossa and the ... common peroneal nerve (PN) originates as one ofthe two terminal divisions ofthe sciatic nerve at the apex ofthe popliteal fossa At the level ofthe fibular head it divides into its terminal...
... None ofthe offenders was sentenced to mandatory care Crime rates Ofthe total sample of 541 persons, 131 (24%) were found in the crime registry at follow-up (Table 2) Of these, 114 (31%) ofthe ... In these analyses, participants were followed from the age of 14 years, which was the youngest age for registration of criminality, until their first contact with the police, or otherwise, their ... With regard to treatment, 57% ofthe patients were admitted to the family ward, where the intervention was based mainly on diagnostic evaluation and family Page of 10 therapy The other patients,...
... neurocognitive performance Acknowledgements The authors thank Professor Wei-Tsun Soong for granting us use ofthe Chinese version ofthe K-SADS, and Professor Shur-Fen Gau for granting our use ofthe Chinese ... investigated the sustainable effects of MPH on ADHD behavioral symptoms often simply compared the endpoint with the baseline ofthe studies [21,22] In our study, we provided the time course of ADHD ... Page of 10 investigated the long-term course of improvements in ADHD symptoms and their neurocognitive function; as well as the differences between ADHD subtypes Therefore, the aims ofthe present...
... 48:1027-1032 28 Goodwin R, Andersen RM: Use ofthe behavioral model of health care use to identify correlates of use oftreatmentfor panic attacks in the community Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol ... invited to indicate the services they used, type and frequency of utilisation, and degree of appropriateness ofthe service they used Services covered by this questionnaire were those offered in hospitals ... before the interview A randomly selected sample of 2,433 individuals took part in the survey The mean age ofthe sample was 42.4 (SD: 13.3) Sixty-three percent were female After weighting for...
... pharmacologic profile [10] indicated in the United States in adults fortreatmentof schizophrenia and as monotherapy or adjunctive therapy with lithium or valproate in thetreatmentof manic or ... and in the preparation and finalization ofthe manuscript JP was involved in the design and oversight ofthe trials, the analysis and interpretation of these post hoc analyses, and in the preparation ... acknowledged for their work while bipolar mania trials were being conducted Funding forthe studies in these analyses was provided by both Merck and Pfizer Inc The conduct of these studies (including the...
... Quality ofthe therapeutic relationship Complementary to the patient’s view on the quality ofthe therapeutic relationship, nurses will be asked to fill in the professional version ofthe STAR ... make about the underlying principles ofthe CCP? How they value these principles? How they value the outcomes ofthe CCP resp CAU? A content analysis ofthe supervision records will be performed ... characteristics in the process ofthe application ofthe CCP from a nursing perspective Forthe within case analysis this information will be used as a preparation forthe interviews When performing the cross...