by Ket Patel | Dec 8, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Depression
In case you missed the big news, last weekend, the American Psychiatric Association’s Board of Trustees voted on and approved the final diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM-5, paving the way for publication next...
by Ket Patel | Dec 5, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Anxiety
When patients receive shocks from implantable cardioverter defibrillators their anxiety level rises, and so does their mortality rate. Measured anxiety levels significantly correlated with the occurrence of shocks from ICDs, the total number of shocks that patients...
by Ket Patel | Dec 5, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders
Dr. Mohamed Salama Head of Experimental Neurology Unit MERC, Mansoura University, Egypt In rural living, individuals are exposed to variable environmental natural compound that have the ability to induce dopaminergic neuronal damage. Various epidemiological data...
by Ket Patel | Dec 3, 2012 | Slider Content
The same allele that quadruples the risk of Alzheimer’s disease also was associated with some aspects of improved cognition in early adulthood in a prospective study that measured attention during cognitive tasks performed during brain MRI scans. People who carried...
by Ket Patel | Dec 3, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Epilepsy
While febrile seizures are common in early childhood and generally benign, prolonged febrile seizures of 30 minutes or longer have been associated with a greatly increased risk of later epilepsy, particularly temporal lobe epilepsy. To better understand the...
