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...
by Ket Patel | Dec 1, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Anxiety
Attention-retraining therapy works in adolescents with anxiety disorders, the first randomized, controlled trial in this age group has found. Previous studies of attention-retraining therapy all focused on adults. In this study of 42 adolescents with severe anxiety in...
by Ket Patel | Nov 28, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, OCD
An innovative family-focused treatment program for complex cases of pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder that looked promising in a randomized, controlled pilot trial of 20 families has now accumulated experience with 35 families. “We’re getting increasingly...
