by Ket Patel | Sep 10, 2012 | All Videos For Psychiatry, Sleep Disorders
The recent findings of significantly increased risk for cancer incidence and mortality in people with sleep apnea echo previous in vitro and animal studies that found repeated episodes of hypoxia were associated with accelerated cancer progression. In one of two new...
by Ket Patel | Sep 10, 2012 | Slider Content
Patients with childhood primary angiitis of the central nervous system are at elevated risk for poor cognitive outcome, and the risk is highest by far in the subgroup with small-vessel disease presenting with seizures. In the years since use of immunosuppressive...
by Ket Patel | Sep 7, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Movement Disorders
The development and resolution of impulse control disorders in patients with Parkinson’s disease appears to be largely reliant on gender, daily dose of dopamine agonists, and the presence of depressive symptoms, according to a prospective study. Persistence of impulse...
by Ket Patel | Sep 6, 2012 | All Articles For Neurology, Headache/Migraine
Secondary headaches in pregnant women are likely to be associated with an additional medical complaint, according to a retrospective study of patients who presented to a tertiary-care center. A team led by Dr. Matthew S. Robbins of Montefiore Headache Center in the...
by Ket Patel | Sep 5, 2012 | All Articles For Psychiatry, Schizophrenia
The rs1344706 SNP on the ZNF804a gene was found to correlate with the volume of cortical white matter in schizophrenia patients and healthy control subjects, according to a report published Sept. 3 in Archives of General Psychiatry. This SNP also correlated with...
