Brain Function and Metabolic Disorders

Proton Mr Spectroscopy in Brain Metabolic Disorders

Metabolic disorders of the central nervous system (CNS) include pathologies with extremely different pathogenesis. The clinical diagnosis of these disorders is often very difficult and requires sophisticated laboratory investigations. Proton magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy (1H-MRS) has been recently used in a number of clinical studies to supplement conventional MRI as it is able to provid...

Oestrogen, brain function, and neuropsychiatric disorders.

research on the neurobiological effects of oestrogen. Also, health professionals are being asked for guidance on whether women should be prescribed oestrogen and progestogen hormone replacement therapy (HRT) not only to treat vasomotor instability and reduce bone loss, but also in various neuropsy-chiatric disorders. However, it is controversial whether oestrogen is indicated in the treatment o...

compactifications and function spaces on weighted semigruops

chapter one is devoted to a moderate discussion on preliminaries, according to our requirements. chapter two which is based on our work in (24) is devoted introducting weighted semigroups (s, w), and studying some famous function spaces on them, especially the relations between go (s, w) and other function speces are invesigated. in fact this chapter is a complement to (32). one of the main fea...

irisin and metabolic disorders

Mitochondrial Dynamics and Cardiac Function in Metabolic Disorders

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is the name of a group of risk factors that can lead to develop several diseases including diabetes mellitus (DM). MetS is accompanied by central obesity, dyslipidemia, compromised fasting glucose, and hypertension [1]. DM, especially type 2 diabetes (DM2), is a growing health care problem resulting in significant cardiovascular disease. Diabetic heart disease includes...