Cerebral hypoxia: some new approaches and unanswered questions

Cerebral hypoxia: some new approaches and unanswered questions.

The apoplexy of Hippocrates’ time remains with us today, unchanged and untreated. We call this syndrome of acute brain damage “stroke”; we know that it most commonly reflects localized tissue hypoxia attributable to reduced blood flow (ischemia). Focal hypoxia-ischemia also occurs in such contexts as traumatic insults, or cerebral hemorrhages, while global hypoxia-ischemia occurs in cardiac arr...

E-Learning: some unanswered questions

Yoga: Some Unanswered Questions

Grover et al (1994) have provided an excellent and thought provoking analysis of the usefulness of yoga in treating neurotic disorders. Some questions however remain. One criticism of psychotherapy is that the criteria for the selection of suitable candidates usually identify patients with good prognostic features-patients who may improve even without any therapeutic intervention. Another criti...

Pregnancy- Some Unanswered Questions

The definition of pregnancy as the state of a female in the time interval between fertilization of her ova and the expulsion of the foetuses at term, lays focus on the maternal organism and casual thinking tends to emphasize maternal physiology and welfare. In part, this is due to the fact that the maternal organism is reasonably accessible for day to day observations and measurements which do ...

Neurocysticercosis: still some unanswered questions.

Correspondence: Luís dos Ramos Machado; Praça Amadeu Amaral, 47 / conj. 33; 01327-010 São Paulo SP; Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Conflict of interest: There is no conflict of interest to declare. Received 04 April 2014 Accepted 11 April 2014 Neurocysticercosis (NC), the cerebral infection with Taenia solium, is an important public health problem worldwide. Nevertheless, many important...