Neuropsychiatric disorders and renal diseases: an update

Neuropsychiatric disorders and renal diseases: an update.

Neuropsychiatric symptoms are frequently associated to renal dysfunction and may compromise negatively the clinical course as well as the quality of life, and the functional status of the patients. The neuropsychiatric disorders associated with renal disease may present various forms according to the natural history of the disease, and remain underdiagnosed and undertreated. There are few data ...

Gut Microbiota and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Mesenchymal stem cells in osteoarticular diseases: an update

Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are mainly isolated from bone marrow or fat tissue. Because of their potential of multilineage differentiation towards bone, cartilage and fat tissue, they were initially evaluated to develop innovative strategies for tissue engineering applications. More recently, they have gained interest based on their immunomodulatory pr...

Lyme Disease, Comorbid Tick-Borne Diseases, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Dr Bransfield is associate director of psychiatry at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, NJ. Psychiatrists interested in joining the Microbes and Mental Illness Discussion Group may e-mail the author at [email protected]. He is President Elect of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. The author reports that he is on the Speakers' Bureau of Abbott, AstraZeneca, Cephalon,...

Lyme Disease, Comorbid Tick-Borne Diseases, and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Many recall the phrase "To know syphilis is to know medicine." Now Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis), the new "great imitator,"1 is the ultimate challenge to the breadth and depth of our knowledge. In psychiatry, we generally treat mental symptoms or syndromes rather than the underlying cause of a disorder. A greater awareness of immune reactions to infections and other contributors to mental ill...