The prodromal microbiome

THE PRODROMAL PHASE OF WHAT? THE PRODROMAL PHASE OF WHAT? A Metapsychiatric Analysis of the Prodromal Phase of Schizophrenia

Human Microbiome

Humans are almost identical in their genetic pattern, but the slight differences in our DNA lead to remarkable phenotypic variation among the human population. There are a variety of microbial communities and their genes (microbiomes) in the human body that play an essential role in human health and disease. The microbes inhabiting our bodies is quite a bit more variable, with only a third of i...

Diagnosing the Prodromal State of Alzheimer's Disease

Mild Cognitive ImpairmentAmnestic Subtype (MCIa) is a putative prodromal stage of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) characterized by focal deficits in episodic verbal memory. Less is known about relative deficits in visuospatial learning, although there is ample evidence indicating involvement of the hippocampus in visuospatial learning, as well as hippocampal degeneration in early AD. The aim of this s...

Prodromal features of asthma.

One hundred and thirty four ambulatory children with bronchial asthma were investigated in the Pediatric Pulmonary-Allergic Service. In 95 patients an interval characterised by prodromal respiratory symptoms (cough, rhinorrhoea, and wheezing), behavioural changes (irritability, apathy, anxiety, and sleep disorders), gastrointestinal symptoms (abdominal pain and anorexia), fever, itching, skin e...

Prodromal malignant glaucoma.

FAILURES in the surgical management of malignant glaucoma (von Graefe, 1869; Smith, 1891; Chandler, 1950; McDonald, 1954) call attention to the syndrome of prodromal malignant glaucoma in which success has been reported (Birge, 1956). Based on a new and possibly radical operation performed before the devastating complications which give rise to malignant glaucoma can occur (Birge, 1952, 1953, 1...