BACKGROUND Metabolic abnormalities contribute enormously to morbidity and mortality in schizophrenia. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to determine the (i) prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS); and (ii) predictors for MS in schizophrenia patients from Assam. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-five schizophrenia patients were evaluated for MS. Risk factors were assessed by odds ratios (ORs) with 9...

Schizophrenic patients suffer from more metabolic or sleep problems. Little is known about risk factors. We recruited 17 patients with chronic schizophrenia from the rehabilitation center in a medical center in Taiwan and measured their demographic data, cognitive performance, and physical fitness, metabolic profiles and sleep parameters. They were divided into two groups according to clinical ...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to confirm with pathologic verification 2 beliefs related to Alzheimer's disease (AD): (a) the long-standing impression that bilateral temporo-parietal hypometabolism, as noted on FDG PET imaging, is the metabolic abnormality associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and (b) that the sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of the metabolic patte...

background: methamphetamine (ma) is a potent psychomotor stimulant with high abuse and addictive potential. ma is a neurotoxic drug which is widely abused by females of childbearing age, raising serious public health concerns in terms of exposure of the fetus to the drug. neurotoxic effects of ma on adult are well known, such as dopaminergic nerve terminal degeneration and cell death in regions...

purpose : to evaluate the visual results of amblyopic therapy in pediatric patients with monocular abnormalities. methods : the hospital records of visually immature patients with unilateral organic ocular abnormalities and decreased visual acuity, who presented to the pediatric ophthalmology clinic over a one year period, were reviewed. those who had 8 years old of age or less and underwent am...

Diabetic patients retain their vibratory perception during ischaemia longer than non-diabetics. This abnormality is found even in patients with newly diagnosed diabetes and it can be normalized after several days of intensive treatment with insulin (Steiness, 1959, 1961a; Gregersen, 1968a). Further studies in diabetics have demonstrated that the retained ability of nerve conduction during ischa...

The role of the nuclear medicine has changed, from the early days when it was the only alternative to x-rays, to the present, when nuclear images are interpreted in light of specific metabolic processes, not anatomy. The development of specific receptor targeting radiopharmaceuticals, markers of viability using PETor SPECT, analogues of neurotransmitters etc., have placed the nuclear medi...