10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000279 © 2017 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2017) 7(6), 781–787 781 1Department of Human Development and Psychology, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan 2Department of Psychiatry, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan 3Department of Chest Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan 4School of Medicine, Tzu Chi Un...

10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000237 © 2017 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2017) 7(4), 458–465 458 1Department of Psychiatry, Taipei City Hospital, Kunming Branch, Taipei, Taiwan 2Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan 3Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan †Author for correspondence...

10.4172/Neuropsychiatry.1000183 © 2017 pISSN 1758-2008 eISSN 1758-2016 Neuropsychiatry (London) (2017) 7(2), 77–85 77 1Department of Anesthesiology, the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan Province, China, 646000 2Department of Pharmacology, Rush Medical College, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, USA †Author for correspondence: Xiaobin Wang M.D., Department of...

I f the brain is the most complicated material object in the known universe, the mind is its most wondrous product (1). Precisely how the brain generates mental events is an unsolved mystery. The field of neuropsychiatry concerns itself with psychopathology caused by structural brain disease, brain electrical malfunction, and extrinsic toxic metabolic disturbances. As such, neuropsychiatry is i...

Neuronal mechanisms underlying addiction have been attracting attention in neurobiology, economics, neuropsychiatry, and neuroeconomics. This paper proposes a possible link between economic theory of addiction [2] and neurobiological theory of bidirectional synaptic plasticity [5] based on recent findings in neuroeconomics and neurobiology of addiction. Furthermore, it is suggested that several...

Anna Pichiecchio, MD1 Angela Berardinelli, MD2 Maurizio Moggio, MD, PhD3 Marta Rossi, MD4 Umberto Balottin, MD, PhD4 Giacomo Pietro Comi, MD, PhD3 Stefano Bastianello, MD, PhD1,2,3,4,5 1 Neuroradiology Department, C. Mondino National Neurological Institute, Pavia, Italy 2 Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, Regional Referral Centre for Neuromuscular Disease in Childhood, C. Mondino National Neurologica...