Aim. In this study we presented our experience of 18 years on the etiology, risk factors, prophylactic and acute treatment, the effect of treatment to recurrence rate of patients with stroke. Methods. The population included 108 patients who had been treated for stroke at Pediatric Neurology Department of Ankara University with the diagnosis of arterial ischemic stroke and sinovenous thrombosis...

Declaration of interest None. There have been marked changes in ageand gender-specific suicide rates in England and Wales over the past 50 years (Charlton et al, 1992; McClure, 2000). A feature of the recent trends has been the rise in young male suicides. An important public health concern is that birth cohorts could carry with them their increased predisposition to suicide as they age. Such c...

This article reviews the (mis)use of statistical tests in neuropsychology research studies published in the Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology in the years 1990-1992 and 1996-2000, and 2001-2004, prior to, commensurate with the internet-based and paper-based release, and following the release of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Statistical Inference. The authors focused ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse trends in mortality inequalities by educational level for main causes of death among men and women in Barcelona, Spain, at the turn of the 21st century (1992-2003). METHODS The population of reference was all Barcelona residents older than 19 years. All deaths between 1992-2003 were included. Educational level was obtained through record linkage between the mortality regi...

The degree of biodiversity was dynamically changing during the centuries and millennia, according to available resources it was gradually growing. In the course of evolution the periods of intensive speciation and relative “speciation rest“ were alternating, with five major episodes of mass extinction (Wilson, 1989; Raup, 1992). The worst extinction event took place at the end of the Permian pe...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The study aimed to evaluate the impact of focused health education on the hospital prevalence of a seasonal ataxic syndrome which occurs exclusively in people of low income after eating the larvae of Anaphe venata Butler (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae). DESIGN Retrospective impact evaluation study. SETTING Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesha, western Nigeria from where the syndrome wa...