More than 200 instances of periodic synoviosis have been recorded. It is related to periodic oedema (hereditary angioedema). Various autonomic disturbances accompany episodes. Confusion with rheumatoid arthritis persists. Theoretically an inherent rhythm or feedback mechanism operates as the cause. The disorder in several observed patients has persisted for decades, worsened or abated. In one i...

The interaction between amygdala-driven and hippocampus-driven activities is expected to explain why emotion enhances episodic memory recognition. However, overwhelming behavioral evidence regarding the emotion-induced enhancement of immediate and delayed episodic memory recognition has not been obtained in humans. We found that the recognition performance for event memory differs from that for...

AIM The study aims were to demonstrate the relationship between neuropsychological functioning in depressed bipolar patients and clinical variables: intensity of depressive symptoms, age at onset, duration of illness, total number of episodes, number of maniac episodes, number of depressive episodes and number of hospitalizations. METHOD Cognitive functions were examined in 30 depressed bipol...

BACKGROUND The mortality rate from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis has significantly reduced over the last decade. A major concern now is the long-term respiratory morbidity following RSV bronchiolitis. METHODS In this prospective study, we randomly assigned 49 previously healthy infants with severe RSV bronchiolitis, early in the course of illness (< 5 days duration), to rece...

Results Median age: 10.6 years. Median maintenance period: 1.5 years. CM-IgE before SOTI: 101 KU/L. Median threshold dose at oral food challenge before SOTI: 2.5 ml. Median current daily CM dose: 200 ml. Allergic reactions to CM: 29 children have had reactions, as follows: A) Non anaphylactic reactions: 15 children. 8 children suffer daily from mild symptoms (4, mouth itching; 1, abdominal pain...

Objective- Vomiting is a common problem of administration of xylazine in cats. This study was conducted to evaluate prophylactic antiemetic efficacy of vitamin B6 in sedated cats with xylazine. Design- Experimental study Animals- Eight adult cats (from both genders) were selected. Procedures- All the cats were administered with intramuscular injection of normal saline or four increasing dosages...

In this paper, we introduce a diamond episode of the form s1 → E → s2, where s1 and s2 are events and E is a set of events. The diamond episode s1 → E → s2 means that every event of E follows an event s1 and is followed by an event s2. Then, by formulating the support of diamond episodes, in this paper, we design the algorithm FreqDmd to extract all of the frequent diamond episodes from a given...

We examined in a primary care sample whether acute-phase cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) would be more effective than usual care for patients with multiple prior episodes of depression. Depression outcome was based on a 3-monthly administered Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) during a 2-year follow-up. We confirmed that in patients with four or more prior episodes, CBT outperformed usual care...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between recurrent subthreshold depressive episodes and functioning in a prospective community sample of people with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A prospective community study in Quebec, Canada, was carried out between 2008 and 2013 (n = 1,064). Five yearly follow-up assessments (telephone interviews) were conducted. Baseline and the first th...