OBJECTIVE We investigated the relationship between impulsivity, as measured by delay and probability discounting, and gambling-related cognitions and behavior in adults with and without ADHD. METHOD Adults who met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV) diagnostic criteria for ADHD (n = 31) and controls (n = 29) were recruited from the community. All completed ...

A left-handed boy with developmental expressive language disorder was observed from the age of 4 months old to 9 years old. The chief complaint was motor delay and mild hypotonia at first. Transient mild right hemiplegia was observed from the age od six months to the age of three years. His clinical features gradually changed from those of motor delay to severe mental retardation with hyperacti...

Early life exposure to ambient polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can result in developmental delay. The negative health effects of PAHs have been well-documented but the cost of developmental delay due to PAH exposure has not been studied. The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health previously has reported the significant effect of prenatal exposure to ambient PAHs on delayed ...

Neurons in the primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) generate persistent firing in the absence of sensory stimulation, the foundation of mental representation. Persistent firing arises from recurrent excitation within a network of pyramidal Delay cells. Here, we examined glutamate receptor influences underlying persistent firing in primate dlPFC during a spatial working memory task. Co...

patients  with  primary  antibody  deficiencies  (pad)  are  susceptible  to  recurrent  and chronic infections and a variety of complications. this study was performed to assess quality of life (qol) of pad patients who were under long term treatment and regular follow-up.thirty six adults with proved diagnosis of pad, who had received regular intravenous immunoglobulin replacement therapy, we...

Purposes: To investigate the policy-making process of introducing a prospective payment method called ‘Payment by Results in mental health’in England and to identify the factors that caused the delay in implementation. This study carried out a three-stage analysis using mixed-methods. Firstly, the feasibility of applying Quasi-market theory in mental health care at the fundamental level was the...

OBJECTIVE To assess the value of brainstem auditory evoked potentials and event related evoked potential (3rd positive component of evoked related potentials with latency of 300 millisecond, in evaluating cognitive dysfunction in patients with chronic respiratory failure. METHODS Thirty-two patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and respiratory failure of mild to moderate severit...