SUMMARY The volume of the hippocampus is reduced in patients with schizophrenia, and this deficit tends to become more pronounced with chronicity. Newer antipsychotics may protect against the progressive reductions in hippocampal volume while preliminary data offer hope that specific antipsychotics may act to reverse it. DECLARATION OF INTEREST None. COPYRIGHT AND USAGE © The Royal College ...

An Open-Ended Working Group (WG) on the Leipzig Declaration (LD) met all day and into the evening on the fourth day of the Fourth International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture(ITCPGR-4), while the WG on the Global Programme of Action (GPA) completed its work in a late session the previous night. The Plenary met briefly in the afternoon to hear country st...

2. You can feel like trying to get a coke out of a vending machine, you are having some problems with it, you are working hard and finally get your can. 3. You can feel like entering a room, the room contains only one chair, no other furniture, on the chair there is leaning a small board that has some writing on it, you are bending forward in order to read it, and it says: You are not welcome h...

2. However, it is with deep disappointment that, at the conclusion of this process, it is clear our voices have not been heard and reflected in the conference outcomes. The negotiations started with analyses of the failings of the Brussels Programme of Action, also reflected in UNCTAD’s LDC report 2010. These showed that development partners failed to deliver their commitments to provide adequa...

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), of which the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) is a member journal, published the revised uniform conflict of interest declaration form on July 1, 2010 (1). ICMJE journals used the test version of the form during the last year, after the publication of its initial statement on the new form for declaring conflict of interest (2). The f...

Moral imperialism is expressed in attempts to impose moral standards from one particular culture, geopolitical region or culture onto other cultures, regions or countries. Examples of Direct Moral Imperialism can be seen in various recurrent events involving multi-centric clinical trials promoted by developed (central) countries in poor and developing (peripheral) countries, particularly projec...