M.C., M.D., F.R.C.P., G..R. Lowe, M.D., and T. McKeown, B.A., Ph.D., M.D. (Pp. 133. 7s. 6d.). Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 195l. ','iiis is a symposium of eight papers previously published in the British Medical Journal (Lumleiat) Lectures, 1949), Journal of Social Medicine, and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. h'l'ey are the result of investigations undertaken by Professor A. P...

Chronic injuries of the locomotor apparatus represent the main cause of drop-out among top level gymnasts. The aim of the present paper was to verify whether the postural control, investigated by using an integrated approach and accordingly optimized, could be an effective tool for the secondary prevention of training-related disorders of the locomotor apparatus, in a cohort of 20 young female ...

While the hippocampus makes unique contributions to memory, it has also long been associated with sensorimotor processes, i.e. innate processes involving control of motor responses to sensory stimuli. Moreover, hippocampal dysfunction has been implicated in neuropsychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, primarily characterized by non-mnemonic deficits in the processing ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients suffer sleep disorders and circadian rhythm disturbances (CRDs). The underlying mechanisms are incompletely understood, and treatments are lacking. In this study, we characterized the locomotor activity, clock gene expression, morphological degeneration and energy metabolism of suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), together with retinal light sensing, in ApoE-/- mice,...

IT is natural that a (lisease of the social and econiomic importance of rheumatism should ocCIpy a considerable place in medical literature. Nevertheless, until the last few nears, little of importanice has been adide(d to ourikniowle(dge of this crippling group of dliseases. Significant advances in treatmenit, a closer stu(dy of the composition of synovial fluii(d and(l of the factors wvhich i...

BACKGROUND Reports indicate that PDLIM5 is involved in mood disorders. The PDLIM5 (PDZ and LIM domain 5) gene has been genetically associated with mood disorders; it's expression is upregulated in the postmortem brains of patients with bipolar disorder and downregulated in the peripheral lymphocytes of patients with major depression. Acute and chronic methamphetamine (METH) administration may m...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?The following notes of a case may be of interest to your readers, illustrating as it does the danger of unqualified practitioners;? B. S., a Hindu male, aged 45 years, came to me with syphilitic iritis. He could not afford a full course of treatment so consulted a Baid (an hereditary ophthalmic practitioner). He applied a mixture of lime, washingso...