Pregnant women can present with a wide variety of neurological conditions. Patient data from 1 January 1985 through 31 December 1994 for all deliveries at the Tsan Yuk and Queen Mary hospitals were reviewed to determine the local frequency of various neurological conditions during pregnancy. Conditions including epilepsy, eclampsia, facial nerve palsy, pituitary tumour, cerebrovascular disorder...

Neurological disorders are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in pregnancy. In the UK between 2003 and 2005, women with neurological conditions accounted for 37 out of a total 87 ‘indirect’ maternal deaths (those not arising from pregnancy or birth), with stroke (n = 24) and epilepsy (n =11)1 accounting for the majority of deaths from neurological causes2. Neurological assessment ca...

J.J. Randolph (ed.), Positive Neuropsychology: Evidence-Based Perspectives on Promoting Cognitive Health, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6605-5_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 The occurrence of depression in neurological patient groups is signifi cantly greater than what would be expected based on incidence of depression in the general population, in which lifetime and 12-month point...

Neurological disorders comprise a variety of complex diseases in the central nervous system, which can be roughly classified as neurodegenerative diseases and psychiatric disorders. The basic and translational research of neurological disorders has been hindered by the difficulty in accessing the pathological center (i.e., the brain) in live patients. The rapid advancement of sequencing and arr...

Most of the living organisms derive their energy requirements from ingested food material through controlled metabolic reactions. Prokaryotes like bacteria obtain the ATP, the energy subunit from series of enzymatic reactions which occur in the cytosol [1]. In contrast to prokaryotes, eukaryotes have evolved a highly specialized double membrane organelles i.e., mitochondria encompassing electro...