a Technical University Berlin, FR 3-3, CG & CAM, Franklinstr. 28-29, D-10587 Berlin, Germany, Phone: 030/314-73100, Fax: 030/314-23596, Email: [email protected] b Dresden-Friedrichstadt General Hospital, Central Hospital Services Department, Friedrichstr. 41, D-01067 Dresden, Germany c Consulting, Haldenbühlstr. 15, D-88682 Salem, Germany d Dresden-Friedrichstadt General Hospital, Radiology D...

......................................................................................................................................... 23 1.1 The neonatal brain: conception to postnatal development ........................................ 24 1.1.1 Formation of the brain............................................................................................... 24 1.1.2 Neonatal cortical c...

............................................................................................v Introduction........................................................................................1 Method..............................................................................................13 Results..............................................................................................

iv CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER TWO. LITERATURE REVIEW 5 CHAPTER THREE. HYPOTHESES 23 CHAPTER FOUR. METHODS 29 CHAPTER FIVE. RESULTS 41 CHAPTER SIX. CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION 53

.................................................................................................................. 7 INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 8 Theories of Stuttering ..................................................................................................... 8 Adulthood Anxiety and Stuttering...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the psychosocial impact of bilateral prophylactic mastectomy for women with increased risk of breast cancer and to identify, preoperatively, risk factors for postoperative distress. DESIGN Prospective study using interviews and questionnaire assessments. SETTING Participants' homes throughout the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS 143 women with increased risk of devel...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the symptomatology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) among health care professionals attending an IBS symposium in a tertiary care university hospital. METHOD A questionnaire designed to incorporate Manning and Rome II criteria was distributed among participants of an IBS symposium, most of them were health care professionals. A total of 100 questionnaires were distribut...

We observed amino acid homology between the cysteine-rich N terminus of the thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) ectodomain and epidermal growth factor-like repeats in the laminin gamma1 chain. Thyroid-stimulating autoantibodies (TSAb), the cause of Graves' disease, interact with this region of the TSHR in a manner critically dependent on antigen conformation. We studied the role of the cluster of four ...