Practicing neurologists, psychiatrists, and neurosurgeons from around the world were invited to participate in an online survey. The survey anonymously collected data about demographics, years in clinical practice, discipline, nation, work setting, and answers to the questions about beliefs and attitudes about brain surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy.
Published in 01 December 2022
To study the efficacy and safety of olanzapine for the treatment of children with autism associated with disruptive behavior problems.
Published in 01 January 2008
Young patients with intellectual disability (ID) have both diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. These include, inter alia, diagnostic overshadowing, diagnostic slippage and heightened vulnerability to adverse drug reactions. These would portent a generally poor prognostication.
Published in 31 May 2022
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Published in 04 June 2018
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) are used by millions of adolescents and adults worldwide. Commercial e-liquids typically contain flavorants, propylene glycol, and vegetable glycerin with or without nicotine.
Published in 18 October 2021
The pattern of drug use among 2183 young Kuwaiti conscripts was studied using the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) and urine analysis. Drug misuse rates were low, compared with similar set-ups elsewhere as independently confirmed by urine test (0.7% amphetamine and 2.8% other street drugs; alcohol was not detected in this sample) and self-report (7.9% on DAST). This may be attributed to the influence of the Islamic traditions on lifestyles.
Published in 01 August 1992
Major depressive disorder (MDD) which comes to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is prone to relapse. Cluster maintenance (CM) TMS is courses of 5 treatments delivered over 2.5-5 days, separated by monthly or greater non-treatment periods. Our aim was to characterize the outcomes of 100 courses of CM TMS.
Published in 27 October 2022
The goal of evidence-based clinical practice has led to an increased interest in the development of tools to measure adherence to national guidelines in different diseases.
Published in 01 August 2017
To investigate the opinions of physicians on the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in patients with epilepsy (PWE) worldwide.
Published in 01 April 2021
The development of high throughput SNP genotyping technologies has improved the genetic dissection of simple and complex traits in many species including cats.
Published in 04 May 2018
In 1991/1992, 49,259 women across Sweden were recruited into a cohort. In 2003, 34,402 (73%) completed follow-up. Lifestyle and health characteristics including weight were collected, and 12-year weight change and substantial weight gain (≥+5.0 kg) were calculated; association between baseline characteristics and odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) of substantial weight gain were estimated.
Published in 01 February 2017
NOMOPHOBIA, or NO MObile PHone Phobia, refers to a psychological condition in which people fear being disconnected from their mobile phones. The purpose of this review was to establish the prevalence of nomophobia symptoms in youth and young adults according to severity, country, culture, population, measurement tool, and year of data collection.
Published in 30 December 2022
According to the "obesity paradox", adults with obesity have a survival advantage following acute coronary syndrome, compared with those without obesity. Previous studies focused on peripheral obesity and whether this advantage is conferred by central obesity is unknown. The objective of this study was to describe the association of peripheral and central obesity indices with risk of in-hospital and 1-year mortality following acute coronary syndrome (ACS).
Published in 01 February 2021
This multicenter study was conducted by implementing a cross-sectional design to assess JCV seroprevalence, and a longitudinal design to assess the risk of JCV seroconversion. Multivariable logistic and Poisson regression analyses were used to assess the relationship between clinical variables and JCV seropositivity and risk of seroconversion.
Published in 15 January 2016
There is a general consensus that synaptic vesicular release by a full collapse process is the primary machinery of synaptic transmission. However, competing view suggests that synaptic vesicular release operates via a kiss-and-run mechanism. By monitoring the release dynamics of a synaptic vesicular marker, FM1-43 from individual synapses in hippocampal neurons, we found evidence that the release of synaptic vesicle was delayed by several seconds after the start of field stimulation.
Published in 02 October 2019
The awareness of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) contributes to the complications and fatality rates from these diseases among individuals; however, no previous study in Syria was conducted on this topic; thus, this study aims to assess Syrians' awareness of CVDs warning symptoms and risk factors.
Published in 25 April 2023
Of 100 inpatients with depressive illness, fifty-three had evidence of depressed mood prior to their hypochondriacal symptoms, sixteen had the opposite sequence of development and thirty-one had no hypochondriacal symptoms.
Published in 01 January 1988
Six patients who had delusional convictions that they were malodorous were followed up for between six months and four years. Difficulties encountered in clinical settings in differentiating overvalued ideas, delusions, and hallucinations arise from lack of clarity of psychopathological terminology. Schizophrenia and depression are closely related to the syndrome.
Published in 01 February 1990
There are no published studies on the comorbidity of common mental conditions (anxiety, depression, and somatization) and physical illnesses in the Arab world. Our aim was to estimate the prevalence of common mental conditions comorbid with physical illnesses among primary care attenders in Kuwait, and the sociodemographic characteristics associated with this comorbidity.
Published in 27 September 2018
To study the effectiveness and the safety of Cladribine treatment in only one group of MS patients after treatment with Cladribine for two years.
Published in 09 July 2023