Background: Quantifying changes in spinal mobility throughout the child’s development, and/or during a course of therapy is a valuable component in the pediatric physical therapy management. The purpose of this study was to establish normative values of lumbar spinal mobility on...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/15158
Intensive care unit is a particular medical environment, sometimes creating particular stress to patients prone to psychological and psychiatric phenomenology. ICU psychosis, delirium and depression have been originally diagnosed in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. There is a...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/13955
Catatonia is a state of apparent unresponsiveness to external stimuli in a person who is apparently awake and which occurs in children, adolescents, and adults and is characterized by a variety of symptoms and signs of impairment of the expression of voluntary thoughts and moveme...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/13171
Background: Medical students in Nigeria are exposed to various types of substances to enhance their academic performance .This is not without its attendant problems. Objectives: The objectives were to identify the substances used by medical students in Nigerian universities as we...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12795
Eve G. Spratt, Ann- Charlotte Granholm, Laura A. Carpenter, Heather A. Boger, Carrie E. Papa, Sarah Logan, Humera Chaudhary, Sarah- Wade Boatwright & Kathleen T. Brady·International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal·2014
Aims: There is a need for more biologic research in autistic disorder (AD) to determine if biomarkers exist that would be useful for correlating to symptom severity and/or clinical improvement during treatment. Given the fact that AD is 4 times more common in males than females,...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12118
Aims: Dementia is common among the elderly but it can also affect the younger age group. Cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEI) in Alzheimer Dementia (AD) are extensively studied and widely used. This case report aims to illustrate the usefulness of ChEIs in other non–age related neuro...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12752
Aims: Nemaline rod myopathy (NRM) is a rare form of congenital myopathy characterized by slowly progressive or non progressive muscle weakness and pathognomonic rod-like structures within the muscle fibers. Muscle weakness and hypotonia are apparent from the neonatal period. We r...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12813
Aims: To report antihistamine abuse at a tertiary headache center including 6 patients who meet the criteria for substance abuse for intramuscular diphenhydramine (DPH). Presentation of the Cases: Six patients were identified who were prescribed intramuscular DPH and developed es...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2015/12216
Background: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is one the most common gynecological conditions that can impact an individual’s interpersonal relationships, social interactions, academic performance, and emotional well-being. Objective: The aim of this research was to determine the psych...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/12638
Giovanni Abbate-Daga, Enrica Marzola, Federico Amianto, Maurizio Zibetti, Aristide Merola, Michele Lanotte, Leonardo Lopiano & Secondo Fassino·International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal·2014
Aims: Certain personality features and psychiatric symptoms are often observed in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) but the effects of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) on psychiatric aspects of PD remain largely unclear. We aimed to evaluate changes in persona...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/11740
Alessandro Carano, Domenico De Berardis, Marilde Cavuto, Carla Ortolani, Giampaolo Perna, Alessandro Valchera, Monica Mazza, Michele Fornaro, Felice Iasevoli, Giovanni Martinotti & Massimo Di Giannantonio·International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal·2014
In 1880 French neurologist Jules Cotard described a condition characterized by delusion of negation (nihilistic delusion) in a melancholia context. Recently, there has been a resurgence of interest in Cotard’s syndrome. The most prominent symptoms of Cotard’s Syndrome are depress...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/7215
Major depressive disorder is a serious medical illness associated with significant burden. Our current treatments for depression are limited, which has motivated researchers to explore novel targets. This article will highlight new psychopharmacological agents and investigational...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/11590
Aims: Relative to studies of lived experiences of people with mental health disorders in developed countries, no research has focused on the lived experiences of persons living with mental health disorders in the Niger Delta region and Nigeria in general. Mental health services a...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/10791
Aims: The expression of gene and gene product is typically inhibited by a small non-coding RNA (microRNA) or DNA methylation. The aim of this study is to investigate mechanisms involving microRNA let-7f by which the repeated cycles of ethanol exposure and withdrawal provoke mitoc...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/11533
Aim: Intellectual disability often referred to as a mental, cognitive or mental retardation is a lifelong condition that affects intellectual functioning and adaptive behaviors. Information about children with intellectual disability attending regular schools is limited in India...
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Research Article10.9734/INDJ/2014/10610