Can Antipsychotic Agents be Considered as Real Antimanic Treatments?

Can Antipsychotic Agents be Considered as Real Antimanic Treatments?

Until now, in various parts of the world, no consensus has been reached with regard to the treatment of acute mania. Controlled clinical trials have at last provided irrefutable evidence for the effectiveness of lithium, which had long been used alone, as well as that of divalproate or its derivatives and, to a lesser extent, carbamazepine (1). In Europe, haloperidol is still the reference comp...

Can Bioinformatics Be Considered as an Experimental Biological Science?

The objective of this short report is to reconsider the subject of bioinformatics as just being a tool of experimental biological science. To do that, we introduce three examples to show how bioinformatics could be considered as an experimental science. These examples show how the development of theoretical biological models generates experimentally verifiable computer hypotheses, which necessa...

Can Male Fertility Be Improved Prior to Assisted Reproduction through The Control of Uncommonly Considered Factors?

A Slightly Dorsally Tilted Lunate on MRI can be Considered Normal

  Background: Abnormal angulation of the lunate can be an indication of intercarpal pathology. On magnetic resonance images (MRIs) the lunate often looks dorsally angulated, even in healthy wrists. The tilt on individual slices can also be different and might be misinterpreted as pathological, contributing to inaccurate diagnoses and unnecessary surgery. The primary aim of this study was to det...

Can constructed action be considered obligatory?

A communicative device that a signer can take advantage of in the visual–gestural modality is the use of the signer’s body to depict the actions and movements of an object—whether that object be animate or inanimate. This communicative device (referred to within this abstract as becoming the object) is used frequently in signed narratives, but it also appears in other genres of signing. Whether...