Catching Up on Schizophrenia

Catching Up on Schizophrenia Natural History and Neurobiology

some 1q21–22 was identified as the location of a major and Radiology vulnerability locus for familial schizophrenia with suffi-University of North Carolina School of Medicine cient power to permit positional cloning of the underlying gene(s) (Brzustowicz et al., 2000). Environmental factors (including exposure to infectious , autoimmune, toxic, or traumatic insults and stress Introduction durin...

Catching Up on Fisheries Crime

This article describes international collaborative efforts aimed at improving the global capacity to address fisheries crime, with a particular focus on the International Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (IMCS) network and INTERPOL activities. These 2 initiatives have emerged as a response to existing governance deficits and, combined, substantially improve the prospects for addressing ill...

Catching up on the Clean Air Act.

Four patients underwent intraoperative photodynamic therapy after surgery with meso-tetra(hydroxyphenyl)-chlorin (mTHPC-PDT) for diffuse malignant mesothelioma. Preliminary procedures were performed in two patients in order to establish the efficacy of mTHPC-PDT and to optimise its tumoricidal effect. The tumoricidal effect was related to the mTHPC dose, light dose and the time interval between...

Catching Up with Flu

The sniffles, sneezes, aches, and pains of flu are a dreaded part of the winter season. The fear of another deadly pandemic is ever imminent, and this issue’s Select looks at recent efforts to understand this ever-shifting virus. From efforts aiming to predict its geographical spread to those that elucidate the basic viral biology and host response, researchers are looking for new ways to stay ...

Innovation and catching-up