Culture-bound Syndrome: Has it Found its Right Niche?

Amplitude integrated electroencephalogram (aEEG): has it found its niche in neonatal intensive care unit?

There has been an important change in newborn intensive care for infants with encephalopathy assumed to be of a hypoxic-ischemic origin. Prior to 2005, a brain specific therapy was not available and management was limited to intensive supportive care. The latter consisted of correction of physiologic derangements in blood pressure, acid-base, and minerals/electrolytes, treatment of seizures, an...

PDF Has Found Its Receptor

The neuropeptide pigment-dispersing factor (PDF) is a crucial component of the insect circadian clock, but the identity of its receptor has long remained a mystery. In this issue of Neuron, three papers (Hyun et al., Lear et al., and Mertens et al.) identify the PDF receptor.

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Resignation Syndrome: Catatonia? Culture-Bound?

Resignation syndrome (RS) designates a long-standing disorder predominately affecting psychologically traumatized children and adolescents in the midst of a strenuous and lengthy migration process. Typically a depressive onset is followed by gradual withdrawal progressing via stupor into a state that prompts tube feeding and is characterized by failure to respond even to painful stimuli. The pa...

“gilahari (lizard) Syndrome” Is It a New Culture Bound Syndrome? - a Case Report

Culture bound syndromes are generally limited to specific societies or cultural areas and are localized. Authors report a case which seems to be a new culture bound syndrome, has atypical presentation and difficult to categories but could be diagnosed as somatoform NOS (F-45.9). This syndrome is commonly called Gilahari (Lizard) among local public and considered to be very serious and fatal ill...