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Do Cytokines Really Sing the Blues?

Editor’s Note: The World Health Organization predicts that depression, which already affects about 10 percent of the population in the United States, will be the world’s leading medical condition by 2030. Evidence suggests several causes for depression, including traumatic life events, disease, poison, and nutritional deficiencies. Many of these causes are associated with elevated levels of inf...

FIFO and LIFO sing the BLUes

FIFO, First-In-First-Out. and LIFO, Last-In-FirstOut, are well-known techniques for handling sequences. In TJ$ macro writing they are abundant but are not easily recognized as such. TJ$ templates for FIFO and LIFO are given and their use illustrated. The relation with Knuth's \dolist, answer ex11.5, and \ctest. p.376, is given.

Cytokines sing the blues: inflammation and the pathogenesis of depression.

Increasing amounts of data suggest that inflammatory responses have an important role in the pathophysiology of depression. Depressed patients have been found to have higher levels of proinflammatory cytokines, acute phase proteins, chemokines and cellular adhesion molecules. In addition, therapeutic administration of the cytokine interferon-alpha leads to depression in up to 50% of patients. M...

Making non-fluent aphasics speak: sing along!

A classic observation in neurology is that aphasics can sing words they cannot pronounce otherwise. To further assess this claim, we investigated the production of sung and spoken utterances in eight brain-damaged patients suffering from a variety of speech disorders as a consequence of a left-hemisphere lesion. In Experiment 1, the patients were tested in the repetition and recall of words and...

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