Outwitting Middle Age

A middle age addicted man with caustic stomach

Background: The term caustic generally refers to alkaline and the term corrosive generally refers to acidic agents' injury however, in medical literature caustic is frequently a term applied to both substances. Ingested alkali typically damage the esophagus more than stomach or duodenum, whereas acids usually cause more severe gastric injury. Since esophagus has a slightly alkaline pH, its epit...

Middle Age Has Its Advantages

If we’re lucky, we get old. Physical and mental decline are negative hallmark associations of aging. Imagine being born blind and, as you approach middle age, waking up with the ability to see. In this issue of PLOS Genetics, Cornils, Maurya, and colleagues discover such a phenomenon: age-related suppression of ciliogenesis defects [1]. Cilia are microtubule-based organelles that protrude from ...

Psychiatric Aspect of Middle Age.

Some thirty years ago Walter P. Pitkin wrote a book called Life Begins at Forty. Its sales rocketed to millions and it probably helped to crystallize the attractive image of youthful middle-age which beguiles us from the pages of American magazines, with its sun-tanned greying men with flashing teeth, skilfully concealing girth under colourful, capacious, Hawaian shirts, or those icily elegant,...

The Challenge of Middle Age

ft >^VIV ? V T IV I47 'laHenge of Middle Age. By J. H. Wallis. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, PK12s. 6d.) atrot,lems of mental health and mental illness present themselves in different ways e various periods of development in the life of an individual. In middle age faced with biological changes such as the menopause, early signs of ageing ^fulfi rea^sati?n that ltfe wiU inevitably draw to a close wi...

Spastic Paraplegia in Middle Age.