Sammenheng mellom kronisk stress og Alzheimers sykdom?

Serum-albumin and risk of thyroid cancer: A population-based, matched case-control study

Flere epidemiologiske undersøkelser fra 1980og 1990-årene har funnet en invers assosiasjon mellom salbuminnivået og sykelighet/dødelighet av kreft. I utforskningen av skjoldkjertelkreftens etiologi og patogenese ble det derfor ansett som viktig å finne og bestemme styrken av en slik sammenheng når det gjelder skjoldkjertelkreft. Derfor ble alle med tilstrekkelig mengde serum deponert i Janusban...

Optimal Policy in OG Models

In the present paper general stationary overlapping generations economies with many commodities in every period and many different consumers in every generation are considered. A government maximizes a utilitarian social welfare function, which is the sum of weighted averages of utilities for generations, through fiscal policy, i.e., monetary transfers and taxes. Situations both with and withou...

Placebo. Historie, biologi og effekt

Since 1950 or so, placebos and their effect have generated a considerable interest in certain medical communities, in particular among psychiatrists and the designers of clinical trials, yet the only significant external study of this phenomenon to appear has been Howard Brody's doctoral investigation, Placebos and the philosophy ofmedicine, published in 1980. In 1997, however, three book-lengt...

Does Fungal Infection Cause Alzheimers?

Og y OF C Og NI TI ON 156 Reflections on My Collaboration with Francisco

> Context • Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana worked closely together for several short episodes and wrote joint publications during the 1970s and 1980s. After that their respective paths in life diverged. > Problem • What is the common ground and what are the differences between these two authors with respect to their lives and aims? > Method • The author reconstructs their common history...