Special Issue: Juvenile Onset Huntington’s Disease

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Special issue on Chagas disease

This special issue of Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz was based on studies presented by invited speakers at the 13th International Congress of Parasitology, which was held in Mexico City from 10-15 August 2014. These speakers participated in symposia on different scenarios of Chagas disease transmission, disease control, congenital transmission of this disease, transmission of Trypanosoma cr...

Special issue on pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.

On May 23 and 24, 2013, the First PANS Consensus Conference was convened at Stanford University, calling together a geographically diverse group of clinicians and researchers from complementary fields of pediatrics: General and developmental pediatrics, infectious diseases, immunology, rheumatology, neurology, and child psychiatry. Participants were academicians with clinical and research inter...

Applying Bioinfomatics Strategies in Huntingtons Disease Research

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j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...