Targeting Hyperglycaemia with Anti-Obesity Drugs: Time for a Paradigm Shift?

Old versus New Antiepileptic Drugs: Time for a Paradigm Shift?

The development of the newer antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) has increased the number of available treatment options for patients with epilepsy, making drug selection a complex task. However, studies have shown that the newer AEDs have several potential advantages over the older AEDs. Newer AEDs are less likely to cause drug-to-drug interactions, are associated with lower risk of adverse effects, an...

A Methodology for Paradigm Shift to Explain Sustainable University

The sustainable university concept is rooted in prevalent paradigms pertained to economic, social and environmental development, which all focus on systemic thought and rationality; besides, they tend to  discover and solve problems by applying an interdisciplinary approach. However, the epistemic component is what these paradigms have ignored. The purpose of this study is to explain a methodo...

Fluency: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Pauses in spontaneous speaking constitute a rich source of data for several disciplines. They have been used to enhance automatic segmentation of speech, classification of patients with acquired communication disorders, the design of psycholinguistic models of speaking, and the analysis of psychological disorders. Unfortunately, however, although pause analysis has been with us for more than 40...

paradigm shift of health towards obesity in childhood

Obesity, adipose tissue and anti-obesity drugs

Adipose tissue Adipocytokines Obesity Anti-obesity drugs