The Nervous Irritability of Chronic Renal Disease

THE EFFECT OF CHRONIC HYPOXIA ON THE CENTR AL NERVOUS SYSTEM OF CHILDREN WITH CYANOTIC CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Due to advanced treatments in the field of heart disease, cyanotic heart disease patients have a greater chance of survival, and nowadays many of them live until adolescence or middle age. One of the signs of this disease is blood hypoxia, which has acute and chronic effects on the CNS. In this paper the effect of chronic hypoxia on children affected by cyanotic congenital heart disease (CH...

Treatment of Irritability in Huntington’s Disease

Irritability is a common neuropsychiatric feature of Huntington's disease (HD), with prevalences varying from 38% to 73%. Similar prevalences of irritability are reported in other neurodegenerative disorders and traumatic brain injury, especially when the frontal lobe is involved. Before therapeutic interventions are initiated, the clinician should analyze the severity and frequency of the irri...

Slow viruses and chronic disease of the central nervous system.

Although recognized since the 1930s, slow infections have only recently received considerable attention. There are three types, group A (related to the type C RNA viruses), group B (bizarre agents such as scrapie and kuru) and group C (viruses such as measles which normally produce acute infections but which are behaving here in an unusual fashion). These viruses are only united in that they pr...

Chronic Renal Disease: Orthomolecular Ramifications

Introduction Increasingly, human kidneys are under assault from environmental toxins as well as an array of diseases that place them at risk of ultimately failing. Eleven percent of American adults now show evidence of chronic kidney disease, with over 400,000 afflicted with end-stage kidney disease. Over a third of those cases are caused by diabetes, and the remainder by high blood pressure an...

Central Nervous System Neurotoxicity of Chronic Alcohol Abuse