The Next Step Forward

Psychiatry Investigation : The Next Step Forward

Psychiatry Investigation (PI) has been published biannually since August 2004 as an official English journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association (KNPA) for the purpose of dealing with unique regional psychiatric issues. Under the leadership of the KNPA president Prof. Yong Sik Kim, Prof. Byoung-Hoon Oh became the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Launching on a new English journal...

The Next Step Forward Is to Take a Step Back.

Understanding the causes of diabetes is at the heart of most diabetes research. The field of causal inference has made dramatic advances in methodology that allows for causal inference from observational and not experimental data (1). One such methodological advancement is the use of genetic markers as instrumental variables, or so-called Mendelian randomization (MR) (2). MR relies on the laws ...

Molecular imaging of the remodeling heart: the next step forward.

Cardiac remodeling is the term used to describe changes in cardiac structure that occur following injury to the heart and/or in response to longstanding increases in loading conditions. Regardless of the nature of the initial insult, the remodeling process tends to be more or less uniform in nature. Relatively well-described changes in gene expression produce prototypic phenotypic changes in ca...

Accountable-ehealth Systems: the next Step Forward for Privacy

EHealth systems promise enviable benefits and capabilities for healthcare, yet the technologies that make these capabilities possible brings with them undesirable drawback such as information security related threats which need to be appropriately addressed. Lurking in these threats are patient privacy concerns. Resolving these privacy concerns have proven to be difficult since they often confl...

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