Thirty years in hemostasis research in Cluj Napoca

Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca

ZNF804A rs1344706 variant and schizophrenia in a Romanian population from Cluj Napoca.

The ZNF804A rs1344706 variant was the first risk factor to be identified through genome-wide association studies and follow-up studies with meta-analysis for schizophrenia as well as bipolar disorders; we investigated 231 schizophrenia and 222 controls to see whether this particular variant was associated with schizophrenia in a Romanian population from Cluj Napoca. Clearly, there was no associ...

Thirty Years of Research on Infant

The field of infant speech perception emerged in the early 1970s as new techniques became available to assess young infants’sophisticated discriminative capacities. Peter W. Jusczyk, who died in 2001, was involved in the first studies of infant speech perception and became over the next 30 years the most prolific and influential contributor to research on language acquisition. We review his man...

Tropical Diseases Research: Thirty Years and Counting

TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, was launched in 1978, more or less the same year I began my career in science as a Yale undergraduate working on the then nascent molecular biology of antigenic variation in African trypanosomes. Over the next two decades as a MD PhD student working on hookworms at Rockefeller University, and then back at Yale as a postd...

Unilateral peripheral vestibular disorders in the emergency room of the ENT Department of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

OBJECTIVE To asses the management of unilateral peripheral vestibular disorders in the emergency room of the ENT Department of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. MATERIAL AND METHOD The study was prospective, non-randomized, and included the patients presented for dizziness or balance disorders at the emergency room of the ENT Department between March 2012 and March 2013. Demographic characteristics, spec...