introduction: unstable angina as a clinical condition includes a major group of patients manifested with acute coronary syndrome. misdiagnosis of this clinical syndrome causes myocardial infarction (mi) and death. conventional and advanced forms of treatment are used with the aim of rapid stabilization of unstable angina. although infusion of glucose - insulin - potassium (gik) solution has had...

background: unstable angina and myocardial infarction are developed due to atherosclerosis of coronary arteries. at present, cholestrol, triglyceride, and lipoproteins are the most common risk factors of death. the purpose of this study was to assess the serum levels of lp (a), ldl-c, vldl-c, hdl-c in cases of unstable angina and myocardial infarction.methods: this study was conducted to compar...

This is a case report of a patient with schizophrenic disorder, followed up prospectively over a period of six years through four episodes of illness. Her experience of a focal physical symptom as a consistent prodromal feature of each relapse forms the focus of the report as such a clinical phenomenon has not been recorded before. The possible reason for such presentation and the value of iden...

Over recent years there has been a growing interest in identifying the early stages of psychosis. The At Risk Mental State (ARMS) is characteristic of the prodromal stages of psychosis and its identification gives rise to a number of clinical and research opportunities including early intervention and prevention of psychosis. This study employs interpretative phenomenological analysis to gain i...

BACKGROUND Impairments in facial affect recognition are well documented in individuals suffering from schizophrenia. The aim of the present study was to characterize potential impairments in affect recognition and their electrophysiological correlates in at-risk individuals. Such characterization should add to the question whether the neural processes underlying facial affect recognition defici...

The basic symptoms (BS) approach provides a valid instrument in predicting psychosis onset and represents moreover a significant heuristic framework for research. The term "basic symptoms" denotes subtle changes of cognition and perception in the earliest and prodromal stages of psychosis development. BS are thought to correspond to disturbances of neural information processing. Following the h...

Schizophrenias hold a special position among psychotic disorders. Schizophrenias often start in early adulthood and bear considerable psychosocial risks and consequences. Several years of nonpsychotic clinical signs and symptoms and growing distress for patient and significant others may pass by before definite diagnosis. Young males in particular often experience their first episode while stil...