Background: There is a wealth of research done in developed countries on the investigation of the working memory (WM) performance in people with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) (IQ>70), with different reported findings. There is a dearth of similar studies in developing countries. In addition, the findings suggest that WM is possibly influenced by culture. The present study inv...

Students of the history of medicine long complained that there was no single volume available that expounded to a general audience the results of the massive changes that have taken place within the subject over the last thirty years. Now, English readers have a choice between three such histories of medicine, and a fourth, written by Roy Porter alone, will appear shortly. Of those in print, th...

Amnon Bar-Shir, Nirbhay N Yadav, Assaf A Gilad, Peter CM van Zijl, Michael T McMahon, and Jeff WM Bulte Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States, Cellular Imaging Section, Institute for Cell Engineering, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States, F.M. Kirb...

in his seminal book on the historical periods of western attitudes toward death, philippe aries describes four consecutive periods through which these attitudes evolved and transformed. according to him, the historical attitudes of western cultures have passed through four major parts described above: “tamed death,” one’s own death,” “thy death,” and “forbidden death.” this paper, after explori...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diabetes mellitus leads to a higher risk of ischemic stroke and worse outcome compared to the general population. However, there have been few studies on white matter (WM) damage after stroke in diabetes mellitus. We therefore investigated WM damage after stroke in mice with diabetes mellitus. METHODS BKS.Cg-m(+/+)Lepr(db)/J (db/db) type 2 diabetes mellitus mice and db(...

Use of herbal medicine is popular among cancer patients. This study aimed to explore the coprescription of CHM and WM among prostate cancer patients in Taiwan. This cross-sectional retrospective study used a population-based database containing one million beneficiaries of National Health Insurance. Claims and prescriptions were analyzed. In 2007, 218 (22.4%) prostate cancer patients were CHM u...

Anemia often prompts therapy in Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM), although is not fully explained by bone marrow disease involvement in many patients. Hepcidin regulates gut absorption and distribution of iron and is elevated and associated with anemia in WM. Since hepcidin evaluation remains experimental, we initiated an American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) practice improvement project...