Multiple Sclerosis associated neuropsychiatric disorders include major depression (MD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bipolar affective disorder, euphoria, pseudobulbar affect, psychosis, and personality change. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies focused mainly on identifying morphostructural correlates of MD; only a few anecdotal cases on OCD associated to MS (OCD-MS), euphoria, p...

The study of periods of market euphoria, such as Holland’s seventeenth-century tulip mania, England’s eighteenth-century South Sea Company, America’s nineteenth-century railroads, or, most recently, the U.S. housing market, is a topic of long-standing interest to economists. Theorists specify conditions under which market participants and institutions cause ‘‘bubbles’’ to arise and persist and ...

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39 he quantity of printer’s ink sacrificed daily in the name of information technology and the new economy makes it difficult to separate fact from euphoria. The forceful reassertion of the business cycle and our current national trauma1 provide an appropriate opportunity for careful reflection about IT and about the future of IT in higher education. The measurable indicators — such as producti...

The emerging Information Highways offer a huge potential for carrying public information services thanks to their pervasive and immediate accessibility. The Internet is currently seen as the most promising vehicle for the implementation of these new services. Most of the basic security problems inhibiting the safe use of the network are close to being solved as discussed in the previous issue o...

The euphoria of technology In an earlier commentary (Kong, 1999), I raised the issue of distance from the c̀entre' as a barrier to a researcher's participation in the academic circuit, despite the advent of technology and the possibilities it brings of decreasing relative distance. In this commentary, I wish to focus on what technology may and may not do for teaching and learning, and thus to ba...

Methamphetamine is a synthetically produced central nervous system stimulant [1]. This drug is the second illicit drug used after cannabis in North America Asia, and Oceania, with an annual global prevalence estimated at 0.4% [1]. Its use remains marginal in Europe except in the Czech Republic (2,8 cases for 1000) and Slovakia (1,5 to 4 cases for 1000) [2]. This drug is usually sold in powder, ...

Acknowledgements This thesis would not have been possible without the help of a number of people. I wish to thank all those who have been involved directly or indirectly. In particular, I thank my advisor Rolf Möhring for his support and trust, and for letting me pursue independent research on topics that I am interested in. I benefited a lot from the opportunity to join the academic research c...

BACKGROUND/AIM The Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Clinician (NPI-C) scale is one of the best-known scales for evaluating the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. This study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the NPI-C scale in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). MATERIALS AND METHODS The NPI-C scale was administered to 125 patients with AD. For ...