INTRODUCTION Effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation with appropriate airway management improves outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Historically, tracheal intubation has been accepted as the optimal form of OHCA airway management in the UK. The Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee recently concluded that newer supraglottic airway devices (SADs) are safe and ef...

INTRODUCTION Bipolar disorder (BD) has been increasingly associated with abnormalities in neuroplasticity and cellular resilience in brain regions that are involved in mood and that affect regulation. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a member of the neurotrophin family that regulates neuroplasticity. The aims of the current study were to compare serum BDNF levels in euthymic adolesce...

Species abundance distributions (SADs) describe community structure and are a key component of biodiversity theory research. Although different have been proposed to represent SADs at scales, systematic empirical assessment how SAD shape varies across wide scale gradients is lacking. Here, we examined 11 large-scale datasets for range taxa used maximum likelihood methods compare the fit logseri...

Zahra Shahrivar, Maryam Kousha, Shirin Moallemi, Mehdi Tehrani-Doost & Javad Alaghband-Rad Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada Department of Psychiatry, Gillan University...

Early-onset bipolar disorder (BD) is associated with a more severe illness as well number of clinical factors among adults. can be categorized childhood-onset (age <13 years) or adolescent-onset ≥13 years), the 2 displaying different profiles. However, adolescents, there paucity research comparing both prevalence and profiles to BD. We set out examine potential differences in demographic, clini...

Senescent cells have a case of the SADS C ells unravel their centro-meres as they enter senes-cence, Swanson et al. reveal. Senescent cells are metabolically active but no longer capable of dividing. This permanent exit from the cell cycle can be induced by the telomere shortening associated with aging or by other stresses such as the expression of active onco-genes. Despite the importance of s...

BACKGROUND: Several studies have demonstrated that South African children and adolescents are exposed to high levels of violent trauma with a significant proportion developing PTSD, however, limited resources make it difficult to accurately identify traumatized children. METHODS: A clinical interview (K-SADS-PL, selected modules) and self-report scale (CATS) were compared to determine if these ...