aim and background: in recent years, experts in the field of obsessive-compulsive disorder have been trying to measure the validity and efficiency of pharmaceutical interventions. the meta-analysis evaluated the effectiveness of medication on symptoms of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. methods and materials: this meta-analysis was conducted on studies during the past decade in iran...

W hen ion concentrations differ on either side of a membrane, this produces a difference in electrical potential, or voltage, across the membrane. Neurons utilize this voltage to transmit information in the form of electrical signals. But might cell voltage also affect processes such as embryonic development or the behavior of yeast and other microbes? These questions cannot be answered using t...

Let (R,m) be a commutative Noetherian local ring. Suppose that M and N are finitely generated modules over R such that M has finite projective dimension and such that TorRi (M,N) = 0 for all i > 0. The main result of this note gives a condition on M which is necessary and sufficient for the tensor product of M and N to be a Cohen–Macaulay module over R, provided N is itself a Cohen–Macaulay mod...

I thank Drs. Quintner and Cohen for their interest in my editorial [1] about the study by Albrect et al. [2]. Drs. Quintner and Cohen have raised several concerns about my discussion of the implications of that study, especially of the concept that peripheral nociception by myofascial trigger points initiates central sensitization. They object to the idea that peripheral nerve sensitization is ...

2 Introduction The Empathizing/Systemizing (E/S) hypothesis developed by Baron-Cohen and colleagues has two main goals: first, to explain the presence of brain, cognitive, and behavioral differences between the sexes; and second, to explain the pattern of symptoms associated with autistic syndromes. These two goals are connected, since Baron-Cohen argues that autism is the expression of an " ex...