Abstract Conventional electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is widely used for monitoring the fluids flow in a pipeline. As emergence of microfluidics, system has been miniaturized and integrated into microfludic platform imaging purposes. The on-chip ECT designed to monitor permittivity distribution micro-platform by integrating planar electrodes with sensing region. However, limited researc...

Introduction Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) is a primary degenerative dementing syndrome characterized by visual hallucinations, fluctuation in cognition, depressive symptoms and parkinsonism. Literature has shown the utility of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) demented patients regarding agitation. Nevertheless, majority cases described include vascular dementia Alzheimer’s disease. There are ...

A questionnaire on ECT, tapping altitudes, opinions and usage, was mailed to all medical members of the Indian Psychiatric Society whose addresses were known; 263 (28.8%) responded. This paper, the first in a series that presents the results of the survey, provides demographic data on the respondents and covers issues relating to the administration of ECT. Specific issues discussed include the ...

Objective: A relationship between glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and the etiology of schizophrenia (SCH) bipolar disorder (BD) has been reported. GDNF, in addition to other factors, may play a role mechanism action electroconvulsive treatment (ECT). The primary objective this study was investigate effect ECT on serum GDNF levels before after administration ECT. Method: Thirt...