Nordqvist, S. 2014. Biological Markers of Fertility. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1048. 74 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9085-0. Infertility affects 15 % of couples, which corresponds to 60 80 million worldwide. The microenvironments in which the oocyte, embryo and fetus mature are vital to the establishment...

Way back in 1898 Freud, the propounder of psychoanalysis and enunciator of psychological concepts of mental illnesses wrote to his friend Fliess—"I have no desire at all to leave the psychology hanging in the air with no organic basis but beyond the feeling of conviction (that there must be such a basis), I have nothing either theoretical or therapeutic to work on and so I must behave as if con...

The recent advances in molecular genetics (Gershon et al. 1987) have given a new impetus to the search for biological markers of depression. It is now feasible to use molecular techniques to study the functional expression of specific genes associated with clearly defined marker abnormalities in patients with depression. Such studies could yield valuable information regarding the classification...