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Psychiatry
Objective of the studiy is to investigate continuity of child and adult BP-I and characteristics of later episodes.
Archives of General Psychiatry - Wed, 8 October 2008

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Psychiatry
Results of experimental studies suggest that neuroplastic changes may occur during depressive episodes.
Archives of General Psychiatry - Wed, 8 October 2008

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Psychiatry
In biologically related families, parents who smoke may transmit a nonspecific genetic risk for offspring disinhibited behavior, including tobacco use.
American Journal of Psychiatry - Wed, 8 October 2008

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Psychiatry
Increasingly, children are being diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, including preschool-age children. These diagnoses in young children raise questions pertaining to 1) how diagnostic algorithms for individual disorders should be modified for young age groups, 2) how psychopathology is best detected at an early stage, and 3) how to make use of multiple informants. The authors examined these issues in a prospective longitudinal assessment of preschool- and elementary school-age children who were exposed to a traumatic event.
American Journal of Psychiatry - Wed, 8 October 2008

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Infectious Diseases
Climate change may hasten the spread of diseases that can move from wild animals to humans.
BBC News - Wed, 8 October 2008

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Andrology
Men who suffer from premature ejaculation may be able to blame their genes, work suggests.
BBC News - Wed, 8 October 2008

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Genetics e Rare diseases
Scientists say they have developed a safer blood test that can tell a women if her unborn baby has Down's syndrome.
BBC News - Wed, 8 October 2008

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General medicine
After the Ig Nobel prizes were announced last week, there were a few less "unknown unknowns." Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary who first coined the phrase to describe things we didn’t know that we didn’t know, would have been delighted.
British Medical Journal - Wed, 8 October 2008

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Genetics e Rare diseases
Gaucher’s disease - the most common lysosomal storage disease - continues to be a model for applications of molecular medicine to clinical delineation, diagnosis, and treatment.
The Lancet - Wed, 8 October 2008

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Dietetics and Nutrition
A simple, safe, one-a-day capsule of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) can reduce mortality and admission to hospital for cardiovascular reasons in patients with heart failure.
The Lancet - Wed, 8 October 2008

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