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Attention is an essential cognitive function which was use to perceive the external world, and it is the basis of all cognitive activities.Other cognitive functions such as working memory, executive function, information processing speed and so on, are also adversely affected in hypoprosexia or hyperfocusing state.Patients with schizophrenia have severe attention disorder, which makes patients unable to successfully complete the task of work or study, thus reduce the quality of life.Attention disorder exists throughout the whole course of this disease, and there is no specific drug for it.In recent years, antipsychotic medications have widespread application, but it has not shown up significantly improvement of attention disorder, worse still, its side effects will exacerbate the disease, which results in the impairment of the patients' ability to learn and explore the novelties.Neuroimaging markers of attention disorder in schizophrenia are the focus of current researches.White matter fibers are important pathways that connect attention networks and maintain the three-dimensional structure of the brain.Previous studies have suggested that attention disorder may be related to abnormalities of white matter fibers connecting various encephalic regions.In particular, abnormalities in the integrity of white matter, such as corpus callosum, cingulum bundle, superior longitudinal fasciculus, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, have been reported to be significantly associated with attention disorder in patients with schizophrenia.In this study, the relationship between attention disorder and white matter structure in patients with schizophrenia is reviewed through diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) technique.
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Objective@#Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) provides a lot of evidence for local abnormal brain activity in schizophrenia, but the results are not consistent. Our aim is to find out the consistent abnormal brain regions of the patients with schizophrenia by using regional homogeneity (ReHo), and indirectly understand the degree of brain damage of the patients with drug-naive first episode schizophrenia (Dn-FES) and chronic schizophrenia. @*Methods@#We performed the experiment by activation likelihood estimation (ALE) software to analysis the differences between people with schizophrenia group (all schizophrenia group and chronic schizophrenia group) and healthy controls. @*Results@#Thirteen functional imaging studies were included in quantitative meta-analysis. All schizophrenia group showed decreased ReHo in bilateral precentral gyrus (PreCG) and left middle occipital gyrus (MOG), and increased ReHo in bilateral superior frontal gyrus (SFG) and right insula. Chronic schizophrenia group showed decreased ReHo in bilateral MOG, right fusiform gyrus, left PreCG, left cerebellum, right precuneus, left medial frontal gyrus and left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). No significant increased brain areas were found in patients with chronic schizophrenia. @*Conclusion@#Our findings suggest that patients with chronic schizophrenia have more extensive brain damage than FES, which may contribute to our understanding of the progressive pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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Objective@#Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) provides a lot of evidence for local abnormal brain activity in schizophrenia, but the results are not consistent. Our aim is to find out the consistent abnormal brain regions of the patients with schizophrenia by using regional homogeneity (ReHo), and indirectly understand the degree of brain damage of the patients with drug-naive first episode schizophrenia (Dn-FES) and chronic schizophrenia. @*Methods@#We performed the experiment by activation likelihood estimation (ALE) software to analysis the differences between people with schizophrenia group (all schizophrenia group and chronic schizophrenia group) and healthy controls. @*Results@#Thirteen functional imaging studies were included in quantitative meta-analysis. All schizophrenia group showed decreased ReHo in bilateral precentral gyrus (PreCG) and left middle occipital gyrus (MOG), and increased ReHo in bilateral superior frontal gyrus (SFG) and right insula. Chronic schizophrenia group showed decreased ReHo in bilateral MOG, right fusiform gyrus, left PreCG, left cerebellum, right precuneus, left medial frontal gyrus and left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). No significant increased brain areas were found in patients with chronic schizophrenia. @*Conclusion@#Our findings suggest that patients with chronic schizophrenia have more extensive brain damage than FES, which may contribute to our understanding of the progressive pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
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This study was aimed to explore the characteristics of urine metabolomics among HIV/AIDS patients with spleen-lung qi-deficiency. H-NMR technique was combined with principal component analysis and cluster analysis in the comparison of urine metabolic products among 24 HIV/AIDS cases with spleen-lung qi-deficiency and 20 healthy control cases. The results showed that urine metabolic products of HIV/AIDS patients with spleen-lung qi-deficiency and healthy people by H-NMR technique detection and PLS-DA analysis can classify the outline of urine metabolites. There were about 20 variables in the difference between two groups. The speculated substances contained glycyl-L-leucine, L-valine, α-aminobutyric acid, methyl succinic acid, glycine propionyl, and etc. It was concluded that H-NMR technique was able to classify the outline of urine metabolites between HIV/AIDS cases with spleen-lung qi-deficiency and healthy people. Part of the potential existed characteristic markers contributed to the clinical diagnosis of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome differentiation of AIDS. It had certain effect in its quantitative analysis.
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Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of a new low-dose oral contraceptive pill (YAZ) containing drospirenone 3 mg and ethinylestradiol 20 μg with placebo in reducing symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Methods This multicenter, double-blind, randomized clinical trial consisted of 2 run-in and 3 treatment cycles (84 days) with daily symptom charting; 187 women with symptoms of PMDD were randomized to either placebo group (n=94) or YAZ group (n=93), and assessed with daily record of severity of problems scale (DRSP) and clinical global impressions scale (CGI) before, during and after the treatments. Hormones were administered for 24 days, followed by 4 days of inactive pills. Results Compared with baseline level of DRSP, both groups got improvement after treatment; the YAZ group (median-28.7, range:-82.5 to 2.3) had greater improvement than that in the placebo group (median-23.7, range:-86.0 to 11.8), while there was not significant difference (P>0.05). The main adverse effects of YAZ included intermenstrual bleeding [13% (12/93) versus 3% (3/94)], menorrhagia [9% (8/93) versus 1%(1/94)], nausea [5%(5/93) versus 4%(4/94)] and skin rash [4%(4/93) versus 2%(2/94)]. Conclusions YAZ could improve symptoms of PMDD better than placebo, while without statistic significance in this study. The most common adverse effects are intermenstrual bleeding, menorrhagia, nausea and rash.
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To study the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndrome factors of patients from different areas of China with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
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OBJECTIVE@#To compare the effect of 7 antipsychotic drugs on the life quality of schizophrenia patients including chlorpromazine, sulpiride, clozapine, risperidone, olanzapine, quetiapine, and aripiprazole.@*METHODS@#A total of 1,227 stable schizophrenic patients within 5 years onset who took 1 of the 7 study medications as maintenance treatment were followed up for 1 year at 10 China sites. Patients were evaluated by the short form-36 health survey (SF-36) at the baseline and at the end of 1 year.@*RESULTS@#The life quality was improved obviously at the end of the follow-up. There was significant difference in body pain, vitality, and mental health (P<0.05) among these antipsychotic drugs.@*CONCLUSION@#All 7 antipsychotic drugs can improve the life quality of schizophrenia patients. Atypical antipsychotic drugs, especially olazapine and quetiapine, are superior to typical antipsychotic drugs in improving life quality.
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Adolescent , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Young Adult , Antipsychotic Agents , Therapeutic Uses , Benzodiazepines , Therapeutic Uses , Dibenzothiazepines , Therapeutic Uses , Follow-Up Studies , Olanzapine , Quality of Life , Quetiapine Fumarate , Schizophrenia , Drug Therapy , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
By employing the methods of literature research and specialist consultation,comprehensively and systematically collected case history at home and abroad on Chinese and western medicine in the treatment of AIDS,by distilling the etiopathogenisis and pathogenesis,the character,the clinical stage,TCM four methods of examination,di erentiation of symptoms,the therapeutical principle and method and the e ective prescription,etc,the paper clari ed the character,pathology,etiology and pathogenesis of AIDS by the evaluation and statistic of qualitative and quantitative analysis of evidence based medicine,grasped the present situation of the treatment of AIDS with Chinese and western medicine in the treatment of AIDS,the rule of syndrome di erentiation and the facticity and application of the clinical e cacy.All these are used to the TCM handbook of AIDS diagnosis and treatment.
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Research on standardization of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) is playing an important role in constructing of modernized TCM.But it is difficult to set down a diagnosis and treatment standardization of TCM and it will cost long term and arduous work.Based on clinic and scientific research in recent years,this article focuses on the standardization research of diagnosis and treatment of AIDS with TCM to discuss the content,method and some pivotal questions.
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Objective: To explore neural correlates for the recognition of facial expression videos using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging.Methods:Thirteen right-handed healthy Chinese women underwent blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) fMRI voluntarily while recognizing happy, sad, neutral emotional faces and fixation cross videos.Results:In comparison with fixation cross, recognition of neutral faces activated the left middle frontal gyrus, the bilateral precentral gyrus, the right amygdala, the left parahippocampal gyrus, the right postcentral gyrus and the left thalamus. In comparison of neutral faces recognition, the recognition of happy faces elicited increased activation in the right medial frontal gyrus, the right superior frontal gyrus, the middle frontal gyrus, the right anterior cingulated gyrus, the left subcallosal gyrus, the right superior occipital gyrus, the left middle occipital gyrus and the right superior temporal gyrus; while the recognition of sad faces activated the left medial frontal gyrus, the right middle frontal gyrus, the left inferior temporal gyrus and the left superior temporal gyrus.Conclusion:This study indicates that the recognition of facial expression is mediated by a distributed cortical network, and the medial frontal gyrus may be involved in discriminating different affective information, while the superior temporal gyrus may play an important role in processing the dynamic characters of face.
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Objective To investigate the different effects of clozapine and risperidone on levels of blood glucose in patients with schizophrenia. Method 200 qualified cases selected from psychiatric department were divided into two groups randomly, of which 100 cases accepted the treatment with clozapine and the other 100 cases with risperidone. Blood glucose tests were used before treatment ,4 weeks after treatment and 8 weeks after treatment Results There was significantly higher blood glucose level in clozapine－ treated group than in risperidone－ treated group after 4 or 8 weeks treatment. The number of cases who had elevated blood glucose level (>6.1 mmol/L) in clozapine－ treated group was significantly more than in risperidone－ treated group. Conclusion The glucoregulatory abnormality which leads to glucose elevation in clozapine－ treated patients is greater than in risperidone－ treated patients. Additional motivation to clinical monitor for antipsychotic treatment－ related hyperglycemia is indicated.