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Androgenetic alopecia is a common clinical disease. The pathogenesis of this disease is not clear, while TCM has achieved sound therapeutic effects on this disease by syndromes differentiation. By studying theory, the pathogenesis, clinical treatment and laboratory research of TCM treating the androgenetic alopecia in the past 10 years, we tried to provide reference for the treatment of androgenetic alopecia in Chinese medicine.
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Objective:To investigate the change and related factors of nitric oxide,nitric oxide synthase level and cerebral blood flow(CBF) in panic disorder.Methods:30 patients with panic disorder,30 patients with generalized anxiety disorder and 22 normal controls entered the study.Serum level of NO and NOS were assayed.Cerebral blood flow were measured with TCD.Results:The concentration of NO was significantly lower in panic disorder group in comparison with GAD group.There was no significant difference in NOS level between panic disorder group and the control group.Cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the left and right middle cerebral artery and mean cerebral blood flow velocity in the right middle cerebral artery were lower than normal control group and the difference were very significant.Cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the right vertebral artery was lower than those of GAD and NC group.The concentration of NO in panic disorder was correlated with HAMA score negatively.Cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the left middle cerebral artery was correlated with mean Cerebral blood flow velocity in the left middle cerebral artery,peak CBF velocity in the right middle cerebral artery and psychological anxiety positively and correlated to cerebral blood peak mean velocity in the right middle cerebral artery,peak CBF velocity in the right anterior cerebral artery,age and female negatively.Cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the right middle cerebral artery has positive correlation with mean cerebral blood flow velocity in the right middle cerebral artery and peak CBF locity in the right anterior cerebral artery and negative correlation with cerebral blood mean flow velocity in the right anterior cerebral artery. Mean cerebral blood flow velocity in the right middle cerebral artery was correlated to cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the right middle cerebral artery,mean cerebral blood flow velocity in the left middle cerebral artery,cerebral blood mean flow velocity in the right anterior cerebral artery and NO level positively and age,cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the left middle cerebral artery and cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the right anterior cerebral artery negatively.Cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the right vertebra artery has positive correlation with cerebral blood mean flow velocity in the right vertebra artery and cerebral blood mean flow velocity in the left middle cercbral artery and negative correlation with cerebral blood peak flow velocity in the left anterior cerebral artery and cerebral blood mean flow velocity in the right anterior cerebral artery.Conclusion:The change of NO and cerebral blood flow may be one of the neurobiological mechanisms in panic disorder.To assay the level of NO and measure cerebral blood flow might become approach of diagnosis for panic disorder.
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Objective:This study aimed to investigate the pattern of anxiety-related attentional bias for threaten- ing words in subjects with high-and low-trait anxiety by repeating the occasions of stimulus exposures.Methods:High (upper 25%)and low(lower 25%)anxious individuals(N=24 and N=23 respectively)participated in a forced- choice reaction time version of a modified dot-probe task.There were 48 negative-neutral word pairs chosen as stimuli. Each word pairs were presented eight occasions in different blocks,and at each occasion the attentional bias to the e- motionally negative word was examined.Results:High anxious individuals showed initial selective attention to the neg- ative words when they were presented for the first occasion(t=2.34,P
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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 examine the effect of psychological and physiological stress on monoamine in extracellular fluid of hippocampus under simulated high-altitude hypobaric hypoxia.Methods:Psychological and physiological stress were made by the way of communication box.The hypoxia disposal was that the rats were put hypobaric chamber at a simulated altitude of 6000 meters for 24 hours.We compared the effect of stress in different sorts and intensity on the contents of norepinephrine(NE),dopamine(DA),5-hydroxytryptamine(5-HT)in extracellular fluid of hippocampus.The extracellular fluid of hippocampus of rat was collected by push-pull perfusion;we determined the contents of monoamine in it by high performance liquid chromatography with electrichemical detection(HPLC-ECD).Results:(1)The simulated high-altitude hypobaric hypoxia reduced the content of NE in extracellular fluid of hippocampus(813.8?196.1/1209.2?282.0,P
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Objective: To explore the change of activities of the cardiac autonomic nervous system in the EMG biofeedback with the quantified index of heart rate variability(HRV). Methods: Various physiological signals such as ECG、EEG、EMG were recorded by Synchronous Multi-Signal Recording Biofeedback System, and HRV analysis was applied to the extracted ECG signals. Thirty healthy young men received the tests. Results:Compared with the resting state, when the subjects entered biofeedback state, the values of low frequency power, indicator of the sympathetic activity decreased while the values of high frequency power (indicator of the vagal activity) increased, and the values of low frequency power/high frequency power ratio, the marker of the sympatho-vagal balance decreased too. During the later treatment sessions (after 7-10 times treatments) the change exhibited statistical difference and achieved one stable level (low frequency power, baseline 3.98?0.21, 3.82?0.15, 3.93?0.16, 3.91?0.23, test state 3.55?0.32, 3.51?0.29, 3.93?0.16, 3.39?0.26, t=-6.85～-3.68,P
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Objective:To study the influence of laboratory mental stress on plasma levels of angiotensin II (Ang II), aldosterone(ALD)and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in individuals with different salt sensitivity Method:48 healthy male undergraduates were divided into salt sensitive group (SS group, n=14) and non-salt-sensitive group (NSS group, n=34) Their blood pressure, plasma levels of Ang II, ALD and ANP were measured before and after mental arithemtic test Result:Blood pressure, plasma levels of Ang II and ALD increased significantly in both groups, with SS group having greater increase Plasma level of ANP had no change after the test Conclusion:Laboratory mental stress increases the plasma levels of Ang II and ALD in male students Salt-sensitivity can magnify this effect