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Objective Exploring the relationship between anxiety symptoms and neurometabolism in the ventrome-dial prefrontal cortex(vmPFC)of adolescents with bipolar depression.Methods Thirty-six adolescent patients with bi-polar depression were assessed and grouped by using the 14-item Hamilton anxiety rating scale(HAMA),including 20 pa-tients with anxiety symptoms and 16 patients without anxiety symptoms.The severity of depressive symptoms was assessed using the 24-Hamilton depression scale(HAMD),and 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy(1H-MRS)was used.The dif-ference of vmPFC neurometabolism between 2 groups was compared.Results Compared with the group without anxiety symptoms,the HAMD score[24.50(24.00,26.75)vs.23.00(22.00,24.00)]and the proportion of family history(40.0%vs.0)were significantly higher in the group with anxiety symptoms than in the group without anxiety symptoms(P<0.05).The level of mI/Cr was higher in the group with anxiety symptoms than that in the group without anxiety symptoms(0.58±0.12 vs.0.47±0.11),and the difference was significant(P<0.05).Cho/Cr and HAMD scores in patients with anxiety symptoms were positively correlated(r=0.589,P=0.006),and mI/Cr was negatively correlated with disease duration(r=-0.481,P= 0.032).Conclusions Anxiety symptoms in adolescent bipolar depression patients may be related to elevated levels of mI,a neurometabolite in the brain region of vmPFC.
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Objective To explore the association between impulsively aggressive behavior and rs6922753 single nucleotide polymorphism of glutamate receptor 6 (GluR6) gene in Xinjiang Uygur and Han patients with bipolar disorder.Methods The techniques of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing technique were conducted to detect rs6922753 single nucleotide polymorphism of GluR6 gene in 240 patients with bipolar disorder.The association between the polymorphisms and impulsively aggressive behavior was analyzed with SPSS 17.0 software.Results No statistical difference was observed between the impulsively aggressive behavior group and the no impulsively aggressive behavior group of Xinjiang Han and Uygur patients with bipolar disorder in the genotype and allele frequencies for the investigated rs6922753 polymorphisms (P > 0.05).Conclusions No association was found between the impulsively aggressive behavior and rs6922753 single nucleotide polymorphism of GluR6 gene in Xinjiang Uygur and Han patients with bipolar disorder.
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Objective To investigate the sleep quality of cancer patients before and after cancer so as to take effective measures to improve sleep quality of cancer patients.Methods In Xinjiang autonomous region,72 cancer patients in the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy were surveyed for the study group and 61 benign patients as control group.The instruments including self-made general status and sleep status survey before cancer,and the Pittsburgh sleep quality index scale were used respectively.Results In the study group,40 people had sleep disorders (55.5%) before the cancer,significantly higher than control group people in 15 (24.5%),and the total Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) scores on average (14.00 ±2.39) were significantly higher than the control group (11.19 ± 2.45).The PSQI had seven sleep quality factors,with the statistical differences between two groups (P < 0.05).Conclusions Chronic insomnia patients are more prone to cancer,cancer patients sleep quality is poorer,and the adjustment of the sleep disorders has more importance.Paying more attention to the regulation of cancer patients to sleep helps to improve the patient's quality of life.
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Objective To investigate the association between glutamate receptor-6 (GIuR6/GRIK2) gene polymorphism and domestic violence in Xinjiang Uygur population on alcoholics.Methods The methods of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing technique were conducted to detect rs6922753 and rs2227283 single nucleotide polymorphism of GLUR6 gene in a 104 domestic violence perpetrators on alcoholics and 80 non-domestic violence perpetrators on alcoholics.The association between the polymorphisms and violent behavior was analyzed with SPSS 17.0.Results The frequency of allele (x2 =4.935) and genotype (x2 =7.622) of rs6922753 polymorphisms in the domestic violence group were statistically different from those in the non-domestic violence group (P < 0.05),there was no significant difference between two groups in allele frequencies and genotype in rs2227283 site (P > 0.05).Conclusions GIuR6 gene polymorphism may be associated with domestic violence in Xinjiang Uygur population on alcoholics.
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Objective To investigate the effects of the interaction between environmental factors and monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene polymorphism in Han and Uygur on alcoholics in Xinjiang. Methods The data of childhood abuse and domestic aggressive behaviors were collected from 284 patients with alcohol dependence from Xinjiang using self-made questionnaires, Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS) and Barratt Impulsivity Scale-11 (BIS-11). The meth?ods of PCR and DNA sequencing technique were conducted to detect rs1137070 single nucleotide polymorphism loci of MAOA gene. Logistic regression analysis was performed to adjust for interaction effects of gene and childhood abuse on domestic violence. Results The scale evaluation identified 143 patients with and 138 patients without domestic violence. Childhood abuse and gene were both risk factors in domestic violence. The interaction effect of childhood abuse with rs1137070 was significant. the relative excess risk, the interaction attribution ratio and the interaction index were 1.00,0.14 and 1.20, respectively. Conclusions The interactions between genes and environmental risk factors may contribute to the domestic violence in Han and Uygur on alcoholics in Xinjiang.