Childhood trauma and the plasma levels of IL-6, TNF-α are risk factors for major depressive disorder and schizophrenia in adolescents: A cross-sectional and case-control study.

BACKGROUND: It has been reported that childhood trauma and inflammation are associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) and schizophrenia (SZ), but previous researches were almost aimed at adults. The aim of the present research is to observe the alteration of peripheral interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in adolescents (12-20 years) with MDD and SZ, to investigate the impact of childhood abuse in early-onset MDD and SZ, and to furtherly explore the correlation between childhood maltreatment and plasma IL-6, TNF-α levels. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is applied to obtain the plasma concentrations of IL-6 and TNF-α in 55 patients with MDD, 51 patients with SZ and 47 healthy minors. The short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF) is used to assess the severity of early trauma. RESULTS: Plasma IL-6 and TNF-α levels are significantly elevated in patients with early-onset MDD and SZ compared with healthy subjects (p <0.01), whose results display that the correlation between IL-6 and TNF-α is significantly positive (γ=0.787, p <0.01) in all participants. Compared with the healthy adolescents, patients with MDD and SZ show more serious childhood trauma, and the plasma IL-6, TNF-α concentrations are closely related to childhood maltreatment. CONCLUSIONS: Early trauma and peripheral inflammatory response play an important role in the pathophysiology of early-onset MDD or SZ. The current findings provide effective targets for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of major depressive disorder and schizophrenia in adolescents.

Thoughts on applying MOOC to the abnormal psychology teaching of graduate students majoring in applied psychology in medical colleges and universities / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Combining with the currently applied psychology teaching mode of medical colleges and universities, regarding the core curriculum, abnormal psychology, as the object, we have explored the new teaching mode of graduate students majoring in applied psychology based on massive open online courses (MOOC), and promoted the fusion of classroom theory teaching, hospital practice, and MOOC course, so as to guide teaching reform of applied psychology and improve the quality of personnel training.

Clinicopathological characteristics and survival of 1912 female breast cancer patients with different HER-2 / 实用医学杂志

Objective To investigate the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of female breast cancer patients with different human epidermal growth factor receptor 2(HER-2)in Xinjiang. Methods The rela-tionships between the expressions and clinical pathology and prognosis of 1,912 female breast cancer patients with HER-2A were retrospectively analysed. Results Distant metastasis rate,3-year overall survival(OS)and 3-year progression-free survival(PFS)in the HER-2 positive breast cancer patients were all significantly higher than in the HER-2 negative breast cancer patients(P<0.05).3-year OS in the patients with targeted therapy patients was higher than in those without targeted therapy among those HER-2 positive patients. Multivariate analysis revealed that HER-2,endocrine therapy,chemotherapy and targeted therapy were the independent prognostic factors of OS and PFS. Vessel tumor thrombus,tumor diameter,lymph node conditions were the independent prognostic factors of OS and race was the independent prognostic factor of PFS. Conclusion The main type of breast cancer in Xin-jiang is invasive ductal carcinoma,with a positive rate of HER-2 expression 30.9%.A younger age trend comes up in diagnosis.HER-2 status,endocrine therapy,chemotherapy and targeted therapy may provide important informa-tion for the prognosis of breast cancer.Race is the independent prognostic factor of PFS.