Predicting prognosis in patients with first-episode psychosis using auditory P300: A 1-year follow-up study

Early intervention from the first episode is well known to be essential for favorable outcomes in patients with schizophrenia. Previous studies have shown that a shorter duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is associated with better symptomatic and functional outcomes (Perkins et al., 2005). The DUP seems to affect quality of life, social functioning and cognitive function throughout the course of the illness and often throughout the patient's life (Ito et al., 2015). In this respect, appropriate management of patients during their first episode of psychosis for the purpose of preventing illness progression and recurrent episodes has been a great interest (McGorry et al., 2008, Sommer et al., 2016).

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Electroencephalogram Dynamics during General Anesthesia Predict the Later Incidence and Duration of Burst-suppression During Cardiopulmonary Bypass

Electroencephalogram (EEG) burst-suppression consists of quasi-periodic alternations between isoelectricity and brief bursts of electrical activity such as spikes, sharp waves, or slow waves (Young, 2000, Akeju et al., 2017). It reflects a brain state of relative cortical quiescence that is not observed during normal behavioral states of wake or sleep(Young, 2000, Brown et al., 2010, Akeju et al., 2017). Instead, it is closely associated with cortical pathologies such as diffuse anoxic brain injury, hypothermia and Ohtahara syndrome(Young, 2000, Brown et al., 2010, Akeju et al., 2017).

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Detecting Abnormal Electroencephalograms Using Deep Convolutional Networks

Electroencephalography (EEG) can be used to detect the abnormal patterns of brain electrical activity present in a broad range of neurological and medication conditions. For example, EEGs of patients with epilepsy often exhibit characteristic "epileptiform" discharges (epileptic spikes or sharp-waves) (Schomer and Da Silva 2012). Lesions, such as strokes or hemorrhages, can result in asymmetry across left and right hemispheres (Agius Anastasi et al. 2017; Jordan 2004; van Putten 2007). Patients with depressed levels of consciousness exhibit generalized slowing of EEG rhythms or burst suppression patterns (Young 2000; Kaplan 2004; Schomer and Da Silva 2012) Metabolic encephalopathy from acute liver failure can cause abnormalities such as triphasic waves (Boulanger et al.

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Incarcerated Spigelian Hernia

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Rare and fatal case of upper gastrointestinal bleeding

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Using dried blood spot for the detection of HBsAg and anti-HCV antibodies in Cameroon

Dried blood spots (DBS) offer multiple benefits for collecting, storing and shipping whole blood samples. Our objective was to compare, for the first time in Africa, the performance of DBS with respect to plas...

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Focused antenatal care utilization and associated factors in Debre Tabor Town, northwest Ethiopia, 2017

Attending antenatal care helps to reduce the occurrence of maternal morbidity and mortality by providing chances for health promotion and information about danger signs, birth preparedness and where to seek ca...

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