Psychodynamic experience enhances recognition of hidden childhood trauma.

Background: Experimental psychology has only recently provided supporting evidence for Freud's and Janet's description of unconscious phenomena. Here, we aimed to assess whether specific abilities, such as personal psychodynamic experience, enhance the ability to recognize unconscious phenomena in peers - in other words, to better detect implicit knowledge related to individual self-experience.

Methodology And Principal Findings: First, we collected 14 videos from seven healthy adults who had experienced a sibling's cancer during childhood and seven matched controls.

Ischemic reperfusion brain injury in fetal transgenic mice with elevated levels of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase.

Aim: To examine the effect of overexpression of human intracellular copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD1) gene on fetal mice brain exposed to in-utero ischemic reperfusion injury.

Design: Transient in-utero ischemia (7 min) was induced in pregnant transgenic mice overexpressing human CuZnSOD1 and wild-type mice by occluding the blood supply to the uterine artery on day 17 of pregnancy, followed by 24 hours of reperfusion. The level of lipid peroxidation in fetal mice brains was compared between the transgenic and non-transgenic (control) fetal mice.

Indomethacin and corticosteroids: an additive constrictive effect on the fetal ductus arteriosus.

The objective of this paper is to study the possible additive effect of corticosteroids to the known effect of indomethacin on potency of the human ductus arteriosus. Systolic and diastolic blood flow of the fetal ductus arteriosus was measured by echo Doppler at 26-32 weeks of gestation. Four groups of patients were studied according to the treatment they have received: group A (exposure to indomethacin and betamethasone); group B (indomethacin alone); group C (betamethasone); and group D (controls).

Prospective evaluation of endometrial thickness as a predictor of pituitary down-regulation after gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue administration in an in vitro fertilization program.

Objective: To determine whether pituitary down-regulation after gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue (GnRH-a) administration can be accurately predicted by transvaginal ultrasonographic measurement of endometrial thickness.

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: An IVF unit of an academic medical center.

Unsuspected uterine leiomyosarcoma discovered during treatment with a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue: a case report and literature review.

We report a case of a 37-year-old woman who had received five courses of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist (Decapeptyl) for presumed uterine leiomyomata associated with episodes of uterine bleeding. Submucous myoma (histologically proven) was partially removed on the first visit. After a period of significant reduction in the tumor size and cessation of uterine bleeding, the symptoms recurred along with rapid re-growth of the uterus.