Publications by authors named "Debbie Lu"
Collaboration Between Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists and Mental Health Pharmacists to Improve Treatment Outcomes.
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am
October 2021
Access to mental health care is a long-standing challenge. The high, rising prevalence of mental health disorders and a shortage of mental health professionals has further strained an already fragile system. The clinical pharmacy is underutilized within the mental health space.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objective: To contrast the characteristics of two groups of anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) users-those with versus those without AAS dependence.
Design: Subanalysis of data from the Anabolic 500, a cross-sectional survey.
Participants: One hundred twelve male AAS-dependent users and 367 AAS-nondependent users who completed an online survey between February 19 and June 30, 2009.
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to detect changes in the cervical spinal cord of ALS patients, revealing lower fractional anisotropy and higher radial diffusivity compared to healthy controls.
- There was a significant correlation between these findings and clinical measures of disease severity, such as finger and foot tapping speed and forced vital capacity.
- The DTI analysis highlighted more pronounced differences in ALS patients at the distal segments of the cervical spinal cord, suggesting a potential method for monitoring neurodegeneration in ALS.