Acute Effects of a Single Bout of Walking on Affective Responses in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder.

Exercise programs are considered an effective (add-on) treatment option for depressive disorders. However, little is known about the acute effects of exercise on affective responses in in-patient settings. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to compare the effects of a single 30-min bout of walking on affective responses to a passive control condition in patients with major depressive disorder during treatment in a mental health center.

Paraneoplastic stiff-person syndrome, heterotopic soft tissue ossification and gonarthritis in a HLA B27-positive woman preceding the diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes associated with Hodgkin's lymphoma include the stiff-person syndrome. A case of stiff-person syndrome is reported who first presented with muscular hyperactivity and acute respiratory failure followed by heterotopic soft tissue ossification and acute seronegative gonarthitis. Initial improvement of a tetanus-like clinical picture was achieved with benzodiazepam given by continuous infusion for analgo-sedation to mechanically ventilate the patient followed by baclofen after successful weaning.

[Atropine poisoning from "health tea"].

A description of the case of a 57 year old woman is given who showed the symptoms of an atropine poisoning after drinking stinging nettle tea. The analyses of the tea specimen proved bad defilements among other things with elements of the "belladonna" (Atropa belladonna). Several similar reports became known recently and it seems to be necessary to discuss checking the purity of the tea species.