Publications by authors named "M A Greenfield"

Background: Health and social care employees may be involved in professional regulatory proceedings because their alleged behaviour raises health or conduct concerns. Employees, patients or service users may also be involved in a regulatory tribunal as witnesses. This study is about the role of employers in supporting them in this process.

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Background: Emotional dysregulation affects up to two-thirds of adult patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and is increasingly seen as a core ADHD symptom that is clinically associated with greater functional impairment and psychiatric comorbidity. We sought to investigate emotional dysregulation in ADHD and explored its neural underpinnings.

Methods: We studied emotion induction and regulation in a clinical cohort of adult patients with ADHD before and after a stimulant challenge.

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  • Granuloma annulare is a skin condition that can be difficult to treat, especially in its generalized form, affecting about 15% of patients.
  • Two women, aged 60 and 41, had severe cases that didn't respond to standard treatments like steroids and antibiotics.
  • Both patients showed significant improvement after taking upadacitinib, with one achieving complete clearance of lesions in 2 months and the other following suit within 4 months, suggesting a potential new treatment option.
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Introduction: Unexplained physical signs and symptoms represent a significant portion of patient presentations in acute care settings. Even in cases where a patient presents with a known medical condition, functional or somatic symptoms may complicate the diagnostic and treatment processes and prognostic outcome. One umbrella category for neurologically related somatic symptoms, functional neurological disorder (FND), presents as involuntary neurological symptoms incompatible with another medical condition.

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Dupilumab, a systemic injectable biologic, can be prescribed to patients with atopic dermatitis who do not respond to topical treatments. Atopy can frequently subside by blocking inflammatory pathways, such as interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-13 (IL-13) in the immune system. Dupilumab is generally well-tolerated and mild; the most common adverse reactions listed are arthralgia, back pain, and conjunctivitis, which clears upon cessation or finalization of dupilumab therapy.

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