Heart Rate Variability Measurement Can Be a Point-of-Care Sensing Tool for Screening Postpartum Depression: Differentiation from Adjustment Disorder.

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious mental health issue among women after childbirth, and screening systems that incorporate questionnaires have been utilized to screen for PPD. These questionnaires are sensitive but less specific, and the additional use of objective measures could be helpful. The present study aimed to verify the usefulness of a measure of autonomic function, heart rate variability (HRV), which has been reported to be dysregulated in people with depression.

[A Case of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis with Semantic Variant Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Study of Language Symptoms and Agraphia].

The patient was a 66-year-old man brought to the emergency room with impaired consciousness due to hypercarbonemia, managed on a respirator, and diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). MRI showed atrophy of the anterior and medial surfaces of the bilateral temporal lobes that was more severe in the right side. The patient had dysgraphia in both kana and kanji.