Attention Deficits in a Comorbidity-Free Sample of Euthymic Pediatric Bipolar Disorder.

Attention deficits are considered one of the potential endophenotypic markers of Bipolar Disorder (BD). Pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD) likely has stronger genetic underpinnings than adult onset BD; therefore, demonstrating attention deficits in PBD can be both strategic and convincing in attesting their status as one of the potential endophenotypic markers of BD. However, unlike adult literature, uncertainty exists regarding the magnitude of attention deficits in PBD.

A Young Woman With Severe Chest Pain After Undergoing Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration for a Large Mediastinal Mass.

A 33-year-old woman with chest pain and hemoptysis was found to have a large mediastinal mass. As the radiology imagings were inconclusive, she underwent diagnostic endobronchial ultrasound-transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA). After the procedure she developed mediastinitis, which required video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery excision and intravenous antibiotics.

Elevated CA125 Levels in a 72-Year-Old Ethnic Indian Patient: A Diagnostic Pointer Toward Tuberculosis?

Serum CA 125 is widely used as a tumor marker for epithelial ovarian cancer. Our laboratory receives few requests for evaluation of this marker in men. In males an elevation of this marker may occur due to malignant and benign lesions of organs derived from the coelomic epithelium.

Bereitschaftspotential in remitted paediatric bipolar disorder.

Bereitschaftspotential (BP) is an anticipatory slow wave in the brain that typically precedes a voluntary motor act and its deficit reflects abnormal motor preparatory processes in the brain. Although BP deficits have been consistently noticed in schizophrenia, similar research in depression has yielded contradictory results; therefore, it is unclear if motor anticipatory processes are actually abnormal in mood disorder. We compared both early and late BP between thirty remitted paediatric bipolar patients (PBD) and thirty matched healthy control group subjects.

The contingent negative variation in remitted paediatric bipolar patients: no evidence of abnormality.

Although the Contingent Negative Variation (CNV) paradigm has been useful in schizophrenia, limited research involving such paradigm in subjects with Bipolar Disorder (BD) has produced contradictory findings. To the best of our knowledge, no study has investigated CNV in Paediatric Bipolar Disorder (PBD) subjects. Thirty remitted PBD patients and thirty matched healthy control group subjects participated in the study.

Impact of informal regulation of pollution on water quality in rivers in India.

In this paper an attempt is made to assess the impact of informal regulation of water pollution on water quality in Indian rivers. For this purpose, an econometric analysis of determinants of water quality in Indian rivers is carried out using water quality (water class) data for 106 monitoring points on 10 important rivers for five years, 1995-1999. To explain variations in water quality, an Ordered Probit model is estimated, in which poll percentage in parliamentary elections, a proxy for the intensity of informal regulation, is taken as one of the main explanatory variables.