Facial emotion recognition has enormous value for humans in social cognition and thereby day to day functioning. Disturbances in the processing of emotional cues are seen in all the three phases of bipolar disorder and have been proposed as an etiology in the development of bipolar disorder. 30 consented patients with bipolar mania with psychotic symptoms and 30 age and sex matched healthy controls were taken for the study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of engineered bone tissue, as a promising alternative to conventional bone grafts, has so far not proven successful and still remains challenging. Thus, attempts have been made in the present study to synthesize polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) scaffolds by blending chitosan (CS) to silk fibroin (SF) derived from the non-mulberry silkworm (Antheraea pernyi) at three different pH values (5.0, 6.
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