{"title":"[Mitochondrial myopathy with peripheral neuropathy].","authors":"Y P Guo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Unlabelled: </strong>This paper reported mitochondrial myopathy with peripheral neuropathy of 2 cases. Both patients were males. Age: 22, 32.</p><p><strong>Duration: </strong>11, 14 years respectively. They showed recurrent paralysis and asthenia of limbs. Case 1 was motor sensory neuropathy, whose EMG revealed neurogenic injury. Case 2 involved only the lower limbs, whose lactic acid level was increased. In both patients, muscle biopsy showed Ragged Red fibers and abnormal mitochondria. Sural nerve biopsy revealed moderate reduction in the number of mylinated fibers and chronic axonal degeneration without regeneration cluster and hypertrophic neuropathy. Electron microscopic examination showed the increase of Schwann cells and mitochondria, and abnormal mitochondria being less marded in Case 2. Mitochondrial myopathy with peripheral neuropathy and its pathogenesis were discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"258-60, 315"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12511597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Frequency of sex chromatin among mental patients].","authors":"Z Y Feng","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The frequency of sex chromatin of 2000 cases of mental patients are observed in this paper. The frequency of Y chromatin in male and X chromatin in female was 28.01% and 26.86% respectively, whereas only 16.97% and 17.84% respectively in the control group. The mental patient group is higher than the control group significantly (P < 0.0001). It may be influenced by some psychotropic drugs and the factor of course. Positive X chromatin in the male patients was 8 cases and karyotypes of chromosome was XXY type all. The incidence of XXY type is 0.77% and significant higher than the control group (0.18%, P < 0.01). It suggested that ratio of add one X chromosome in the male mental patients be obviously increased. The authors indicated if this examination be routinely used in clinic that would prevent misdiagnosis and would raise accuracy of diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"306-9, 318-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12465666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A case-control study of risk factors on Alzheimer's disease. Multicenter collaborative study in China].","authors":"Y Shen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case control study to assess the possible risk factors associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) among Chinese population was conducted on 126 clinical diagnosed AD patients and 252 matched by sex, age, nationality non-demand neighborhood as control. Factors significantly associated with AD cases were: family history of dementia in first degree relatives, family history of psychoses in first degree relatives, few interests and heavy negative life events during individual's life time. Neither family history of Down's syndrome, antecedent history of head trauma, nor other condition that might support immune hypotheses were significantly associated with AD cases. The data from this study support the familial/genetic hypotheses of AD and also the role of psychosocial factors in AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 5","pages":"284-7, 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12466499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Experimental study of erythrocyte deformation].","authors":"P Cui","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A laser diffraction system was used to study the deformation of RBC. This work indicated: 1. There was a decreased tendency accompanied with age increased, especially at pre-elderly period. 2. The deformability of patients with acute ischemic stroke was significantly decreased. This result emphasized that DI value should be considered as a peculiar index for diagnosis and treatment. 3. Abnormal calcium accumulation in RBC may play a crucial role in governing RBC deformability. It provided one of the basis of potential therapy of calcium antagonist. 4. The quantitative relation of deformation and SOD activity of RBC need to be researched.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 4","pages":"229-31, 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12649458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[An experimental study of arginine vasopressin on acute ischemic brain edema in gerbils (1)].","authors":"X Liu","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this experiments is to study the role of arginine vasopressin (AVP) in acute ischemic brain edema of mongolian gerbils. The results showed that the contents of AVP in ischemic cortex, hypothalamus and striatum increased remarkably in 15-120 minutes after ischemia, while the contents of AVP had no change in pons-medulla which was not affected from ischemia, and there was relationship between the contents of AVP in cortex and the ischemic cortical edema. Intracerebroventricular injection (ICV) of AVP exacerbated the ischemic cortical edema and it showed dose-response correlation. While ICV of AVP antiserum significantly decreased ischemic cortical edema. These suggested that AVP was involved in the pathophysiologic process of acute ischemic brain edema. The increasing of AVP contents in ischemic brain regions could exacerbate the formation of ischemic brain edema.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 4","pages":"232-4, 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12649459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A correlative study on post-stroke depression and CT, physical, psychological and social parameters].","authors":"Q Zhang","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>58 acute hospitalized CVD patients were selected as study group. Each patient was administered a series of standardized quantitative measures. As a result, we found a significant difference between hemisphere (L: 55% vs R: 28% P < 0.05), and the difference was result from the highest incidence rate of PSD observed in the left anterior CVD subgroup. Meanwhile, those with left anterior lesion (cortical and subcortical) had the greater severity of depression than any other lesions. A strong negative correlation between the severity of depression and AP% was observed for left CVD group. The result of multiple stepwise regression analysis not only support the notions mentioned above but also shown up that a few factors other than location of the lesion had impact on the PSD. Finally, authors discussed the heterogenous causes of PSD and think probably biological etiology involved in the formation of PSD.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 4","pages":"203-7, 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12647511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Active music therapy for senile depression].","authors":"X Chen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>68 cases with senile depression were divided randomly into two groups--test group and control group. Patients of both groups received same antidepressive drugs while for the patients in the test group active music therapy was provided everyday in addition and the course of music therapy was 8 weeks. Patients in the test group showed improvement of their symptoms at the end of first week while most patients in the control group were getting somewhat better at the 3rd-4th week. The effectiveness of combined treatment in the test group is better than that in the control group. Patients in the test group became calm and active and the atmosphere on the ward appeared to be somewhat harmonized so that it was beneficial to the nursing care.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 4","pages":"208-10, 252-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12647512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The patterns of the health care seeking behavior and related factors in the schizophrenic patients].","authors":"D Yang","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three hundreds schizophrenic out-patients, from 6 different socioculture background psychiatric facilities in Hunan were investigated by structured interview with definite schedule. The results show that after the recognition of the problem by decision maker, 45% subjects were delayed at least one month for help-seeking, 61.3% subjects first visited the non-psychiatric agencies, and 74.3% subjects has counselled with non-psychiatric doctors or healers at least one time, especially to the healer providing superstitious or religious therapy. The help-seeking styles mainly attributes to the lower socioeconomic status of the family, inconvenient referral to the psychiatric facilities, especially if the decision maker is a female, rural resided under-educated person knowing nothing of modern psychiatry. Based on these findings, the authors urge to improve scientific psychiatric care knowledge in population, develop the resource of mental health service to facilitate the radical change of help seeking behavior of the population.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 4","pages":"215-8, 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12647514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A research on near-death experiences of survivors in big earthquake of Tangshan, 1976].","authors":"Z Feng","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>81 survivors with Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) in a severe earthquake (Tangshan, 1976) were reviewed. Among them 40 NDE phenomena were found and strange bodily sensation, thought unusually vivid, loss of emotions, unusually bodily sensations, life seemed dream, feeling of being dead, feeling of peace or cuphoria, life review or \"panoramic memory\" and thinking unusually fast comprised more than half of the group. It seemed that our observation was somewhat different from that of pasricha (India) and Greyson. In our series, the survivors with more than 7 scores on Greyson's NDE scale account for 32 cases, and in whom, the cognitive and transcendental types comprise the great part. This findings suggest that the components, sequences and types of NDE might be correlated to races, regions, psychological and cultural backgrounds, and kinds of event.</p>","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 4","pages":"222-5, 253-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12647516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Advances in the isovolemic hemodilution therapy of cerebral infarction].","authors":"S Zhang","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76874,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua shen jing jing shen ke za zhi = Chinese journal of neurology and psychiatry","volume":"25 4","pages":"249-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12649465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}