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Fetal echocardiographic features associated with bicuspid aortic valve
- Joseph Burns, Madhusudan Ganigara, Jane E. Cerise, Denise A. Hayes
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- Cardiology in the Young / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / January 2024
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- 12 May 2023, pp. 50-55
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Prenatal diagnosis of bicuspid aortic valve is challenging. Bicuspid aortic valve is often associated with aortic dilation.
Methods:Fetuses with postnatally confirmed bicuspid aortic valve were gestational age-matched with normal controls. Complex lesions were excluded. Aortic valve and arch measurements by two blinded investigators were compared.
Results:We identified 27 cases and 27 controls. Estimated fetal weight percentile was lower in cases than controls. Seven cases had one or more significant lesions including perimembranous ventricular septal defects (n = 2), isolated annular hypoplasia (n = 2), and/or arch hypoplasia/coarctation (n = 4). Fetuses with bicuspid aortic valves had significantly smaller median z-scores of the aortic annulus (–1.60 versus –0.53, p < 0.001) and root (–1.10 versus –0.53, p = 0.040), and larger ratios of root to annulus (1.32 versus 1.21, p < 0.001), sinotubular junction to annulus (1.07 versus 0.99, p < 0.001), ascending aorta to annulus (1.29 versus 1.18, p < 0.001), and transverse aorta to annulus (1.04 versus 0.96, p = 0.023). Leaflets were “doming” in 11 cases (41%) and 0 controls (p = 0.010), “thickened” in 10 cases (37%) and 0 controls (p = 0.002). We noted similar findings in the subgroup without significant additional cardiac defects.
Conclusions:The appearance of doming or thickened aortic valve leaflets on fetal echocardiogram is associated with bicuspid aortic valve. Compared to controls, fetuses with bicuspid aortic valve had smaller aortic annulus sizes (possibly related to smaller fetal size) without proportionally smaller aortic measurements, resulting in larger aortic dimension to annulus ratios. Despite inherent challenges of diagnosing bicuspid aortic valve prenatally, these findings may increase suspicion and prompt appropriate postnatal follow-up.
16Up: Outline of a Study Investigating Wellbeing and Information and Communication Technology Use in Adolescent Twins
- Brittany L. Mitchell, Katherine M. Kirk, Kerrie McAloney, Margaret J. Wright, Tracey A. Davenport, Daniel F. Hermens, James G. Scott, John J. McGrath, Nathan A. Gillespie, Joanne S. Carpenter, Victoria S. O’Callaghan, Sarah Medland, Helen Christensen, Nicholas G. Martin, Jane M. Burns, Ian B. Hickie
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- Twin Research and Human Genetics / Volume 23 / Issue 6 / December 2020
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- 29 January 2021, pp. 345-357
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The ‘16Up’ study conducted at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute from January 2014 to December 2018 aimed to examine the physical and mental health of young Australian twins aged 16−18 years (N = 876; 371 twin pairs and 18 triplet sets). Measurements included online questionnaires covering physical and mental health as well as information and communication technology (ICT) use, actigraphy, sleep diaries and hair samples to determine cortisol concentrations. Study participants generally rated themselves as being in good physical (79%) and mental (73%) health and reported lower rates of psychological distress and exposure to alcohol, tobacco products or other substances than previously reported for this age group in the Australian population. Daily or near-daily online activity was almost universal among study participants, with no differences noted between males and females in terms of frequency or duration of internet access. Patterns of ICT use in this sample indicated that the respondents were more likely to use online information sources for researching physical health issues than for mental health or substance use issues, and that they generally reported partial levels of satisfaction with the mental health information they found online. This suggests that internet-based mental health resources can be readily accessed by adolescent Australians, and their computer literacy augurs well for future access to online health resources. In combination with other data collected as part of the ongoing Brisbane Longitudinal Twin Study, the 16Up project provides a valuable resource for the longitudinal investigation of genetic and environmental contributions to phenotypic variation in a variety of human traits.
Genetic and Environmental Causes of Individual Differences in Borderline Personality Disorder Features and Loneliness are Partially Shared
- Julie Aitken Schermer, Lucía Colodro-Conde, Katrina L. Grasby, Ian B. Hickie, Jane Burns, Lannie Ligthart, Gonneke Willemsen, Timothy J. Trull, Nicholas G. Martin, Dorret I. Boomsma
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- Twin Research and Human Genetics / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / August 2020
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- 04 September 2020, pp. 214-220
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Loneliness is related to mental and somatic health outcomes, including borderline personality disorder. Here, we analyze the sources of variation that are responsible for the relationship between borderline personality features (including four dimensions, affective instability, identity disturbance, negative relationships, self-harm and a total score) and loneliness. Using genetically informative data from two large nonclinical samples of adult twin pairs from Australia and the Netherlands (N = 11,329), we estimate the phenotypic, genetic and environmental correlations between self-reported borderline personality features and loneliness. Individual differences in borderline personality and loneliness were best explained by additive genetic factors with heritability estimates h2 = 41% for the borderline personality total score and h2 = 36% for loneliness, with the remaining variation explained by environmental influences that were not shared by twins from the same pair. Genetic and environmental factors influencing borderline personality (total score and four subscales separately) were also partial causes of loneliness. The correlation between loneliness and the borderline personality total score was rph = .51. The genetic correlation was estimated at rg = .64 and the environmental correlation at re = .40. Our study suggests common etiological factors in loneliness and borderline personality features.
Role of apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 (APOE*ε4) as an independent risk factor for incident depression over a 12-year period in cognitively intact adults across the lifespan
- Richard Andrew Burns, Shea Andrews, Nicolas Cherbuin, Kaarin Jane Anstey
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- BJPsych Open / Volume 6 / Issue 3 / May 2020
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- 08 May 2020, e47
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The apolipoprotein E ε4 allele (APOE*ε4) is indicated as a risk for Alzheimer's disease and other age-related diseases. The risk attributable to APOE*ε4 for depression is less clear and may be because of confounding of the relationship between dementia and depression.
AimsWe examined the risk of APOE* ε4 for incident depression and depressive symptomology over a 12-year period across the adult lifespan.
MethodParticipants were from the Personality and Total Health Through Life study, aged 20 to 24 (n = 1420), 40 to 44 (n = 1592) or 60–64 (n = 1768) at baseline, and interviewed every 4 years since 1999. Ethnicities other than White, those without genotyping and those with depression at baseline, or who reported strokes and scores on the Mini-Mental State Examination <27 at any observation, were excluded.
ResultsOver the study period, there was no evidence that APOE*ε4+ was a risk factor for depression, including any depression (odds ratio (OR) = 0.94, 95% CI 0.77–1.16, P = 0.573), major depression (OR = 0.96, 95% CI 0.60–1.53, P = 0.860), minor depression (OR = 0.94, 95% CI 0.67–1.30, P = 0.695) or depressive symptomology (incidence rate ratio (IRR) = 1.02, 95% CI 0.97–1.08, P = 0.451). APOE*ε4 was unrelated to incident depression. Findings were consistent for all age cohorts.
ConclusionsAmong cognitively intact Australian adults who were free of depression at baseline, there was little evidence that APOE*ε4+ carriers are at increased risk for depression over a 12-year period among those who are cognitively intact.
Grouping for behavioral and psychological symptoms in dementia: clinical and biological aspects. Consensus paper of the European Alzheimer disease consortium
- Philippe H. Robert, Frans R.J. Verhey, E. Jane Byrne, Catherine Hurt, Peter Paul De Deyn, Flavio Nobili, Roberta Riello, Guido Rodriguez, Giovanni B. Frisoni, Magda Tsolaki, Nora Kyriazopoulou, Roger Bullock, Alistair Burns, Bruno Vellas
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- European Psychiatry / Volume 20 / Issue 7 / November 2005
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- 16 April 2020, pp. 490-496
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Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), constitute a major clinical component of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). There is a growing interest in BPSD as they are responsible for a large share of the suffering of patients and caregivers, and they strongly determine the patient’s lifestyle and management. Better detection and understanding of these symptoms is essential to provide appropriate management. This article is a consensus produced by the behavioral group of the European Alzheimer’s Disease Consortium (EADC). The aim of this article is to present clinical description and biological correlates of the major behavioral and psychological symptomatology in AD. BPSD is not a unitary concept. Instead, it should be divided into several symptoms or more likely: groups of symptoms, each possibly reflecting a different prevalence, course over time, biological correlate and psychosocial determinants. There is some clinical evidence for clusters within groups of BPSD. Biological studies indicate that patients with AD and BPSD are associated with variations in the pathological features (atrophy, brain perfusion/metabolism, histopathology) when compared to people with AD without BPSD. An individually tailored approach taking all these aspects into account is warranted as it may offer more, and better, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment opportunities.
Variation in care for children undergoing the Fontan operation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome
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- Aaron W. Eckhauser, Maria I. Van Rompay, Chitra Ravishankar, Jane W. Newburger, S. Ram Kumar, Christian Pizarro, Nancy Ghanayem, Felicia L. Trachtenberg, Kristin M. Burns, Garick D. Hill, Andrew M. Atz, Michelle S. Hamstra, Mjaye Mazwi, Patsy Park, Marc E. Richmond, Michael Wolf, Jeffrey D. Zampi, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, L. LuAnn Minich, for the Pediatric Heart Network Investigators
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- Cardiology in the Young / Volume 29 / Issue 12 / December 2019
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- 26 November 2019, pp. 1510-1516
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The Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial randomised neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome to a shunt strategy but otherwise retained standard of care. We aimed to describe centre-level practice variation at Fontan completion.
Methods:Centre-level data are reported as median or median frequency across all centres and range of medians or frequencies across centres. Classification and regression tree analysis assessed the association of centre-level factors with length of stay and percentage of patients with prolonged pleural effusion (>7 days).
Results:The median Fontan age (14 centres, 320 patients) was 3.1 years (range from 1.7 to 3.9), and the weight-for-age z-score was −0.56 (−1.35 + 0.44). Extra-cardiac Fontans were performed in 79% (4–100%) of patients at the 13 centres performing this procedure; lateral tunnels were performed in 32% (3–100%) at the 11 centres performing it. Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (nine centres) ranged from 6 to 100%. Major complications occurred in 17% (7–33%). The length of stay was 9.5 days (9–12); 15% (6–33%) had prolonged pleural effusion. Centres with fewer patients (<6%) with prolonged pleural effusion and fewer (<41%) complications had a shorter length of stay (<10 days; sensitivity 1.0; specificity 0.71; area under the curve 0.96). Avoiding deep hypothermic circulatory arrest and higher weight-for-age z-score were associated with a lower percentage of patients with prolonged effusions (<9.5%; sensitivity 1.0; specificity = 0.86; area under the curve 0.98).
Conclusions:Fontan perioperative practices varied widely among study centres. Strategies to decrease the duration of pleural effusion and minimise complications may decrease the length of stay. Further research regarding deep hypothermic circulatory arrest is needed to understand its association with prolonged pleural effusion.
Clothing the clergy. Virtue and power in medieval Europe, c. 800–1200. By Maureen C. Miller. Pp. xviii + 286 incl. 79 black-and-white and colour ills. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2014. $89.95 (paper). 978 0 8014 4982 6; 978 0 8014 7943 4
- E. Jane Burns
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- The Journal of Ecclesiastical History / Volume 67 / Issue 1 / January 2016
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- 18 December 2015, p. 165
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- January 2016
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Shaping Saladin: Courtly Men Dressed in Silk
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- By E. Jane Burns, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Edited by Daniel E. O'Sullivan, University of Mississippi, Laurie Shepard, Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
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- Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France
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Summary
Chrétien de Troyes's twelfth-century romance Perceval ou le Conte du Graal stages a telling encounter between the naïve and bumbling Perceval and his newfound chivalric mentor, Gornemont de Gort, in which the mentor asks, “Et de vos armes, biax amis, / Me redites que savez faire?” (1391–2), [Tell me again, my friend, what can you do with your arms/armor?]. Perceval responds curiously:
Jes sai bien vestir et retraire, Si com li vallés m'en arma Qui devant moi en desarma Le chevalier qu'avoie mort. (1392–5)
[I can put them on and remove them, just like the squire who armed me after disarming the knight I had slain.]
Perceval's seemingly silly reply appears at first to miss the point of Gornemont's inquiry. Instead of attesting to his skills as a knight, the newly dubbed Perceval can speak only of his skill at dressing and undressing as a knight.
And yet, Perceval's remarks aptly convey the importance of material culture, especially clothing, in the creation of chivalric masculinity within the Arthurian world. As Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman have shown in Cinematic Illuminations (in which they analyze both Chrétien's text and the film version of it, “Perceval Le Gallois,” directed by Eric Rohmer), knights in King Arthur's realm have to perform chivalry constantly in order to maintain it.
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Bernad, Henley Bernard, Alan E. Bernstein, Jon L. Berquist, Johannes Beutler, Ana María Bidegain, Matthew P. Binkewicz, Jennifer Bird, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Dmytro Bondarenko, Paulo Bonfatti, Riet en Pim Bons-Storm, Jessica A. Boon, Marcus J. Borg, Mark Bosco, Peter C. Bouteneff, François Bovon, William D. Bowman, Paul S. Boyer, David Brakke, Richard E. Brantley, Marcus Braybrooke, Ian Breward, Ênio José da Costa Brito, Jewel Spears Brooker, Johannes Brosseder, Nicholas Canfield Read Brown, Robert F. Brown, Pamela K. Brubaker, Walter Brueggemann, Bishop Colin O. Buchanan, Stanley M. Burgess, Amy Nelson Burnett, J. Patout Burns, David B. Burrell, David Buttrick, James P. Byrd, Lavinia Byrne, Gerado Caetano, Marcos Caldas, Alkiviadis Calivas, William J. Callahan, Salvatore Calomino, Euan K. Cameron, William S. Campbell, Marcelo Ayres Camurça, Daniel F. Caner, Paul E. Capetz, Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Patrick W. Carey, Barbara Carvill, Hal Cauthron, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Mark D. 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Flowers, Carole Fontaine, David Ford, Mary Ford, Stephanie A. Ford, Jim Forest, William Franke, Robert M. Franklin, Ruth Franzén, Edward H. Friedman, Samuel Frouisou, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Jojo M. Fung, Inger Furseth, Richard R. Gaillardetz, Brandon Gallaher, China Galland, Mark Galli, Ismael García, Tharscisse Gatwa, Jean-Marie Gaudeul, Luis María Gavilanes del Castillo, Pavel L. Gavrilyuk, Volney P. Gay, Metropolitan Athanasios Geevargis, Kondothra M. George, Mary Gerhart, Simon Gikandi, Maurice Gilbert, Michael J. Gillgannon, Verónica Giménez Beliveau, Terryl Givens, Beth Glazier-McDonald, Philip Gleason, Menghun Goh, Brian Golding, Bishop Hilario M. Gomez, Michelle A. Gonzalez, Donald K. Gorrell, Roy Gottfried, Tamara Grdzelidze, Joel B. Green, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Cristina Grenholm, Herbert Griffiths, Eric W. Gritsch, Erich S. Gruen, Christoffer H. Grundmann, Paul H. Gundani, Jon P. Gunnemann, Petre Guran, Vidar L. Haanes, Jeremiah M. Hackett, Getatchew Haile, Douglas John Hall, Nicholas Hammond, Daphne Hampson, Jehu J. Hanciles, Barry Hankins, Jennifer Haraguchi, Stanley S. Harakas, Anthony John Harding, Conrad L. Harkins, J. William Harmless, Marjory Harper, Amir Harrak, Joel F. Harrington, Mark W. Harris, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Van A. Harvey, R. Chris Hassel, Jione Havea, Daniel Hawk, Diana L. Hayes, Leslie Hayes, Priscilla Hayner, S. Mark Heim, Simo Heininen, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Eila Helander, David Hempton, Scott H. Hendrix, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Gina Hens-Piazza, Carter Heyward, Nicholas J. Higham, David Hilliard, Norman A. Hjelm, Peter C. Hodgson, Arthur Holder, M. Jan Holton, Dwight N. Hopkins, Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Po-Ho Huang, James Hudnut-Beumler, Jennifer S. Hughes, Leonard M. Hummel, Mary E. Hunt, Laennec Hurbon, Mark Hutchinson, Susan E. Hylen, Mary Beth Ingham, H. Larry Ingle, Dale T. Irvin, Jon Isaak, Paul John Isaak, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Hans Raun Iversen, Margaret C. Jacob, Arthur James, Maria Jansdotter-Samuelsson, David Jasper, Werner G. Jeanrond, Renée Jeffery, David Lyle Jeffrey, Theodore W. Jennings, David H. Jensen, Robin Margaret Jensen, David Jobling, Dale A. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Maxwell E. Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Mark D. Johnston, F. Stanley Jones, James William Jones, John R. Jones, Alissa Jones Nelson, Inge Jonsson, Jan Joosten, Elizabeth Judd, Mulambya Peggy Kabonde, Robert Kaggwa, Sylvester Kahakwa, Isaac Kalimi, Ogbu U. Kalu, Eunice Kamaara, Wayne C. Kannaday, Musimbi Kanyoro, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Frank Kaufmann, Léon Nguapitshi Kayongo, Richard Kearney, Alice A. Keefe, Ralph Keen, Catherine Keller, Anthony J. Kelly, Karen Kennelly, Kathi Lynn Kern, Fergus Kerr, Edward Kessler, George Kilcourse, Heup Young Kim, Kim Sung-Hae, Kim Yong-Bock, Kim Yung Suk, Richard King, Thomas M. King, Robert M. Kingdon, Ross Kinsler, Hans G. Kippenberg, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Clifton Kirkpatrick, Leonid Kishkovsky, Nadieszda Kizenko, Jeffrey Klaiber, Hans-Josef Klauck, Sidney Knight, Samuel Kobia, Robert Kolb, Karla Ann Koll, Heikki Kotila, Donald Kraybill, Philip D. W. Krey, Yves Krumenacker, Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan, Simanga R. Kumalo, Peter Kuzmic, Simon Shui-Man Kwan, Kwok Pui-lan, André LaCocque, Stephen E. Lahey, John Tsz Pang Lai, Emiel Lamberts, Armando Lampe, Craig Lampe, Beverly J. Lanzetta, Eve LaPlante, Lizette Larson-Miller, Ariel Bybee Laughton, Leonard Lawlor, Bentley Layton, Robin A. Leaver, Karen Lebacqz, Archie Chi Chung Lee, Marilyn J. Legge, Hervé LeGrand, D. L. LeMahieu, Raymond Lemieux, Bill J. Leonard, Ellen M. Leonard, Outi Leppä, Jean Lesaulnier, Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis, Henrietta Leyser, Alexei Lidov, Bernard Lightman, Paul Chang-Ha Lim, Carter Lindberg, Mark R. Lindsay, James R. Linville, James C. Livingston, Ann Loades, David Loades, Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole, Lo Lung Kwong, Wati Longchar, Eleazar López, David W. Lotz, Andrew Louth, Robin W. Lovin, William Luis, Frank D. Macchia, Diarmaid N. J. MacCulloch, Kirk R. MacGregor, Marjory A. MacLean, Donald MacLeod, Tomas S. Maddela, Inge Mager, Laurenti Magesa, David G. Maillu, Fortunato Mallimaci, Philip Mamalakis, Kä Mana, Ukachukwu Chris Manus, Herbert Robinson Marbury, Reuel Norman Marigza, Jacqueline Mariña, Antti Marjanen, Luiz C. L. Marques, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele), Caleb J. D. Maskell, Steve Mason, Thomas Massaro, Fernando Matamoros Ponce, András Máté-Tóth, Odair Pedroso Mateus, Dinis Matsolo, Fumitaka Matsuoka, John D'Arcy May, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Theodore Mbazumutima, John S. McClure, Christian McConnell, Lee Martin McDonald, Gary B. McGee, Thomas McGowan, Alister E. McGrath, Richard J. McGregor, John A. McGuckin, Maud Burnett McInerney, Elsie Anne McKee, Mary B. McKinley, James F. McMillan, Ernan McMullin, Kathleen E. McVey, M. Douglas Meeks, Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon, Ilie Melniciuc-Puica, Everett Mendoza, Raymond A. Mentzer, William W. Menzies, Ina Merdjanova, Franziska Metzger, Constant J. Mews, Marvin Meyer, Carol Meyers, Vasile Mihoc, Gunner Bjerg Mikkelsen, Maria Inêz de Castro Millen, Clyde Lee Miller, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Alexander Mirkovic, Paul Misner, Nozomu Miyahira, R. W. L. Moberly, Gerald Moede, Aloo Osotsi Mojola, Sunanda Mongia, Rebeca Montemayor, James Moore, Roger E. Moore, Craig E. Morrison O.Carm, Jeffry H. Morrison, Keith Morrison, Wilson J. Moses, Tefetso Henry Mothibe, Mokgethi Motlhabi, Fulata Moyo, Henry Mugabe, Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi, Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde, Robert Bruce Mullin, Pamela Mullins Reaves, Saskia Murk Jansen, Heleen L. Murre-Van den Berg, Augustine Musopole, Isaac M. T. Mwase, Philomena Mwaura, Cecilia Nahnfeldt, Anne Nasimiyu Wasike, Carmiña Navia Velasco, Thulani Ndlazi, Alexander Negrov, James B. Nelson, David G. Newcombe, Carol Newsom, Helen J. Nicholson, George W. E. Nickelsburg, Tatyana Nikolskaya, Damayanthi M. A. Niles, Bertil Nilsson, Nyambura Njoroge, Fidelis Nkomazana, Mary Beth Norton, Christian Nottmeier, Sonene Nyawo, Anthère Nzabatsinda, Edward T. Oakes, Gerald O'Collins, Daniel O'Connell, David W. Odell-Scott, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Kathleen O'Grady, Oyeronke Olajubu, Thomas O'Loughlin, Dennis T. Olson, J. Steven O'Malley, Cephas N. Omenyo, Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro, César Augusto Ornellas Ramos, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, Kenan B. Osborne, Carolyn Osiek, Javier Otaola Montagne, Douglas F. Ottati, Anna May Say Pa, Irina Paert, Jerry G. Pankhurst, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Samuele F. Pardini, Stefano Parenti, Peter Paris, Sung Bae Park, Cristián G. Parker, Raquel Pastor, Joseph Pathrapankal, Daniel Patte, W. Brown Patterson, Clive Pearson, Keith F. Pecklers, Nancy Cardoso Pereira, David Horace Perkins, Pheme Perkins, Edward N. Peters, Rebecca Todd Peters, Bishop Yeznik Petrossian, Raymond Pfister, Peter C. 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Rubenstein, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Markku Ruotsila, John E. Rybolt, Risto Saarinen, John Saillant, Juan Sanchez, Wagner Lopes Sanchez, Hugo N. Santos, Gerhard Sauter, Gloria L. Schaab, Sandra M. Schneiders, Quentin J. Schultze, Fernando F. Segovia, Turid Karlsen Seim, Carsten Selch Jensen, Alan P. F. Sell, Frank C. Senn, Kent Davis Sensenig, Damían Setton, Bal Krishna Sharma, Carolyn J. Sharp, Thomas Sheehan, N. Gerald Shenk, Christian Sheppard, Charles Sherlock, Tabona Shoko, Walter B. Shurden, Marguerite Shuster, B. Mark Sietsema, Batara Sihombing, Neil Silberman, Clodomiro Siller, Samuel Silva-Gotay, Heikki Silvet, John K. Simmons, Hagith Sivan, James C. Skedros, Abraham Smith, Ashley A. Smith, Ted A. Smith, Daud Soesilo, Pia Søltoft, Choan-Seng (C. S.) Song, Kathryn Spink, Bryan Spinks, Eric O. Springsted, Nicolas Standaert, Brian Stanley, Glen H. Stassen, Karel Steenbrink, Stephen J. Stein, Andrea Sterk, Gregory E. Sterling, Columba Stewart, Jacques Stewart, Robert B. 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Bright light therapy for agitation in dementia: a randomized controlled trial
- Alistair Burns, Harry Allen, Barbara Tomenson, Debbie Duignan, Jane Byrne
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Background: Agitation is common in people with dementia, is distressing to patients and stressful to their carers. Drugs used to treat the condition have the potential to cause particularly severe side effects in older people with dementia and have been associated with an increased death rate. Alternatives to drug treatment for agitation should be sought. The study aimed to assess the effects of bright light therapy on agitation and sleep in people with dementia.
Methods: A single center randomized controlled trial of bright light therapy versus standard light was carried out. The study was completed prior to the mandatory registration of randomized controls on the clinical trials registry database and, owing to delays in writing up, retrospective registration was not completed.
Results: There was limited evidence of reduction in agitation in people on active treatment, sleep was improved and a suggestion of greater efficacy in the winter months.
Conclusions: Bright light therapy is a potential alternative to drug treatment in people with dementia who are agitated.
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Genetic epidemiology explores the interrelationship of genetic and environmental risk factors in which genes are measured indirectly in ways that reflect aggregate effects "averaged" across the entire genome. This chapter describes the principles and methodology of psychiatric genetics using four-paradigm framework: basic genetic epidemiology, advanced genetic epidemiology, gene finding, and molecular genetics. Each of these paradigms has strengths and limitations, and they are in a process of dynamic interaction with each other. Genetic epidemiology has proved a reliable method to answer basic questions about the overall importance of genetic risk factors for psychiatric illness. The advanced genetic epidemiology paradigm has been used to study the relationships between neuroticism and depression. Molecular genetics is an entirely laboratory-based discipline applying a range of modern methods from genomics to neuroscience to try to identify and then trace pathophysiological pathways.
153 - Kawasaki Disease
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Kawasaki disease (KD), an acute vasculitis of infancy and early childhood, affords a unique opportunity to study acute endothelial cell (EC) damage in the setting of previously healthy arteries unaffected by underlying disease processes such as atherosclerosis, hypertension, or diabetes. KD is now the most common form of acquired heart disease in children in the United States and Japan (1,2). The vasculitis presents with clinical signs that include fever, rash, conjunctival injection, edema and erythema of the extremities, andmucosal erythema (3).Thevasculitis is self-limited, butwithout treatment, one in four children will develop coronary artery aneurysms occasionally accompanied by aneurysms of other mediumsized, muscular, extraparenchymal arteries (4). Echocardiography during the first 2 months after onset of fever is used to classify patients as having normal, dilated, or aneurismal coronary arteries. Long-term sequelae of the coronary artery aneurysms include ischemic heart disease and myocardial infarction. The acute inflammation can be abrogated in the majority of patients with a single dose (2 g/kg) of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and aspirin (80–100 mg/kg/day), which reduces the aneurysm rate to 3% to 5% (5).
The etiology of KD remains unknown, although an infectious cause is suspected based on seasonality and clustering of cases (2) and the similarity of clinical signs to other infectious diseases. In addition, the peak incidence in infants and children younger than 5 years, coupled with the rare occurrence of KD in adults and infants younger than 3 months of age, is consistent with infection with a widely disseminated agent that causes asymptomatic infection in most hosts and the acquisition of protective immunity and passage of transplacental antibodies.
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- With contributions by Anne Azéma , Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski , Cynthia J. Brown , Elizabeth A. R. Brown , Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner , Ardis Butterfield , Kimberlee Campbell , Robert L. A. Clark , Mark Cruse , Kathryn A. Duys , Sylvia Huot , Marilyn Lawrence , Kathleen A. Loysen , Laurie Postlewate , Edward H. Roesner , Samuel N. Rosenberg , Lucy Freeman Sandler , Pamela Sheingorn , Helen Solterer , Jane H. M. Taylor , Evelyn Birge Vitz , Lori J. Walters and Michel Zink
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- With contributions by Anne Azéma , Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski , Cynthia J. Brown , Elizabeth A. R. Brown , Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner , Ardis Butterfield , Kimberlee Campbell , Robert L. A. Clark , Mark Cruse , Kathryn A. Duys , Sylvia Huot , Marilyn Lawrence , Kathleen A. Loysen , Laurie Postlewate , Edward H. Roesner , Samuel N. Rosenberg , Lucy Freeman Sandler , Pamela Sheingorn , Helen Solterer , Jane H. M. Taylor , Evelyn Birge Vitz , Lori J. Walters and Michel Zink
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PART I - POETIC AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
- With contributions by Anne Azéma , Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski , Cynthia J. Brown , Elizabeth A. R. Brown , Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner , Ardis Butterfield , Kimberlee Campbell , Robert L. A. Clark , Mark Cruse , Kathryn A. Duys , Sylvia Huot , Marilyn Lawrence , Kathleen A. Loysen , Laurie Postlewate , Edward H. Roesner , Samuel N. Rosenberg , Lucy Freeman Sandler , Pamela Sheingorn , Helen Solterer , Jane H. M. Taylor , Evelyn Birge Vitz , Lori J. Walters and Michel Zink
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PART V - RE–ENACTMENTS AND LEGACIES
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PART IV - PERSUASIVE PERFORMANCES
- With contributions by Anne Azéma , Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski , Cynthia J. Brown , Elizabeth A. R. Brown , Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner , Ardis Butterfield , Kimberlee Campbell , Robert L. A. Clark , Mark Cruse , Kathryn A. Duys , Sylvia Huot , Marilyn Lawrence , Kathleen A. Loysen , Laurie Postlewate , Edward H. Roesner , Samuel N. Rosenberg , Lucy Freeman Sandler , Pamela Sheingorn , Helen Solterer , Jane H. M. Taylor , Evelyn Birge Vitz , Lori J. Walters and Michel Zink
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Cultural Performances in Medieval France
- Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado
- With contributions by Anne Azéma , Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski , Cynthia J. Brown , Elizabeth A. R. Brown , Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner , Ardis Butterfield , Kimberlee Campbell , Robert L. A. Clark , Mark Cruse , Kathryn A. Duys , Sylvia Huot , Marilyn Lawrence , Kathleen A. Loysen , Laurie Postlewate , Edward H. Roesner , Samuel N. Rosenberg , Lucy Freeman Sandler , Pamela Sheingorn , Helen Solterer , Jane H. M. Taylor , Evelyn Birge Vitz , Lori J. Walters and Michel Zink
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This collection of essays pays tribute to Nancy Freeman Regalado, a ground-breaking scholar in the field of medieval French literature whose research has always pushed beyond disciplinary boundaries. The articles in the volume reflect the depth and diversity of her scholarship, as well as her collaborations with literary critics, philologists, historians, art historians, musicologists, and vocalists - in France, England, and the United States. Inspired by her most recent work, these twenty-four essays are tied together by a single question, rich in ramifications: how does performance shape our understanding of medieval and pre-modern literature and culture, whether the nature of that performance is visual, linguistic, theatrical, musical, religious, didactic, socio-political, or editorial? The studies presented here invite us to look afresh at the interrelationship of audience, author, text, and artifact, to imagine new ways of conceptualizing the creation, transmission, and reception of medieval literature, music, and art.
EGLAL DOSS-QUINBY is Professor of French at Smith College; ROBERTA L. KRUEGER is Professor of French at Hamilton College; E. JANE BURNS is Professor of Women's Studies and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Contributors: ANNE AZÉMA, RENATE BLUMENFELD-KOSINSKI, CYNTHIA J. BROWN, ELIZABETH A. R. BROWN, MATILDA TOMARYN BRUCKNER, E. JANE BURNS, ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, KIMBERLEE CAMPBELL, ROBERT L. A. CLARK, MARK CRUSE, KATHRYN A. DUYS, ELIZABETH EMERY, SYLVIA HUOT, MARILYN LAWRENCE, KATHLEEN A. LOYSEN, LAURIE POSTLEWATE, EDWARD H. ROESNER, SAMUEL N. ROSENBERG, LUCY FREEMAN SANDLER, PAMELA SHEINGORN, HELEN SOLTERER, JANE H. M. TAYLOR, EVELYN BIRGE VITZ, LORI J. WALTERS, AND MICHEL ZINK.