ObjectiveTo explore the effects of fisetin on the learning and memory abilities impairments induced by Aβ in mice.MethodsAlzheimer's disease (AD) animal model was made by single intracerebroventricular infusion of Aβ (1-42) through guide cannula.Fisetin was orally administered 7 days before Aβ infusion once a day,and continued throughout the experimental period.Water maze test began on day 3 after Aβ infusion.All mice were sacrificed and hippocampi were dissected immediately after behavioral test.The protein expression of hippocampal nuclear Nrf2 and the mRNA level of HO-1,GCLC and GCLM were examined by western blotting and RT-RCR techniques respectively.Results ( 1 ) Aβ (1-42) significantly increased escape latency in hidden platform test ( (25.4 ± 3.33 ) s ),and decreased the number of crossings in probe test ( 1.70 ± 0.25 ) compared with control ((9.05 ± 1.37 )s) for hidden plat form ;4.50 ± 0.41 for probe test) and Aβ (42-1)-treated group ( ( 10.80 ± 1.38)s) for hidden platform test; 4.10 ±0.39 for probe test; P＜0.01 ).The prolonged treatment with fisetin dose-dependently reversed the changes (10 mg/kg:17.54 ± 3.56s for hidden platform test;2.50 ± 0.40 for probe test,P＜0.05,20 mg/kg:( 13.04 ± 2.36) s for hidden platform test;3.60 ±0.36 for probe test,P＜0.01 ).(2) Aβ (1-42) significantly decreased the nuclear Nrf2 protein level (0.07 ±0.02),and mRNA level (0.45 ±0.04) of HO-1,GCLC (0.41 ± 0.04) and GCLM (0.26 ± 0.03 ) in the hippocampus of mice compared with control (0.18 ± 0.02 for Nrf2 ;0.83 ± 0.09 for HO-1 ; 1.01 ± 0.10 for GCLC; 0.65 ± 0.07 for GCLM) and Aβ (42-1 ) -treated group (0.21 ± 0.02 for Nrf2 ; 0.90 ± 0.08 for HO-1 ; 1.11 ± 0.11 for GCLC ; 0.72 ± 0.07 for GCLM) ( P ＜ 0.05 or P ＜ 0.01 ).However,fisetin administration significantly counteracted these changes ( 10 mg/kg:0.11± 0.01 for Nrf2 ; 0.56 ± 0.06 for HO-1 ; 0.61 ± 0.04 for GCLC ; 0.35 ± 0.04 for GCLM ; 20 mg/kg:0.16 ± 0.02for Nrf2;0.79±0.10 for HO-1;0.86±0.09 for GCLC;0.51±0.04 for GCLM;P＜0.05).ConclusionFisetin attenuates learning and memory impairments induced by Aβ (1-42) through activation of Nrf2 antioxidant signaling pathway.

Objective: To evaluate the impairment of semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease.Methods: 22 Alzheimer's disease patients were examined by means of a longitudinal study and compared with 22 normal elders.Two semantic tasks,lexical decision task and semantic knowledge task were used,to evaluate the integrity of the same concepts.Results: In each session,the MMSE scores of the Alzheimer's disease group were significantly worse(P

Oral-facial body-image disturbance is one of the mental disorders.This disorder can often be found in the clinic of stomatology and aesthetic medicine,and it can cause severe distress and impairment.This article discusses the relevance between body-image disturbance and etiological factor,appearance,diagnosis,treatment,etc.

Objective:To study the relationship between plasma homocysteine (Hcy),serum folate,Vitamin B12 levels and Vascular dementia (VD).Methods:30 VD patients,58 patients with nondemented cerebral infarction and 30 normal subjects of the same age were recruited in to the study.Their plasma Hcy levels were measured by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC),and the levels of serum folate and Vitamin B12 were also determined by radioimmune assay (RIA).Results:Mean of Plasma homocysteine concentrations were significantly higher in VD group than in the nondemented cerebral infarction group.Which were significantly higher in the nondemented cerebral infarction group than in the normal subjects of the same age.Serum folate levels in the VD group were significantly lower than those in the nondemented cerebral infarction group.Which were significantly lower than those of normal subjects.Conclusion:Hcy may be a new risk factor for the onset of VD.

Objective To examine the difficulty and discrimination of academic skill diagnostic test(ASDT).Methods About 1000 primary school students were administered the ASDT,and data were analysed by SPSS11.0 program.Results The difficulty of sub-tests ranged from 0.49～0.78(low edition),0.52～0.86(high edition);while the discrimination of sub-tests ranged from 0.31～0.55(low edition),0.21～0.56(high edition).The coefficients for test-retest and the whole test ranged from 0.36～0.61(low edition),0.39～0.60(high edition).Conclusion ASDT developed in the present study attains acceptable psychometric properties.

Objective: To develop Chinese Marital Motivation and Reason Inventory (CMMRI) and examine it's reliability and validity. Methods: A 40-items, self-report measure of marital motivation and reason was developed based definition of marital motivation and reason and clinical experiences. The test-retest reliability, split-half reliability, internal consistency reliability, construct validity, and empirical validity were examined in the general sample of 1303 subjects, retest sample of 52 subjects, and validity sample of 95 subjects, aged from 6 to 91 years. Results: The stability coefficients, split-half reliability, Cronbach's ?coefficients were 0.62~0.80, 0.61~0.79 and 0.62~0.80 for 4 dimensions. There were significant differences between subjects in separation and divorcee and subjects in marriage on the CMMRI. In the confirmatory analysis of four factors model, fit statistics for the model best explained the observed relationships between the item scores and they attained the lower x2/df ratios and RMSEA, and higher IFI, TLI, CFI, PNFI and PCFI. Conclusion: The stability, internal consistency, and validity of the CMMRI are good and meet with psychometric standard.

Objective: To study the gender differences in ERPs recorded during a recognition task for Chinese words. Methods: 15 male and 15 female healthy volunteers received a Chinese words recognition task and the EEG signals were recorded from 20 scalp sites simultaneously. The stimuli were meaningful words consisting of two Chinese characters. Results: Both men and females showed a positive-going parietal old/new effect, but females demonstrated larger P500 amplitudes and shorter P500 latency than males. Furthermore, the parietal old/new effect of males was significantly left-lateralized, while that of females showed more bilateral pattern. Only males elicited obvious frontally distributed old/new effect between 250 and 350 ms, which was negative-going and right-lateralized. Conclusion: Gender differences do exist in the recognition processing of Chinese words. Some of the gender differences could be interpreted as reflecting different strengths and speed of brain activation and others could be interpreted as reflecting the involvement of different neural structures.

Objective: To develop Mental Health Scale for Child and Adolescent(MHS-C) and assess it's reliability and validity. Methods: MHS-C were administered to 9278 children and adolescent aged 6-18 years or their parents from 12 Provinces of China, 143 children with mental disorders. 87 children were re-tested with MHS-C at interval of 5 weeks, 30 children were administered MHS-C and Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist as criteria test, 56 children and their parents were administered MHS-C. The reliabilities and validities of the MHS-C were examined using Pearson's correlations and factor analysis. Results: The MHS-C had good reliabilities (re-test reliability 0.713, Crobach ? 0.847,spilit reliability 0.800, rater reliability 0.874); The scores of normal children were higher than that of children with mental disorders on the MHS-C(F=63.34-238.8,P

Objective: To examine the development of digit, verbal and spatial working memory span in adults, and explore the factors which can affect them.Methods:The subjects were 280 healthy adults (male 134, female 146) aged from 18 to 49 years old.Each subject was administrated three subtests of the Multiple Memory Assessment Scale (MMAS), including digit, verbal and spatial working memory tasks, and demographical data were collected.Results:The adult demonstrated a significant longitudinal decline in performance of tests of working memory span (F=2.96~6.87,P

Objective: To examine reliability and validity of Chinese Cognitive Ability Scale (CCAS).Methods:The CCAS was administered 321 children, 275 adults, 32 patients with brain damage, and 31 children with mental retardation.Out of them, 26 children were tested with WISC-CR and 26 adults with WAIS-RC.Results: The test-retest reliability coefficients of subtests and scales ranged from 0.732 to 0.894, 0.919 to 0.960 for children, 0.859 to 0.937, 0.968 to 0.981 for adults; The reliability coefficients for children (quick coding was omitted) ranged from 0.810-0.928 (Split-half), 0.737-0.923 (Cronbach's ?) and 0.737-0.945 (generalizability) for subtests, 0.939-0.976,0.898-0.965 and 0.898-0.965 for scales; Coefficients for adults ranged from 0.829-0.948, 0.747-0.941 and 0.747-0.941 for subtests, 0.945-0.979, 0.915-0.967 and 0.915-0.967 for scales; The CCAS IQs were high correlated with WAIS-RC IQs (VIQ=0.775,PIQ=0.621,FIQ=0.724) and WISC-CR IQs (VIQ=0.888,PIQ=0.779,FIQ=0.886) , the CCAS VIQ, PIQ, and FIQ were 5.3,9.2,and 7.8 points less than WAIS-RC, and 2.0,7.2,and 5.0 points less than WISC-CR; Comparing with normal groups, mean IQs of brain damaged adults(VIQ=80.50,PIQ=80.59,FIQ=78.91) and mental retardation children(VIQ=43.68,PIQ=49.77,FIQ=44.06)were much lower.Conclusion: The Chinese Cognitive Ability Scale has excellent retest stability, internal consistency reliability, convergent and discriminant validity.