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Axis, Cervical Vertebra* ; Estradiol* ; Testosterone*

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Adrenocorticotropic Hormone* ; Animals ; Plasma* ; Rats*

Visual perception is a complex process engaging many different aspects of brain functioning. Like other cognitive functions, the extensive cortical distribution and complexity of visual perceptional activities make them highly vulnerable to brain injury. Dectection and characterization of perceptual require careful assessment as well as the application of selected neuropsychological tests. In the article we reviewed neuropsychological assessment of visual perception and constructional abilities. And the principal visuospatial disorders are discussed, the associated neuropsychiatric disorders are presented.
Brain ; Brain Injuries ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Visual Perception*

Seckel syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder of severe growth retardation and distinct craniofacial, orodental, and skeletal anomalies. We report hereby the first two Korean cases of typical Seckel syndrome who had characteristic symptoms of intrauterine growth retardation, small head, large eyes, sharp facial features (beaked nose, dysplastic ears and narrow face) with underdeveloped chin, dwarfism, severe mental retardation, and other malformation. We report two cases of Seckel syndrome with a brief review of related literatures.
Chin ; Dwarfism ; Ear ; Fetal Growth Retardation ; Head ; Intellectual Disability ; Nose

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OBJECTIVES: Phencyclidine(PCP) or PCP-like substances such as ketamine have been know to rekindle the cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia. The aims of this study were to identify whether PCP-like substances can produce cognitive deficit in schizophrenia, to discuss relation with aging process, and finally to speculate underlying neurochemical mecha-nisms by various drug responses. METHODS: In experiment I, radial maze tests were done in 24 Sprague-Dawley rats for 3 days to get baseline data. Being divided into 4 groups(6 rats respectively) of normal aged, normal adult controls, atropine-treated and ketamine-treated, the radial maze tests were repeated on every week for 6 weeks, and then the rats were sacrificed by intracardiac perfusion with phosphate-buffered 10% formaldehyde solution for histology. The brain specimen was stained with hematoxylin-eosin to count cells in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. In experiment II, radial maze tests were done for 48 rats before any drug treatment and only after ketamine administration. Thereafter, haloperidol, bromocriptine, clonidine, nimodipine, tacrine, valproic acid, naloxone and fluoxetine were intramuscularly injected on every other day in addition to ketamine. Radial maze tests were repeated on every week for 6 weeks, and then rats were prepared by the same procedure for histology. RESULTS: 1) Reaction times of radial maze tests of atropine-treated rats were significantly prolonged than those of normal aged(p<0.05) or normal adult controls(p<0.05). Cell numbers of prefrontal cortex & hippocampus in ketamine-treated rats were significantly reduced than those in normal aged(p<0.05) or normal adult controls(p<0.005). 2) Reduced cell numbers by ketamine became significantly raised by tacrine administration in prefrontal cortex $ hippocampus(p<0.05), while there were no significant changes on radial maze test. Cell numbers also tended to be raised by nimodipine, fluoxetine and haloperidol administration. CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, the visuospatial memory disorders in ketamine-induced psychotic rats might be partly associated with aging process. Furthermore, the responses to the various drugs suggested cholinergic system might have an important role in the neurochemical mechanism of the cognitive dysfunction in ketamine-induced psychosis. Otherwise, calcium metabolism as well as serotonergic and dopaminergic systems seemed to be possibly related.
Acetylcholine ; Adult ; Aging* ; Animals* ; Brain ; Bromocriptine ; Calcium ; Cell Count ; Clonidine ; Fluoxetine ; Formaldehyde ; Haloperidol ; Hippocampus ; Humans ; Ketamine ; Memory Disorders ; Metabolism ; Models, Animal* ; Naloxone ; Nimodipine ; Perfusion ; Prefrontal Cortex ; Psychotic Disorders ; Rats ; Rats, Sprague-Dawley ; Reaction Time ; Schizophrenia* ; Tacrine ; Valproic Acid

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Laparoscopy* ; Pelvic Pain*

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Child* ; Chromosome Aberrations* ; Cytogenetics* ; Humans

In older people, medicines are considered appropriate when they have an evidence-based indication, are well-tolerated and cost-effective. However, inappropriate prescribing (IP) is a common and significant healthcare problem in elderly people in Korea as well as in the world. IP in old people is highly prevalent but preventable. Screening for IP is highly desirable, since detection and correction are simple and worthwhile. Until now, Beers' criteria for IP dominate the international literatures, although they have some defects. The 2002 version of Beers' criteriaindependent of diagnosis includes 48 different categories of either single medications or multiple medications of a similar class identified as IP, and the 2002 version of Beers' criteria-considering diagnosis contains 19 different categories containing possible drug-disease interaction. Successful approaches to optimizing prescribing have been either educational or administrative. More research specially focused on the IP in the elderly is needed.
Aged ; Delivery of Health Care ; Humans ; Inappropriate Prescribing ; Korea ; Mass Screening