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A Case of Transient Global Amnesia: A Review and How It May Shed Further Insight into the Neurobiology of Delusions
Conclusion In closing, our patient’s episode of TGA combined with her emotional and perceptual response lends credence to the proposal of a “fear/paranoia” circuit in the genesis of paranoid delusions—a circuit incorporating amygdala, frontal, and parietal cortices. Here, neutral or irrelevant stimuli, thoughts, and percepts come to engender fear and anxiety, while dysfunction in frontoparietal circuitry engenders inappropriate social predictions and maladaptive inferences about the intentions of others.[54] Hippocampus relays information about contextual information based on past experiences and the current situat...
Source: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience - April 1, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: ICN Online Editor Tags: Anxiety Disorders Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Case Report Cognition Current Issue Dementia Medical Issues Neurologic Systems and Symptoms Psychiatry Schizophrenia delusions hippocampus neurobiology Transient global amnesia Source Type: research

Got PMS? You Might Have High Blood Pressure In The Future, Says Study
By: Agata Blaszczak Boxe Published: 11/25/2015 10:14 AM EST on LiveScience The headaches, fatigue and other symptoms of premenstrual syndrome may be more than just a monthly aggravation — they may also signal greater future health problems for those women suffering from the syndrome: Women who have PMS may have an increased risk of developing high blood pressure in the future, according to a new study. Researchers found that the women who had PMS at the beginning of the study were 40 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure over the next 20 years, compared to women who experienced few menstrual symptom...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 26, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Fluctuating Mental Status and Fever of Unknown Origin (P1.030)
Conclusion: Central nervous system involvement as the initial manifestation of microscopic polyangiitis is rare and can result in a challenging clinical picture including recurrent ischemic strokes.Disclosure: Dr. Daniel has nothing to disclose. Dr. Brink has nothing to disclose. Dr. Hosley has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Daniel, A., Brink, J., Hosley, C. Tags: Cerebrovascular Disease and Interventional Neurology: Case Reports Source Type: research

Genetic Implication of a Novel Thiamine Transporter in Human Hypertension
ConclusionsNovel strategies were coupled to position a new hypertension-susceptibility locus, uncovering a previously unsuspected thiamine transporter whose genetic variants predicted several disturbances in cardiac and autonomic function. The results have implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of systemic hypertension.
Source: Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging - April 14, 2014 Category: Radiology Source Type: research

Quadri-chamber cardiac thrombi in alcoholic cardiomyopathy: a rare though ominous finding
We report a case of alcoholic cardiomyopathy with an alarming finding of thrombi in all cardiac chambers. Echocardiographic evidence of quadri-chamber intracardiac thrombi has rarely been described in the literature. Case A 48-year-old man with history of chronic alcoholism presented with progressive breathlessness of 1 year's duration. Cardiovascular examination showed sinus tachycardia and evidence of congestive cardiac failure. A transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) showed dilated cardiac chambers, severe biventricular global dysfunction with an alarming finding of thrombi...
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - July 16, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Singh, Y., Singla, V., Singh, B., Rajendran, R., Khandenahally, R. S., Manjunath, C. N. Tags: Cardiomyopathy, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: cardiovascular system, Echocardiography, Heart failure, Stroke, Hypertension, Malnutrition, Interventional cardiology, Ischaemic heart disease, Venous thromboembolism, Alcohol-related disorders, Drugs Source Type: research