Background: The European and Greek financial turmoil that began in 2007 has had adverse health consequences.Stillbirth, low birth weight, infant mortality, and maternal suicide have all increased.The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether socioeconomic factors contribute to postpartum blues, and whether psychoprophylaxis with group prenatal
Viewing of ambiguous stimuli can lead to bistable perception alternating between the possible percepts.During continuous presentation of ambiguous stimuli, percept changes occur as single events, whereas during intermittent presentation of ambiguous stimuli, percept changes occur at more or less regular intervals either as single events or bursts.R
This study identifies and describes the patterns found in Igbo-English codeswitching using a typology of codeswitching proposed in the literature.Two patterns in the three-way typology are identified.In the alternational MAHOGANY CREAM pattern neither language dominates the other, whilst the insertional pattern involves asymmetry in the roles of th
BACKGROUND The occurrence of acute encephalopathy is a dramatic clinical dilemma when usual diagnostic techniques (blood tests, cerebral CT and cerebrospinal fluid analysis) show no abnormalities.CLINICAL CASE We describe a case of a 73 years old man admitted in our Internal Medicine Unit for acute diarrhoea with vomiting and fever who developed a
The adaptive manipulation of offspring sex and number has been of considerable interest to ecologists and evolutionary biologists.The physiological mechanisms that translate maternal condition and environmental cues into adaptive responses in offspring sex and number, however, remain obscure.In mammals, research into the mechanisms responsible for