Postgraduate Medical Journal
October 14, 2024
Betül Uyar, Mehmet Güneş
1 citation
This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the antidepressant and antisuicidal efficacy of ketamine in patients with unipolar depression, with a focus on the clinical evidence and safety profile. In our study, the data of 120 major depressive disorder patients who received single-dose ketamine infusion therapy were evaluated retrospectively, with Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating...
Postgraduate Medical Journal
June 2018
Philip D Welsby
Human brains have about 100 billion neurons each with about 1000 dendritic connections with other neurons giving a total of 100 000 billion deterministic dendritic switches. Various voting systems that the brain may use can produce conflicting results from identical inputs without any indication as to which one or ones would be correct. Voting systems cannot deliver unequivocal results in any...
Postgraduate Medical Journal
November 1, 1993
Smita Manchanda, Michael Connolly
76 citations
A previously fit 35 year old man presented with a right hemiparesis and dysphasia 36 hours after abuse of Ecstasy (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine). Computerized axial tomography scan demonstrated an extensive acute left cerebral infarction and carotid digital subtraction angiogram, 2 days after admission, revealed left middle cerebral artery occlusion. There were no other known risk factors...
Postgraduate Medical Journal
July 1990
M A Gillman, F J Lichtigfeld
We describe a method of treating the mild to moderate alcohol withdrawal state which has been used successfully for 10 years in over 7,000 cases. It is now the standard therapy at the largest dedicated alcoholic rehabilitation centre in Southern Africa. The technique uses analgesic (subanaesthetic) concentrations of nitrous oxide, which in most cases is administered on a single occasion for 20...
Postgraduate Medical Journal
1986
B I Joffe, H C Seftel; Hormonal and biochemical responses to transcendental meditation, Postgraduate Medical Journal, Volume 62, Issue 723, 1 January 1986,
Postgraduate Medical Journal
September 1, 1981
Norman R. Peden, Katrina Macaulay, Ann F Bissett et al.
58 citations
Summary The clinical features are reported in 27 cases of ‘magic mushroom’ ingestion. Mydriasis and hyperreflexia were common as were disorders of perception and affect. Psilocybe semilanceata appears to have been the species of fungus involved.