Background While in the last 5 years several studies have been conducted in Italy on the
prevalence of mental disorders in adults, to date no epidemiological study has been targeted …

… As previously proposed by O'Roak and collaborators, we hypothesize a two-hit model for
the disease risk in this patient, where a mutant FOXP1 protein leads to an amplification of the …

The impact of socioeconomic status (SES) and genetic polymorphisms on individual differences
for externalized behaviors have often been investigated separately in studies of children …

… Genomic DNA was extracted with DNAzol genomic DNA isolation reagent (MRC, Cincinnati,
OH). In detail, each pellet was resuspended in 0.5 ml of DNAzol supplemented with 5 ml of …

… Such relative lack of dopamine transporter makes the pre-frontal cortex more dependent
on other mechanisms, like the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) enzyme, to terminate the …

Background: Both genetic and psychosocial risk factors influence the risk for depression in
development. While the impacts of family structure and of serotonergic polymorphisms upon …

Aims.Adolescence is a critical transition phase between childhood and adulthood, when the
burden of mental disorder may still be prevented. The aim of this study was to evaluate the …

… over 1–2 hrs to a “low” tidal volume (6 mL per kilogram of predicted body weight) as a goal
in conjunction with the goal of maintaining end-inspiratory plateau pressures <30 cm H 2 O. (…

In the last decade we have witnessed a dramatic increase in the proportion and absolute
number of bacterial pathogens resistant to multiple antibacterial agents. Multidrug-resistant …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a process of nonhydrostatic pulmonary
edema and hypoxemia associated with a variety of etiologies, carries a high morbidity rate, …