Recently added articles from Functional Neurology:
Splitting the technology: functional imaging between open and high-field magnetic resonance
Apr 01, 2009; ... Science shows an ineluctable tendency to repeat history, replicating its course and models but on different temporal scales. The advance of science, and specifically medical science, can be charted in its progression from philosophy to physics, anatomy, physiology and, recently, to more complex ...
Psychosexual well-being in women using oral contraceptives containing drospirenone
Apr 01, 2009; ... Summary Considerable advances have been made in hormonal contraception in recent years, geared at maximizing compliance and minimizing discontinuation. In oral contraceptive (OC) formulations, the estrogenic component, generally ethinyl estradiol (EE), has been reduced significantly and ...
Women, alcohol and the environment: an update and perspectives in neuroscience
Apr 01, 2009; ... Summary This paper highlights gender peculiarities in the neuroscience of alcohol effects and draws attention to emerging problems due to simultaneous exposure to alcohol and environmental factors. All the available gender studies on alcohol show greater severity of alcohol- related ...
Depression in women with epilepsy: clinical and neurobiological aspects
Apr 01, 2009; ... Summary Patients affected by epilepsy show a considerably higher incidence of depression compared with the general population. Since women are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression, female gender could be considered a major risk factor for developing this condition. Converging ...
Gender differences in the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease
Apr 01, 2009; ... Summary Prevalence studies on dementia generally show a higher risk in women than in men. American studies reported equal rates whereas European ones showed higher rates in women. Observational studies on hormone replacement therapy showed that treated women had a lower risk than ...