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Effects and experiences of exercise during pregnancy
(2015-09-25)
Background: Recommendations regarding intensity, duration and type of exercise during pregnancy vary worldwide. Most research on exercise during pregnancy investigates the effects of aerobic exercise while only a few trials ...
Cognition, Adherence and Stigma in Schizophrenia. The COAST study
(2015-01-26)
Schizophrenia is a serious stigmatizing illness. Antipsychotic medication is a cornerstone in treatment. Non-adherence is a predictor of poor outcome leading to relapse, poor functioning, high mortality and costs. Reported ...
Lithium protects the juvenile brain from ionizing radiation
(2015-10-14)
Radiotherapy used in the treatment of brain tumours in children results in a range of cognitive dysfunctions that impact the quality of life in the surviving population. In past decades, great strides were made in understanding ...
Upper extremity functioning during the first year after stroke
(2015-12-17)
The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate upper extremity functioning during the first year after stroke from different perspectives.
Methods. All patients with first ever stroke, admitted to a stroke unit within ...
Genetic studies of autism and autistic-like traits
(2015-01-09)
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairment in social interaction,
language impairment and repetitive behavior with varying degrees of severity. ASD
represents the lower end on a continuously distributed ...
Mass spectrometric quantification of amyloid-beta in cerebrospinal fluid and plasma
(2015-10-07)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease among the elderly and accounts for 60-80% of all cases of dementia. Currently, the diagnosis of AD is based on cognitive tests and mental state exams, ...
Re-evaluation of the hypothesis that LTP has two temporal phases and that the late phase is protein synthesis-dependent
(2015-02-19)
Long-term potentiation (LTP) is an activity-dependent increase in synaptic efficacy that is most studied in the hippocampus and that is considered a cellular substrate for learning and memory. Accepting the belief that the ...
On Complications to Cataract Surgery
(2015-04-08)
Cataract surgery, meaning exchange of the opaque lens in the eye with an artificial lens, is nowadays one of the most successful surgical procedures ever known. It is also the most frequent surgery performed in the Western ...
Psychiatric symptoms and disorders in old age: prevalence, course and diagnostic thresholds
(2015-09-04)
The aim of this thesis was to study the epidemiology of some psychiatric disorders, as well as their corresponding subthreshold symptoms, in order to explore the border between psychopathology and normality in the general ...
Comorbidity across childhood-onset neuropsychiatric disorders
(2015-04-22)
Background: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) are clinically found to be comorbid with each other and with other psychiatric conditions to a greater extent than what is ...