Using neural networks to model personality development.

abstract：:The 'Big Bang' is used to describe the origin of the Universe. While such an event could not create itself the expression is graphic. Tissue damage, traumatic, thermal, chemical; bites; insect, animal or human are all bad, but also well known factors which favor and initiate pathogenic activity. Antedating and outrank...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Baggot MG

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This evidence, then, would suggest that the olive becomes active when, with a change in the motor task, the motor performance is required to adjust to the new circumstance. From Smith's experiments on blood pressure, it is extrapolated that the olive becomes active when there is a change in the physiological state, an...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kennedy PR

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An observation of sleep improvement with vitamin D supplementation led to a 2 year uncontrolled trial of vitamin D supplementation in 1500 patients with neurologic complaints who also had evidence of abnormal sleep. Most patients had improvement in neurologic symptoms and sleep but only through maintaining a narrow ra...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gominak SC,Stumpf WE

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both human cell lines HL-60 and AML-193 exhibit a myeloblastic and promyelocytic morphology, respectively, but may be regarded as bipotent leukemic precursors. They can be triggered to differentiate to either granulocytes or monocytes upon retinoic acid (RA) or 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (D3) addition, respectively. We h...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Camagna A,Testa U,Masciulli R,Barberi T,Samoggia P,Tritarelli E,Pustorino E,Cipollone L,Ciancio L,del Duca P,Dionisi S,del Vecchio LR,Misasi G,de Martinis C,Peschle C

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The globally increasing incidences of Type 1 diabetes (T1DM) and Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) can have a common background. If challenged by the contemporary high level of nutritional glucose stimulation, the β-cells in genetically predisposed individuals are at risk for damage which can lead to the diseases. The fat to car...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sjöblad S

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances into the neuroscience research related to pathophysiology of schizophrenia have been impressive. While some are based on pre-existing theories and models, others have explored on a molecular level attempting to integrate the concepts of the past and present. However, given the complex multifactorial et...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Yarlagadda A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reflux of biliary secretions into the pancreatic duct following gallstone obstruction of the common biliary pancreatic ampulla has been implicated as a cause of acute pancreatitis. However, the pancreatic duct pressure is higher than the biliary pressure and, therefore, the simple obstruction of the choledochoduodenal...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Arendt T,Mönig H,Stüber E,Katsoulis S,Fölsch UR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infections are often the etiological agents of severe acute and chronic human diseases. Their peculiar biology usually leads to the need of design specific therapies for each virus, and the eradication of the viruses and the healing of the patients very often are not reached also after decades of theoretical and...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Arancio W

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta-protein is a major focus in efforts to understand the etiology of Alzheimer disease yet there is little known about the mechanism of its deposition in plaques. I propose deposition of amyloid in neuritic plaques depends on the remains of neurofibrillary tangles after neuronal death. The interaction of the...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Perry G

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reviewed supporting a hypothesis of an anticarcinogenic effect of magnesium. Animal studies reported increased cancer in rodents maintained on magnesium deficient diets and a preventive effect for rodents fed excess levels of magnesium. Epidemiologic evidence is presented that magnesium levels in water, fo...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Blondell JM

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent issue of Medical Hypotheses, Dr H L Newbold repeats the assertion that the cause of James B Duke's death in 1925 was pernicious anemia. Dr Newbold postulates that Mr Duke was neurologically impaired as a result of vitamin B-12 deficiency and that he suffered from depression. In an attempt to relieve this d...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Halperin EC

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity of adult cells has been identified in several post-natal tissues in the past few years and has attracted special attention in regenerative medicine. Skin is the biggest organ in the body. Adult skin consists of epidermis, dermis and appendages such as hairs and glands which are linked to the epidermis but p...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Chunmeng S,Tianmin C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A possible mechanism for maintaining immune memory, based on idiotypic-anti-idiotypic interactions, is described. It is proposed that pendular dynamic swings in the levels of idiotypic antibodies (Ab1) and anti-idiotypic Ab2 may underlay immune memory. In the terms of the advanced concept, Ab dynamics in the maternal ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Seledtsov VI,Seledtsova GV

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Howard Gardner identified five different kinds of creative activity among eminent creators, namely, solving a well-defined problem, putting forth a general conceptual scheme, creating a product that embodies ideas, stylized innovation of an art form, and a 'high-stakes' performance in the socio-political arena. In thi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kantha SS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, which is now viewed as a disease of brain with pathogenesis not fully understood. The main diagnostic methods are examining the retinal nerve fiber layer through optical coherence tomography and investigating visual field defect, but these methods pres...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sun Y,Huang W,Li F,Li H,Wang L,Huang Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Down-regulation of hormonal effects is in the presented simulation related to the number of functional receptors and quantity of available hormonal stimulation. The former is in the model substituted with the quantity of stimulation able to produce a full down-regulation (Hs100) of target cells. The halftime (t1/2) of...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kurbel S,Kurbel B,Dicić M,Ugraji V

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary headaches include migraine, tension, cluster headaches, paroxysmal hemicrania and miscellaneous headaches unassociated with structural lesions. A putative role of the retino-hypothalamic-pineal (RHP) axis in the pathophysiology of primary headaches is reviewed in terms of (1) retinal dysfunction, (2) hypothala...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Deshmukh VD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper discusses a mechanism for reciprocal translocation of midsegments between two chromatids so that one of the segments is restacked in inverted configuration. Regarding malignant cells, such process could derive from anachronistic assembly of the nuclear envelope. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Matioli GT

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As human society is mainly cooperative, it is not clear how antisocial personality disorder (APD) persists. The current explanation is that sociopaths are cheaters who maximize their fitness by taking advantages from others. Although this argument is valid, we show here that society also benefits from APD. We propose ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Miric D,Hallet-Mathieu AM,Amar G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author presents evidence from published papers of research done by numerous investigators that Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease, that the target tissue is the myelin sheath which covers the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord, that Myelin Basic Protein (MBP) is the antigen or one of the antig...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Eidinoff H

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper compares two models of the sense of smell and demonstrates that the new model has advantages over the accepted model with implications for medical research. The accepted transduction model had an odourant or pheromone contacting an aqueous sensory lymph then movement through it to a receptor membrane beneat...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Nicholson B

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have focused on the detrimental effects of malnourishment to the performance of the brain and peripheral nerves. Undernourished children and adults have been studied extensively to establish these consequences. Little attention has been given to the body habitus that affects optimum neurological performan...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Grantham J,Henneberg M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compensate for the high metabolic costs of lactation, the likelihood of re-impregnation shortly after childbirth is normally reduced due to hormonal changes triggered by breast feeding during the postpartum period. Nowadays, however, bottle feeding as a substitute for breast feeding precludes such changes and leads...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Gallup GG Jr,Hobbs DR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms have been found in many human bacterial infectious processes including chronic rhinosinusitis. It was found also at the surface of nasal polyps, and both at the surface of the nasal part and the stalk of the antrochoanal polyp. However, our recent research clearly demonstrated the presence of the bi...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Mladina R,Skitarelić N

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The universal 24-hour circadian clock has a profound impact on many daily biological processes. Disturbance of circadian rhythms has been implicated in the etiologies of many chronic illnesses, including cancer; with correlations most profoundly found among hormone-related breast and prostate cancers. Given the fact t...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Zhu Y,Zheng T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism continues to be a significant cause of psychosocial pathology in affected children and adults. Until recently, the predominant research thrust to uncover the cause of this condition has been the search for a major nuclear mutation. Although a small percentage of cases do demonstrate such a DNA fault, recent eff...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Steinman G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell anaemia confirms that minor mutations in protein sequence can have catastrophic effects. However, RNA transcription depends on polymerases that have low fidelity and introduce errors at a rate of 10(-5) substitutions/base synthesised. For many large proteins translation of these errors could result in sign...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Sallie R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the metabolic routes for acetone metabolism have been described. Therefore, acetone cannot further be regarded as a waste product of metabolism. However, its physiological role in biochemical machinery is not clear. Here, an integrative model for the role of acetone metabolism is presented that orders the ev...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Kalapos MP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic iris sphincter tear has been thought to occur secondary to anteroposterior compression of the globe with defined forces lead to equatorial expansion and active pull along the corneoscleral junction and sphincter tear. However, here in this report, we elaborate the additional forces involved in the traumatic ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Pujari A,Agarwal D,Kumar Behera A,Bhaskaran K,Sharma N

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor cells have an absence or deficiency of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase. Superoxide is produced when hematoporphyrin derivative is exposed to visible light. A significant portion of the antitumor effect of porphyrin:light therapy is hypothesized to be mediated by superoxide. ...

journal_title：Medical hypotheses

authors： Peterson DA,McKelvey S,Edmondson PR

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00