American Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021

  • A New Hypothesis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

    Leonora Grinio

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
    Pages: 25-30
    Received: 24 November 2020
    Accepted: 9 December 2020
    Published: 13 April 2021
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    Abstract: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is the product the mutation the gene-dystrophine and appearing defective protein dystropnin. Its function is unclear, suppose protection membranes during the contraction-relax skeletal muscles. The cytoplasmic dystrophin acts as the complexes with different proteins inside and around membranes, which are placing in skele... Show More
  • Brain Laterality Demands that Two Human Species Exist: Evidence from Hemisity and Familaial Polariity

    Bruce Eldine Morton

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
    Pages: 31-37
    Received: 15 March 2021
    Accepted: 29 March 2021
    Published: 13 April 2021
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    Abstract: The asymmetric location of functional units in the bilateral brain of animals and humans is the topic of brain laterality. So far, five lateralized functions have been discovered in humans: handedness, language ability, spatial skills, facial recognition, and emotion recognition. Recently a sixth asymmetric functional element bearing upon personali... Show More
  • The Mental Health Act and Public Perception on Resource Allocation in Bangladesh

    Md. Sanwar Siraj, Rebecca Susan Dewey, Md Ikhtiar Uddin Bhuiyan, Kamrul Hasan, Md Yousuf Ali, Ahnaf Tahmid Arnab

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
    Pages: 38-43
    Received: 19 March 2021
    Accepted: 7 April 2021
    Published: 13 April 2021
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    Abstract: The Bangladesh government passed a new Mental Health Act in 2018, which formally came into effect on November 14. In order to decrease the significance and endurance of the hundred-year-old statute, the Lunacy Act of 1912, the government enacted the new Act by reformation. The Act is designed to ensure the provision of health services, the preserva... Show More
  • Toxic Substances Use and Juvenile Violence in Ivory Coast: The Case of Young Adults and Adolescents in Conflict with the Law, Known as "Microbes"

    Konan Koffi Paulin, Traore Brahim Samuel, Kouassi Ettien Silvie, Aka Rita Ahou, Yeo-Tenena Yessonguilana Jean-marie

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
    Pages: 44-49
    Received: 7 March 2021
    Accepted: 29 April 2021
    Published: 8 May 2021
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    Abstract: At the end of a post-electoral crisis in 2011, urban delinquency in Ivory Coast is undergoing a deep change. Young adults and teenagers attack the population according to a triptych that signs a particular modus operandi. An interpretation of this criminality, which is foreign to the taxonomy of delinquency, attempts to situate the place of toxic s... Show More
  • Involvement with Juvenile Justice System as a Motivational Factor for Treatment for Adolescents with Substance Abuse Disorder: Their Parents’ Views

    Georgia Efstathiadou

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
    Pages: 50-58
    Received: 24 March 2021
    Accepted: 15 April 2021
    Published: 14 May 2021
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    Abstract: The paper at hand aims at exploring whether engagement with the penal judicial system can affect drug using adolescents’ decision to seek treatment, by studying the relative views and beliefs of their parents. The main research questions are concerned with the parents’ beliefs about the effect of the judicial institutions (e.g. police, prosecutors,... Show More
  • Embodied Virtual Reality Mirror Visual Feedback for an Adult with Cerebral Palsy

    Kim Bullock, Andrea Stevenson Won, Jeremy Bailenson, Julie Muccini, Margot Paul, Helen Bronte Stewart

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
    Pages: 59-67
    Received: 12 April 2021
    Accepted: 8 May 2021
    Published: 21 May 2021
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    Abstract: Virtual reality-assisted physical therapy and mirror visual feedback (MVF) are promising treatments for children with cerebral palsy (CP). However, thus far, neither interventions’ use has been reported in adults with CP. The following case report examines the safety and feasibility of using customized virtual reality (VR) interventions to deliver ... Show More
  • Mitochondrial Disorders in Stroke and Chronic Brain Ischemia

    Sergey Victorovich Kotov, Olga Petrovna Sidorova, Elena Vasilyevna Borodataya, Irina Anatolyevna Vasilenko

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
    Pages: 68-76
    Received: 7 April 2021
    Accepted: 21 April 2021
    Published: 31 May 2021
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    Abstract: Stroke is the leading cause of disability and death in the adult population. Modern methods of treating patients with acute ischemic stroke include thrombolytic therapy with a narrow therapeutic window and endovascular thrombectomy. The development of other methods of treatment of brain hypoxia in the penumbra zone is relevant. Mitochondria, which ... Show More
  • BAG1 Overexpression Stabilizes High Molecular Tau Protein – a Crucial Role of the Co-chaperone in Tau Pathology

    Sandra Caecilie Signore, Fred Silvester Wouters, Matthias Schmitz, Mathias Baehr, Pawel Kermer

    Issue: Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
    Pages: 77-85
    Received: 2 June 2021
    Accepted: 16 June 2021
    Published: 23 June 2021
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    Abstract: The Bcl-2-associated athanogene-1 (BAG1) exerts neuroprotective properties which has been shown in several studies of neurodegenerative disease models like Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and even cerebral ischemia. On the basis of the well-known neuroprotective function of the co-chaperone, we wanted to examine its properties in a model ... Show More