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The analysis uses register data on a total population of all older residents in Sweden, encompassing approximately two million persons. The results indicate that the Inverse Care Law does not apply to the utilization of LTCS by Swedish-born older people, nor by the majority of older migrants. However, the Inverse Care Law does appear to operate for older persons born in low-income countries who do not have a partner.Dentate nuclei (DN) are vital structures in the anatomical circuits that link the cerebellum to the cerebrum. However, the characteristics of DN functional connectivity (FC) in schizophrenia remain largely unknown. In this study, we investigated the FC of the DN in patients with schizophrenia and examined their possible clinical correlates using resting-state functional magnetic imaging data. We found that the patient group had greater DN FC with the parietal lobe (e.g., postcentral gyrus and superior parietal lobule) and less DN FC with the prefrontal cortex (e.g., superior frontal gyrus), posterior cingulate cortex, and regional cerebellum (e.g., vermis 4-5 and crus I) than did the control group. Furthermore, some abnormal connectivities of the DN with these regions significantly correlated with psychiatric symptoms. These results suggest that the DN circuits are disturbed and may participate in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.

The Fetal Blood Sample (FBS) is used as an indicator of fetal acidosis during labor. Its place is discussed through the lack of randomized trials, as well as the limitations related to the technical procedure. An alternative could be the Fetal Scalp Stimulation (FSS).

Our objective was to describe the FSS diagnostic value to predict fetal wellbeing defined from FBS.

The FSS consisted in a digital scalp stimulation for 15 s. Test was negative when an acceleration and/or a normal variability were elicited in the 2 min following. FSS was performed before each FBS which was classified as normal when pH was > 7.25. The diagnostic value was assessed by sensibility, specificity, positive and negative predictive values.

148 women were included in our center from February to December 2019. Of the 191 FBS procedures, when accelerations were elicited sensibility was 58,3 (36.8-77.1), specificity was 67,5 (59.3-75), positive predictive value was 20,9 (12.5-32.9) and negative predictive value was 91.7 % (95 %CI, 85-95.5).

FBS is considered as the gold standard in our study which could be discussed as it is abandoned in some countries because of its questioned reliability and the lack of controlled randomized trials.

This study suggests that FSS could be an interesting alternative adjunctive test to perform in the first instance as it seems to be reliable, non-invasive and easy to perform in order to limit FBS only to absence of acceleration after FSS.

This study suggests that FSS could be an interesting alternative adjunctive test to perform in the first instance as it seems to be reliable, non-invasive and easy to perform in order to limit FBS only to absence of acceleration after FSS.

Alterations in large scale neural networks leading to neurophysiological changes have been described in Parkinson's disease (PD). The combination of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG) has been suggested as a promising tool to identify and quantify neurophysiological mechanisms. The aim of this study was to investigate specific changes in electrical brain activity in response to stimulation of four brain areas in patients with PD.

21 healthy controls and 32 patients with PD underwent a combined TMS-EEG assessment that included stimulation of four brain areas left M1, right M1, left dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and right DLPFC. Six measures were calculated to characterize the TMS evoked potentials (TEP) using EEG (1) wave form adherence (WFA), (2) late phase deflection (LPD), (3) early phase deflection (EPD), (4) short-term plasticity (STP), (5) inter-trial adherence, and (6) connectivity between right and left M1 and DLPFC. A Linear mixed-model was used to

Association of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) with subsequent Parkinson's disease (PD) has supported the link between glucose metabolism and PD. this website We assessed the risk of PD not only in T2D but also in prediabetes.

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of the population attended in primary care centres of the Catalan Health Institute in Catalonia between 2006 and 2018. The data were obtained from the Information System for Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP). We created a cohort of T2D and prediabetes patients (HbA1c ≥ 5.7-6.4% without antidiabetic drugs or previous T2D diagnosis) and compared to a reference cohort. The outcome was PD diagnosis and we excluded PD before or during the first year of follow-up. We used multivariate Cox regression models to calculate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). We excluded subjects with atypical and secondary parkinsonisms.

The exposed cohorts comprised of 281.153 patients with T2D and 266.379 with prediabetes and a reference cohort of 2.556.928 subjects. T2D and prediabetes were associated with higher risk of PD (HRadjusted 1.19, 95%CI 1.13-1.25, and 1.07, 1.00-1.14; respectively). In analyses stratified by sex, prediabetes was only associated with PD risk in women (1.12, 1.03-1.22 vs. 1.01, 0.99-1.10 in men). When analysis was stratified by age, T2D and prediabetes were associated with a greater PD risk both in women (2.36, 1.96-2.84 and 2.10, 1.70-2.59 respectively) and men (1.74, 1.52-2.00 and 1.90, 1.57-2.30 respectively) below 65 years-old.

We report for the first time that prediabetes increases the odds of subsequent PD and replicate the association with established T2D. Both associations predominate in women and young individuals.

We report for the first time that prediabetes increases the odds of subsequent PD and replicate the association with established T2D. Both associations predominate in women and young individuals.

Parkinson's disease (PD) belongs to a family of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by alpha-synuclein accumulation in neurons, whose etiopathogenesis remains largely uncovered. Recently, LRP10 has been associated with PD, Parkinson's disease Dementia (PDD) and Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) by linkage analysis and positional cloning in an Italian family with late-onset PD. After the first characterization of a LRP10 pathogenic variant, other eight mutations have been detected in an international series of 660 probands with either a clinical or pathological diagnosis of PD, PDD or DLB. However, the results of following replication studies were inconclusive and the pathogenic role of LRP10 is still debated. The aim of this study is to sequence the LRP10 gene in an Italian cohort of clinically-diagnosed PD patients and to compare the frequency of the identified variants with the ones found in a large cohort of Italian exomes.

A cohort of 664 PD patients was analyzed by targeted Next Generation Sequencing approach.