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Family caregivers play a curial role in supporting and caring for their mentally ill relatives. Their struggle for facing stigma and shouldering caregiving burden is marginalized, undervalued, and invisible to medical services. This study assessed the stigma and burden of mental illnesses, and their correlates among family caregivers of mentally ill patients.

A cross-sectional study design was used to collect data from 425 main family caregivers of mentally ill patients at Assiut University Hospital. A structured interview questionnaire was designed to collect socio-demographic data of both patients and their caregivers. Stigma scale for caregivers of people with mental illness (CPMI) was used to assess the affiliate stigma, while the associative stigma was assessed by theexplanatory model interview catalogue stigma scale (EMIC-Stigma scale). The caregivers' burden was assessed using Zarit burden Interview, and Modified Attitude toward Mental Illness Questionnaire was used to assess caregivers' knowledge d caregiver (ß = 1.864, p = 0.045), having high affiliate stigma (ß = 0.467, p < 0.001), having high associative stigma (ß = 0.409, p < 0.001), having poor knowledge and negative attitude toward mental illness (ß = - 0.221, p = 0.021), seeking traditional healers and non-psychiatrist's care from the start (ß = 2.378, p = 0.018), and caring after young mentally ill relatives (ß = - 0.136, p = 0.003).

The studied caregivers suffered from stigma and a high level of burden. Psycho-educational programs directed toward family caregivers are highly recommended.

The studied caregivers suffered from stigma and a high level of burden. Psycho-educational programs directed toward family caregivers are highly recommended.Palmar plantar erythrodysesthesia (PPE) is a commonly reported skin toxicity of chemotherapeutic agents that significantly affects patients' quality of life. PPE is described as inflammation, swelling, and even cracks and ulcers in the skin of palms and soles of the feet. Conventional treatment includes topical creams, analgesics, or corticosteroids. However, serious cases are not responding to these medications. PPE has been reported to cause drug cessation or dose reduction if not properly treated. Sildenafil citrate (SC) has a well-documented activity in wound healing through improving blood supply to the affected area. However, SC has poor physicochemical properties limiting its transdermal permeation and deposition. This research endeavored to elaborate novel vesicular system with natural components, phospholipids and oleic acid, loaded with sildenafil citrate for topical management of PPE. Sildenafil-loaded oleosomes were prepared using modified ethanol injection method. Optimized oleosomes had nanometric particle size (157.6 nm), negative zeta potential (- 85.2 mv), and high entrapment efficiency (95.56%). Ex vivo studies on human skin revealed that oleosomes displayed 2.3-folds higher permeation and 4.5-folds more deposition through the human skin compared to drug suspension. Results endorsed SC oleosomes as suitable topical treatment of PPE providing ameliorated sildenafil permeability in addition to acting as a reservoir for gradual release of the drug. Graphical abstract.When objects from two categories of expertise (e.g., faces and cars in dual car/face experts) are processed simultaneously, competition occurs across a variety of tasks. Here, we investigate whether competition between face and car processing also occurs during ensemble coding. The relationship between single object recognition and ensemble coding is debated, but if ensemble coding relies on the same ability as object recognition, we expect cars to interfere with ensemble coding of faces as a function of car expertise. We measured the ability to judge the variability in identity of arrays of faces, in the presence of task-irrelevant distractors (cars or novel objects). On each trial, participants viewed two sequential arrays containing four faces and four distractors, judging which array was the more diverse in terms of face identity. We measured participants' car expertise, object recognition ability, and face recognition ability. Using Bayesian statistics, we found evidence against competition as a function of car expertise during ensemble coding of faces. Face recognition ability predicted ensemble judgments for faces, regardless of the category of task-irrelevant distractors. The result suggests that ensemble coding is not susceptible to competition between different domains of similar expertise, unlike single-object recognition.The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence and electrophysiological features of 3-Hz postural tremor in multiple system atrophy-cerebellar type and spinocerebellar ataxia. A static posturography examination was administered to 37 persons with spinocerebellar ataxia, 58 others with the cerebellar type of multiple system atrophy, and 53 healthy controls. During the sensory organization tests of 5 multiple system atrophy patients, surface electromyograms were recorded from bilateral tibialis anterior and medial gastrocnemius muscles. The patients with multiple system atrophy had, on average, significantly higher scores on the International Cooperative Ataxia Rating Scale and significantly greater prevalence of cross sign. Almost 80% of them fell during the posturography testing compared with two-thirds of the spinocerebellar ataxia patients. Twenty-seven percent of the spinocerebellar ataxia patients and 82.8% of those with multiple system atrophy displayed postural tremor with a frequency of approximately 3 Hz. Ivacaftor ic50 The tremor's frequency tended to be lower in the spinocerebellar ataxia patients. The surface electromyography revealed highly coherent tremor activity at about 3 Hz in the patients' bilateral tibialis anterior and alternating firing in the bilateral antagonist muscles. Combining cross sign with a subject's static score of the International Cooperative Ataxia Rating Scale and occurrence of the tremor produced an indicator able to differentiate the two conditions with a sensitivity of 87.9% and a specificity of 89.2%. The area under the receiver operating characteristics curve for the indicator was 0.942. Three-hertz postural tremor is relatively characteristic of cerebellar type of multiple system atrophy and appears at an early stage of the disease. Identification of the tremor by posturography will facilitate its diagnosis.