Daily Archives: November 15, 2016
Antipsychotic-induced severe hypoglycemia
Hyperglycemia is more common in patients with antipsychotic treatment than in the general population. However, hypoglycemia is one of the idiosyncratic potentially life-threatening adverse effects of antipsychotics. While several cases of antipsychotic-induced hypoglycemia have been reported, the
Automatic modulation of critical brain dynamics
Several lines of electrophysiological, blood-oxygenation-level dependent signal imaging and behavioral evidence show that many features of central-nervous system activity are scale-free. The scale-free dynamics is relevant because it is a signature characteristic of complex systems poised at
How leaf beetle produce toxins to defend themselves
Leaf beetles are insects that consume and destroy the leaves of the plants on which they live (host plant). Therefore, these beetles are pests of their corresponding host plant and cause economic damage, if this host plant
Protein structures: the evolutionary time capsules
If you wanted to probe life’s origins, billions of years back, how could you do it? You’d need a preserved message from different points in history, time capsules left by evolution. Amazingly, evolution has left such time
