School of Medical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Alcohol use in bipolar disorder: A neurobiological model to help predict susceptibility, select treatments and attenuate cortical insult.
Published 2015-09-01In a series of neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies we investigated the neurobiology related to alcohol use in young people with bipolar disorder. Impairments were identified across frontal and temporal representations ...Open AccessArticle -
A longitudinal proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study investigating oxidative stress as a result of alcohol and tobacco use in youth with bipolar disorder
Published 2015-04-01Alcohol and tobacco have been suggested to be "aggravating factors" for neuroprogression in bipolar disorder (BD), however the impact of these substances on the underlying neurobiology is limited. Oxidative stress is a key ...Open AccessArticle -
Prediction of paraquat exposure and toxicity in clinically ill poisoned patients: a model based approach.
Published 2014-09-19AIMS: Paraquat poisoning is a medical problem in many parts of Asia and the Pacific. The mortality rate is extremely high as there is no effective treatment. We analyzed data collected during an ongoing cohort study on ...Open AccessArticle -
Household water efficiency strategies in Cornwall, SW of England
Published 2015-06-01Demand-side measures are thought to be a sustainable approach to meeting the future supply-demand balance. We assess the uptake of domestic demand-side measures and potential factors that may promote the uptake of water ...Open AccessArticle -
Kidney damage biomarkers detect acute kidney injury but only functional markers predict mortality after paraquat ingestion
Published 2015-06-09Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common following paraquat ingestion. The diagnostic performance of injury biomarkers was investigated in serial blood and urine samples from patients from 5 Sri Lankan hospitals. Functional AKI ...Open AccessPreprint