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Following brain injury, complex interactions between the nervous system and other organs are frequently encountered. Systemic effects may be induced by dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the autonomic nervous system. This observational study will investigate the link between clinical, physiological and biochemical expressions of dysautonomic reactions and physiological stress, and their relations to sympathetic activation in traumatic brain injury patients treated in the neurointensive care unit.
Accumulating evidence indicates that inflammation is prominent both in the blood and central nervous system (CNS) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. These data suggest that systemic inflammation plays a crucial role in the cause and effects of AD neuropathology. Capitalizing on the experience from a previous clinical trial with thalidomide, here, the investigators hypothesize that modulating both systemic and CNS inflammation via the pleiotropic immunomodulator lenalidomide is a putative therapeutic intervention for AD if administered at a proper time window during the course of the disease.
Major Depression Disorder is one of the most common psychiatric disease and has affecting approximately 350 million people in the world. According to World Health Organization's report, it may be the first burden of disease in 2030. Due to the high morbidity and low acceptance in the treatment, it is necessary to find some nature compounds to prevent the disease. Cordyceps militaris, one of the most treasure Chinese herbs in Asia, contains many kinds of component such as cordycepin, polysaccharide, mannitol. In winter, it appears as an worm in the soil, afterwards, it grows out of the soil and convert into grass in summer. A previous study has demonstrated that Cordyceps militaris has anti-depressive effect in mouse tail suspension test, and in this study we will explore its effect in human subjects.
PRIME aims to demonstrate through neurocognitive assessment that BICU patients will have a degree of neurocognitive dysfunction following a major burn, that this neurocognitive dysfunction is due to an underlying neuroinflammatory process by fMRI neuroimaging techniques, and that the neurocognitive deficit is associated with a reduced quality of life.
The protocol is to draw peripheral blood from healthy volunteers for in vitro studies. The aims of these in vitro studies are to determine the cellular and intracellular mechanisms by which hypertonic saline and ATP release regulate neutrophil and lymphocyte functions.