Background Although clinicians have traditionally used the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence
Scoring Tool to assess the severity of neonatal opioid withdrawal, a newer function-based …

Mechanisms underlying the therapeutic effects of lithium for bipolar mood disorder remain
poorly understood. Recent studies demonstrate that lithium has neuroprotective actions …

Electronic health records (EHRs) are software systems focused on comprehensive patient
health. Unlike electronic medical records (EMRs), which represent a digitized version of …

Objective To assess decisional conflict and knowledge about prematurity among mothers
facing extreme premature delivery when the counseling clinicians were randomized to …

The neuroprotective effects of lithium, a mood stabilizer, against glutamate-induced
excitotoxicity in rat cortical neurons were associated with a decrease in Tyr1472 …

Maternal obesity during pregnancy increases the risk for offspring obesity, in part through
effects on the developing brain. Previous research has shown that perinatal consumption of …

Lithium has long been one of the primary drugs used to treat bipolar mood disorder.
However, neither the etiology of this disease nor the therapeutic mechanism (s) of this drug …

Introduction Pain assessment is challenging in neonates. Behavioral and physiological pain
scales do not assess neocortical nociception, essential to pain encoding and central pain …

Objectives To determine performance of C-reactive protein (CRP) in the diagnosis of early-
onset sepsis, and to assess patient outcomes with and without routine use of CRP. Study …

The mortality rate for women of childbearing age has been increasing for the past 10 years
and pregnancy-related deaths have more than doubled [1]. There are large inequities in …