Emotional reactivity of the airways in asthma: Consistency across emotion induction techniques and emotional qualities.
Authors: Ritz T, Kullowatz A, Goldman MD, Kanniess F, Magnussen H, Dahme B Considerable individual differences exist in asthma patients' airway responses to emotional stimuli, but little is known about the generalization of such responses across situations or states of airways constriction. Fifty-four asthma patients and 25 healthy controls viewed in two separate sessions, films and blocks of pictures from each of three emotional qualities, pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral. At the beginning of each session, patients received a placebo or anti-cholinergic bronchodilator (ipratropium bromide), respectively, in a randomized double-blind design. Respiratory resistance, reactance and impedance were recorded throughout stimulus presentations with impulse oscillometry. Resistance increases s...div id=medwormpbiMedWorm Message:/i/b Please support the a href=http://www.doctorsinchains.org/ target=_blankDoctors In Chains/a campaign for the a href=http://www.doctorsinchains.org/medics/a tortured and sentenced for up to 15 years in a href=http://www.doctorsinchains.org/Bahrain/a. a href=https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23FreeDoctors#FreeDoctors/a/p/div

Drug-induced visual impairment may be a manifestation of acute angle closure glaucoma
To the Editor, The patient who was reported as having become “hot, blind, and mad” manifested some of the clinical features of the delirium syndrome, including risk factors such as preexisting dementia in association with sensory deprivation (the latter due to blurred vision attributable to papillary dilatation) and precipitating factors such as pain (from the scalp laceration) and environmental change (the latter attributable to referral to the emergency department [ED]), all 4 components being among the ones highlighted in a recent review of this syndrome . The hidden danger is that, in the preoccupation with the management of the cognitive aspects of this syndrome, when the etiological agent is a drug that can cause pupillary dilatation (as may be the case with antihistamines) , cl...