Case report: Psychosis and catatonia in an adolescent patient with adipsic hypernatremia and autoantibodies against the subfornical organ

This is SELENIUM PLUS the first description of a patient in which adipsic hypernatremia, a rare autoimmune encephalitis, presented in combination with complex psychiatric symptomatology, including psychosis and catatonia.Adipsic hypernatremia is characterized by autoantibodies against the thirst center of the brain.These autoantibodies cause inflam

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Mitochondrial DNA mapping of social-biological interactions in Brazilian Amazonian African-descendant populations

The formation of the Brazilian Amazonian population has historically involved three main ethnic groups, Amerindian, African and European.This has resulted in genetic investigations having been carried out using classical polymorphisms and molecular markers.To better understand the genetic variability and the micro-evolutionary processes acting in h

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Advances and Challenges for Model and Data Engineering

Following the stimulating discussions in the workshops held during the 9th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2019), we proposed to edit a special issue compiling the fruitful research resulting from Christmas Platter those discussions.This special issue on current research in model and data engineering of the Journal of U

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