Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Emerging evidence shows that diabetes mellitus causes structural and functional alterations in the brain. Recent studies have shown that diabetes may induce reductions in N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) and glutamate concentrations in the cortical grey matter, but few studies have performed the neurochemical profiling of other brain regions in patients with diabetes. Hence, the aim was to investigate brain metabolites in other brain regions of adults with diabetes.<p ...

Background: Gonadal dysgenesis (GD) is a congenital disorder of sex development resulting in gonadal dysfunction caused by a variety of underlying genetic aberrations. Psychiatric morbidity is more common in women with GD in comparison to the general population but whether this is the result of a hormonal disbalance is unknown. However, psychotic symptoms due to abrupt changes in blood estrogen levels have been commonly reported. The aim is to report the first case of a psycho...

Objectives: To compare obesity treatment with intragastric balloon (BIB – Bioenterics intragastric balloon) and behavioral-cognitive approach in order to determine the effectivness of these two methods in inducing weight loss, their impact on different features of metabolic syndrome and liver enzymes profile, and finally to evaluate patients attitudes and expectations regarding weight loss together with motivation and readiness to change their behaviour in order to lose w...