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Insulin resistance and neuropsychiatric diseases

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2010

Abstract

The paper reviews the mechanisms, by which insulin resistance influences the pathogenesis of selected neuropsychiatric disorders some neurological and psychiatrical diseases, particularly the sporadic form of Alzheimer disease, depressive disorders and schizophrenia, all of them being characterized with increased prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 and/or cardivascular disease.