Choking or Epilepsy

Nocturnal Choking, as an Isolated Manifestation of Epilepsy

Choking and Performance 1 Running Head: CHOKING AND EXCELLING Choking and Excelling Under Pressure

Decrements in performance on cognitive tasks resulting from pressure to perform (i.e., choking) are thought to be caused by interference with the ability to use explicit strategies (the distraction theory). This view suggests that pressure should improve tasks for which explicit strategies hamper performance. This hypothesis was tested by giving participants one of two nearly identical learning...

Choking at Night: A Case of Opercular Nocturnal Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

Frontal lobe seizures have a tendency to occur in sleep and in most cases occur exclusively in sleep; these individuals are said to have nocturnal frontal lobe (NFLE). NFLE can be difficult to distinguish clinically from various other sleep disorders, particularly parasomnias, which also present with paroxysmal motor activity in sleep. Interictal and ictal EEG findings are frequently unremarkab...

Choking of liquid flows

It is well-known that laminar flow of a liquid in a duct is predicted to choke if the viscosity of the liquid increases exponentially with increasing pressure. In other words, the pressure drop in the duct is predicted to become unbounded when the volumetric flow rate reaches a critical finite value. Choking is not observed in practice, however: the reason why is investigated here. It is shown ...

Choking the Feeder

Platelet activity usually inversely correlates with serum albumin levels (e.g., in course of remission or relapse), and it is potentially reversible by adding albumin in vitro or following albumin infusions. Furthermore, many other important hemostatic proteins of similar size are also pathologically excreted in the urine. The loss of antithrombotic factors in the urine is counterbalanced by an...