Medical Aspects of Boxing, Particularly from a Neurological Standpoint

About boxing: review of historical and medical aspects.

-ci ASPECTS OF COMPUTER CONTROL FROM THE HUMAN ENGINEERING STANDPOINT*

A Computer Control System includes dataacquisition, information display and output control signals. In order to design such a system effectively we must first determine the required operational mode: automatic control (closed loop), computer assisted (open loop), or hybrid control. The choice of operating mode will depend on the nature of the plant, the complexity of the operation, the funds av...

Aspects of neurological decompression illness: a view from Bethesda.

A minority of divers with neurological decompression illness (DCI) fail to improve with recompression treatment. This is particularly seen in cases where features of severe spinal cord injury develop soon after surfacing. Haemorrhage into the spinal cord is implicated in the pathogenesis of these cases, and evidence is presented that supports the view that the bleeding coincides with shrinkage ...

Neurological aspects of leptospirosis.

Since leptospirosis begins with a septicaemic stage, during which leptospirae may be isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid, the occurrence of lesions in the nervous system is not unexpected. Evidence of neurological abnormality can frequently be detected in the course of a typical attack of the disease, but it is usually insignificant compared with the involvement of other organs, and has littl...

Neurological aspects of insulinomas.

Neurological involvement occurred in every one of a series of 30 patients with an insulinoma. The episodic nature of the hypoglycaemia caused symptoms and signs to fluctuate and often led to delay in diagnosis (mean length of history was 3 years). The commonest feature at first presentation was confusion (20 instances), but as the illness evolved, coma (16 instances) and convulsions (8 instance...