Nuggets of Knowledge: Bariatric surgery – what happens to medicines absorption?

What happens to cognitive function following surgery for hypothalamic hamartoma?

Hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) and gelastic epilepsy is a rare but well-recognized drug-resistant epileptic syndrome of early life. Cognitive impairments and behavior disturbance occur commonly in patients with HH and gelastic epilepsy, especially those with progressive seizure and EEG evolution during early childhood. Intellectual disability, autism, and episodic rage are commonly encountered in ...

Recall Activity: What Happens before and after Basal Cell Carcino-mas’ Surgery?

What Happens When Experts Over- or Underestimate a Layperson’s Knowledge

To communicate effectively with laypersons, experts must take into account the knowledge of their communication partner. Although prior research has shown that experts tend to overor underestimate laypersons’ knowledge, little is known about the particular impact of such overand underestimations on communication. Particularly, in computer-mediated communication where feedback is limited, expert...

What happens to genes in duplicated genomes.

NEUROSCIENCE. For the article ‘‘Histone deacetylase inhibitors prevent oxidative neuronal death independent of expanded polyglutamine repeats via an Sp1-dependent pathway,’’ by Hoon Ryu, Junghee Lee, Beatrix A. Olofsson, Aziza Mwidau, Alpaslan Deodoglu, Maria Escudero, Erik Flemington, Jane AzizkhanClifford, Robert J. Ferrante, and Rajiv R. Ratan, which appeared in issue 7, April 1, 2003, of Pr...

What Happens to Olfaction without Adult Neurogenesis?

Constitutive neurogenesis clearly occurs within the adult central nervous system of almost all mammals. This process generates new neurons in at least two areas of the brain: the olfactory bulb (OB) and the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus. However, it remains unknown why new neurons specifi cally populate those two neural structures rather than other areas. In empirical experiments, adult...