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List of Original Publications

■ Musicians are highly trained motor experts with pronounced associations between musical actions and the corresponding auditory effects. However, the importance of auditory feedback for music performance is controversial, and it is unknown how feedback during music performance is processed. The present study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the processing of auditory feedback mani...

List of Original Publications L-dopa

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive central nervous system (CNS) disorder, the cardinal symptoms of which are bradykinesia, resting tremor, muscular rigidity, and impaired postural balance. The lack of dopamine (DA) in the CNS basal ganglia is associated with these symptoms. L-dopa, an immediate precursor of DA, is used to treat PD. Unlike DA, L-dopa penetrates into the CNS where it is co...

Continuously Variable Rating: a new, simple and logical procedure to evaluate original scientific publications

OBJECTIVE Impact Factors (IF) are widely used surrogates to evaluate single articles, in spite of known shortcomings imposed by cite distribution skewness. We quantify this asymmetry and propose a simple computer-based procedure for evaluating individual articles. METHOD (a) Analysis of symmetry. Journals clustered around nine Impact Factor points were selected from the medical ''Subject Cate...

PUBLICATIONS BY THE STAFF OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE Laboratory of Anatomy Original articles

Evaluating the quality of longitudinal statistical applications in original publications on Alzheimer's disease.

BACKGROUND/AIMS To evaluate the quality of longitudinal statistical applications in published studies on Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS A 21-item instrument, the Quality of Longitudinal AD Studies (QLADS), was developed by the research team (4 biostatisticians, 1 neuroepidemiologist, and 1 neurologist). All items were extensively discussed within the team for content validity. After pilot ...