Using Bionics to Restore Sensation to Reconstructed Breasts

Thermal Injury to Reconstructed Breasts from Commonly Used Warming Devices: A Risk for Reconstructive Failure

BACKGROUND Sensation is decreased or absent after breast reconstruction. This leaves reconstructed breasts vulnerable to injury from common household thermal sources such as heating pads and hot water bottles. We sought to categorize these injuries, provide a treatment plan, and prevent these injuries in the future. METHODS A retrospective review of patients who had sustained burns to reconst...

Using ecosystem engineers to restore ecological systems.

Ecosystem engineers affect other organisms by creating, modifying, maintaining or destroying habitats. Despite widespread recognition of these often important effects, the ecosystem engineering concept has yet to be widely used in ecological applications. Here, we present a conceptual framework that shows how consideration of ecosystem engineers can be used to assess the likelihood of restorati...

Assessing the possibility of using nature in the design of industrial units to Restore workers' attention

Since industrial units are in line with various accidents and demand that the workers have high awareness and cognitive processing, then this paper aimed to find out whether the use of nature can be effective in regaining workerschr(chr('39')39chr('39')) attention in industrial environments. Therefore, in the form of a survey research, it has measured the four components of attention restoratio...

From sensation to cognition.

Sensory information undergoes extensive associative elaboration and attentional modulation as it becomes incorporated into the texture of cognition. This process occurs along a core synaptic hierarchy which includes the primary sensory, upstream unimodal, downstream unimodal, heteromodal, paralimbic and limbic zones of the cerebral cortex. Connections from one zone to another are reciprocal and...

From Sensation to Perception