Single units and sensation: a retrospect.

Vitamin B12 may be more effective than nortriptyline in improving painful diabetic neuropathy.

INTRODUCTION Despite many therapeutic options, painful diabetic neuropathy is still a common and challenging complication of diabetes mellitus and is often resistant to treatment with current modalities. METHODS In this randomized, single-blind clinical trial we compared the efficacy of parenteral vitamin B(12) and nortriptyline, for symptomatic improvement of pain, paresthesia, burning, free...

Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences: 2019 in retrospect

16 State - Dependent Utility and Decision Theory

1 Technical Summary 9 2 Introduction, Retrospect and Preview 11 2.1 Retrospect: Theory 11 2.2 Retrospect: Applications and Moral Hazard 13 2.3 One-Person Games with Moral Hazard 15 2.4 Motivation and Organisation 16 3 A General Framework 18 4 Games Against Nature 20 5 Hypothetical Preferences 22 6 Games with Moral Hazard 27 7 Conditional Expected Utility 34 7.1 Representation Theorem 34 7.2 Ext...

Measurement of Tactile Sensation by Vibrometric Technique

The ability to quantify the sensation of vibration is a valuable indicator of the state of tactile sensory system. Elevated threshold in the detection of vibratory stimuli may be the first sign of neuropathological disorders. Mechanoreceptive units are responsible for vibrotactile sensation of the skin, and different types of these units respond to different frequencies. Vibrometry is based on ...

Properties of cutaneous mechanoreceptors in the human hand related to touch sensation.

Recordings from single peripheral nerve fibres made it possible to analyse the functional properties of tactile afferent units supplying the glabrous skin of the human hand and to assess directly the relation between impulse discharge and perceptive experiences. The 17,000 tactile units in this skin area of the human hand are of four different types: two fast adapting types, FA I and FA II (for...