Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) provides a non-invasive means of investigating brain function. Whereas TMS of the human frontal eye fields (FEFs) does not induce saccades, electrical stimulation of the monkey FEF evokes eye-head gaze shifts, with neck muscle responses evoked at stimulation levels insufficient to evoke a saccade. These animal results motivated us to examine whether TMS o...

Regular chest physiotherapy is advocated in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis despite little evidence supporting its routine use. This study aimed to establish the efficacy of regular chest physiotherapy in non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis compared with no regular chest physiotherapy. 20 patients not practising regular chest physiotherapy were enrolled in a randomised crossover trial of 3 mo...

Young adults in developing countries are attracted and addicted to the habit of smoking due to various reasons. The inhaled smoke from cigarette produces inflammatory reaction in the airways leading to impairment in lung function. Our present study was designed to assess the relationship between the pulmonary function parameters like forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 se...

BACKGROUND Common acute viral respiratory infections (colds) are the most frequent cause of exacerbations in infants with recurrent wheezing (RW). However, there is no quantitative information about the effect of colds on the lung function of infants with RW. This study was undertaken to determine the effect of common cold on forced expiratory parameters measured from raised lung volume in infa...

BACKGROUND Right posterior parietal cortex (rPPC) and frontal eye fields (FEF) are known to be involved in processing visuospatial attention. However, the functional involvement of these areas in spatial priming in complex conjunction visual search has yet to be determined. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the roles of rPPC and bilateral FEF in conjunction search when spatial ambiguity w...

The aims of the present study were to assess the effects of maternal use of domestic chemicals during pregnancy on wheezing and lung function in children aged </=8.5 yrs and to explore the potential modifying effect of atopy. In the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a cohort study, a maternal composite household chemical exposure (CHCE) score was derived. Wheezing phenotypes from...

AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the alterations of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and their relationship with disease activity in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). METHODS: Sixty‐four IBD patients (31 Crohn’s disease [CD] and 33 ulcerative colitis [UC]) and thirty healthy individuals (controls) were studied with regard to the following parameters of PFTs: Forced expiratory volu...

The frontal eye fields (FEF) are thought to mediate response selection during oculomotor decision tasks. In addition, many FEF neurons have robust postsaccadic responses, but their role in postchoice evaluative processes (online performance monitoring) is only beginning to become apparent. Here we report error-related neural activity in FEF while monkeys performed a biased speed-categorization ...

Fujii, Naotaka, Hajime Mushiake, and Jun Tanji. Intracortical on a front panel separated by 207 from a center LED] for a fixation microstimulation of bilateral frontal eye field. J. Neurophysiol. 79: period of 1.5–2.0 s. Monkeys were rewarded if their eyes remained 2240–2244, 1998. We trained two monkeys to perform a fixation fixated within a 27 fixation window and in each trial, fixation targe...