Psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES), also known as pseudoseizure, pseudo-epileptic seizure and psychogenic seizure, is a psychologically based disorder accompanied with abnormal movements, sensations, emotions and/or behaviors that mimic epileptic seizures, but does not originate from a neurological disturbance (1-3). Psychogenic seizure, historically known as hysterical seizure (3, 4), is...

One-lung ventilation (OLV) has been commonly provided by using a double-lumen tube (DLT). Previous reports have indicated the high incidence of inappropriate DLT positioning in conventional maneuvers.After obtaining approval from the medical ethics committee of First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University and written consent from patients, 88 adult patients belonging to American societ...

A number of maladaptive behaviors and poor health outcomes (e.g., substance abuse, obesity) correlate with impulsive choice, which describes the tendency to prefer smaller, immediate rewards in lieu of larger, delayed rewards. Working memory deficits are often reported in those diagnosed with the same maladaptive behaviors. Human studies suggest that impulsive choice is associated with working ...

People make anticipatory changes in gait patterns prior to initiating a rapid change of direction. How they prepare will change based on their knowledge of the maneuver. To investigate specific and general strategies used to facilitate locomotor maneuvers, we manipulated subjects' ability to anticipate the direction of an upcoming lateral "lane-change" maneuver. To examine specific anticipatory...

UNLABELLED Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo is the most common peripheral vestibular disorder, especially in the elderly and presents as the predominant etiology in this population of the degeneration of the utricular macula. AIM To compare the effectiveness of the approaches after Epley maneuver. STUDY DESIGN longitudinal cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 53 volunteers...

OBJECTIVE The Valsalva maneuver is recognized as an effective method to dilate the internal jugular vein (IJV). However, this maneuver cannot be performed in many cases, such as children and unconscious patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of proximal IJV compression, which can easily be performed, regardless of patient cooperation. METHODS Healthy adult volunteer...

The stability problem of impulsive discrete systems with multiple delays is studied. By means of the Lyapunov stability theory and discrete-time Halanay-type inequality technique, we develop sufficient conditions for the exponential stability for the impulsive discrete systems with multiple delays, which involves multiple delays not only at non-impulsive time instants but also at impulsive time...

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Individual differences in impulsive and risky choice are key risk factors for a variety of maladaptive behaviors such as drug abuse, gambling, and obesity. In our rat model, ordered individual differences are stable across choice parameters, months of testing, and span a broad spectrum, suggesting that rats, like humans, exhibit trait-level impulsive and risky choice behaviors. In addition, imp...