The relationship between poor health and cognitive impairment is not fully understood yet. People with Down syndrome are prone to a number of health problems, including congenital heart defect, visual impairment, hearing loss, autoimmune diseases, epilepsy, early-onset Alzheimer's disease and intellectual disability. Our aim was to assess the impact of impaired health on cognitive performance i...

intellectual property law is premised traditionally on the protection of inventions (patent), literary and artistic property (copyright), and signs (trade mark); and sui generis rights, such as design law, stand outside this framework and are constantly questioned and re-shaped the fashion industry is an intellectual property (ip) intensive industry, continually generating and commercially expl...

When faced with a preterm delivery of an extremely premature neonate between 22-24 weeks (EPRN), doctors are confronted by a three-fold uncertainty of age, viability and prognosis that influence their decision whether or not to resuscitate the neonate. Firstly, in the delivery room the preterm neonate’s age is seldom precisely known, and successful resuscitation depends on the neonate’s accurat...

This study documents age trends, interrelations, and correlates of intellectual abilities in old and very old age (70-103 years) from the Berlin Aging Study (N = 516). Fourteen tests were used to assess 5 abilities: reasoning, memory, and perceptual speed from the mechanic (broad fluid) domain and knowledge and fluency from the pragmatic (broad crystallized) domain. Intellectual abilities had n...

vincristine (vcr) as a frequently used antimitotic agent which is commonly prescribed for wide spectrum of neoplasm, causes mixed sensorimotor neuropathy. several evidences show lithium could be a neuroprotective agent, therefore to assess whether a pretreatment and at subtherapeutic dose it could prevent the peripheral neuropathy produced by vcr, rats were treated with vcr 0.1mg/kg i.p. for 3 ...

The New Zealand Disability Strategy (Minister for Disability Issues 2001) distinguishes between disability and impairments. Individuals do not have disabilities. Rather, they may have physical, sensory, neurological, psychiatric, intellectual, or other impairments. According to the Strategy, “Disability is the process which happens when one group of people create barriers by designing a world o...