BACKGROUND/AIMS Quality of life (QoL) is consistently decreased in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), but the relationship between QoL and psychological factors in GERD has not yet been clearly defined. The present study investigated the relationship between the psychological factors of two subtypes of GERD and QoL. METHODS A cohort of 769 participants underwent upper endoscopic evaluati...

Anticipatory postural adjustments (APA) are necessary for counteracting destabilizing forces induced by prime movements. The present study examined APA in a bimanual load-lifting task using simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG). A 1-kg weight placed on the left arm was either lifted by an experimenter (imposed condition) or by the subject (voluntary conditio...

The human mirror neuron system (hMNS) is believed to provide a basic mechanism for social cognition. Event-related desynchronization (ERD) in alpha (8-12Hz) and low beta band (12-20Hz) over sensori-motor cortex has been suggested to index mirror neurons' activity. We tested whether autistic traits revealed by high and low scores on the Autistic Quotient (AQ) in the normal population are linked ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral occlusive vascular disease is an established risk factor for ischemic stroke; however, little is known about its effects on brain function in patients without stroke. To detect possible functional alterations, we used magnetoencephalography and evaluated cerebral cortical activity during hand motor tasks in a group of such patients. Method- Event-related desynchr...

In the scope of EEG applications such as Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) or the evaluation of epileptic activity, the detection of event-related potentials (ERP) and associated event-related desynchronization / synchronization (ERD/ERS) are common goals. The most commonly used method for assessing ERD/ERS consists on the evaluation of EEG power changes upon the event onset in relation to the ba...

An entity relationship diagram (ERD) shows the cardinality of each entity in a relationship. In an ERD, minimum cardinalities can be either 0 or 1, and maximum cardinalities can be 1 or infinity. Bounded cardinality occurs when a relationship between entities has cardinality within a specified range. Problems displaying bounded cardinality might include team rosters that must have exactly 5, 9,...

Transient receptor potential vanilloid-1 (TRPV1) receptor and proteinase-activated receptor 2 (PAR2) have been implicated in the mechanism of acid-induced inflammation in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). We aimed to evaluate TRPV1 and PAR2 mRNA expression levels in the GERD patients and their relationship with endoscopic findings and reflux symptoms.Sixteen healthy controls, 45 patients ...

We investigated the event-related power decrease (event-related desynchronization: ERD) of the alpha bands associated with the anticipation of affective images. Participants (n = 19) were presented with emotionally positive or negative images under different anticipatory conditions, and their brain responses were recorded using magnetoencephalography (MEG). In the Affective Cue conditions, the ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the functional relationship between oscillatory electroencephalographic (EEG) components (pre-/post-stimulus intervals) with audio-event-related desynchronization/synchronization (ERD/ERS). METHODS In an experimental study (9 subjects), the probability-classification analysis of single-trial spectral EEG changes was utilized. Results were compared with auditory ERD/E...

Human brain adaptation in weightlessness follows the necessity to reshape the dynamic integration of the neural information acquired in the new environment. This basic aspect was here studied by the electroencephalogram (EEG) dynamics where oscillatory modulations were measured during a visuo-attentional state preceding a visuo-motor docking task. Astronauts in microgravity conducted the experi...