Cooperation enhances interpersonal communication and nurtures society. However, efforts to socially cooperate may often evoke conflict. Individuals selfishly pursue a greater reward or success by exploiting the of other individuals taking unnecessary risk oneself. Such cooperation dilemma is highly prevalent in real life; thus, it has been studied various disciplines. Although published functio...

Human immunodeficiency virus-cognitive motor complex (HIV-CMC), a common complication of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is characterized by progressive cognitive impairment and motor dysfunction. Functional imaging methods, such as single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS), have been applied to assess the severity of...

INTRODUCTION Acute post-traumatic brain swelling (BS) is one of the pathological forms that need emergent treatment following traumatic brain injury. There is controversy about the effects of craniotomy on acute post-traumatic BS. The aim of the present clinical study was to assess the efficacy of unilateral decompressive craniectomy (DC) or unilateral routine temporoparietal craniectomy on pat...

Methods: We used this technique with closed rhinoseptoplasty in 258 cases of perforations in which the perforation ranged from 1.0 to 3.5 cm in diameter. We repaired the perforation using bilateral intranasal submucoperichondrial and submucoperiosteal advancement flaps with a sandwich graft interposition between. We prepared the sandwich graft using the auricular or septal cartilage and 2 layer...

The MR images of a patient with cerebral amyloid angiopathy (a localized vascular deposition of amyloid without evidence of systemic amyloidosis) showed an extensive right temporoparietal lobe mass with frontal lobe extension that was slightly hypointense on T1-weighted images and heterogeneously hyperintense on T2-weighted images. No contrast enhancement was identified on MR imaging.

Background: Surgical repair of septal perforations has been historically cumbersome. Recently described techniques utilizing interposition grafting with polydioxanone (PDS) plates wrapped in a temporoparietal fascia (TPF) graft have reported successful closure 90% to 100% cases. Our objective is expand the investigation into use grafts combined for nasal perforation repair. Methods: Retrospecti...

UNLABELLED In most semiquantitative SPECT studies, overlap between groups of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and age-matched elderly controls is such that single posterior cortical perfusion measurements lack sensitivity. In the present study, the value of a combination of semiquantitative temporoparietal SPECT parameters was examined. METHODS Supratentorial transaxial perfusion measur...