The objective of this research was to measure the presence of metabolic syndrome risk factors in a sample population in the middle income Caribbean nation of St. Lucia and to identify the demographic and behavioral factors of metabolic syndrome among the study participants. Interviews and anthropometric measures were conducted with 499 St. Lucians of ages 18-99. Descriptive statistics were used...

Processing of targets in smooth or apparent motion along the vertical 1 in the human brain: an fMRI study 2 Running title: Neural processing of vertical target motion in man 3 Vincenzo Maffei, Emiliano Macaluso, Iole Indovina, Guy Orban and Francesco 4 Lacquaniti 5 6 Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation, 7 via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome (Italy),...

1 Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia, 3 School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, 4 School of Geography, Planning, and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Austral...

Vanhaudenhuyse A, Boveroux P, Boly M, Laureys S. Brain connectivity in pathological and pharmacological coma. Front Syst Neurosci 2010; 4: 160. doi: 10.3389/ fnsys.2010.00160. Tzovara A, Murray M, Plomp G, Herzog M, Michel C, Lucia MD. Decoding stimulus-related information from single-trial EEG responses based on voltage topographies. Pattern Recognit 2012; 45: 2109–22. Tzovara A, Rossetti AO, ...

Kinematic strategies in newly walking toddlers stepping over different support 1 surfaces 2 3 4 Nadia Dominici, Yuri P. Ivanenko, Germana Cappellini, Maria Luisa Zampagni, 5 Francesco Lacquaniti 6 7 8 Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology, Santa Lucia Foundation, via Ardeatina 306, 00179 9 Rome, Italy, Centre of Space Bio-medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, via 10 Montpellier 1, 00133 Rome,...

Learning discloses abnormal structural and functional plasticity at hippocampal synapses in the APP23 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease Silvia Middei, Anna Roberto, Nicola Berretta, Maria Beatrice Panico, Simone Lista, Giorgio Bernardi, Nicola B. Mercuri, Martine Ammassari-Teule, and Robert Nisticò CNR Institute for Neuroscience, S. Lucia Foundation, Rome 00143, Italy; Laboratory of Experiment...

Marine reserves have been widely promoted as conservation and fishery management tools. There are robust demonstrations of conservation benefits, but fishery benefits remain controversial. We show that marine reserves in Florida (United States) and St. Lucia have enhanced adjacent fisheries. Within 5 years of creation, a network of five small reserves in St. Lucia increased adjacent catches of ...