Abstract Date Presented 04/22/2023 Children with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) experience sudden symptoms after infection. This study investigated the relationship between children’s severity of and caregiver burden degree cohesion care recipient. Primary Author Speaker: Janice Tona Additional Authors Speakers: Julie Ash, Emily Brown, Courtney Campagna, Kellie Kostek, E...

The FCB pan was designed for European beet sugar factories and was first introduced to the South African Sugar industry at Maidstone mill in 1976 and was the first continuous pan in the industry. A 90 m' FCB 'C' pan was installedat Sezela in 1981, and the SRI pan wassubsequently installed in 1984 and was, and still is the only Australian designed continuouspan in South Africa. A brief set of de...

From the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Drs MacKay, Meyerhoff, and Weiner); Jacques Theron et Patrick Courtheam Centre Hospitalier Regional University, Pans, France (Dr Constans); and the Departments of Radiofogy (Drs Meyerhofl, Norman, and Weiner), Medicine (Dr Weiner), and Psychiatry (Drs MacKay, Fein, and Weiner), University of California...

Rectal swabs from 122 patients and 497 environmental swabs from several wards were examined for the presence of Clostridium difficile in order to assess the role of the environment in the spread of this organism. Clostridium difficile was isolated from 6/27 (22.2%) oncology patients and from 8/163 (4.9%) environmental specimens obtained from the oncology unit. Items found positive for C diffici...

INTRODUCTION Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection (PANDAS) remains a controversial diagnosis and it is unclear how frequently it is encountered in clinical practice. Our study aimed to determine how many children with acute-onset tics and/or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) met criteria for PANDAS. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective rev...

The striatum, especially its dorsolateral part, plays a major role in motor skill learning and habit formation, but it is still unclear how this contribution might be mediated at the neuronal level. We recorded single neurons in the posterior putamen of two monkeys performing an overlearned sequence of arm reaching movements to examine whether task-related activities are sensitive to manipulati...

The Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption, and Nitrogen (WE-CAN) deployed the NSF/NCAR C-130 aircraft in summer 2018 across western U.S. to sample wildfire smoke during its first days of atmospheric evolution. We present a summary subset reactive oxidized nitrogen species (NOy) plumes sampled pseudo-Lagrangian fashion. Emissions oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) nitrous acid...

Introduction Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) was described in 2010 not related to streptococcus infection (as PANDAS is), and with a clinically distinct presentation, defined as: I) Abrupt, dramatic onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder or severely restricted food intake; II) Concurrent presence additional symptoms; III) Symptoms are better explained by known neurologic ...

Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) are under threat from groundwater over-abstraction, which significantly impacts their conservation and sustainable management. Although the socio-economic significance of GDEs is understood, ecosystem services ecological (e.g., biodiversity hotspots) in arid environments remains understudied. Therefore, United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15...