Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto and Chief, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, St Michael’s Hospital Correspondence: Dr Robert Josse, 61 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario M5C 2T2. Telephone 416-867-7455, fax 416-867-3696, e-mail [email protected] RG Josse. Why care about long term testosterone deficiency? Osteopenia and osteoporosis: Bone fractures, health and social...

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OBJECTIVE To analyze the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) in patients with unilateral peripheral third nerve palsy. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Ten patients and 15 healthy subjects were studied using magnetic search coils. Subjects made sinusoidal +/-10 degrees head-on-body rotations in yaw, pitch, and roll in darkness and during monocular viewing in light. RESULTS Horizontal VOR and visually enh...

Vitamin D (VIT D) deficiency is determined by serum 25-OH-D. Several studies revealed high prevalence of VIT D deficiency in females of the Asian sunny countries. 162 females referred to Urmia Orthopedic Clinics, with bone and muscle pain with the ages 15 up to 40 yrs participated in the study. The individuals were not pregnant, lactating, with no systemic or neurological diseases during the co...

To explore domestic auricular point therapy for insomnia in recent 10 years. The keywords retrieving clinical research papers include auricular point, insomnia, auricular point pressing therapy, auricular acupuncture therapy, auricular bloodletting method, needle-embedding method, auricular therapeutic apparatus. The databases are CNKI, WANGFANG, and VIP. Eighty-nine target theses were collecte...

Monocular zones adjacent to depth steps can create an impression of depth in the absence of binocular disparity. However, the magnitude of depth is not specified. We designed a stereogram that provides information about depth magnitude but which has no disparity. The effect depends on transparency rather than occlusion. For most subjects, depth magnitude produced by monocular transparency was s...

Natural scenes contain hidden regions, or occlusions, that differ in the two eyes, resulting in monocular regions that can only be seen by one eye. Such monocular regions appear to not be suppressed but seem to be integrated into the scene percept. Here we explore how the two eyes' views are combined to represent a scene that contains monocular regions, partially hidden behind a foreground occl...

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