Almost all the vertebrates yawn, testifying the phylogenetic old origins of this behavior. Correlatively speaking, yawning shows an ontogenical precociousness since it occurs as early as 12 weeks after conception and remains relatively unchanged throughout life. Thus, it is contended that these common characteristics and their diencephalic origin allow to model an approach from which emerges a ...

TOPIC: Obstructive Lung Diseases TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: To understand comparative vaccine (influenza, “pneumonia” and shingles) use reasons for hesitancy among people with COPD known to be at increased risk poor outcomes from preventable diseases.To the potential impact of a short educational video (the intervention) on self-reported shingles uptake intent interest. METHODS: An ...

45 Abstract— According to a two-step account of the mere-exposure effect, repeated exposure leads to the subjective feeling of perceptual fluency, which in turn influences liking. If so, perceptual fluency manipulated by means other than repetition should influence liking. In three experiments, effects of perceptual fluency on affective judgments were examined. In Experiment 1, higher perceptua...

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Management of acute myocardial infarction in intensive care units in 1995: a nationwide French survey of practice and early hospital results. J Am Coll Cardiol 1997;30:1598–1605. 18. Vaur L, Danchin N, Hanania G, Cambou JP, Lablanche JM, Blanchard D, Clerson P, Gueret P. Management and short-term outcome of diabetic patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction: results of a nationwide ...

Cortisol is essential to the regulation of the immune system and pathological yawning is a symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS). Electromyography activity (EMG) in the jaw muscles typically rises when the muscles are moved – extended or flexed; and yawning has been shown to be highly correlated with cortisol levels in healthy people as shown in the Thompson Cortisol Hypothesis. It is likely that ...

Pulse oximetry is based on the technique of photoplethysmography (PPG) wherein light transmitted through tissues is modulated by the pulse. In addition to variations in light modulation by the cardiac cycle, the PPG signal contains a respiratory modulation and variations associated with changing tissue blood volume of other origins. Cardiovascular, respiratory, and neural fluctuations in the PP...

Krestel et al. (2013) recently investigated the potential contributing factors associated with abnormal yawning (defined as ≥3 yawns/15 min) in 10 patients with acute anterior circulation stroke. Though frequent yawning had previously been observed in stroke patients (Cattaneo et al., 2006; Singer et al., 2007), this study attempted to assess the influence of specific physiologic and lesion top...

TOPIC: Obstructive Lung Diseases TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: To understand and compare vaccine awareness recommendations among health care professionals (HCPs): Family Physicians (FPs), Pulmonologists (Puls), Nurse Practitioners (NPs) Physician Assistants (PAs) related to common adult vaccines, with emphasis on herpes zoster (HZ)/shingles vaccine. assess the reported impact of a shor...

BACKGROUND Dysfunctional breathing/hyperventilation syndrome (DB/HVS) is a respiratory disorder, psychologically or physiologically based, involving breathing too deeply and/or too rapidly (hyperventilation) or erratic breathing interspersed with breath-holding or sighing (DB). DB/HVS can result in significant patient morbidity and an array of symptoms including breathlessness, chest tightness,...