OBJECTIVES This study examined decision-making competence in ADHD by using multiple decision tasks with varying demands on analytic versus affective processes. METHODS Adults with ADHD and healthy controls completed two tasks of analytic decision making, as measured by the Adult Decision-Making Competence (A-DMC) battery, and two affective decision tasks (the Balloon Analog Risk Task and the ...

A B S T R A C TIntroduction: Although decision-making processes have become a principal target of study among addiction researchers, few researches are published according to effects of different treatment methods on the cognitive processes underlying decision making up to now. Utilizing cognitive modeling method, in this paper we examine the effects of Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) on ...

OBJECTIVE The study objective was to evaluate the association between timing of intraaortic balloon pump insertion and outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. METHODS All patients aged 18 years or more who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac valve surgery, or thoracic aortic surgery between January 2002 and December 2007 were included. Data were obtained from cardiac su...

Undilatable coronary lesions, due to coronary calcification, are encountered with increasing frequency. Percutaneous intervention of such lesions comes with the risk of stent underexpansion, which increases the risk of stent thrombosis and restenosis. A variety of techniques and devices are available to assist the interventionist in the treatment of calcified lesions. The OPN NC (SIS-Medical AG...

abstract the gnrh analogue (agonist and antagonist gnrh) changed ovarian stimulation. on the one hand, it improved chances of pregnancy to obtain more oocytes and better embryos. this leads to an ovarian hyper-response, which can be complicated by the ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (ohss). on the other hand, the gnrh analogue can prevent the incidence of ohss: gnrh antagonist protocols, gnrh...

Objective To evaluate the relation of symptom onset to balloon time and door to balloon time with long term clinical outcome in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) having primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Design Observation of large cohort of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Setting 26 tertiary hospitals in Japan. Participants 3391 patients with ...

In recent years, spectacular defaults, such as Barings, as well as new requirements from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel II) have forced banks to start measuring and managing operational risks (OpRisk) risks arising from the failure of people, processes, systems and external events. Contrary to market and credit risk, there are no standard methods for the quantification of ope...

Performance on complex decision-making tasks may depend on a multitude of processes. Two such tasks, the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), are of particular interest because they are associated with real world risky behavior, including illegal drug use. We used cognitive models to disentangle underlying processes in both tasks. Whereas behavioral measures from the IG...

Performance on complex decision-making tasks may depend on a multitude of processes. Two such tasks, the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART), are of particular interest because they are associated with real world risky behavior, including illegal drug use. We used cognitive models to disentangle underlying processes in both tasks. Whereas behavioral measures from the IG...