The purpose of this study was to survey left-handed (LH) dental students and interns concerning whether they face any problems in their dental education or in their practice of dentistry. The questionnaires were distributed in four dental colleges in different regions in Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire was comprised of sixteen questions to assess the following issues: demographic information, d...

BACKGROUND Studies have emphasized on the frontal EEG asymmetry as a mediator of emotional states. This research was aimed to examine the overall and asymmetric activities of the brain lobes under the affective states. METHODS A coupling EEG was recorded in an eye closed awakened condition from 40 right handed female students under the baseline and affective states. RESULTS Bilaterally decr...

The astonishing skills of savants have been suggested to be latent in everyone, but are not normally accessible without a rare form of brain impairment. We attempted to simulate such brain impairment in healthy people by directing low-frequency magnetic pulses into the left fronto-temporal lobe. Significant stylistic changes in drawing were facilitated by the magnetic pulses in four of our 11 p...

background: sellick's maneuver (cricoid pressure) may make laryngoscopic view and tracheal intubation more difficult. this study compared the different techniques of cricoid pressure (cp) regarding to the laryngoscopic view and time to intubation. methods: in142 anesthetized patients, 4 types of cp was randomly applied; a) one-handed cp using thumb, index and middle fingers, b) one-handed cp us...

OBJECTIVES Senior medical students, who are future doctors, should be prepared to use antimicrobials appropriately and will be important partners in antimicrobial stewardship. This survey was designed to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of senior medical students regarding antimicrobial use and resistance. METHODOLOGY We performed a multi-center survey involving a questionnaire hande...

the aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of various scheduled practices (self-regulated and non-self-regulated) on the acquisition, retention and transfer of simple and complex tracking tasks. 96 right-handed undergraduate students (age rang: 18-24 years old) volunteered to participate in this study (48 females, 48 males). these students participated in physical education cla...