The involvement of inhibitory transmitters for Ptychodiscus brevis toxin (PbTx)-induced depression of spinal synaptic transmission in neonatal rats was investigated. Stimulation of a dorsal root evoked monosynaptic reflex (MSR) and polysynaptic reflex (PSR) potentials in the segmental ventral root. The PbTx depressed the reflexes in a concentration-dependent manner and this depression was block...

OBJECTIVE This case study is about an 11-year-old girl with bilateral facial weakness, abnormal taste sensation, and absent deep tendon reflexes of both knees and ankles. However, the muscle power of the lower and upper extremities across all muscle groups was normal. After 2 days, she developed paresthesia and numbness in the lower extremities. Other neurologic examinations, such as fundoscopi...

his abstract presents a study published in 2008 in the article, Masgutova Method of Reflex Integration for Children with Cerebral Palsy, edited by Susan Wenberg, M.A., D.C., and Mary Rentschler, M.A. at www.MasgutovaMethod.com. Cerebral Palsy (CP) and Primary Motor System Development “Infantile Cerebral Palsy” (S. Freud), the group of diseases concerned with motor disorders as the result of bra...

Nerve conduction studies, tests of autonomic function and terminal nerve branches, and soleus muscle H reflexes were applied to 60 patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus who had no clinical symptoms but abnormal vibratory or temperature perception thresholds indicating subclinical neuropathy. In most patients neurophysiological examination yielded a broad spectrum of neural dysfuncti...

Background: Child dental fear is one of the behavior problems that dentists face in practice and has been linked to poor dental health. The main objectives of this study were to compare child and parental ratings of child dental fear and to assess the effect of child and parent characteristics on the ratings. Methods: The full version and the 6-item short version of the Children’s Fear Survey S...

Case presentation: JRCS, female, started, at 15 years old, dysphagia initially for solids, progressing to liquids, hand dystonia and anarthria after isolated fever. At the time she was admitted another pediatric center diagnostic investigation, with normal brain MRI, EEG ENMG. History of mother undiagnosed psychiatric disorder progressive gait dysfunction. age 16 hospitalized malnutrition assoc...

The temporal order of two events, each presented in a different visual hemifield, is judged correctly by typical observers even when their onsets differ only slightly. The present study examined the influence of an endogenous process on TOJ, and shows that the perception of temporal order is also affected when available attentional resources are reduced via an attentional blink (AB) paradigm. P...

In the attentional blink (AB), processing of a second target (T2) is impaired if it is presented shortly after the onset of a first target (T1), leading to a decrease in accurate report of T2 if T2 is masked. Some prominent theories of the AB suggest that an amodal bottleneck in working memory consolidation underlies the AB. We investigated this by factorially manipulating T1 and T2 modalities ...

The attentional blink task involves rapid serial presentation of visual stimuli, two of which the participants have to report. The usual finding is that participants are impaired at reporting the second target if it appears in close temporal proximity to the first target. Previous research has shown that the effect is stronger in bilinguals than monolinguals. We investigated whether the differe...