background : this study evaluated the sensation of palatal ucosa before and after le fort i osteotomy and compared it based on whether greater palatine nerve has been dissected or not. methods : sixteen patients were studied within one week before  urgery and then one week, 6 weeks, 3 months and 6 months after surgery. four tests including sharp-blunt discrimination, cold perception, pin prick ...

The perception threshold for trains of rapid tactile pulses, applied to the index finger, has been measured in patients with parietal lobe lesions and in patients with median nerve lesions. The former patients had increased perception thresholds for single tactile pulses on the abnormal side. With successively prolonged pulse trains, the threshold decreased exponentially to reach a stable level...

background: the need for better healthcare has grown significantly in recent years. in addition, the rising healthcare costs in the u.s. and in many european countries have forced many patients to seek medical treatment abroad, which has created the demand for medical tourism. with little yet known as to the perception of a medical tourist's destination selection, this study aims to explore med...

Introduction: Service quality is a judgment that the customer compares his/her expectations by this judgment, with the perception of the received services. The purpose of this study was to compare service quality in teaching hospitals with non-teaching hospitals in Kerman city. Methods: This cross-sectional study has been done on 166 hospitalized patients...

AIM To ascertain utility values associated with varying degrees of legal blindness. METHODS A cross sectional study on three group of patients. There were: (1) 15 patients with complete absence of vision (no light perception) in at least one eye who were asked to assume a scenario of no light perception in the second eye as well, (2) 17 patients with light perception to counting fingers in th...

Damage to the cerebellum causes characteristic movement abnormalities but is thought to have minimal impact on somatosensory perception. Traditional clinical assessments of patients with cerebellar lesions reveal no perceptual deficits despite the fact that the cerebellum receives substantial somatosensory information. Given that abnormalities have been reported in predicting the visual consequ...

Impairment in facial emotion perception is believed to be associated with aggression. Schizophrenia patients with antisocial features are more impaired in facial emotion perception than their counterparts without these features. However, previous studies did not define the comorbidity of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) using stringent criteria. We recruited 30 participants with dual diag...