BACKGROUND Epidemiological research on post-stroke affective disorders has been mainly focusing on post-stroke depression (PSD). In contrast, research on post-stroke anxiety (PSA) is in its early stages. The present study proposes a broad picture on post-stroke affective disorders, including PSD and PSA in German stroke in-patients during rehabilitation. In addition, we investigated whether lif...

We discuss in this publication the power spectral density (PSD) of some common time hopping impulse radio signals. Both analytical expressions and simulation results for the PSD are provided. The impact of the PSD on the transmitted power is analyzed in respect to the Federal Committee on Communications regulations on UWB emissions.

BACKGROUND Psychiatric disorder (PsD) is rarely considered when evaluating perioperative risk factors. Studies on PsD are often limited by use of administrative coding, incomplete follow-up, and lack of preoperative data on psychopharmacological treatment. METHODS A multicenter study with prospective registration on preoperative comorbidity, complete 90-day follow-up, and information on dispe...

BACKGROUND Cognitive decline after cerebrovascular stroke has adverse outcome consequences. Since some vascular causes can be prevented and treated, the identification of stroke-related cognitive impairment is a challenge. Patients with cognitive impairment and vascular diseases exhibit higher homocysteine (Hcy) concentrations. Whether Hcy is an independent risk factor for cognitive impairment ...

Dendritic morphology determines many aspects of neuronal function, including action potential propagation and information processing. However, the question remains as to how distinct neuronal dendrite branching patterns are established. Here, we report that postsynaptic density-95 (PSD-95), a protein involved in dendritic spine maturation and clustering of synaptic signaling proteins, plays a n...

BACKGROUND Post-stroke depression (PSD) is commonly observed among stroke survivors. However, statistical analysis of such data is scarce in developing countries. The purpose of this study is to examine the incidence of PSD and its relationship with stroke characteristics in China. METHODS This was a prospective hospital-based study. Stroke patients were assessed within two weeks after acute ...

Since there is evidence that paradoxical sleep deprivation (PSD) elicits penile erection (PE) and ejaculation (EJ), and that the erectile response of rats is mediated by nitric oxide, the present study sought to extend the latter finding by assessing the effects of sildenafil on the genital reflexes of male Wistar rats subjected to PSD. We also determined the influence of sildenafil on hormone ...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are not efficient under noisy speech. In the Multi-Stream (MS) approach, commonly used to reinforce ASR robustness, each stream feeds one recognizer generating estimates which are combined through a fusion process. As some streams are optimal for transmission of some phonemes [1,3], it is then interesting to over weight the best stream during the featu...

In speech enhancement, noise power spectral density (PSD) estimation plays a key role in determining appropriate de-nosing gains. In this paper, we propose a robust noise PSD estimator for binaural speech enhancement in timevarying noise environments. First, it is shown that the noise PSD can be numerically obtained using an eigenvalue of the input covariance matrix. A simplified estimator is t...

The total molecular mass of individual postsynaptic densities (PSDs) isolated from rat forebrain was measured by scanning transmission EM. PSDs had a mean diameter of 360 nm and molecular mass of 1.10 +/- 0.36 GDa. Because the mass represents the sum of the molecular masses of all of the molecules comprising a PSD, it becomes possible to derive the number of copies of each protein, once its rel...