The perirhinal cortex (PRh) and basolateral amygdala (BLA) appear to mediate distinct aspects of learning and memory. Here, we used rats to investigate the involvement of the PRh and BLA in acquisition and extinction of associations between two different environmental stimuli (e.g., a tone and a light) in higher-order conditioning. When both stimuli were neutral, infusion of the GABAA, muscimol...

China has seen the fruit of its rapid economic growth over the past two decades, but severe environmental problems have accompanied this, such as the looming danger of Asian Brown Clouds. This paper analyzes the regional development of China by examining economic performance as well as environmental factors. Technical efficiency and productivity changes of thirty-one regions in China during the...

BACKGROUND Long distance is a leading environmental barrier to walking to school and requires long-term, multilevel interventions. Meanwhile, childhood obesity remains highly prevalent, calling for more immediate solutions. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine attitudinal and environmental correlates of walking to the elementary school, controlling for distance. METHODS Using pa...

Intuitive grasping of the meaning of subtle social cues is particularly affected in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Despite their relevance in social communication, the effect of averted gaze in fearful faces in conveying a signal of environmental threat has not been investigated using real face stimuli in adults with ASD. Here, using functional MRI, we show that briefly presented fearful face...

Endometriosis is a common type of chronic inflammatory disease with an immunological background. In this review, we aimed to explore the contemporary literature on the infection and sterile inflammation that support the pathogenesis of endometriosis. This article reviews the English‑language literature on inflammatory, environmental, immunological and oxidative factors associated with endometri...

for the first time, on the basis of spitak earthquake experience (armenia, december 1988), it was found that an earthquake causes intensive and prolonged radon releases that are quickly dispersed in the open air and that is why they are not usually registered but contrastingly displayed in covered premises (such as dwelling houses, schools, kindergartens) even if they are at a considerable dist...

introduction: the aim of this study was to compare the changes that occur in the danger zone (dz) after preparation of curved mesiobuccal (mb) canals of mandibular first molars with waveone instruments in two different movements [reciprocation (rcp) and counter-clockwise rotation (ccwr)] by means of cone-beam computed tomography (cbct). methods and materials: mb canals of 30 mandibular molars w...