When it comes to interpreting others' behaviour, we almost irrepressibly engage in the attribution of mental states (beliefs, emotions…). Such "mentalizing" can become very sophisticated, eventually endowing us with highly adaptive skills such as convincing, teaching or deceiving. Here, sophistication can be captured in terms of the depth of our recursive beliefs, as in "I think that you think ...

In this paper I will present a new model of eye control developed within the Probabilistic Population Code (PPC) framework. The posterior parietal cortex is believed to direct eye movements, especially in regards to target tracking tasks, and a number of debates exist over the precise nature of the computations performed by the parietal cortex, with each side supported by different sets of biol...

Disease name: Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita ICD 10: Q74.32 Synonyms: Arthrogryposis, Amyoplasia Congenita, Congenital Arthromyodysplasia, GuérinStern syndrome, Myodystrophia Fetalis Deformans AMC is the clinical description of a congenital syndrome with an estimated incidence of 1:3000-10,000 [25,30,38]. Already within the uterus, the movement frequency of the foetus is reduced due to mult...

Cholesteatoma is a destructive lesion involving the temporal bone, which may induce severe complications due to its expansion and erosion of adjacent structures. Bacterial biofilm plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of many otolaryngologic inflammatory/infectious chronic diseases. In this pilot study, we investigated, by means of cultural examination and with scanning electron microscope, ...

Methamphetamines are the second most commonly used illicit drug worldwide and cost the United States health-care system ∼$23.4 billion annually. Use of this drug affects multiple organ systems and causes a variety of clinical manifestations. Although there are commonly known sequelae of methamphetamine abuse such as "meth mouth," there is limited evidence regarding maxillary sinus manifestation...

The prevailing otolaryngologic approach to treatment of age-related hearing loss (ARHL), presbycusis, emphasizes compensation of peripheral functional deficits (ie, hearing aids and cochlear implants). This approach does not address adequately the needs of the geriatric population, 1 in 5 of whom is expected to consist of the ‘‘old old’’ in the coming decades. Aging affects both the peripheral ...