OBJECTIVES we studied visual acuity (VA) and co-existing hearing impairment and poor standing balance as predictors of falls. DESIGN prospective study with 1-year follow-up. SETTING research laboratory and residential environment. PARTICIPANTS 428 women aged 63-76 years from the Finnish Twin Study on Aging. MEASUREMENTS participants were followed up for incidence of falls over 1 year. V...

Objectives: The most distinctive group of people with sensory disabilities is those with visual impairment. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between behavioral problems and demographic variables in students with visual impairment in the academic year of 2018-2019 in Tehran City, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive, and analytical study was conducted on students with v...

Aging is associated with impairment of sensorial functions and with the onset of neurodegenerative diseases. As pari passu circulating insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) bioavailability progressively decreases, we see a direct correlation with sensory impairment and cognitive performance in older humans. Age-related sensory loss is typically caused by the irreversible death of highly differen...

While the corpus callosum (CC) is important to normal sensorimotor function, its role in motor function after stroke is less well understood. This study examined the relationship between structural integrity of the motor and sensory sections of the CC, as reflected by fractional anisotropy (FA), and motor function in individuals with a range of motor impairment level due to stroke. Fifty-five i...

Introduction. Quality of life is a multidimensional concept that includes social, affective, cognitive, and physical domains. people with disabilities include persons sensory impairments, i.e., the visually impaired, blind, hard hearing, deaf, deafblind. Their diagnosis real challenge ineveryday because it hinders them from gather- ing visual auditory information environ- ment. This affects the...

Stroke as the third cause of death in industrialized societies after cardiovascular and cancerous diseases Based on the type of artery involved, its location and size can lead to various side effects such as half-body movement disorder, sensory impairment, memory impairment, and other problems. In this regard, due to the complications of chemical drugs and their long-term use in treating the di...

In a cross sectional study of occupational exposure to inorganic lead 91 men performed a series of microcomputer based tasks assessing sensor motor reaction time, memory, attention, verbal reasoning, and spatial processing. Performance on the tasks was studied in relation to three ranges of blood lead concentration (low, less than 20 micrograms/dl; medium, 21-40 micrograms/dl; and high, 41-80 m...

Previous studies have demonstrated that apparent loss-of-function mutations in the periaxin gene cause autosomal recessive Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy or severe demyelinating Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. In this report, we extend the associated phenotypes with the identification of two additional families with novel periaxin gene mutations (C715X and R82fsX96) and provide detailed neuropathology...

BACKGROUND It has been well established that increasing age is associated with decreasing functional ability in older adults. It is important to understand the specific factors that affect instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) and functional independence among older adults with sensory disabilities. METHODS Nationally representative sample of adults aged 55 years and older with seein...