PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of comorbid bipolar disorder (BD) among migraineurs and the impact of migraine-BD comorbidity on disease characteristics. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 120 adult patients diagnosed with migraine at a single tertiary care center were included in this cross-sectional study. Data on sociodemographic and migraine-related characteristi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the feasibility and efficacy of a staff-delivered motivational interviewing technique on treatment, diet, medication, and fluid adherence in adult patients receiving outpatient hemodialysis. DESIGN A pre-post design was used for this pilot study. SAMPLE/SETTING Twenty-nine participants were recruited from a non-profit, free-standing hemodialysis clinic in the central Un...

The function of some multidomain proteins is regulated by interdomain communication. We use second-site suppressor cysteine mutations to test a hypothesis on how the inserted (I)-like domain in the integrin beta-subunit regulates ligand binding by the neighboring I domain in the integrin alpha-subunit [Huth, J. R., Olejniczak, E. T., Mendoza, R., Liang, H., Harris, E. A., et al. (2000) Proc. Na...

BACKGROUND Nerve blockades are used for the treatment of acute migraine episodes in emergency room conditions and beneficial results are obtained from this clinical use. Although this is the case, there are limited numbers of studies investigating the long-term effects of such an approach. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this investigation, we had 26 patients diagnosed as migraine based on the ICHD I...

In this paper we report progress on the use of novel data sets to calibrate and improve car-following models of highway traffic. These models describe vehicles as discrete entities moving in continuous time and space, and use plausible behavioural assumptions to derive systems of differential equations which must be solved for vehicles’ trajectories. To date, there has been little or no systema...