Traditionally, criminologists have studied criminal behavior using methods that derive from a variety of scientific disciplines, such as, psychology, sociology, medicine, and psychiatry. Currently, there exist numerous schools of thought that each have developed a distinct theoretical paradigm for analyzing criminal behavior. Most of them attribute the causes of any given crime to the interacti...

The mismatch negativity (MMN) event-related potential is a non-task related neurophysiologic index of auditory discrimination. The MMN was elicited in eight cochlear implant recipients by the synthesized speech stimulus pair /da/ and /ta/. The response was remarkably similar to the MMN measured in normal-hearing individuals to the same stimuli. The results suggest that the central auditory syst...

Background: Caffeine is known to have numerous neurophysiologic effects. This study aimed determine the association between university students’ awareness on effects of caffeine and their coffee consumption. Methods: An analytic cross-sectional design was utilized. A 45-item questionnaire distributed 523 randomly selected students at College Applied Medical Sciences King Faisal University, Al-A...

Pediatric neurosurgical patients present a unique set of anesthetic challenges that include treatment of increased intracranial pressure (ICP), the use of positions other than supine, and the anesthetic implications of neurophysiologic monitoring. These and other general considerations are addressed in the first part of this chapter, followed by a discussion of anesthetic techniques for common ...

We conducted the current study to analyze the clinical, immunologic, and neurophysiologic features of primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS)-associated sensory small fiber neuropathies (SFNs). Forty consecutive pSS patients with SFN were included. SFN was defined by the presence of suggestive sensory painful symptoms with normal nerve conduction studies and abnormal neurophysiologic tests for small ner...

Seismic communication, through low-frequency and patterned substrate-borne vibrations that are generated by head thumping, and which travel long distances underground, is important in the nonvisual communication of subterranean mole rats of the Spalax ehrenbergi superspecies (2n = 52, 54, 58, and 60) in Israel. This importance pertains both intraspecifically in adaptation and interspecifically ...