a theory which is still rather widely accepted. He declared that a certain peculiarly shaped palate, generally "Y-shaped," was pathognomonic of congenital idiocy. An able American dentist, Dr. Norman W. Kingsley, who was unable to agree with Dr. Down's conclusions, visited the asylum, and together with Dr. Down made a careful examination of every inmate. He found that "about two per cent might ...

Emotions are the central part of our lives and we display our emotions toward different members of the society to manage and modify it depending on social circumstances. The present investigation wants to study the patterns of emotional displays in visually challenged and normal individuals (studying in IX & X classes) toward different target interactants in two different settings/contexts. Dis...

Introduction Release from masking, or the masking level difference (MLD), is a phenomenon in which the binaural auditory system can take advantage of interaural phase differences to improve the detection of signals in a background of noise. The MLDphenomenon can be observed for both tonal and speech signals at or near threshold levels. Similarly, intelligibility of speech presented at suprathre...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and overweight in individuals with normal body weight is connected with higher exposure to type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The aim of the study was to evaluate the risk and frequency of occurrence of metabolic syndrome and each of its components among individuals with normal weight. MATERIALS AND METHOD Data were obt...

ERS HELEN W. BELDING, M.D., Winston-Salem, N. C. CONRAD MAIER, M.D., Zurich, Switzerland Snair_ T. CALLENDER, M.D., Oxford, England M.ILOS NETOU EE, M.D. , Prague, Czechoslovakia GEORGE E. CARTWRIGHT, M.D., Salt Lake City JEAN P. S0ULIER, M.D. , Paris, France ROBERT B. CHCDOS, M.D. , Framingham, Mass. RAM#{243}IST M. SUAREZ, M.D. , San Juan, Puerto Rico ROGER C. CRAm, PH.D., Cincinnati WM. N. V...

OBJECTIVE To examine neuropsychological measures among normal individuals that predict time to subsequent cognitive decline. DESIGN Cognitive performance, as measured by 6 neuropsychological tests, was examined at baseline. Participants were followed up for approximately 5 years. Cox proportional hazards models were used to evaluate the neuropsychological measures at baseline that predicted t...

Introduction The clinical significance of ventriculomegaly in cognitively normal elderly individuals remains unclear. Methods We selected cognitively normal individuals (n = 425) from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative database and calculated Evans index (EI) based on the ratio of the frontal horn and skull diameter. We defined ventriculomegaly as EI ≥ 0.30, and the participants ...

During t.he course of an investigation involving the determination of blood iron values in normal subjects, it became evident that t.he results were consistently higher than the figures recently reported for human blood by Murphy, Lynch, and Howard (1) and Reich and Tiedemann (2). Furt,hermore, hemoglobin values calculat,ed on the basis of their iron determinations differed considerably from va...