Background: Axotomy causes sensory neuronal loss. Reconnection of proximal and distal nerve ends by surgical repair improves neuronal survival. It is important to know the morphology of primary sensory neurons after the surgical repair of their peripheral processes. Methods: Animals (male Wistar rats) were exposed to models of sciatic nerve transection, direct epineurial suture repair of sciati...

background : sensory impairment is a common condition that exerts negative effects on health-related quality of life (hrqol) in the elderly. this study aimed to determine the relationship between sensory impairment and hrqol and identify sensory-specific differences in the hrqol of elderly. methods : this study used data from the korean national health and nutrition examination survey v (2010-2...

Research continues to explore the mechanisms that mediate successful motor control. Behaviourally-relevant modulation of muscle commands is dependent on sensory signals. Proprioception – the sense of body position – is one signal likely to be crucial for motor learning. The present thesis explores the relationship between human proprioception and motor learning. First we investigated changes to...

BACKGROUND The context of the study is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC). The purpose of the study is to analyze how different elements of patient safety culture are associated with clinical handoffs and perceptions of patient safety. METHODS The study was performed with hierarchical multiple linear regression on data from the ...

AIMS In anticipation of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), to consider whether addictive disorders should include non-substance use disorders. METHODS The author reviewed data and provided perspective to explore whether disorders such as pathological gambling (PG) should be grouped together with substance dependence, given that they share m...

This study explored the changes in complaint-related cognitions and anxiety of 110 consecutive out-patients with functional abdominal complaints (irritable bowel syndrome), during a series of consultations. Patients' anxiety, fear of cancer, somatic attribution concerning intestines or stomach and catastrophizing cognitions appeared to diminish significantly during the consulting period. Positi...

In the present paper, we present evidence for the idea that speech motor learning is accompanied by changes to the neural coding of both auditory and somatosensory stimuli. Participants in our experiments undergo adaptation to altered auditory feedback, an experimental model of speech motor learning which like visuo-motor adaptation in limb movement, requires that participants change their spee...

background and objective: background: the present study investigates the relationship between attention deficit hyperactive disorder (adhd) and the severity of symptoms in children with autistic spectrum disorder. methods: the study was conducted on 80 patients with autistic spectrum disorder visiting child psychiatric clinic of tehran psychiatric institute. the severity of autistic symptoms wa...

We have studied a simple form of motor learning in the human brain so as to isolate activity related to motor learning and the prediction of sensory events. Whole-brain, event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to record activity during classical discriminative delay eyeblink conditioning. Auditory conditioned stimulus (CS+) trials were presented either with a corneal...