background: several prognostic factors exist influencing the outcome of surgical discectomy in the patients with lumbar disc herniation (ldh). the aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between severity of preoperative impaired ankle reflex and outcomes of lumbar discectomy in the patients with l5-s1 ldh. methods: we retrospectively evaluated 181 patients (108 male and 73 female) who...

Objective The extent to which increasing age is associated with impairment in cognitive function, termed cognitive aging, may have been overestimated in prior studies. The inclusion of individuals with severe or uncontrolled systemic medical illness or prodromal neurodegenerative disease in normal aging samples is likely to bias estimates toward lower cognitive performance and inflate estimates...

Retrobulbar hemorrhage and permanent visual loss are rare presentations following traumatic asphyxia. In this case, bilateral permanent visual disturbance developed in a woman after chest-crushing trauma without direct trauma to the orbits. A computed tomography scan confirmed bilateral retrobulbar hemorrhages. An ophthalmologic exam revealed bilateral subconjunctival hemorrhages and severe lid...

BACKGROUND There are no recent data on the prevalence and causes of blindness in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The aim of our study was to estimate the prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment in the population aged 50 years and above in the Occupied Palestinian Territories using the Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) survey method. METHODS AND FINDINGS Clu...

Brain infarcts located in strategic regions often result in cognitive impairment. Based on a case study, this paper describes unusual and specific clinical and neuropsychological features of a strategic ischemic lesion in the left medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures. Taken together with the literature data, the case illustrates that a unilateral strategic infarct in MTL structures may result ...

BACKGROUND Angelman syndrome (AS) is a genetic disorder with varying degrees of neurological impairment. It is often associated with ocular involvement. CASE REPORT We present a child diagnosed with AS who had a deletion on the short arm of chromosome 15. The child seemed to be happy, with developmental delay, speech problem, and altering strabismus. To assess the potential presence and degre...

The effects of transdermal scopolamine upon psychological task performance, subjective feeling state, and visual functioning, were assessed with 28 naval volunteers at sea. The battery of assessment measures was given before drug administration, and following 24-hour periods on transdermal scopolamine and transdermal placebo. Code substitution task performance was not affected, but letter cance...

BACKGROUND The etiology of cerebral ischemic accidents in young adults often remains unclarified. CASE DESCRIPTION A 32-year-old woman presented after multiple episodes of left monocular visual impairment and right-sided focal signs. MRI revealed a low-flow infarction on the left; color-coded duplex sonography (CCDS), however, showed normal vascular findings. During the inpatient rehabilitati...

When recipients of talk solve troubles hearing or understanding during a conversation, they utilize other-initiation repair (OIR), such as questions “what,” “where,” and “you mean x.” These utterances are typically produced with delayed timing. Multimodal, bodily features also included. Although in common, there have been few studies comparing the timing OIR normally individuals to impairment, ...