Gender, Age, Social Level and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Considerations on the Brazilian Reality Carlos Scherr1,2 and Jorge Pinto Ribeiro3,4 Universidade Gama Filho1, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; Instituto do Coração e do Diabetes2, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; Serviço de Cardiologia do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre3, Porto Alegre, RS; Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul4,...

deep brain stimulation (dbs) is a neurosurgical procedure that enables brain structures to be stimulated electrically by a pacemaker implanted under the skin. in the 1980s, over a decade after its first use in pain, implantable dbs of the thalamus was performed to suppress tremor in parkinson’s disease (pd) refractory to drug treatments. primate-based research soon afterwards identified the sub...

Dear Editor, A 35-year-old man presented with severe headache and left sided hemiparesis since one day prior to admission. He reported frequent bouts of oral and genital aphthous ulcers, an attack of deep venous thrombosis of left lower extremity, one episode of right knee arthritis, and several attacks of headache, neck rigidity, and fever. He had been a victim of mustard-gas poisoning at the ...

Basal ganglia disorders are common clinical conditions characterised by specific motor dysfunction and associated behavioral problems. The underlying pathophysiology primarily consists in alterations of the cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical pathways, which can be related to both neurodegenerative pathology (e.g. Parkinson disease, Huntington disease) and neurodevelopmental processes (e.g. Touret...

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical and radiological characteristics of multiple sclerosis (MS) with onset below 18 years. METHODS This retrospective study was carried out at the MS Clinic in the Medical City Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq between March 2008 and March 2009. The records of the center were surveyed, and 77 patients with the onset of MS below 18 years were identified. Their clinical and ...

As human civilization faces new and challenging humanitarian crises, the entrance of EPs into the realm of HA is needed and timely. As noted by Jennifer Leaning [35], an EP at Harvard University, "Medical and public health personnel who respond to these crises enter a domain of perilous complexity. Road maps do not exist, but the possibility of good favors the prepared mind." Thus, with proper ...

ion of Data Four of the authors (CE, CM, RS, & KW) abstracted all study data. All study information and results were checked and confirmed by a senior author (CE or CM).

so long manage to live in a poorly decent style, that becoming his position, at a monthly cost of say Rs. 75, he will now that he has been deprived of tjie Sub require much more for the purpose, for fear that he will otherwise be lowered in the eyes of the people. That Sub-Assistant Surgeons are the worst paid of Government officials (leaving aside their future prospects, which, properly speaki...

We study precision electroweak constraints within a RS1 model with gauge fields and fermions in the bulk. The electroweak gauge symmetry is enhanced to SU(2)L×SU(2)R× U(1)B−L, thereby providing a custodial isospin symmetry sufficient to suppress excessive contributions to the T parameter. We then construct complete models, complying with all electroweak constraints, for solving the hierarchy pr...

We examined the correlations among eye-contact, gesturing, and self-contact behaviors for 26 female university students during different neutral and emotional situations. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between eye-contact and right gesturing in two of four situations (rs, .37, .33) and a significant positive correlation (.33) between left self-contact and eye-contact...