STUDY DESIGN A retrospective, long-term follow-up study. OBJECTIVES To find out whether incidental durotomy in lumbar disc surgery is associated with long-term sequelae. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Incidental durotomy is a frequent complication during spinal surgery. Little is known about the clinical long-term outcome. METHODS The study population comprised 1,280 patients who underwent st...

Although functional neuroimaging studies have supported the distinction between explicit and implicit forms of memory, few have matched explicit and implicit tests closely, and most of these tested perceptual rather than conceptual implicit memory. We compared event-related fMRI responses during an intentional test, in which a group of participants used a cue word to recall its associate from a...

The incidental thyroid nodule (ITN) is one of the most common incidental findings on imaging studies that include the neck. An ITN is defined as a nodule not previously detected or suspected clinically, but identified by an imaging study. The workup of ITNs has led to increased costs from additional procedures, and in some cases, to increased risk to the patient because physicians are naturally...

Incidental learning of grammar has been an area of interest for many decades; nevertheless, existing research has primarily focused on artificial or semi-artificial languages. The present study examines the incidental acquisition of the grammar of a natural language by exposing adult speakers of an ungendered L1 (English) to the gender agreement patterns in Russian (a language that was novel to...

The effect of lateralized cerebral damage on free recall of items and recall of spatial location, under intentional and incidental learning conditions, was investigated. Eleven right brain-damaged (RBD) patients, 10 left brain-damaged (LBD) patients, 14 young and 11 elderly normal controls, participated in this study. The overall performance of the control groups was better than that of the pat...

This study investigated the cognitive abilities needed to succeed at incidental word learning, specifically by examining the role of phonological memory and phonological sensitivity in novel word learning by 4-year-olds who were typically developing. Forty 4-year-olds were administered a test of nonword repetition (to investigate phonological memory), rhyming and phoneme alliteration tasks (to ...

Approach to incidental thyroid nodules on imaging Thyroid cancer is the fastest increasing cancer in the USA. An exponential increase in incidence of thyroid cancer has been partly attributed to an increased work-up of incidentally detected thyroid nodules on imaging, especially ultrasound and CT. Excessive workup of incidental thyroid nodules and overdiagnosis of subclinical cancers is a costl...

Regional brain activity associated with intentional and incidental memory retrieval was studied with PET. Previously studied and new words were presented in either an intentional or an incidental memory task. Type of task was crossed with an encoding manipulation ('deep' vs 'shallow') which varied the probability that studied items would be remembered. In both tasks, deeply encoded items were a...

Analogous auditory and visual central-incidental learning tasks were administered to 24 students from each of the second, fourth, and sixth grades. The visual tasks served as another modification of Magens central-incidental learning paradigm, with the interpretation that focal attention processes continue to develop until the age of 12 or 13 years. The auditory tasks were administat;Led to the...

Liberal politics are subtended by several fatal, commonsense binaries: state vs. interpersonal violence; trans non-trans women; armed innocent victims. Each of these binaries render Black women alternately invisible, incidental, and illegible. In this essay, I examine the hashtags #SayHerName #CiteBlackWomen as citational practices reparative enunciation that refuse binaries. When citation is p...