PURPOSE To investigate the MR appearance of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) of the cervical spine. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review of MR images and conventional tomograms in 147 patients. RESULTS In the sagittal plane, proton-density images identified the ossified lesions more clearly than did T1- and T2-weighted images. All axial sequences identified...

OBJECT Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) can result in significant myelopathy. Surgical treatment for OPLL has been extensively documented in the literature, but less data exist on conservative management of this condition. METHODS The authors conducted a systematic review to identify all reported cases of OPLL that were conservatively managed without surgery. RESUL...

Mechanical properties of cervical spine ligaments are of great importance for an accurate finite element model when analyzing the injury mechanism. However, there is still little experimental data in literature regarding fresh human cervical spine ligaments under physiological conditions. The focus of the present study is placed on three cervical spine ligaments that stabilize the spine and pro...

Very few studies in humans have quantified the effect obtained after direct electrical stimulation of the amygdala, in terms of both emotional and physiological responses. We tested patients with drug-resistant partial epilepsies who were explored with intracerebral electrodes in the setting of presurgical evaluation. We assessed the effects of direct electric stimulations in either the right o...

A common study to investigate gene-environment interaction is designed to be longitudinal and population-based. Data arising from longitudinal association studies often contain missing responses. Naive analysis without taking missingness into account may produce invalid inference, especially when the missing data mechanism depends on the response process. To address this issue in the ana...

Graphical User Interface for flight simulation of aircraft is developed to analyze the change in motion variables with respect to various longitudinal, lateral and directional control inputs. Effects of stability and control derivatives on motion variables are also studied using Graphical User Interface. Firstly, Non-linear six degrees of freedom equations of motion of airplane dynamics are sol...