AIM We aimed to investigate the importance of early diagnosis and proper management of paradoxical herniation based on the data of 13 patients who had 14 occurrences of paradoxical herniation. MATERIAL AND METHODS The characteristics and the effectiveness of treatments of 13 patients with paradoxical herniation were reviewed and analyzed retrospectively. RESULTS Paradoxical herniation occur...

Three or four pairs of bipolar electrodes were chronically implanted in the hippocampal formation, subicular area, and entorhinal cortex of rats, all on the same side. The EEG, EOG, and neck EMG were also recorded. Responses due to electrical stimulation of one electrode pair were recorded in the other electrode pairs during slow-wave sleep, paradoxical sleep, and arousal. The stimuli were sing...

Where is the political located? Since early 2000s, phenomenon of ‘marriage corners’ has mushroomed in city parks all over China. It consists public gatherings attended by middle- to upper-middle-class parents attempting find a partner for their child. The competitiveness these and vocabulary used participants when evaluating each other reflect tensions Chinese society without articulating them....

The solar neutrino puzzle is deepening into a paradox that refutes the basic logic of the reaction chain that powers the sun by the fusion of protons into heavy elements. Experiments now reveal a serious anomaly in the relative neutrino fluxes from the different steps in the chain. Neutrinos from boron-8 at the end of the chain are seen but hardly any are seen from beryllium-7, without which th...

A paradoxical reaction (PR) in tuberculosis (TB) is the worsening of disease after starting TB therapy, usually despite microbiological response. It may represent an inflammatory response to the release of antigen from dying bacilli.1 Such disease exacerbation has also been observed in people with HIV when antiretrovirals are started,2 and in individuals with TB when tumour necrosis factor alph...