Two patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) presenting different phenotypic descriptions underwent 7T MRI examination: a man left upper limb amyotrophy due to lower motor neuron–predominant ALS (ALS Functional Rating Scale [ALSFRS] 33/48, Medical Research Council [ULMRC] scale 15/25, right ULMRC 25/25, neurons [UMNs] score 17/55), in whom anterior gray matter hemiatrophy could be seen...

introduction: extreme altitude travel has gained popularity globally for adventurous, scientific, and military endeavors. cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst) at extreme altitude is a rare, covert, and emergent condition requiring immediate intervention. case presentation: a case of cvst masqueraded as high altitude cerebral edema (hace) at 6700 m/22000 ft in karakoram himalayas. atypical ol...

objective: the morphology of anterior cerebral artery (aca) in patients with hydrocephalus was analyzed (hcp), and its importance was discussed in maintaining cerebral perfusion. materials & methods: two groups were created for the study. group 1; patients with hydrocephalus and group 2; as control group without hcp. in both groups, the length of the a2 segment of aca was measured from its orig...

objectives: the high number of cerebral palsy, the severe disability of this disorder, depression in disabilities, and long lasting effects of the child`s disability on the family especially mothers are the common issues. the purpose of this study was investigating the level of depression in mothers with cerebral palsy children and its related factors. methods: this caused comparative study was...

We examined the role of visual exploration strategies in infants' discrimination between facial emotion expressions. Twenty-eight 6- to 11-month olds were habituated to alternating models posing the same expression (happy N = 14/fearful N = 14) as eye gaze data were collected with a corneal reflection eye tracker. Gaze behavior analyses indicated that duration of gaze to the eyes and mouth was ...

Data relating to the stability and variation in the norms for the Raven's Progressive Matrices Test (a well-validated measure of basic cognitive functioning) for different cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups on a worldwide and within-country basis are first summarized. Subsequent sections deal with variation over time. A possible explanation for the variation in norms over time and betwe...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Litter often decomposes faster in its environment of origin (at 'home') than in a foreign environment ('away'), which has become known as the home-field advantage (HFA). However, many studies have highlighted the conditional nature of the HFA, suggesting that current understanding of this phenomenon is not yet sufficient to generalize across systems. METHODS The HFA hypoth...

Congenital h-mihypertrophy is a condition in which the whole of one side of the body is increased in size from birth. In a complete review of the subject Ward and Lerncr (1947) state that more than 100 cases have been decribed since the first descrip:ion was recorded by Wagner in 1839. The incidence of the condition is difficult to assess. Males, according to Gesell (1927), are more commonly af...