OBJECTIVE To evaluate the routine use of nasal packing after cosmetic and functional nasal surgery. METHODS Prospective collection from 2005 to 2006 at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Riyadh for 54 patients post-septorhinoplasty with and without submucous diathermy or lateralization of inferior turbinate were evaluated for efficacy and complications of nasal packing which kept for diffe...

measure of lateralization of the tibial tuberosity in relation to femoral trochlea. Many studies have confirmed that lateralization of the tuberosity is linked to patellar instability, thus TT-TG is an important parameter for evaluation of patellofemoral disorders. However, the degree of lateralization that may contribute to actual dislocation varies among studies. Alemparte et al. studied heal...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A preliminary report suggested that magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) was useful to lateralize epileptic foci in patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). We attempted to confirm this finding in a larger group by investigating the relationship between MTR of mesial temporal structures and seizure lateralization in patients with refractory TLE. METHODS We c...

The embryonically induced visual lateralization in pigeons can be modified by occlusion of one eye after hatching. Here we show that this deprivation effect could be also attained by short-term blocking of retinal activity with tetrodotoxin (TTX), leading to a dominance of the ipsilateral hemisphere in a visual discrimination task. This lateralization pattern resulted from a performance increas...

A non-comparable, individual, observational and contemporary cross-sectional study in newborns was made to determine the dynamic lateralization in the head turning after release from the midline and its relationship with obstetric variables. From October to December of 2005, 320 newborns were admitted to the Adjacent Lodgings of the University Hospital of Santa Maria. From those, 89 were select...

Pupil size is collectively controlled by the sympathetic dilator and parasympathetic sphincter muscles. Locus coeruleus (LC) activation has been shown to evoke pupil dilation, but how the sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways contribute to this dilation remains unknown. We examined pupil dilation elicited by LC activation in lightly anesthetized rats. Unilateral LC activation evoked bilatera...

Two meta-analyses of 66 behavioral studies examined variables influencing functional cerebral lateralization of each language of brain-intact bilingual adults. Functional lateralization was found to be primarily influenced by age of onset of bilingualism: bilinguals who acquired both languages by 6 years of age showed bilateral hemispheric involvement for both languages, whereas those who acqui...

In most individuals, language production and visuospatial skills are subserved predominantly by the left and right hemispheres, respectively. Functional Transcranial Doppler (fTCD) provides a noninvasive and relatively low-cost method for measuring functional lateralization. However, while the silent word generation task provides an accurate and reliable paradigm for investigating lateralizatio...

Gender-related di¡erences in brain activation patterns and their lateralization associated with cognitive functions have been reported in the ¢eld of language, emotion, and working memory. Di¡erences have been hypothesized to be due to di¡erent cognitive strategies.The aim of the present study was to test whether lateralization of brain activation in the hippocampi duringmemory processing di¡er...

Holistic processing (HP) and right-hemispheric lateralization both mark expertise in visual object recognition such as face and sub-ordinate object perception. However, counterexamples have been found recently: Experiences of selective attention to parts such as writing experiences in Chinese characters reduced HP while increased right hemisphere lateralization. We investigated the association ...