Desirée Sutton, Riaz Qureshi, Janet Martin. MSc, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, The Centre for MEDICI, The University of Western Ontario, London Canada; PhD, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperat...

Studies on the cognitive effects of APOE allele variation in healthy persons have mainly focused on episodic memory performance as most sensitive to genetic effects. The present study focuses on working memory performance, measured both in an experimental paradigm, the AX-Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT), and in neuropsychological test paradigms of span capacity and interference control. In...

background: brain tissue segmentation for delineation of 3d anatomical structures from magnetic resonance (mr) images can be used for neuro-degenerative disorders, characterizing morphological differences between subjects based on volumetric analysis of gray matter (gm), white matter (wm) and cerebrospinal fluid (csf), but only if the obtained segmentation results are correct. due to image arti...

Hong Kong Med J Vol 15 No 6 Supplement 9 December 2009 Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital Compound, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China PL Ho, WC Yam Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China KWT Tsang Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, Chin...

Objective. Kawasaki disease (KD) is a multisystemic autoimmune vasculitis. Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is the first-line treatment for KD. It is unclear whether traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has an effect on KD. We aimed to observe the clinical efficacy of TCM on acute KD via serum interleukin-33 (IL-33) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) measurements. Methods. Thirty-one KD pat...

The nature of parietal contributions to working memory (WM) remain poorly understood but of considerable interest. We previously reported that posterior parietal damage selectively impaired WM probed by recognition (Berryhill and Olson, 2008a). Recent studies provided support using a neuromodulatory technique, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied to the right parietal cortex (...