The purposes of this study were to examine whether body sway is altered immediately after strabismus surgery in children and to find preoperative clinical factors associated with body sway. In a prospective study, body sway was measured on 1-3 days before surgery and on the third day after surgery; for the measurements, computerized static stabilometry was carried out on 28 consecutive patients...

The 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Sidney Altrnan and Thomas R. Cech for their discovery that RNA in living cells can function not onfy as a molecule of heredity, but also as a biocatalyst. A brief historical overview of the laureates’ work is presented, and citation data for their most-cited publications are examined. Research-front analysis highlights both scientists’ centr...

OBJECTIVE To describe the changes in oxygen saturation (SpO2) in healthy infants during the first 10 minutes of life. STUDY DESIGN In this observational study, infants > or = 35 weeks gestation at birth who did not require supplemental oxygen had continuous recordings taken of the preductal SpO2 over the first 10 minutes of life. RESULTS A total of 115 infants were analyzed. On average, inf...

As the neural representation of visual information is initially coded in retinotopic coordinates, eye movements (saccades) pose a major problem for visual stability. If no visual information were maintained across saccades, retinotopic representations would have to be rebuilt after each saccade. It is currently strongly debated what kind of information (if any at all) is accumulated across sacc...