A 72 year-old man. He was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 2002. In January 2005 he noted productive cough and fever; he was diagnosed as eosinophilic pneumonia (EP). We discontinued administration of bucillamine and methotrexate and started to treat with oral prednisolone 30 mg daily. To rule out drug-induced EP, prednisolone was tapered by 10 mg per week. Consolidation occurred in the r...

Philadelphia chromosome positive de novoacute myeloid leukemia (AML)is a rare disease with reported incidence of less than 1% of newly diagnosed cases of AML. Outcome of the disease is poor, owing to its resistance to conventional chemotherapy and variable response to imatinib besylate. We report a case of 24-year man who reported to our unit in November 2014 and was treated with conventional i...

Lung metastasis showing radiographic findings of air-space consolidation is considered to be rare. This report describes the case of a man with progressive left lower lobe air-space consolidation with a history of hepatocellular carcinoma. The pulmonary lesion was initially suspected to be infection and later clinically diagnosed as primary adenocarcinoma of the lung. Although the patient was t...

The authors describe a case of pulmonary nocardiosis in a 37-year-old man with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in treatment with antiretroviral drugs. Clinical symptoms were productive cough, hemoptysis and progressive weight loss. A chest x-ray showed a right upper lobe consolidation while the computed tomography demonstrated consolidation with air bronchogram and airspace nodules. The radi...

Sleep benefits the consolidation of individual episodic memories. In the long run, however, it may be more efficient to retain the abstract gist of single, related memories, which can be generalized to similar instances in the future. While episodic memory is enhanced after one night of sleep, effective gist abstraction is thought to require multiple nights. We tested this hypothesis using a vi...

It remains unclear, but critically important, to determine whether sleep influences the consolidation of declarative memories. Although several recent studies suggest a beneficial role of sleep in the consolidation of verbal declarative memories, these studies have typically used a “split-night” procedure, where memory for word pairs was tested after 3 hours of early sleep, or after 3 hours of ...

In explicit sequence learning tasks, an improvement in performance (skill) typically occurs after sleep-leading to the recent literature on sleep-dependent motor consolidation. Consolidation can also be facilitated during wakefulness if declarative knowledge for the sequence is reduced through a secondary cognitive task. Accordingly, declarative and procedural consolidation processes appear to ...

Statistical review The material for review was collected from the records of three Dublin Hospitals for the years 1937 to 1939. All patients dying within twentyfour hours of admission, or in whom signs of improvement had set in before starting treatment, were excluded. The cases were clinically divided into the two groups of lobar and atypical pneumonia. The former showed clinical evidence of l...

OBJECTIVE Previous research demonstrated that individuals with developmental dyslexia (DD) may suffer from a deficit in the acquisition stage of a new skill, whereas consolidation processes seem to be preserved. The present study was designed to examine whether this impaired acquisition was attributable to a lack of automatization, and whether the reported preserved consolidation was attributab...

This study examined the differential effects of aging on consolidation processes that strengthen newly acquired memory traces in veridical form (memory stabilization) versus consolidation processes that are responsible for integrating these memory traces into an existing body of knowledge (item integration). Older adults learned 13 nonwords and were tested on their memory for the nonwords, and ...