objective: diabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine diseases with micro-vascular complications and is a common cause of polyneuropathy. we studied the effect of enalapril on electrophysiologic criteria and clinical symptoms of patients with type ii diabetes and sensory neuropathy. materials and methods: a double blind study was conducted on 45 patients with type ii diabetes and neu...

This study examined the role of maternal cognitive sets regarding infant gender on maternal response; participants were 69 mothers, each with a 6-month-old infant. Signal detection methodology was used to assess maternal sensory sensitivity and response bias to subtle changes in positive and negative infant facial expressions as a function of maternal self-efficacy, operationalized by low, mode...

College students (N = 3,435) in 26 cultures reported their perceptions of agerelated changes in physical, cognitive, and socioemotional areas of functioning and rated societal views of aging within their culture. There was widespread cross-cultural consensus regarding the expected direction of aging trajectories with (1) perceived declines in societal views of aging, physical attractiveness, th...

Epilepsy is a neurological disease characterized by recurrent seizures that can lead to uncontrollable muscle twitching, changes in sensitivity sensory perceptions, and disorders of consciousness. Although modern medicine has effective antiepileptic drugs, the need for accessible cost-effective medication urgent, products derived from plants could offer solution. For this review, we have focuse...

This abstract presents a conceptual understanding of Organoleptic ontology and outlines the properties of food that act as stimuli evoking sensory response; and the Sensory Ontology of the perceptions caused by the stimulus.

In Sensorimotor Contingency Theory (SMCT) differences between the perceptual qualities of sensory modalities are explained by the different structure of dependencies between a human’s actions and the ensuing changes in sensory stimulation. It distinguishes modalityrelated Sensory-Motor Contingencies (SMCs), that describe the structure of changes for individual sensory modalities, and object-rel...

In the discipline of food science and technology a range of methods has been developed in order to translate qualitative perceptions into data with numerical value. These sensory evaluation methods are widely used both by the food industry and academics. The translation of qualitative information into quantitative data allows statistical analysis and more accurate monitoring of changes. There a...

OBJECTIVE: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine diseases with micro-vascular complications and is a common cause of polyneuropathy. We studied the effect of enalapril on electrophysiologic criteria and clinical symptoms of patients with type II diabetes and sensory neuropathy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A double blind study was conducted on 45 Patients with type II diabetes and ne...

BACKGROUND Sexual dysfunction due to ejaculatory and genital pain after groin hernia surgery may occur in approximately 2.5% of patients. However, the specific psychosexological and neurophysiologic characteristics have not been described, thereby precluding assessment of pathogenic mechanisms and treatment strategies. METHODS Ten patients with severe pain-related sexual dysfunction and ejacu...

Three experiments were conducted to determine whether attention-related changes in luminance detectability reflect a modulation of early sensory processing. Experiments 1 and 2 used peripheral cues to direct attention and found substantial effects of cue validity on target detectability; these effects were consistent with a sensory-level locus of selection but not with certain memory- or decisi...