Cranial nerve palsies are uncommon late sequelae of radiation therapy. We present a rare case of bilateral vocal cord paralysis secondary to radiation-induced recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis. The exact mechanism accounting for radiation-induced nerve damage is unknown. The complication may occur years following radiation therapy thus making a causal relationship difficult. As there is no tr...

Cranial nerve palsies are uncommon late sequelae of radiation therapy. We present a rare case of bilateral vocal cord paralysis secondary to radiation-induced recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis. The exact mechanism accounting for radiation-induced nerve damage is unknown. The complication may occur years following radiation therapy thus making a causal relationship difficult. As there is no tr...

Using the blocked-translation paradigm with healthy participants, we examined Crutch and Warrington’s hypothesis that concrete and abstract concepts are organized by distinct principles: concrete concepts by semantic similarities and abstract ones by associations. In three experiments we constructed two types of experimental blocking (similar vs. associative) for both abstract and concrete word...

Conventional cooling method consumes large amount of electricity and heavily relies on hydrofluorocarbon coolants, which are considered “super-greenhouse effect” gases. Electrocaloric (EC) demonstrates high energy efficiency, involves no evaporative coolant, is a promising next-generation technology. A safe operational temperature change the EC material currently limited to well below 10 K, dev...

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, our knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this paper we first address the adequacy of the two dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. W...

Recent imaging studies have found activation in areas associated with motion processing and motor planning during a range of cognitive tasks involving tools. This has led some researchers to conclude that motor information is central to the conceptual representation of tools. To explore this hypothesis, we used a two-alternative forced-choice task to examine whether children and adults use moto...

Stroke patients with optic ataxia have an outstanding inability to perform spatially accurate movements to visual targets located in their peripheral visual field. Neuropsychological investigations of such patients contributed essentially to the two visual stream hypothesis which presumes dissociated actionand perception-related processing of visual information in the human brain. Here we revie...

Previous observations of association of mRNAs and ribosomes with subcellular structures highlight the importance of localised translation within cells. However, little is known regarding associations between eukaryotic translation initiation factors and cellular structures within the cytoplasm of normally growing cells. Here we have used detergent-based cellular fractionation methods coupled wi...

The poly(A)-binding protein (PABP) is able to interact with the 3’ poly(A) tail of eukaryotic mRNA, promoting its translation. Cleavage of PABP by viral proteases encoded by several picornaviruses and caliciviruses plays a part in the abrogation of cellular protein synthesis. We report that infection of MT-2 cells with HIV-1 leads to an efficient proteolysis of PABP. Analysis of PABP integrity ...