Emotional stimuli receive prioritized attentional and motoric processing in the brain. Recent data have indicated that emotional stimuli enhance activity in the cervical spinal cord as well. In the present study, we used fMRI to investigate the specificity of this emotion-dependent spinal cord activity. We examined whether the limb depicted in a passively viewed image (upper vs. lower) differen...

since work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) have a high prevalence in different industries, in order to quantify the prevalence of wmsds of the upper limbs in of exposed group and find a relationship between exposure indices and effect indicators, this research was carried out. a total of 404 male exposed and of 120 male non-exposed workers of qaemshahre (northern iran) weaving factory...

SECTION 1 A 54-year-old man presented with pain in the left chest for 3 days. His medical history was remarkable for hyperlipidemia managed with diet and statin. He denied tobacco smoking and consumption of alcohol. Physical examination was unrevealing. The patient was diagnosed with an adenocarcinoma of the lung harboring an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation that metastasized to...

Obstacle avoidance studies have been extensively performed in normally developed subjects (N), but little work has been done on the characterization of this task in subjects with Down syndrome (DS). The aim of this study was to describe the management of walking with obstacle avoidance in adults with DS and in age-matched N subjects, considering both the lower and upper limbs. Ten subjects with...

BACKGROUND Upper limbs dysmetria caused by spinal cord injury is very rare. We will discuss the associated mechanism in our articles. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old male had sudden onset of weakness, dysmetria over bilateral upper limbs and ataxia after he fell accidentally. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed no specific findings. C-spine MRI revealed C1 myelopathy and C4-6 spin...

Studies have shown that improvements in the upper limb function of post-stroke victims tend to be worse than those in the lower limb functions, and there is generally a poorer prognosis for the upper limbs [1]. This is because the upper limbs demand greater involvement of the parietal lobe (surrounding the intraparietal sulcus and the inferior parietal lobule) and the frontal lobe (ventral prem...

INTRODUCTION The impact of psoriasis varies with the body region affected. In addition, patients have different perceptions of disease improvement and treatment satisfaction based on the location of skin clearance with treatment. The monoclonal antibody secukinumab selectively targets interleukin-17A-a central cytokine of psoriasis-and provides rapid and sustained clearance for moderate-to-seve...

Background In 1994 the WHO showed about 140 millions cases of lymphedema (Table 1). Italian epidemiological studies report that primary lymphedema are more frequent than secondary. The localization of upper limbs recognizes secondary lymphedema; the primary ones can be located in lower limbs. 30-40 y.o. women are more exposed. In geriatric patients lymphedema is generally secondary and concerne...

Purpose. To evaluate in chronically haemodialysed patients (CHPs), if: (1) the vascular access (VA) position (upper arm or forearm) is associated with differential changes in upper limb arterial stiffness; (2) differences in arterial stiffness exist between genders associated with the VA; (3) the vascular substitute (VS) of choice, in biomechanical terms, depends on the previous VA location and...