OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to determine the effectiveness of group music therapy for improving depression and delaying the deterioration of cognitive functions in elderly persons with dementia. METHOD The study had a prospective, parallel-group design with permuted-block randomization. Older persons with dementia (N = 104) were randomly assigned to the experimental or control group...

The aim of this study was to verify the moment with more reliable data to survey children's pragmatic profile. Participants were five children with typical language development and ages between 7 years and 1 month and 8 years and 11 months. Data collection involved a 150-minute recording of a child-researcher interaction, divided into five 30-minute individual sessions. Data were later analyzed...

The purpose of the current study was to compare the workout volume (sets x resistance x repetitions per set) completed during two upper body resistance exercise sessions that incorporated 1 minute versus 3 minute rest intervals between sets and exercises. Twelve trained men completed two experimental sessions that consisted of 5 upper body exercises (i.e. barbell bench press, incline barbell be...

Short description: cued motor imagery with online feedback (non-stationary classifier) with 2 classes, and 3-4 sessions from 3 subjects. Aim: Non-stationary (i.e. time-varying) BCI data should be classified. It can be expected that time-varying classifier performs better than a stationary (static) classifier. Moreover, the response time of each method will be evaluated. EEG-data from three diff...

Abstract Background and Aims Most patients start haemodialysis (HD) with a fixed dose of three sessions per week, regardless their residual renal function (RKF). This schedule is considered “standard HD or conventional HD” widely accepted without any randomised controlled trial (RCT) having examined whether other schedules fewer week are inadequate harmful. Incremental (iHD), by contrast, adjus...

Systematic knowledge about patient characteristics that predict the duration of long-term psychotherapy is largely absent. We examined predictors of attrition, retention, and duration of long-term dynamic psychotherapy to delineate the naturalistic history of psychotherapy, specifically focusing on childhood emotional neglect and abuse, adult diagnosis, personality, and functioning as predictor...

Electronic spirometers offer the prospect of paperless home monitoring, but data quality is not automatically better than from conventional monitoring. The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which the quality and processing of self-recorded spirometric data from patients with asthma complied with international guidelines for spirometry. Data were from 33 subjects with poorly contr...

Objectives : To evaluate diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with low b factors of the peripheral zone (PZ) of patients with prostatic cancer. Materials and methods : An EPI diffusion MR sequence (TE = 75 ms, TR = 4000 ms, slice thickness = 4 mm), with low diffusion factors incremented by 10 s/mm2, has been developed on a 1.5 T magnet. Axial T2-weighted images of the prostate were performed on 21 ...

Question: For patients with bronchiectasis, does pulmonary rehabilitation either with or without inspiratory muscle training (IMT) improve exercise tolerance? Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting: Outpatient-based pulmonary rehabilitation program of a UK hospital. Patients: Patients with bronchiectasis confirmed by highresolution computer tomography. Exclusion criteria included concomit...

A user s single session with a Web search engine or information retrieval (IR) system may consist of seeking information on single or multiple topics, and switch between tasks or multitasking information behavior. Most Web search sessions consist of two queries of approximately two words. However, some Web search sessions consist of three or more queries. We present findings from two studies. F...