This study aimed to investigate the amygdala’s involvement in dream affect. The amygdala is well known in the literature for its role in emotional processing, especially fear and anger. The amygdala is thought to modulate dream content in REM (rapid eye movement) sleep and is thought to account for large proportion of negative emotion in dreaming, as it is heightened during REM sleep. Patients ...

Lipoid proteinosis or Urbach-Wiethe disease is a rare autosomal recessive disorder. It is characterized by progressive deposition of hyaline substance in the mucous membranes, skin and internal organs. It is characterized by papular and nodular lesions on the face, elbows, knees and hands. The tongue is firm and hoarseness may be present at birth. We aim to describe one case of this disease in ...

Demographical and Neuropsychological Characteristics With less than 300 reported cases since its initial description, lipoproteinosis of UrbachWiethe (LP; syn. Urbach-Wiethe disease or Hyalinosis cutis et mucosae; OMIM 247100), LP is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis typified by cutaneous, mucosal and visceral deposits of periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)–positive hyaline (glycoprotein) materi...

A 10-year-old girl born of consanguineous marriage presented with hoarseness of voice and difficulty in protruding tongue since last five years. No other family member was affected. Cardiovascular, ophthalmological and neurological examination was normal. Hematological profile was normal, including X-ray skull. Cutaneous examination showed classical multiple beaded papules along the eyelid marg...

We present density-functional theory calculations of the optical absorption spectra of silica glass for temperatures up to 2400 K. The calculated spectra exhibit exponential tails near the fundamental absorption edge that follow the Urbach rule in good agreement with experiments. We discuss the accuracy of our results by comparing to hybrid exchange correlation functionals. We show that the Urb...

Investigation of new calculate depends on the controlled optical properties of nanomaterials. Understanding the growth mechanism and growth parameters of nanostructured materials is essential. ZnO is one of the most important semiconductor materials for its semiconducting characteristics. In the present paper, we investigated a new model by theoretical methods; it is based on correlation from t...

SINCE the original description of Tay-Sach's disease in the eighties of the last century a group of allied nervous disorders has become recognized, the common pathological feature of which is a ubiquitous distention of the nerve cells with granules of a lipoid nature. Apart from a few anomalous forms it is customary to classify these amaurotic family idiocies according to the time of onset of t...

Lipoid proteinosis is a rare hereditary metabolic disorder transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait. It is characterized by the deposition of an amorphous hyaline-like material (glycoprotein) in the mucous membranes, skin and various internal organs. Cryosurgery (N(2)O) was applied to remove and reshape the lip lesions in a case of this rare syndrome. The patient was a 24-year-old female. Cr...

F rom an evolutionary perspective, facial expressions of fear convey highly recognizable emotional signals that serve adaptive functions by promoting survival and reproductive success (1). Current theories of how the brain interprets facial expressions of fear implicate the mirror neuron network (MNN) in echoing the emotional states of others by internal simulation (2,3). Originally discovered ...