brain computer interfacing in patients with motor disability

... levels was defined as neuroserpin decrease All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings Endpoints The primary endpoint was the decrease ... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/58 our group obtained after investigating neuroserpin effects using an in vitro model of brain ischemia [40] The information reported here regarding biomarkers ... those patients who show more severe clinical outcome might require more neuroserpin in the brain parenchyma to inactivate tPA, and this could lead to lower neuroserpin levels in serum Neuroserpin,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... explain disability in chronic pain Hasenbring hypothesized that, in addition to patients using avoidance strategies as a coping mechanism, other patients with pain will have the tendency to cope with ... of life of patients participating in the current study seem to be in accordance with scores of patients with fibromyalgia participating in other studies For patients with fibromyalgia in the current ... based on a linear regression analysis The 111 patients participated in this study: 54 patients with fibromyalgia, 22 patients with CRPS and 35 patients with CLBP Of the patients with fibromyalgia,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... play in standing or in sitting position to improve balance control in both conditions In standing position the patients are required to maintain their soles on the WBB In sitting position, the patients ... randomized clinical trial in patients with acquired brain injury José-Antonio Gil-Gómez1*, Roberto Lloréns1, Mariano Alcañiz1,3 and Carolina Colomer2 Abstract Background: Acquired brain injury (ABI) ... cm in front of the individual’s feet 1-minute walking test (1MWT) Walking distance within a minute along an 8-shaped path that is 20 m long defined on a straight and nonslip surface 10-m walking...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... levels was defined as neuroserpin decrease All determinations were carried out in a laboratory blind to the clinical outcome and neuroimaging findings Endpoints The primary endpoint was the decrease ... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/58 our group obtained after investigating neuroserpin effects using an in vitro model of brain ischemia [40] The information reported here regarding biomarkers ... those patients who show more severe clinical outcome might require more neuroserpin in the brain parenchyma to inactivate tPA, and this could lead to lower neuroserpin levels in serum Neuroserpin,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... in schizophrenia Indian J Psychol Med 2001, 24:19-26 Indian Psychiatric Society: IDEAS (Indian Disability Evaluation and Assessment Scale) – A Scale for Measuring and Quantifying Disability in ... Luria's motor series test (tests motor series programming requiring temporal organization, maintenance and execution of successive action), conflicting instructions (tests sensitivity to interference, ... study replicates the findings of numerous studies that demonstrated the presence of neurocognitive deficits in patients with schizophrenia on most domains tested, including attention, vigilance,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... designed to identify patients with harmful alcohol use [23] It has a scoring range 0-40 with scorings ≥8 indicating problem drinking The questionnaire was administered as interview The AUDIT and ... Three patients used lamotrigine, one used valproate, while three used carbamazepine Six patients in the AUDS group and three patients in the MDE group used benzodiazepines The indications were mainly ... recruited in daily, routine clinical practice at admittance to the acute ward It is difficult to imagine how a blinded research design regarding inclusion could be applied in such a setting When in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... contains 36 items on functioning and disability with a recall period of 30 days[8] covering domains: Understanding and Communicating (6 items), Getting around (5 items), Self-care (4 items), Getting ... Quartimin rotated loadings* of the Exploratory Factor Analysis with Factors concentrating 0.54 -0.26 remembering 0.64 finding solutions 0.56 -0.17 0.17 0.10 Understanding & Communicating D1 learning ... each domain by adding the item responses (the score computation allows for up to 30% of missing items per domain) and transforming them into a range from to 100, with higher scores indicating higher...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... end-point Conclusion In patients with brain injury, the SOFA scoring system has superior discriminative ability and stronger association with outcome compared with the MOD scoring system with respect ... different from that in those patients with SOFA-defined but not MOD-defined respiratory failure This again suggests little additive contribution Discussion Brain injury is a pro-inflammatory state ... mmHg Dopamine ≤5a, dobutamine (any dose) Dopamine >5a or epinephrine ≤0.1a or norepinephrine ≤0.1a Dopamine >15a or epinephrine >0.1a or norepinephrine >0.1a Hematologic: platelet count >150 ≤150...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24

... requirement for norepinephrine to maintain CPP above 70 mmHg observed in the present analysis could reflect ongoing alterations within the injured brain, possibly induced by maintaining blood glucose ... associated with an increase in ICP or a decrease in CPP (data not shown) ICP during the first week, and markedly increased insulin and norepinephrine requirement compared with patients with a blood ... and urinary tract infections In addition, we investigated the impact of maintaining blood glucose levels within low and tight limits on fluctuations in blood glucose values, insulin and norepinephrine...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Thoracic injury 0.13 Abdominal injury 0.34 Extremities injury 0.20 Diffuse injury without brain swelling 12 0.046 Diffuse bilateral brain swelling 12 Diffuse unilateral brain swelling with midline ... reactivity (n)a One reacting Both reactingb 12 14 Diffuse injury without brain swelling Diffuse bilateral brain swelling Diffuse injury unilateral brain swelling with midline shift Any mass lesion ... group and in 18 patients (82%) in the pentobarbital group (P = 0.03) In nonresponding patients, we chose to place a lumbar drainage in five, in three we opted for surgical treatment, and in three...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... or not the use of DDAVP in all brain- dead donors (by definition, in patients with the most severe degree of brain injury) could improve kidney transplant function [27,28] Injury of the hypothalamus ... increase in urinary output (usually, an abrupt increase of urinary output to more than 250 ml/hour for hours, in the absence of diuretic therapy), with the result of curbing the increased urinary ... one missing urinary output was 51.2% (21/41), in comparison with 16.8% (15/89) in the remaining patients (P < 0.001) Polyuria was detected in 34.4% (327/950) of ICU days, and occurred in 76.0%...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... because insulin administration was associated with significantly increased interstitial brain glucose This is in line with the findings of insulin-mediated increases in mean global rate of brain glucose ... ratio 60 without insulin with insulin brain gluta amate [ M] 50 40 * 30 20 10 without insulin with insulin * * 8.0 6.0 1.5 * 1.0 0.5 0.0 5 brain glucose [mM] 5 brain glucose ... increases in brain glutamate at low brain glucose levels below mM compared with episodes in which insulin was not administered At brain glucose levels above mM, administered insulin did not influence...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... traumatic brain injury Analyses were conducted in all patients and in subgroups according to severity of traumatic brain injury The authors found that resuscitation with albumin was associated with higher ... relative merits of albumin versus saline In 1998, a meta-analysis by the Cochrane Injuries Group concluded that the administration of albumin containing fluids to the critically ill increased absolute ... Commentary Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is devastating with catastrophic consequences Early recognition of injury and prompt delivery of focused care of the traumatic brain injured patient is essential...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... concentration in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients Data are expressed as means ± SD Mortality prediction Twenty-six patients (27.7%) died from TBI within month Baseline plasma resistin level in the ... increased plasma resistin level is found and associated with GCS score and mortality after TBI Key messages • In patients with traumatic brain injury, plasma resistin level increased during the 6-hour ... traumatic [14] animal brain This protein also increases in the peripheral blood of patients with ischemic [15] and hemorrhagic [16] stroke These findings suggest that resistin could contribute...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... resuscitation in patients with brain injury after major trauma The validation of ScvO2 in monitoring of cerebral metabolism and as a target for hemodynamic resuscitation in polytraumatized patients remains ... Median ± interquartile range infarction [6], and cardiac failure [7] The significance of ScvO2 in patients with major trauma has been previously reported in 26 injured patients [8] In their investigation, ... be adequately investigated Limits of present findings merit considerations 1) We did not included data on fluids administration in the first 24 hours, brain damages evolutions, intracranial pressure,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... isolated traumatic brain injury, and this number doubled in the first 24 hours post-trauma These data are consistent with findings in more than 3,000 patients with isolated TBI in a large German ... bleeding disorders [5,7] Hypoperfusion promotes endothelial thrombomodulin expression that binds thrombin, thereby inhibiting fibrin generation from fibrinogen Moreover, the thrombomodulin-thrombin ... regarding blood transfusion in early and late coagulopathy in traumatic brain injury are limited, an increasing number of investigations focus on the administration of recombinant factor VII as primary...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... negative influence on respiratory and metabolic parameters in patients not intubated Another recent study also indicated that delaying ALS in critically injured patients until arrival in the trauma ... Vieveen J, Brinkman ACM, Christiaans HMT, Toor EJ, Jukema GN, Loer SA, Boer C, investigators A-T: Prehospital endotracheal intubation in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: guidelines versus ... severity of injury or illness index (NACA) [16] Score Definition No injury or disease Injuries/diseases without any need for acute physician care Injuries/diseases requiring examination and therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56

... increase in urine Cu levels in patients suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) (15) Reunanen et al (1996) found increased levels of serum Cu in patients with CAD (14) In contrast, in our study, ... values for retinol were significantly lower in patients with CAD compared to the control group Other investigators have also reported decreased retinol levels in patients with CAD (31,32) In other ... tended to be lower in patients with CAD Epidemiological investigations that associate body Fe stores with CAD risk have produced conflicting results; these may in part be explained by the use of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... CABG In the 11 patients with vessel disease a stenosis > 50% was found in the circumflex artery in patients and in the right coronary artery in patients Complete revascularization in the patients ... exclude segments in which the tracking failed (feasibility 71%) One could also criticize the intra-individual comparison instead of considering a control group In our opinion, as the infarct is a ... circumferential strain and strain rate by 2DST in normo-, hypo-, akinetic and dyskinetic segments of post-infarct patients 8-13, 30-37, which were not reliably accessible by TDI Radial strain also allowed...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... related increased oxidative activity in RA patients Anti-CCP antibodies are directed against antigens containing the nonstandard amino acid citrulline, for example, citrullinated fibrin, which ... from patients with rheumatoid arthritis Clin Rheumatol 2000;19:275-277 29 Bandt MD, Grossin M, Driss F, Pincemail J, Babin-Chevaye C, Pasquier C Vitamin E uncouples joint destruction and clinical ... from the patients The patients were chosen for the study after having a preliminary evaluation consisting of a brief medical history, smoking and alcohol habits and physical examinations Inflammatory...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15