plasticity recovery and rehabilitation of the adult brain

... think, see and hear, and to distinguish the ugly and the beautiful, the bad and the good, pleasant and unpleasant It is the brain too which is the seat of madness and delirium, of the fears and frights ... disorders and diseases of the brain, the advances in brain research provide hope in the form of their own understanding of what is going wrong and in the form of advances in novel therapies which ... volumes of the head and medial surface of the hippocampus and the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the amygdala Volumes of these subregions declined with age in the GTS group but not in controls, so the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20

... drafted the manuscript, WF and DM participated in the design of the study, NEM and AyS assisted with the collection of data and conceived of the study, MK and AlS participated in the design and coordination ... In one of our cases the initial diagnosis was of hydatid disease of the liver which is the commonest cause of cystic liver lesions in this age group in our region The characteristics of hepatic ... followed by adjuvant chemotherapy however due to the rarity of the disease, there is very little data regarding optimal management and this remains empirical The efficacy of chemotherapy for LMS in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... respectively [32] The biomass of residual trees in the shelterwood was 116.5 Mg haÀ1, and in the control was 194.6 Mg haÀ1 [33] 2.3 Data collection and analysis In the shelterwood, clearcut, and control ... 1984, the shrub communities returned to the pre-treatment conditions The unburned units (including the control units) are located on the center of NMS plane, whereas the burned units moved to the ... greater than the controls (p < 0.01) On the other hand, the relative evenness index tended not to respond to the harvesting and postharvesting treatment as much as Shannon index Only the M_U treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2016, 15:45

... prevent and detect the proceeds of corruption in the first place The cornerstone of any country’s successful and lasting policy and practice on the recovery of stolen assets is the adoption of a ... with the competent practitioners to discuss the study and the impediments they encountered during the course of their work.15 The expertise, practical experience, and candid discussions of more ... not capture are the societal costs of corruption and the devastating impact of such crimes on victim countries Theft of assets by corrupt officials, often at the highest levels of government,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2014, 14:08

... contributions ES did the data analysis and drafted the manuscript MS and UW conceived of the study and designed the questionnaires Both conducted the realisation and the analysis of the study and helped ... draft the manuscript JR participated in the design of the study and participated in the analysis of the questionnaires JR did the data collection ND, MG and JS participated in the design and the ... patients and the general population Table 2: Comparison of mean QoL measured with the Profile of Quality of Life in the Chronically Ill (PLC) in PKU patients with the German norm; Mean and Standard...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... descriptions of the 3D-house and sunflower were made more vivid (05/25) Because T1 Gd-enhanced lesions almost disappeared after the fifth course of the steroid (05/28), we stopped the steroid therapy, and ... improved in the fifth course of steroid pulse therapy, accompanied by a gradual decrease of FLAIR findings and a gradual improvement in higher brain function As the MRI lesions improved (05/28), the ... perivasculitis of the leptomeninges and cortical gray matter (Figure 2A-D) Starting in April 2010, the patient complained of difficulty with his handwriting Neuropsychological tests of higher brain functions...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... recommended a widely received standard for the diagnosis of IACNS in which he emphasized the importance of cerebral angiography and biopsy based on careful exclusion of other diseases When cerebral ... occlusion of the cerebral Page of vessels, brain biopsy should be performed [15] However, the classic appearance of alternating narrowing and dilatation is not completely specific and has been ... features GL provided the pathological diagnosis TJ was the surgeon and gave the final approval of the version to be published Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... followed up the patient during the hospitalization, analyzed data from the literature, and wrote the article ST and PN analyzed data from the literature CMD was the major contributor in writing the manuscript ... antiviral therapy alone This hypothesis was indirectly confirmed by the demonstration of the abnormal immunologic activation occurring during CMV infection (that is, the positivity of the serologic ... parvovirus B19 and EBV, together with the negativity of blood PCR for these two viruses), which was likely interpreted as a cross-reaction An interesting finding in our case was the negativity of the Coombs...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:21

... organization and discussion of the manuscript and LN conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination, and revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... composed of a fragment of the callus, and the other from a fragment of callus with a piece of leaf from a control plant Samples were chopped together using a razor blade in the presence of a nuclei ... Histological sections of haploid and diploid anthers, ovaries, styles and stigmas of 'Clemenules' Histological sections of haploid and diploid anthers, ovaries, styles and stigmas of 'Clemenules' a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:21

... human brain tissues Sera of patients and the strong cross-reactivity peptides showed a similar pattern on the staining of neuron of the human brain tissues (Fig and 3) These suggested the strong ... virus type infection increases the in vivo capacity of peripheral monocytes to cross the blood -brain barrier into the brain and the in vivo sensitivity of the blood -brain barrier to disruption by ... the increase of BBB permeability after EV71 infection in infant mice and further more, the increase of BBB permeability after EV71 infection could result in the entrance and localization of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... physiological conditions, the BBB maintains the cerebral micro-environment by tightly regulating the passage of molecules into and out of the brain to protect the brain from microorganisms and neurotoxic ... anaesthesia and the intravascular dye was removed by saline perfusion (40 to 50 ml) through the left heart ventricle The brain/ pituitary was then removed and weighed before homogenisation and ... (1 μg) of mRNA The cycle threshold (CT) was set above the baseline fluorescence Plotting the log of the dilutions versus the CT values then generated a standard curve Quantitation of samples was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... about the anatomy and radiology of the CS, and the MRI techniques are briefly described It also reviews the trends and recent development of the methods and the history of the identification of the ... between the CS and AC-PC The AC and PC are important landmarks of the brain, shown in Fig 3.2 Fig 3.2 The location of the AC and the PC ( AC: shown on the left) ; PC: shown on the right) 18 The location ... reformatting and the ROI defined by the Z coordinates of the AC and PC After loading a 3D MR volumetric images, the location of the MSP (Hu and Nowinski, 2003), and the coordinates of the AC and PC...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 21:24

... membranes of the brain capillary endothelial cell Fig The BBB as a selective sieve With these two functions of the blood brain barrier, the brain capillaries allow the passage of oxygen and other ... barrier and increase the bioavailability of the drug in the brain and CNS The aim of this thesis is to develop nanoparticles of biodegradable polymers for drug delivery across the blood brain barrier ... growing in the brain [94] There are two basic kinds of brain tumors: primary brain tumors and metastatic brain tumors [95] Primary brain tumors start, and tend to stay, in the brain metastatic brain...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 22:48

... case of MZ with mirror-imaging of AC in the literature In this case, we describe the second case of MZ with mirror-imaging of AC and discuss the possible clinical implications First, Helland and ... lack of systematic monitoring and follow-up Therefore, a large percentage of patients with AC are probably undiscovered Mirror images, on the other hand, are present in approximately 25% of MZ Therefore, ... consider that it is mandatory to monitor the counterpart of the symptomatic patient with AC as early as possible, irrespective of the absence of symptoms Conflict of Interest The authors have declared...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... craniotomy because of the proximity of the sinus to the orbit and the anterior skull base [5] The frequency of bilateral absence of the frontal sinus has been reported in 3-4% to 10% of several populations ... reliability between observers and was 0.86 Fig Unilateral absence of the frontal sinus; on the right, the absence of the frontal sinus, and on the left, the limited aeration of the frontal sinus; axial ... sinuses, although there is only one frontal sinus ostium The size of the sinus and, therefore, its anatomic relationships also depend upon the extent of pneumatization [11] The extent of pneumatization...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:04

... occurrence of the tumor corresponded exactly one to the other; and (4) there was a more than one year interval between trauma and the appearance of the tumor As regards the pathogenesis of post-traumatic ... injury The below must be severe enough to cause brain contusion and a secondary reparative process The location of the impact and the tumor should correspond exactly one to the other There should ... at the time of the trauma demonstrating significant injury and the follow-up scans demonstrating tumor at the same site4 With the routine use of CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), some of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48

... circumstances In the resolutions of the VIth and the VIIth congresses of the Communists Party and those of the important meeting of the National Assembly, the Government and the Central Party ... assessment the demand of skilled labor and how to solve the gap between demand and supply of skilled labor for sustainable economic growth in Vietnam Objectives of the Study The objectives of the study ... building up the whole system It is hoped that these schools (10-15% of the sector) will reach the standards of the best institutions in the region and gradually those of the world While these school...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:31

... component of most management definitions of strategy Strategy is the determination of the basic long-term goals and objectives of an enterprises, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation ... features 60 As a rule, then, the lower the price of substitutes, the higher the quality and the performance, and the lower the user’s switching costs, the more intense are the competitive pressures ... market conditions in the supplier industry and the significance of the item they supply The competitive fore of suppliers is greatly diminished whenever the item they provide is a standard commodity...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:32

... including the rationale of the study, the identification of the problem, the objectives, the scope and limitations as well as the methodology and framework of the study Chapter shows the literature ... 2000 and 80% by 2005 • To improve the quality of plastic products to meet the demand of high quality consumer products of the country, then to increase the quantity and expand varieties of export ... simplified, the level of knowledge of the management organizations and officers in charge of investment are now improved The consolidation of the former SCCI and SPC into one Ministry, which is now the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:32