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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Brain dysfunction"”.
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Minimal Brain Dysfunction with Hyperactivity: a Comparison of the Behavioral and Cognitive Effects of Pharmacological and Behavioral Treatments
… in the short-term, clinical treatment of minimal brain dysfunction; and, to compare the behavioral and cognitive effects of stimulant (methylphenidate) and antidepressant (imipramine) drugs in the short-term, clinical treatment of minimal brain dysfunction. Twenty-nine boys, ranging in age from 6 …
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Relationships Between Task-Irrelevant Environmental Distractions and Task Performance of Normal, Retarded Hyperactive, and Minimal Brain Dysfunction Children
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Cognitive and emotional effects of one season of head impact exposure in high school contact sport athletes
… damage as a result of sports-related brain trauma is a major concern for athletes today. In the last decade, studies of subconcussive repetitive head impacts (RHI) in contact sports have found associations with functional and structural brain changes, even in the absence of diagnosed …
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Neuropsychological Functioning and Regional Cerebral Blood Flow: A Comparison Between Aged Normals and Alzheimer’s Type Dementia.
… possible agreement on focal areas of functional brain tissue loss. Nine subjects with Alzheimer’s disease were compared to nine normal subjects who had been matched on the basis of age, sex, race, and education. Discriminant analysis revealed 100% correct classification of all patients and …
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Simultaneous PET/fMRI for imaging neuroreceptor dynamics
Whole-brain neuroimaging is a key technique for studying brain function and connectivity. Recent advances in combining two imaging modalities - magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) - into one integrated scanner, have created the opportunity to explore the …
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Design and development of a fluid actuated neural probe for chronic sensing
… implants have found a niche in circumventing brain dysfunction for brain-machine interfaces and in neuroscience studies for interrogation of neural tissue. The performance of implantable neural probes for chronic applications has been hampered, owing to an inflammatory immune response in the …
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Die Amphetaminbehandlung verhaltensauffälliger Kinder von 1937 bis in die 70er Jahre in Amerika unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Substanz Methylphenidat ( Ritalin®)
… unterschiedlicher Ätiologien (Minimal brain dysfunction) und durch die nun gestellten Handlungsaufforderungen durch die gesellschaftlichen Institutionen (Schule und außerhäusliche Betreuungsanstalten) wurden diese Patienten einer Behandlung zugeführt. Interessant dabei ist, dass diese …
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An Investigation of Visual Attention in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… by other titles in the past such as minimal brain dysfunction and Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood. These label changes represented the change in knowledge and understanding of the disorder over time. Today, it is thought that a main component to the disorder is an attention deficit. The …
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Understanding real-world and laboratory traumatic brain injury (TBI) using the computational model with brain functional regions
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), including mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or concussion, is a severe health concern. Many symptoms, such as headache, dizziness, and working memory deficits, are reported to be related to the dysfunction of brain functional regions, but the underlying mechanism …
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Psychometrically Valid Relationships between Acculturation and Neuropsychological Factors
… tests play a significant role in detecting brain dysfunction and treatment planning for patients. However, discrepancies in neurocognitive tests among ethnic minorities continue to perplex neuropsychologists and place ethnic minorities at a greater risk for misdiagnoses (Byrd et al., 2006). …
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The Uncertainty and Psychological Health of Family Caregivers of Patients with Delirium in Intensive Care Units
… Delirium is a common indicator of acute brain dysfunction in the ICU and a predictor of mortality, longer ICU/hospital stay, and long-term cognitive impairment. Family caregivers are a valuable resource in preventing, detecting, and managing delirium in the ICU. However, witnessing …
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A diffusion tensor imaging and neurocognitive study of ART-naïve and ART-treated children in Cape Town
… first line treatment failure with white matter brain dysfunction in children on ART. Despite the use of ART and improved virological control with immune reconstitution, there were still a significant percentage of children in this study who were found to have ND. Our findings also suggest that …
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Prenatal Environmental Stressors Impair Postnatal Microglia Function and Adult Behavior in Males
… Large scale genetic studies implicate synaptic dysfunction as a mechanism for disease pathogenesis, and increasingly is accompanied by immune dysfunction. Microglia are the primary immune cells in the CNS. They are important in immune host defense and are involved in normal brain development …
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Neuroimaging and neurocognitive assessment of PTSD and MDD in a South African community setting
… of neurocognitive impairment and associated brain dysfunction, relative to healthy controls, and these effects will be amplified in patients with both disorders. Methods: This dissertation was undertaken within the Drakenstein Child Health Study, a study exploring child health determinants in …
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Role of Cerebral Vasculature and Effect of Circulating Exosomes in Propagation of Systemic Inflammatory Responses into the Central Nervous System
… encephalopathy (SAE) is an acutely progressing brain dysfunction induced by systemic inflammation. The mechanism of initiation of neuroinflammation during SAE, which ultimately leads to delirium and cognitive dysfunction, remains elusive. The goal of this project was to study the molecular …
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Revealing the plastic brain with functional connectivity: effects of exercise on brain plasticity and cognition
… about precisely how exercise effects on the brain benefit human cognition (Cotman and Berchtold, 2002; Kramer and Erickson, 2007). In this thesis I examine effects of physical activity on age-related deficits in brain function and cognition, followed by an examination of potential explanatory …