On the neuronal basis for multisensory convergence: a brief overview.

Oscillatory Activity and Multisensory Processing

Why does food lose its taste when your nose is stuffed up? Why do turn signals attract the drivers’ attention more when clicking sounds are simultaneously presented? Why are we better at hearing speech in noisy environments when we see the lip movements of the speaker? These are all questions of interest for researchers in the areas of multisensory information processing. Although the scientifi...

Newest Targets for Anticonvulsant Agents: An Overview

Epilepsy is a neurological condition characterized by recurrent seizures influencing about 1% of the worldwide population. Despite much progress in understanding the pathogenesis of epilepsy, the molecular basis of human epilepsy still remains unclear. Common approaches for pharmacotherapy of epilepsy are still directed towards controlling the symptoms and suppression of seizures. Clinical use ...

A Brief Overview of the Specialty of Travel Medicine

Visuo-haptic Neuronal Convergence Demonstrated with an Inversely Effective Pattern of BOLD Activation

We investigated the neural substrates involved in visuo-haptic neuronal convergence using an additive-factors design in combination with fMRI. Stimuli were explored under three sensory modality conditions: viewing the object through a mirror without touching (V), touching the object with eyes closed (H), or simultaneously viewing and touching the object (VH). This modality factor was crossed wi...

Effect of multisensory stimulation on oxygen saturation in premature infants during eye examination

Background: Eye examination for screening of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), as a painful procedure, causes physiological changes in premature infants. Multisensory stimulation is a non-pharmacological analgesic method which affects physiological measures during painful procedures. Aim: To determine the effect of multisensory stimulation on oxygen saturation in premature infants during eye ex...