BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Studies of cerebral activation of motor function after ischemic stroke may enhance our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of motor functional recovery, including the role of the noninfarcted hemisphere. METHODS Eight right-handed recovering hemiparetic or hemiplegic patients were studied using functional MRI. Results were evaluated for each patient to consider i...

A 2nd generation polyamideamine (PAMAM) dendrimer bearing right-handed helices to its eight terminals was shown to accommodate eight left-handed helices via stereocomplex formation to generate molecular assemblies of disk structure with 13-14 nm diameter and 6 nm thickness.

An eight experiment sequence was conducted to compare the speed and retention resulting from reading material. The text was justi®ed in each of four different ways: ragged-right (unjusti®ed); ®ll justi®ed; equal-®ll justi®ed; and micro-®ll justi®ed. Retention was measured by recall and by recognition tests. For reading time, only one signi®cant difference was found among the eight experiments. ...

A 58 year old lady presented with a right breast cancer and a prior history of malignant melanoma excised from the right chest wall eight years previously. An abnormal axillary lymph node resected contained features of both metastatic breast carcinoma and malignant melanoma. Following oncologic breast cancer management, the patient is well with no evidence of recurrence at three years.

A patient developed severe exertional dyspnoea and stridor eight months after a right pneumonectomy for a carcinoid tumour, with a progressive loss of lung function. These events were the result of compression of the left main bronchus against the vertebral column by the mediastinal contents, which had shifted into the right hemithorax with the herniated lung.

Gossypiboma, or a retained surgical sponge, is a rare condition, and it can occur after any surgical intervention that requires use of internal swabs. A case of an eight-year-old girl is presented, who had right minithoracotomy for ASD closure. She was finally diagnosed to have a retained surgical sponge in the right pleural cavity.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique to explore the resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) differences of the bilaterial cerebellum posterior lobe (CPL) after normal sleep (NS) and after sleep deprivation (SD). METHODS A total of 16 healthy subjects (eight males, eight females) underwent an fMRI scan twice at random: once foll...

are surviving to adulthood, this study was done to provide follow-up data for physicians concerned with their care. We reviewed the current status of 233 patients born before January 1962 who had repair ofTOF at a median age of 9.7 years (range 11 months to 36 years). There were 26 surgical deaths (11.1%), 12 late cardiacrelated deaths (5.9%) and three noncardiac deaths (1.3%). Eight of the 12 ...

Since the discovery of facial asymmetries in emotional expressions of humans and other primates, hypotheses have related the greater left-hemiface intensity to right-hemispheric dominance in emotion processing. However, the difficulty of creating true frontal views of facial expressions in two-dimensional photographs has confounded efforts to better understand the phenomenon. We have recently d...