Impaired executive functions, modulated by the frontal lobes, have been suggested to be associated with suicidal behavior. The present study examines one of these executive functions, attentional control, maintaining attention to the task-at-hand. A group of inpatient adolescents with acute suicidal behavior and healthy controls were studied using a passively presented auditory optimal paradigm...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by changes in movement, which are later followed by cognitive, behavioral and psychological changes. The objective of the present study was to correlate different tests used to examine executive functions in PD patients followed at a specialized outpatient clinic. Methods Thirty-five patients with idiopathic PD aged 63.0 years on average and with mean...

The road towards broad adoption of electronic health record systems is built upon a foundation of health informatics standards for vocabulary. A terminology is needed not only for an electronic health record but also for clinical decision support, access to clinical information, research, and survey purposes. Dr Chalmers notes, ”Within any field of collective endeavor, the ability of people to ...

Thegreen procurement (GP) for construction industry and its implementation requires government interventionparticularly through policies, initiatives, incentives. GP is relatively a new concept especially in Malaysian industryand stillambiguous even though globally recognised. Hesitationin implementing among stakeholderisdue to lacking of familiarity, lack available standard guidelinesand aware...

Background Considering risks to infants and children as part of risk assessments are of primary importance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 1995, EPA issued a policy for “Evaluating Health Risks to Children” (U.S. EPA, 1995), to ensure that risks to infants and children are consistently and explicitly a part of risk assessments conducted in support of the decision making pr...