Reduced seizure incidence coupled with voluntary motor inhibition accompanied conditioned increases in the sensorimotor rhythm (SMR), a 12- 14 Hz rhythm appearing over rolandic cortex. Although SMR biofeedback training has been successfully applied to various forms of epilepsy in humans, its potential use in decreasing hyperactivity has been limited to a few cases in which a seizure history was...

Although impairment of left ventricular function in acute myocardial infarction is closely related to extent of necrosis, function in the noninfarct zone also contributes to global performance and thus may be of prognostic importance. We evaluated left ventricular regional wall motion by the centerline chord method in 332 patients treated with intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA...

A 72-year-old female without prior cardiovascular history presented with intermittent crushing chest pain associated with diaphoresis and weakness for 2 days prior to admission. An electrocardiogram (EKG) revealed ST segment elevation across the anterior precordial leads (Fig. 1). On initial examination, the patient was hypotensive (88/40 mmHg) and tachycardic (110 bpm) with a grade III/VI hars...

The relationships among clinical variables, coronary anatomy, and left ventricular function during the early hours of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) were evaluated from data acquired in the Western Washington Intracoronary Streptokinase Trial. All patients had symptoms and electrocardiographic changes typical of AMI. All data were obtained before treatment with streptokinase. Mean time to ca...

One must be cognizant of the fact that there is probably more confusion in relation to diagnosis and appropriate criteria for the use of medication for the treatment of hyperkinetic children than there is regarding the choice of medication. Many physicians, as well as the general public, do not truly appreciate the differential diagnosis of the overactive child. The symptoms may be an expressio...

Hyperkinetic disorder is the generic ICD-10 (WHO, 1992)term used to describe one of the most common childhood psychiatric disorders. It is a severe form of a syndrome which is referred to in DSM-IV (APA, 1994)and the American literature as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Hyperactivity or hyperkinesis can be defined as "an enduring disposition to behave in a restless, inattentiv...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a characteristic finding in hemodialysis (HD) populations, few risk factors for progressive LVH have been identified. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS As part of a multinational, blinded, randomized, controlled trial that demonstrated no effect of hemoglobin targets on LV size, 596 incident HD patients, with...

We examined the effect of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) on IL-31-induced alloknesis in mice. We investigated itch-associated scratching behavior (long-lasting scratching: LLS) as an indicator of itching. Topically applied PGD2 and dexamethasone each significantly suppressed IL-31 (acute or repeated administration)-induced LLS. However, neither PGD2 nor dexamethasone suppressed the IL-31 (repeated adm...

Figure 1. Normal sized ventricle in diastole. In October 2010, a 64 year-old lady with history of well controlled hypertension, previous stroke with no residual weakness and psoriasis attended for a routine tooth extraction. This proved to be a complicated procedure, lasting over an hour, requiring repeated injections of prilocaine and felypressin and resulting in considerable distress to the p...