False memory paradigms can offer leverage on understanding the breakdowns in episodic memory that occur with healthy aging (see Balota, Cortese, et al., 1999; Budson, Daffner, Desikan, & Schacter, 2000; Kensinger & Schacter, 1999; Norman & Schacter, 1997; Tun, Wingfield, Rosen, & Blanchard, 1998; Watson, Balota, & SergentMarshall, 2001). In general, studies have demonstrated that relative to yo...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children is a frequent disease for which optimal diagnostic methods are still being defined. Treatment of OSA in children should include providing space, improving craniofacial growth, resolving all symptoms, and preventing the development of the disease in the adult years. Adenotonsillectomy (T&A) has been the treatment of choice and thought to solve young pati...

According to various data, snoring may affect about 2 billion people worldwide, with about 8 million adult people in Poland being estimated to snore. Apart from being disturbing for other people, it brings about a measurable risk for the patient, which results from transient anoxia. As a consequence, it may increase the risk of arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, cerebral stroke and i...

OBJECTIVE To understand prevalence of sleep problems and presence of improper sleep habit of children aged one to 23 months in Shanghai, and to identify their related factors. METHODS Totally, 1 252 normal children, without severe illness and abnormal delivery history, aged one to 23 months were randomly selected from five districts of Shanghai. Under strict quality control system, their pare...

BACKGROUND Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is associated with significant morbidity and remains underdiagnosed in women. Identification of high-risk groups among women is important for early detection and treatment. OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of snoring in young women with atopy and to determine the risk factors for snoring in these individuals. METHODS The Cincinnati Childhood A...

BACKGROUND The nocturnal enuresis is one of the most common complaints of childhood. Upper airway obstruction and nocturnal snoring affect the nocturnal enuresis in children. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of breathing exercises on the nocturnal enuresis in the children with the sleep-disordered breathing. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study was conducted in yea...

Different types of chaotic flow are possible in the 3-dimensional state spaces of two simple nonlinear differential equations. The first equation consists of a 2-variable, double-focus subsystem complemented by a linearly coupled third variable. It produces at least three types of chaos: Lorenzian chaos, "sandwich" chaos, and "horseshoe" chaos. Two figure 8-shaped chaotic regimes of the latter ...

The perception of Swedish phonaesthemes and their psychological reality is studied in priming and lexical decision experiments. Abelin (1999) described phonaesthemes such as: bl‘light, vision’ in words like ‘blänka, blixtra’ and fl’movement’ in words like ‘fladdra, flaxa’. Bergen (2004) studied phonaesthemes like: gl‘light, vision’ in words like ‘glimmer, glisten’ and sn‘nose, mouth’ as in ‘sno...

PURPOSE To investigate and correlate the sleep pattern and quality of life in individuals with cerebral palsy (CP) compared to healthy controls. METHODS Seventy-eight subjects (aged 4-18 years, both genders) comprised two groups: CP, composed of 43 individuals with CP, and control, composed of 35 individuals without neurodevelopmental disorders. General Sleep Habits Questionnaire, Sleep Distu...

Objectives To investigate the snoring modes of patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome and to discover the main sources of snoring in soft tissue vibrations. Methods A three-dimensional finite element model was developed with SolidEdge to simulate the human upper airway. The inherent modal simulation was conducted to obtain the frequencies and the corresponding shapes of the s...