Preliminary positive results of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in enhancing the effects of cognitive and motor training indicate that this technique might also be beneficial in traumatic brain injury or patients who had decompressive craniectomy for trauma and cerebrovascular disease. One perceived hurdle is the presence of skull defects or skull plates in these patients that wo...

complication of skull fracture, occurring almost exclusively in infants and children under the age of three (1, 2). It follows head trauma with accompanying skull fracture. Dural tear associated with skull fracture is the basic mechanism by which this condition occurs. Growing skull fracture is most commonly observed in the frontal and parietal regions, but it can occur anywhere in the skull (3...

After birth, the skull grows and remodels in close synchrony with the brain to allow for an increase in intracranial volume. Increase in skull area is provided primarily by bone accretion at the sutures. Additional remodeling, to allow for a change in curvatures, occurs by resorption on the inner surface of the bone plates and accretion on their outer surfaces. When a suture fuses too early, no...

OBJECTIVE In the pediatric population the skull has not yet undergone ossification and it is assumed that the diagnostic rate of skull fractures by simple X-rays are lower than that of adults. It has been recently proposed that the diagnostic rates of skull fractures by 3-dimensional computer tomography (3D-CT) are higher than simple X-rays. The authors therefore attempted to compare the diagno...

kaposiform hemangioendothelioma (khe) appears as a single lesion at birth or early infancy in an equal sex ratio. a rare aggressive vascular proliferation has been recognized as a separate entity from other childhood vascular neoplasm. a 3-year-old iranian boy with a rapidly enlarging mass in his (posterior aspect of skull at the midline) skull was present here. physical examination revealed a ...

We describe GRUE, an architecture for game agents. GRUE facilitates the development of flexible agents capable of balancing competing goals and responding appropriately to their environment. We briefly describe GRUE’s representation of the agent’s environment and sketch the algorithm used to select between competing goals. We present some preliminary results from an evaluation of GRUE in a Tile...

Recent work establishes that Prostriata, a little-studied area of the visual cortex neighboring V1, has distinct but hybrid visual properties which are suggestive of an unsuspected role in the rapid analysis and integration of peripheral visual stimuli.