OBJECTIVE To report the occurrence of adult-onset (de novo) sleepwalking in a series of 6 patients with idiopathic Parkinson disease (PD). DESIGN Case series. SETTING Outpatient clinic for movement disorders. PATIENTS AND METHODS Of 165 consecutive patients with PD seen for 2 years, 6 patients with adult-onset sleepwalking were identified. These patients underwent a systematic clinical as...

Introduction: Diaphragm and lateral abdominal muscles frequently show sparing effects to muscle relaxants. This study compared visual estimation of neuromuscular transmission corrugator supercilii adductor pollicis (AP) with electromyographic measurements wall during recovery from vecuronium-induced intense block. Methods: 60 patients undergoing elective surgeries under general anesthesia were ...

This paper presents data describing the latency of the onset of pathological gambling (PG) in a large sample (N = 180) of men and women seeking treatment at the Rhode Island Gambling Treatment Program (RIGTP). The current study replicates the findings of Breen and Zimmerman (2002), and confirms that involvement with computerized gambling devices, such as video slots and video poker, is associat...

Transcallosal inhibition (TCI), assessed using transcranial magnetic stimulation, can provide insight into the neurophysiology of aging and of neurological disorders such as stroke. However, the reliability of TCI using the ipsilateral silent period (iSP) has not been formally assessed, despite its use in longitudinal studies. This study aimed to determine the reliability of iSP onset latency, ...

current research attempted to compare the effect of 10-day oral supplementation with saffron and indomethacin in the prevention of delayed onset muscle soreness (doms). thirty-nine healthy and inactive male students divided into three groups: saffron (300 mg), indomethacin (75 mg), and control groups. muscle soreness protocol performed with 80% of 1rm in four sessions and each session had 20 re...

OBJECTIVE Sleep quality is strongly associated with parameters of mental and physical health and therefore a major public health issue. We wanted to evaluate this association in young and healthy students by a survey. Further, we aimed to detect the relevance of sleep onset latency and sleep duration for sleep quality. METHODS A group of young nursing and technical students was surveyed (N = ...

Distributed interactive applications tend to have stringent latency requirements and some may have high bandwidth demands. Many of them have also very dynamic user groups for which all-to-all communication is needed. In online multiplayer games, for example, such groups are determined through region-of-interest management in the application. We have investigated a variety of group management ap...

We have examined the organization of muscle afferent projections to motoneurons in the lumbosacral spinal cord of chick embryos between stage 37, when muscle afferents first reach the motor nucleus, and stage 44, which is just before hatching. Connectivity between afferents and motoneurons was assessed by stimulating individual muscle nerves and recording the resulting motoneuron synaptic poten...

Coriandrum sativum L. (coriander) has been indicated for a number of medial problems in traditional medicine such as loss of appetite, convulsion, and nervousness. We have previously shown that the aqueous extract of coriander has depressant effects on motor coordination and spontaneous activity, suggesting of a possible sedative and muscle relaxant effect. These findings suggest that coriander...

This study examined the effects of presleep cognitive stress on insomniac and noninsomniac subjects. Ten sleep-onset insomniacs and 11 noninsomniacs spent five nights in a sleep laboratory. They slept undisturbed on the first three nights but were exposed to brief cognitive stressors before sleep-onset on the fourth and fifth nights. Significant between-group differences were found in their res...