The aim of this study was to describe our experience with benign parapharyngeal space tumours resected via a transcervical route without mandibulotomy and to investigate associated postoperative sequelae and complications. The study investigated and analysed the retrospective charts of 44 patients who underwent surgery for benign parapharyngeal space tumours over a 10-year period. The diagnosis...

Some neuroimaging studies have reported activation by imitation in the left Brodmann area 44 (BA 44), a part of Broca's area considered to be a neural substrate for speech production. However, in these previous studies the subjects were required to perform the same movements repeatedly so that the experimental stimuli could be viewed as cues when to do the given movements rather than a specific...

In this study we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine differences in recruited brain regions during the concentric and the eccentric phase of an imagined maximum resistance training task of the elbow flexors in healthy young subjects. The results showed that during the eccentric phase, pre-frontal cortex (BA44) bilaterally was recruited when contrasted to the concentric ...

Watching someone scratch himself can induce feelings of itchiness in the perceiver. This provides a unique opportunity to characterize the neural basis of subjective experiences of itch, independent of changes in peripheral inputs. In this study, we first established that the social contagion of itch is essentially a normative response (experienced by most people), and that the degree of contag...

22 hatten sich auf die Stellenangebote im Januar beworben, um im Herbst Nachfolger/in von Dr. Bernhard Wiebel als Kanzler/in der RUB zu werden. Anhand verschiedener Kriterien (Innovationsfähigkeit, Führungsqualitäten, Erfahrungen) wurde durch eine speziell eingesetzte Kommission mit Hilfe der Bewerbungsunterlagen gesiebt. 3 Kandidat/innen blieben schließlich übrig, die sich am 21. Mai den Frage...

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To compare bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling (IPSS) with high dose dexamethasone (HDD) and CRH testing (using recently proposed stringent response criteria) in the differential diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome, we reviewed 53 consecutive cases. The main analysis was limited to 45 cases with confirmed diagnosis: 44 with pituitary dependency, proven by confirmatory histolog...