BACKGROUND The association between the method of obtaining informed consent and the consent rate in a cohort study, as well as the differences between consenters and non-consenters with regard to blood-sample donation are unclear. METHODS We measured the consent rates among 64-year-old residents who underwent medical checkups in a city for a cohort study consisting of a questionnaire survey a...

U3A Online is a virtual University of the Third Age (U3A) that provides intellectually challenging courses for isolated older people as well as for conventional U3A members. Volunteers run the programme and all courses are written and led by retired people, principally for third agers who are isolated by distance or circumstance from taking part in conventional face-to-face U3A activities. This...

Users tend to share search results such as links or excerpts from web pages when performing complex search tasks. We developed a system called SearchTrails that enables sharing of complete search logs in the form of directed graphs, resembling the users’ trails through the Internet. We conducted a study with 29 participants in which we used both written reports and search trails as collaboratio...

To examine the validity of different theoretical assumptions about the neuropsychological mechanisms and lesion correlates of phonological dyslexia and dysgraphia, we studied written and spoken language performance in a large cohort of patients with focal damage to perisylvian cortical regions implicated in phonological processing. Despite considerable variation in accuracy for both words and n...

BACKGROUND The prevalence and impact of long term conditions continues to rise. Care planning for people with long term conditions has been a policy priority in England for chronic disease management. However, it is not clear how care planning is currently understood, translated and implemented in primary care. This study explores experience of care planning in patients with long term condition...

Children affected by dyslexia exhibit a deficit in the categorical perception of speech sounds, characterized by both poorer discrimination of between-category differences and by better discrimination of within-category differences, compared to normal readers. These categorical perception anomalies might be at the origin of dyslexia, by hampering the set up of grapheme-phoneme correspondences, ...

The Norwegian language community is characterized by a considerable public interest in linguistic issues. Standardization of the written language has been an issue of controverse during more than a century, and in the Post-War period, the growing influence from Anglo-American culture has been of concern to the public opinion. Lexical elaboration of the national language is, consequently, consid...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE In response to the established notion that improvement of language functions in chronic aphasia only can be achieved through long-term treatment, we examined the efficacy of a short-term, intensive language training, constraint-induced aphasia therapy (CIAT). This program is founded on the learning principles of prevention of compensatory communication (constraint), masse...