Although abnormal auditory sensitivity is the most common sensory impairment associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the neurophysiological mechanisms remain unknown. In previous studies, we reported that this abnormal sensitivity in patients with ASD is associated with delayed and prolonged responses in the auditory cortex. In the present study, we investigated alterations in residual ...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Surveillance strategies for aortic disease based on the current guidelines support utilization maximum diameters to evaluate risk dissection, however there remains a need improved imaging markers this stratification. Purpose This study aimed compare cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR)-derived ventriculo-vascular properties...

The aim of this study was to measure noninvasively by Doppler ultrasound the blood flow velocity at the level of the aortic root in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) to detect abnormal pressure gradients. Seven patients with homozygous FH and seven healthy controls matched for age and sex were included in the study. Continuous-wave Doppler (2 MHz) was used to measure t...

Brain activation and functional connectivity were investigated in high functioning autism using functional magnetic resonance imaging in an n-back working memory task involving photographic face stimuli. The autism group showed reliably lower activation compared with controls in the inferior left prefrontal area (involved in verbal processing and working memory maintenance) and the right poster...

INTRODUCTION Although the critical feature of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity/impulsivity behavior, the disorder is clinically heterogeneous, and concomitant difficulties are common. Children with ADHD are at increased risk for experiencing lifelong impairments in multiple domains of daily functioning. In the present st...

The present study was undertaken to assess the toxicity of acid alone and two different sublethal concentrations of aluminium, (25% and 75% dose of 96 hr LC50 value in acidified soft water of pH 5) on red blood cells of a stenohaline catfish, C. batrachus for an acute exposure of 5 days. The scanning electron microscopic studies on all the three treated groups revealed several kinds of erythroc...

BACKGROUND Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are the most used anthropometric measures to identify obesity. While BMI is considered to be a simple and accurate estimate of general adiposity, WC is an alternative surrogate measure of visceral obesity. However, WC is subject to significant inter-examiner variation. The aim of the present study was to correlate BMI and WC measures...

Nodular heterotopia (NH) with overlying polymicrogyria can result in medically uncontrolled seizures. Most patients also exhibit deficits of function related to the location of the abnormal cortex. However, functional imaging studies show that the abnormal cortex can retain some function, making surgical planning difficult. It is not known if the connectivity of the abnormal cortex is normal. I...

Abnormal running behavior frequently happen in robbery cases and other criminal cases. In order to identity these abnormal behaviors a method to detect and recognize abnormal running behavior, is presented based on spatiotemporal parameters. Meanwhile, to obtain more accurate spatiotemporal parameters and improve the real-time performance of the algorithm, a multitarget tracking algorithm, base...