BACKGROUND Laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG) enables noninvasive quantification of the retinal circulation in glaucoma patients. In this study, we tested the intrasession reproducibility of LSFG-NAVI, a modified LSFG technique. METHODS Sixty-five eyes from 33 subjects (male (M):female (F) = 17:16) with a mean age of 49.4 ± 11.2 years were examined in this study. Two parameters indicating reprod...

The Child’s Challenging Behaviour Scale 2 (CCBS-2) is a scale designed for mothers of school-age children with disabilities between the ages 5 and 18, evaluates child's challenging behaviours. This study was carried out to conduct Turkish cross-cultural adaptation, validity reliability CCBS-2. One hundred thirty-eight disabled were included in this study. Scale-2 version (CCBS-2-TR) administere...

OBJECTIVE We examined the interrater reliability of the Melbourne Assessment of Unilateral Upper Limb Function. METHOD Three occupational therapists independently scored 34 videotaped assessments of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy aged 6 yr, 1 mo, to 14 yr, 5 mo. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) at a 95% confidence interval were calculated for total scores, category scores, ...

Introduction: Measuring the size of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an investigational technique to show the level of corticospinal excitability however, some of the fundamental methodological aspects of TMS (such as the effects of inter-pulse intervals (IPI) on MEP size) are not fully understood, this issue raises concerns about the re...

Purpose. To compare central corneal thickness (CCT) values via Spectral Domain-Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) and ultrasonic pachymetry in patients with severe dry eye disease (DED) to determine the level of agreement between these 2 methods. Methods. The paired samples t-test was used to compare CCT values in severe DED patients. Matching analysis between methods was performed using int...

Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) is a Bayesian framework for inferring effective connectivity among brain regions from neuroimaging data. While the validity of DCM has been investigated in various previous studies, the reliability of DCM parameter estimates across sessions has been examined less systematically. Here, we report results of a software comparison with regard to test-retest reliability...

[Purpose] To investigate whether an objective evaluation method for trunk function, namely the "trunk righting test", is reproducible and reliable by testing on different observers (from experienced to beginners) and by confirming the test-retest reliability. [Subjects] Five healthy subjects were evaluated in this correlation study. [Methods] A handheld dynamometer was used in the assessments. ...

PURPOSE To investigate the efficacy of a computerized optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) test in evaluating the objective distance visual acuity and to determine the correlation between subjective and objective visual acuities. METHODS This prospective, noninterventional study included 83 eyes of 83 volunteers. Objective visual acuity was defined as the smallest size stripe that evoked the OKN respo...