OBJECTIVE Poor effort on baseline neuropsychological tests is expected to influence interpretation of post-concussion assessment scores. Our study examined effort in an athletic population to determine if poor effort effects neuropsychological test performance. METHODS High school athletes (N=199) were administered a brief neuropsychological test battery, which included the Dot Counting Test ...

Clean drinking water for the municipality of “Rey” with population of over one million remains a critical and serious problem. In particular, Rey’s continued water demands has caused a substantially high drop in its local groundwater level. With running this study, we can appropriately predict the quality of groundwater in Rey. In this study, we have considered presence of nit...

The Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, which requires the free recall of the same list of 15 unrelated words over 5 trials, was administered to 21 high-functioning adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 21 matched typical individuals. The groups showed similar overall levels of free recall, rates of learning over trials and subjective organisation of their recall. Howeve...

1 Robotics Group, GSyC-DITTE, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Móstoles (Madrid), Spain [email protected] 2 Robotics Group, GSyC-DITTE, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Móstoles (Madrid), Spain [email protected] 3 Robotics Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand [email protected] 4 Robotics Group, Department of Electrical an...

BACKGROUND Delayed gastric emptying (DGE) remains the most frequent complication following pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) with published incidences as high as 61%. The present study investigates the impact of bowel reconstruction techniques on DGE following classic PD (Whipple-Kausch procedure) with pancreatogastrostomy (PG). METHODS We included 168 consecutive patients who underwent PD with PG w...

We investigated the relationship of serum nitric oxide (NO) and asymmetrical dimethylarginine (ADMA) levels with cognitive functioning in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). 41 MDD patients (Beck depression scale scores>16) and 44 controls were included in the study. Rey verbal learning and memory test, auditory consonant trigram test, digit span test, Wisconsin card sorting test, co...

IMPORTANCE Depression has been identified as a risk factor for dementia among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus but the cognitive domains and patient groups most affected have not been identified. OBJECTIVE To determine whether comorbid depression in patients with type 2 diabetes accelerates cognitive decline. DESIGN A 40-month cohort study of participants in the Action to Control Card...

Effective use of cerium anomalies as a redox proxy in carbonate-dominated marine settingsEffective use of cerium anomalies as a redox proxy in carbonate-dominated marine settings' Chemical Geology, vol 438, pp. 146-General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition o...

43 Solidified floating organic drop micro-extraction (SFODME) for simultaneous separation/pre-concentration and determination of cadmium by atomic absorption spectroscopy R. Parviz, M. Honari Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Islamic Azad University Shahr-E-Rey Branch, Shahr-E-Rey, Iran Department of Plant Breading and Biotechnology, Agriculture and Natural Resources Faculty, Tehran ...

 Background: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties (validity and reliability) of the Persian version of the Sustained Auditory Attention Capacity Test in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Methods: The Persian version of the Sustained Auditory Attention Capacity Test was constructed to assess sustained auditory attention using the meth...