We have built a fully automated ultrasound analysis system that tracks and identifies the common carotid artery (CCA) and the internal jugular vein (IJV). The system is intended to be used in conjunction with the Sonic Flashlight (SF), an augmented reality device that provides real-time in situ visualization of ultrasound images by reflecting calibrated images into a patient's body. Our goal is...

BACKGROUND Disease susceptibility and drug response of individuals are presumed to be different depending on their personality traits. The Sasang typology, a traditional Korean medical typology, explains the individual differences of vulnerability to pathology and proposes guidelines for the safe and effective use of medical herbs depending on individual traits. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the p...

The purpose of the study is to examine healthy eating habits of the population of Serbia through three dimensions: knowledge, problems, and feelings as well as to determine whether there are any differences between genders and among different age-groups. The research instrument was an Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ) which consisted of 35 items. There were 382 respondents involved in the study...

BACKGROUND Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disease characterized by difficulties in social communication, unusually restricted, repetitive behavior and interests, and specific abnormalities in language and perception. The precise etiology of ASD is still unknown and probably heterogeneous. In a subgroup of patients, toxic environmental exposure might lead to an imbalance ...

BACKGROUND There are large individual differences in susceptibility to motion sickness. Attempts to predict who will become motion sick have had limited success. In the present study, we examined gender differences in resting levels of salivary amylase and total protein, cardiac interbeat intervals (R-R intervals), and a sympathovagal index and evaluated their potential to correctly classify in...

OBJECTIVE To compare event-related potential measures, contingent negative variation and post-imperative negative variation in drug-naïve or drug-free schizophrenic patients and normal healthy controls, and to study the effect of antipsychotic medication on the above measures. METHODS A hospital-based prospective study was conducted at Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi, India. The sampl...

Halima Ouadid-Ahidouch, Morad Roudbaraki, Philippe Delcourt, Ahmed Ahidouch, Nathalie Joury, and Natalia Prevarskaya Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale EMI 0228, SN3, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq Cédex; Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Moléculaire, Université Picardie Jules Verne, ...

During submaximal cycling, children demonstrate a different distribution between muscular and non-muscular (gravitational and motion-dependent) forces when compared with adults. This is partly due to anthropometric differences. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that during maximum power cycling, children would construct the task (in terms of the distribution between muscular and non-muscu...

Background: To better understand the development and function of the mammalian brain, researchers collect a large number of gene expression patterns throughout the mouse brain using in-situ hybridization technology, in which 20um tissue slices are stained with probes for desired genes and imaged at high resolution (3.3um per pixel). The overall aim of this project is to develop a framework to a...