We sought to assess the extent to which pain relief in chronic back and leg pain (CBLP) following spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is influenced by patient-related factors, including pain location, and technology factors. A number of electronic databases were searched with citation searching of included papers and recent systematic reviews. All study designs were included. The primary outcome was ...

Lineage tracing has become the method of choice to study the fate and dynamics of stem cells (SCs) during development, homeostasis, and regeneration. However, transgenic and knock-in Cre drivers used to perform lineage tracing experiments are often dynamically, temporally, and heterogeneously expressed, leading to the initial labeling of different cell types and thereby complicating their inter...

OBJECTIVE There has been a growing interest in the concept of self-compassion in Eastern psychology. The aim of the present study was to explore the dimensionality of the widely used Self-Compassion Scale (SCS; long and short versions) in both clinical and nonclinical samples METHOD Several confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were computed in a mixed clinical (n = 316) and a nonclinical sampl...

Krzysztof Skonieczny and Scott J. Moreland Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 e-mail: [email protected] Vivake M. Asnani and Colin M. Creager NASA Glenn Research Center, Mail Stop 23-3, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44135 Hiroaki Inotsume and David S. Wettergreen Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 For...

BACKGROUND Neuromodulation with spinal cord stimulation is a proven cost effective treatment for the management of common conditions such as chronic radicular leg pain from failed back surgery syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, and other painful neuropathic pain syndromes. The traditionally instructed method for percutaneous spinal cord stimulator (SCS) lead placement promotes the use of...

ABSTRACT Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a well-recognized method of treating a variety of chronic neuro-Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a well-recognized method of treating a variety of chronic neuropathic conditions that are refractory to conservative management. One of the most challenging aspects of this technique is proper patient selection. In this study we reviewed available knowledge,...

This paper presents a new hidden Markov model-based (HMM-based) speech enhancement framework based on the independent component analysis (ICA). We propose analytical procedures for training clean speech and noise models by the Baum re-estimation algorithm and present a Maximum a posterior (MAP) estimator based on Laplace-Gaussian (for clean speech and noise respectively) combination in the HMM ...

D. Mitsouras, R. V. Mulkern, C. D. Owens, T. Cai, A. G. Whitmore, H. Ersoy, M. S. Conte, M. A. Creager, and F. J. Rybicki Radiology, Harvard Medical School & Brigham And Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Radiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Vascular Surgery, Harvard Medical School & Brigham And Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Radcliffe Institute, Ha...