Introduction: Median Nerve (MN) originated from medial and lateral cords of Brachial Plexus can be affected by anatomical variations which may lead to several diagnostic and therapeutic mistakes. This paper aim is to study about MN variations investigated by cadaveric studies. Materials and Methods: This study is based on research in electronic databases. Full text of all relevant papers has b...

Smoking has been posited as a possible risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but large population-based studies of patients with incident disease are still needed. The authors performed a population-based case-control study in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2009, including 494 patients with incident ALS and 1,599 controls. To prove the relevance of population-based incidence co...

The specific purpose of this case study was to investigate whether forced expiratory technique (FET) improves the peak expiratory flow compared to coughing in a 53-year-old man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who presented with bulbar symptoms. Approximately 12 months after diagnosis, his peak cough flow did not exceed 160 L/min, and cough became ineffective. However, FET could generat...

Introduction Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting motor neurons in the motor cortex, brainstem and spinal cord (pyramidal tract). Previous studies assessed H spectra in different brain areas in patients with ALS [1, 2]. In this work, we have chosen to compare the spectra from different brain regions along the pyramidal tract, and to correlate ...

Recent data showed that soccer players in Italy had an unusually high risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and that repeated head trauma might have contributed to this increase. The authors examined whether head injury was related to ALS risk in a case-control study of 109 New England ALS cases diagnosed in 1993–1996 and 255 matched controls. They also conducted a meta-analysis of the pu...

BACKGROUND Patient empowerment is crucial in the successful self-management of people with chronic diseases. In this study, we investigated whether discussions about medicine use taking place on online message boards contribute to patient empowerment and could subsequently result in the more effective use of medicines. We discuss the extent to which patient empowerment processes occur in discus...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressively debilitating neuro-degenerative condition that occurs in adulthood and targets the motor neurons. Social support is crucial to the well-being and quality of life of people with unpredictable and incurable diseases such as ALS. Members of the PatientsLikeMe (PLM) ALS online support community share social support but

Background: Cellular, molecular and transplantation studies using mouse and rat models of neurological diseases have revealed that Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) represent a reliable candidate for cellular therapies for neurological conditions, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). However, evaluation of safety aspects associated with route and dose of cell i...

The higher vertebrates seem to make use of three kinds of highly redundant sensing: (1) duplicate sensing, e.g. having two eyes, (2) fusory sensing, e.g. seeing and touching the same object, and (3) distributed sensing, e.g. networks of sensors in the skin. In this paper we focus on distributed sensing and its connections to learning. The dominant feature of distributed sensor networks is later...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder. It is also among the most lethal as life expectancy is between 2 and 5 years after diagnosis. Sporadic ALS (sALS) makes up 90% of all ALS cases with little known about the exact mechanism of pathogenesis. Many potential regulators of sALS development have been proposed, several of which are examined in this revie...