OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe pain intensity before and after watching funny and unfunny videos on post-surgical pain levels. METHODS Ninety patients were divided into three groups. Group A watched funny videos, Group B watched unfunny videos, Group C did not watch any videos. Pain assessment of the patients was carried out before (first), immediately after (second), and 30 ...

There is little evidence that infants learn from infant-oriented educational videos and television programming. This 4-week longitudinal experiment investigated 15-month-olds' (N = 92) ability to learn American Sign Language signs (e.g., patting head for hat) from at-home viewing of instructional video, either with or without parent support, compared to traditional parent instruction and a no-e...

Use of smartphone has become ubiquitous. With smartphone cameras becoming powerful, they are replacing digital cameras and digital SLRs as primary instruments to take photos and record videos. It is natural even for plastic surgeons that smartphones are handy to take still photographs and even record high-definition or 4K videos. Another invention which has become popular with smartphone photog...

A variety of file replication and replacement algorithms were proposed for the Data Grids in the literature. On the other hand, real-time Grid applications are emerging in many disciplines of science and engineering. Thus, it is natural to ask about the realtime performance of these file replication and replacement algorithms. Based on this motivation, in this study, the performance of three re...

AIMS To examine the value of the anteroposterior pericardial sac diameter (APD) for prediction of the volume of pericardial effusion. METHODS AND RESULTS We measured the APD by echocardiography before 52 pericardiocentesis procedures and correlated it with the aspirate volume, etiology, symptoms, and clinical outcome. The volume of the aspirate ranged from 60 to 2300 ml (median 650 ml). The A...

Musical training is known to modify cortical organization. Here, we show that such modifications extend to subcortical sensory structures and generalize to processing of speech. Musicians had earlier and larger brainstem responses than nonmusician controls to both speech and music stimuli presented in auditory and audiovisual conditions, evident as early as 10 ms after acoustic onset. Phase-loc...

In prior research on false autobiographical beliefs and memories, subjects have been asked to imagine fictional events and have been exposed to false evidence that indicates that the fictional events occurred. But what are the relative contributions of imagination and false evidence toward false belief and memory construction? In the present study, subjects observed and copied various simple ac...

BACKGROUND How psychiatrists introduce themselves in the first consultation may influence the therapeutic relationship. There is no evidence about what type of introduction patients prefer. AIMS To assess experimentally patients' preferences for how psychiatrists introduce themselves. METHOD Twelve psychiatrists were filmed, each with three different introductions: stating name, profession ...