Implementing a nutrition support protocol in critical care is a complex and dynamic process that involves the use of evidence, education programs and constant monitoring. To facilitate this task we developed a mnemonic tool called the Nutritional FAST HUG (F: feeding, A: analgesia, S: stools, T: trace elements, H: head of bed, U: ulcers, G: glucose control) with a process also internally develo...

The purpose of the present study was to provide information about the relationship between an amnesic patient's memory performance on laboratory tasks and in a natural environment. Several of the patient's mnemonic functions were systematically observed during two rounds of golf. The patient's memory for the events of the round, as indexed by his ability to find his tee shots and to remember hi...

We tested the notion that action observation engages learning processes and mnemonic representations overlapping with those engaged in actual performance. An identical number of training instances, actual performance, or observation, was afforded on a finger opposition sequence task. Both training modes resulted in immediate gains in performance, as well as in robust delayed, "off-line," gains,...

Prefrontal neurons engaged by working memory tasks express a sequence of phasic and tonic activations linked to a train of sensory, mnemonic, and response-related events. Here, we report that the dopamine D2 receptor selectively modulates the neural activities associated with memory-guided saccades in oculomotor delayed-response tasks yet has little or no effect on the persistent mnemonic-relat...

The medial septal area (MSA) contains cholinergic and GABAergic neurons that send projections to the hippocampus. These neurons have both cholinergic and GABAergic receptors. This study was designed to determine the effects of intraseptal infusions of cholinergic and GABAergic drugs, which alter mnemonic processes, on hippocampal acetylcholine (ACh) release. Hippocampal ACh release was assessed...

A well-formulated research question should incorporate the components of a ‘problem’, an ‘intervention’, ‘control’, and ‘outcome’—at least according to PICO mnemonic. The utility this format, however, has been said be limited clinical studies that pose ‘which’ questions demanding correlational study designs. In contrast, its suitability for descriptive approaches outside investigations doubted....