The recovery of motor function in rats is inhibited following contusion spinal cord injury (cSCI). However, the mechanism of tumour necrosis factor α (TNF-α) in motor function after cSCI associated with peroxiredoxin 6 (PRDX6) remains unknown. We randomly divided rats into four groups: sham, cSCI, vector and lentivirus mediating TNF-α RNA interference (TNF-α-RNAi-LV) group. The Basso, Beattie, ...

The article outlines the importance of physical education and sports for children with special needs describes personal experience using bocce as a means mental development their active socialization, because adaptation to life in real conditions is main goal educational process this category pupils.
 We found that exercises tasks while studying game involved psychological stability emotio...

BACKGROUND Visual impairment tends to evoke more discomfiture than any other disability. Primarily, the biggest issue may be that blindness is visible. Furthermore, visual impairment develops serious medical, psychological, social and economic problems. OBJECTIVES The focus of the current study was to investigate the psychological and psycho physiological problems of visually impaired adolesc...

Abstract Background There is a general agreement upon the importance of acquiring laparoscopic skills outside operation room through simulation-based training. However, high-fidelity simulators are cost-prohibitive and elicit high cognitive load, while low-fidelity lack effective feedback. This paper describes simulator bridging existing gaps with affine velocity as new assessment variable. Pri...

BACKGROUND To identify symptom distress and clusters in patients 3 months after radical cystectomy and to explore their potential predictors. METHODS A cross-sectional design was used to investigate 99 bladder cancer patients 3 months after radical cystectomy. Data were collected by demographic and disease characteristic questionnaires, the symptom experience scale of the M.D. Anderson sympto...

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PURPOSE To examine the effect of health comparisons on affective (AWB) and cognitive well-being (CWB) in older adults longitudinally. METHODS Data were derived from the third and fourth wave of the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) which is a population-based prospective cohort study of community-dwelling subjects in Germany aged 40 and above (with 8,277 observations in fixed effects regressions). ...

Australia has a thriving Psycho-Oncology research and clinical community. In this article, the Australian health system in which Psycho-Oncology is embedded is described. Clinical Psycho-Oncology services are outlined, in terms of their composition, processes and reach. The development of the internationally ground-breaking Australian Psychosocial guidelines for the care of adults with cancer i...