Apraxia caused by left hemispheric stroke typically impairs skilled sequential movements. After stroke, apraxic patients need to reacquire motor skills by motor learning. The current study assessed for the first time incidental motor sequence learning in apraxic patients. Forty-eight human subjects (henceforth called "patients") with left hemispheric stroke affecting the middle cerebral artery ...

Asymptomatic intracranial abnormalities are increasingly becoming a focus of attention with the utilization of high-resolution imaging. The concurrence of tumor and aneurysm has been described, largely, by case reports and single-surgeon experiences. Recent papers have outlined the ethics of incidental findings and possible treatment algorithms. Incidental finding of an aneurysm occurs most com...

We study delta-points in Banach spaces hA,p generated by adequate families A, where 1≤p<∞. When p>1, we prove that neither nor its dual contain delta-points. Under the extra assumption A is regular, same true when p=1. In particular, Schreier and their duals fail to have If consists only of finite sets, are able rule out existence hA,1 Daugavet-points dual. also show if polyhedral, then it eith...

Curcumin is of current interest because of its putative anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic, and anti-Alzheimer's activity, but its pharmacokinetic and metabolic fate is poorly understood. The present in vitro study has therefore been conducted on the glucuronidation of curcumin and its major phase I metabolite, hexahydro-curcumin, as well as of various natural and artificial analogs. The predo...

There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that numerous pathological conditions are associated with increased vascular production of reactive oxygen species. This form of vascular oxidant stress and particularly interactions between NO and oxygen-derived radicals represent a common pathological mechanism present in many so-called risk factors for atherosclerosis. Furthermore, reactive oxyg...