A 50 year-old man was referred with history of acute ataxia and lower extremity paresthesia 10 days after general anesthesia with nitrous oxide. Cervical MRI showed long hypersignal lesion in posterior segment of the cord. Blood analysis revealed vitamin B12 deficiency. Nitrous oxide-induced myelopathy should be considered in patients who develop acute neurological manifestation after general a...

ADAPTATION TO VISUOMOTOR ROTATION THROUGH INTERACTION BETWEEN 2 POSTERIOR PARIETAL AND MOTOR CORTICAL AREAS 3 4 Hirokazu TANAKA 1,3 , Terrence J. SEJNOWSKI, John W. KRAKAUER 2 5 6 1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for 7 Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037 8 2 Motor Performance Laboratory, Department of Neurology, Columbia University ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the applicability of the 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12) as an instrument to measure health-related quality of life in a sample of patients with progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) through the analysis of its reproducibility and its correlation with functional and clinical parameters. METHODS A test-retest reproducibility study for the comparative analysis of t...

Kurzfassung. Die computerassistierte Diagnose (CADx) für die Unterscheidung von Herdbefunden in Mammogrammen hat das Potential, Radiologen bei der Entscheidungsfindung zu unterstützen. Für ein von uns entwickeltes CADx-System haben wir eine Gruppe von neuen Merkmalen entwickelt, die auf einem Ansatz basieren, bei dem die Läsion in Abhängigkeit vom Abstand zum Rand der Segmentierung in verschied...

Cff%E OF PROJECT: Research in Marine Fungi Objectives: (l) Development of a metal-buffer6d artificial sea water and a more defined medium to peinlt harvesting large quantities of Labyrlnthula cells. (2) Development of a completely synthetic medium for Thraustochytrium and determination of its response to cobalamin. (3) Determination of the specificity of the steroid requirement of Labyrlnthula ...