Theories proposing that how one thinks and feels is influenced by feedback from the body remain controversial. A central but untested prediction of many of these proposals is that how well individuals can perceive subtle bodily changes (interoception) determines the strength of the relationship between bodily reactions and cognitive-affective processing. In Study 1, we demonstrated that the mor...

Pain is an unpleasant, complex, and perceived experience that places a significant burden on patients and clinicians. Its severity may be mediated by emotion, attitude, and environmental influences, and pain may be expressed differently in males and females. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is frequently associated with chronic pain. This diagnostic modeling study examined sex differences in the co...

BACKGROUND Patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have a lower health related quality of life (HRQOL) compared to both healthy controls and the normal population. The aim of this study was to compare HRQOL between two groups of veteran and non-veteran SCI patients. METHODS All male paraplegic non-veterans who had sustained complete SCI before 1988 and were residents of Tehran province (Iran),...

A tool such as a prosthetic device that extends or restores movement may become part of the identity of the person to whom it belongs. For example, some individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) adapt their body and action representation to incorporate their wheelchairs. However, it remains unclear whether the bodily assimilation of a relevant external tool develops as a consequence of altered ...

Traumatic combat events can lead to neurobehavioral and stress-related symptoms among military troops. Physical injuries received during combat are associated with increased symptom report. The effect of a concurrent mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on this relationship is unknown and forms the basis for this report. Subjects included a cohort of 274 male service members who received a blast-...

It is rare for a physician to be disbarred; it even rarer the disbarment have retroactive effect back time of granting. The prerequisite this that license practice medicine should not been granted in first place, either because requirements training future were met or character defects (unworthiness, unreliability) prevented person concerned from working as physician. Although practically rare,...

OBJECTIVES Provide test-retest reliability (>5 months) of the Ohio State University Traumatic Brain Injury Identification Method modified for use as a computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) to capture traumatic brain injury (TBI) and other substantial bodily injuries among a representative sample of noninstitutionalized adults living in Colorado. DESIGN Four subsamples of 50 individuals...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to explore outcome and clinical changes in hand function, satisfaction in daily occupations, sleep disturbances, health and quality of life in consecutive patients after a severe or major hand injury. Our objective was also to investigate possible differences between groups according to severity of injury, presence of peripheral nerve injury and the patients' sense ...

Introduction: The covid-19 pandemic revealed the world’s vulnerability in dealing not only with an unknown disease, but also socio-economic and violent difficulties consequences, quite harmful to society. Objectives: To analyze reports of forensic examinations personal injuries precautionary measures carried out at IML Estácio de Lima – Maceió/AL, from 2018 2021, considering changes that could ...