Background: Optometric practice goes beyond the diagnosis and treatment of the different refractive conditions and eye diseases. It includes an evaluation of information processing skills that depend, in some way, on supramodal processing stability. This involves simultaneous and sequential or successive processing. Cerebral function allows for normal perception of what is being seen; any defic...

OBJECTIVES: Reversible causes are thought to explain about eight percent of all dementias. Hypothyroidism is one the most important potentially reversible dementia. Deficits in memory, psychomotor slowing, general intelligence, and visuoperceptual skills particularly involved may not fully recover. We review a clinical case dementia caused by hypothyroidism, patientfollowed our institution. MET...

Frontal fibrosing alopecia is a clinical entity characterized by recession of the frontotemporal hairline in middle-aged and older women. Since it was first described in 1994, more than 100 cases have been reported describing other clinical manifestations such as eyebrow and axillary alopecia, and perifollicular inflammation that help in the diagnosis of the disease and the differential diagnos...

This research measured the effects of Michigan’s compulsory safety belt use law on traffic crashes and injuries of various severities. Using time-series methods, the authors analyzed monthly frequencies of crash-induced injuries and fatalities from January 1978 through December 1987. Exposure to risk of occupant injury was controlled statistically by including aggregate frequency of crashes as ...

Mobile colloidal particles have been identified to be involved in a broad variety of environmentally relevant processes. A considerable number of these processes may have hazardous consequences. Most recently, mobile colloidal particles have been reported to be a potentially relevant transport pathway for strongly sorbing contaminants. Thereby the colloidal particles act as highly mobile contam...

BACKGROUND Motor imagery (MI) capacity may be altered following stroke. MI is evaluated by measuring temporal congruence between the timed performance of an imagined and an executed task. Temporal congruence between imagined and physical gait-related activities has not been evaluated following stroke. Moreover, the effect of cognitive dysfunction on temporal congruence is not known. OBJECTIVE...

AIM The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between insight and cognitive function in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Insight into illness is a clinically important feature influencing clinical outcome and prognosis in schizophrenia. One ofthe most important and widely discussed in recent literature factors contributing to lack of insight is cognitive dysfunction, mainly...

The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) screen was developed as a brief instrument to identify mild cognitive impairment and dementia among older individuals. To date, limited information is available regarding the neuroimaging signatures associated with performance on the scale, or the relationship between the MoCA and more comprehensive cognitive screening measures. The present study examine...