BACKGROUND To describe 4 patients with bilateral tonic pupils in neurosyphilis. CASES Four young men had pupillary abnormalities, which involved irregular shapes, large sizes, tonic reactions, and vermiform movements of both pupils with light-near dissociation. Cholinergic supersensitivity defined bilateral tonic pupils. OBSERVATIONS Neurosyphilis was diagnosed in these patients on the basi...

This paper presents the development process of the measuring instrument for timely identification of elementary school pupils’ behavioural problems, with the aim of proper implementation of appropriate socio-pedagogical interventions.1 The key matter discussed in the paper is the Questionnaire for assessment of interventional needs of pupils – version for pupils, which is being developed and ev...

During close interactions with fellow group members, humans look into one another’s eyes, follow gaze, and quickly grasp emotion signals. The eye-catching morphology of human eyes, with unique eye whites, draws attention to the middle part, to the pupils, and their autonomic changes, which signal arousal, cognitive load, and interest (including social interest). Here, we examined whether and ho...

The main point of our study was to examine the vocabulary knowledge of pupils in grades 3-6, and in particular the relative reading vocabulary disadvantage of hearing-impaired pupils. The achievements of 394 pupils with normal hearing and 106 pupils with a hearing impairment were examined on two vocabulary assessment tasks: a lexical decision task and a use decision task. The target words in bo...

During close interactions with fellow group members, humans look into one another's eyes, follow gaze, and quickly grasp emotion signals. The eye-catching morphology of human eyes, with unique eye whites, draws attention to the middle part, to the pupils, and their autonomic changes, which signal arousal, cognitive load, and interest (including social interest). Here, we examined whether and ho...

BACKGROUND Childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis (AR) are major chronic respiratory diseases affecting health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Few school-based studies have reported the HRQOL of individuals with asthma or AR. OBJECTIVE The study measured HRQOL among primary school pupils with asthma, AR and both diseases combined in Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD Two thousand and eight scho...

this is a case series which report the clinical results of decompressive craniectomy in 4 patients with dilated pupils secondary to traumatic brain injury and postoperative edema. between 2011 and 2012, four patients, 3 males and 1 female, aged between 35 and 64 with mean age of 50.1 ± 8.9 years, underwent decompressive craniectomy due to brain traumatic edema. the follow up period ranged betwe...

Despite the importance of visual acuity testing in children, no standard testing protocol was found for primary school pupils. Visual acuity screening was conducted on 400 primary school pupils in Nigeria using the HOTV protocol, nearly all the pupils 390/400 (97.5 %) had good binocular vision, only 10/400 (2.5 %) had poor vision which were monocular. Of those with poor monocular vision, 6/10 (...

BACKGROUND Asthma is a common chronic disease of childhood that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of asthma among secondary school pupils in urban and rural areas of coast districts of Tanzania. The study also aimed to describe pupils' perception towards asthma, and to assess their knowledge on symptoms, triggers, and treatment of asthma...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between school smoking policies and smoking prevalence among pupils. DESIGN Multilevel analysis of cross-sectional data from surveys of schools and pupils. SETTING 55 secondary schools in Wales. SUBJECTS 55 teachers and 1375 pupils in year 11 (aged 15-16). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self-reported smoking behaviour. RESULTS The prevalence of daily smokin...