BACKGROUND People with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) take longer to recognize the laterality of a pictured hand when it coincides with their affected hand. The author explored two aspects of this phenomenon: whether the duration of symptoms relates to the extent of the delay and whether guarding-type mechanisms are involved. METHODS Eighteen patients with CRPS type 1 of the wrist and ...

The authors tested the hypothesis that activity inhibition (AI), a measure of the frequency of the word "not" in written material, marks a propensity to engage functions of the right hemisphere (RH) and disengage functions of the left hemisphere (LH), particularly during stress. Study 1 and Study 2 showed that high AI predicts faster detection of stimuli presented to the RH, relative to the LH....

Most people are right-handed and show left-hemispheric language lateralization, but a minority exhibits left-handedness and right-hemispheric language lateralization. This atypical laterality pattern is observed significantly more often in schizophrenia patients than in the general population, which led several authors to conclude that there is a genetic link between laterality and schizophreni...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate patterns of laterality in cystine stone formation to determine whether phenotypic expression of this genetic disease is distributed equally in each kidney. Cystinuria is a genetic defect that may result in the formation of recurrent cystine calculi. Significant nongenetic factors may play a role in the manifestation of this disease. METHODS Thirty-four patients seen in ...

A modern hospital information system should offer intelligent choices when the user wants to select an anatomical location. For the measurement of intra-arterial blood pressure, for example, the primary choice should be like ABDOMINAL AORTA, RENAL ARTERY, THORACIC AORTA .... And only when the user chooses RENAL ARTERY an additional choice of LEFT/RIGHT is shown – not when he chooses ABDOMINAL A...

background: breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies among iranian women; however, its clinicopathological feature is uncertain. we pioneered a genetic counseling program among patients with breast cancer and their families in isfahan. this is the first report of this program. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study on women with breast cancer registered in ala cancer ...

Introduction: about 20% to 30% of patients with epilepsy are diagnosed with drug-resistant epilepsy and one third of these are candidates for epilepsy surgery. Surgical resection of the epileptogenic tissue is a well-established method for treating patients with intractable focal epilepsy. Determining language laterality and locality is an important part of a comprehensive epilepsy program befo...