OBJECTIVE To retrieve and review all the relevant literature describing the administration of melatonin to treat impaired sleep in children following acquired brain injury (ABI). METHODS A systematic search and retrieval of the literature was conducted using advanced search techniques. The retrieval identified 589 papers, seven of which were relevant. Review/outcomes criteria were developed a...

Sleep plays a crucial role in the consolidation of newly acquired memories. Yet, how our brain selects the noteworthy information that will be consolidated during sleep remains largely unknown. Here we show that post-learning sleep favors the selectivity of long-term consolidation: when tested three months after initial encoding, the most important (i.e., rewarded, strongly encoded) memories ar...

This paper deals both with the issues of confounding and of control, as the definition of a confounding factor is far from universal and there exist different methodological approaches, ex ante and ex post, for controlling for a confounding factor. In the first section the paper compares some definitions of a confounder given in the demographic and epidemiological literature with the definition...

A number of ways of relaxing the stratification constraint for the axioms of Quine’s NF are reviewed. It is shown how most of them result in

Patients and Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of all primiparous patients with diabetes having vaginal deliveries during the year of 2014 in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Patients were grouped into those receiving epidural analgesia and those without epidural analgesia (control) during labour. The outcomes assessed were incidence and severity of perineal tears, in...