With the current boom of touch devices the recognition of touch gestures is becoming an important field of research. Performing such gestures can be seen as a stochastic process, as there can be many little differences between different executions. Therefore stochastic models like Hidden Markov Models have already been applied to gesture recognition. Although the modelling possibilities of Hidd...

Rationale: An estimate of 3 million people present with the diagnosis of epilepsy in Brazil. Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures (PNES) are likely to occur in up to 2-33/100.000 people. Paradoxically, very few papers address this significant condition in the Brazilian literature. We describe a Brazilian PNES population and provide a review of the literature. Methods: we reviewed the clinical hist...

1. Historical Perspective 1. 1 Functional Neurological Symptoms: a debated Terminology In medicine it is not rare to encounter patients who have a medical complaint or symptom for which no disease is found, even after thorough examination. This situation is both distressing for the doctor and the patient because the diagnosis of «medically unexplained symptom» is unsatisfactory. If the symptom ...

The USGS Volcano Science Center has a long history of science and crisis communication about volcanoes their eruptions. Centered mainly on websites, email notifications, traditional media, in-person interaction in the past, our toolkit expanded last decade to include social media channels. This medium allowed us communicate with both long-standing new audiences ways. In process, further develop...

BACKGROUND The series of personality questionnaires constructed using a computer was created on the basis of cybernetic theories of personality, which presupposes the existence of six conative control systems: a system for the regulation of defense responses, a system for the regulation of attack responses, a system for controlling physiological functions, a system for coordination of regulator...

Chronic pain syndrome is a major health and socioeconomic problem that is manifested by frequent asking of medical assistance, high price of health care, sick leave, work inability and disability as well as frequent compensation requests. Generally speaking, pain, especially chronic pain, significantly diminishes the patient and their family’s quality of life. Most people experience one or more...

Stomatopyrosis of 'burning mouth' syndrome, in a narrower sense of definition, is a condition characterized by sensation of burning and heating in mouth, despite its normal mucosa. This research has been directed towards treatment of stomatopyrosis, putting emphasis on the implementation of psychopharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. The research was conducted on altogether 120 respondents sufferi...

We would like to thank Balta and colleagues for their consideration of our article and the editorial board for providing an opportunity to clarify some issues. Ankle–brachial index (ABI) measurement may be influenced by age, body weight, race and anatomic variations of the lower limb arteries (1). After the measurement has been completed, the pulse locations of the lower limbs are found by palp...

The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis. With this goal mostly achieved, discussion of etiological factors should be reintroduced into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V). A research agenda for the DSM-V advocated the "development of a p...