Lateral epicondylitis (LE) occurs in 1% to 3% of the general population, and most commonly affects the dominant extremity [3] of adults aged 35 to 50 years old [4]. LE reportedly occurs equally in males and females, [3,5] although one study found males are four to five times more likely to develop LE compared to females [6]. The condition is usually self-limited, [7,8] although some articles re...

In order to study the characteristics of turbulent diffusion over an urban area, constant-volume balloons with transponders were released at altitudes of 200 and 400 m, and their behavior was observed over the Tokyo Metropolitan area. The atmospheric diffusivities are derived from the Lagrangian properties of the balloons, in relation to the temperature lapse rate and the turbulent intensity. T...

The aim of the present study was to analyzed vowel and diphthong formant variation of a female patient diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for 12 months using acoustic analysis. Monophthongs /a, i, u/ and diphthongs /h+ja+da/, /h+wi+da/, /h+ɰi+da/ were used for test. As the result of analysis, fundamental frequency and loudness declined with the progress of ALS characterized by d...

A recent meta-analysis of 7 genome-wide association studies on early balding (alopecia) revealed single nucleotide polymorphism variants in the region of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) gene TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TARDBP/TDP-43 ). We therefore explored the association of early-onset alopecia and ALS in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, a large cohort of 51,529 US men. In 19...

This paper presents a critical account of research into the non-motor symptoms associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Although research examining the cognitive and behavioural features of ALS has been extensively report ed, social communication and emotion recognition changes have not been comprehensively explored. Furthermore, the current research and diagnostic criteria for diag...

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disorder associated primarily with the degeneration of the motor system. More recently, functional connectivity studies have demonstrated potentially adaptive changes in ALS brain organization, but disease-related changes in cortical communication remain unknown. We recruited individuals with ALS and age-matched controls to operate a brain-computer inter...