Table of contents Preamble Scope of the document 1256 Method 1257 Part 1. Classification, epidemiology and prognosis Definition 1258 Brief overview of pathophysiology of syncope 1258 Classification 1259 Epidemiological considerations 1259 Prognostic stratification: identification of factors predictive of adverse outcome 1260 Part 2. Diagnosis Strategy of evaluation (flow chart) 1262 Initial eva...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to determine retrospectively the presence of carotid artery calcifications (CACs) detected on panoramic radiographs (PRs) in a group of Turkish population. Further, the relationships between CACs and gender, life style, and medical history were evaluated. METHODS During the years 2004 to 2006, a random sample of 1282 PRs was collected from patients older th...

Can elderly adults automatize a new task? To address this question, 10 older adults each performed 10,080 training trials over 12 sessions on an easy but novel task. The psychological refractory period (PRP) procedure was then used to evaluate whether this highly practiced task, when presented as task 2 along with an unpracticed task 1, could proceed automatically. If automatic, task 2 processi...

Cécile M. D. Bonnefont, Pascal Rainard, Patricia Cunha, Florence B. Gilbert, Mehdi Toufeer, Marie-Rose Aurel, Rachel Rupp, and Gilles Foucras Université de Toulouse, Institut National Polytechnique (INP), École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR)1225, Interactions Hôtes Agents Pathogènes (IHAP); Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), UMR1225, ...

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