Several measures were developed in the past decades to measure personality, focusing on Big Five Factor Model (BFFM; Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism). Despite relevance of their findings different countries, a shared limitation such is length, demanding time from researchers participants, which might cause boredom or fatigue, biasing final results. This...

PURPOSE Postoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer has a number of associated complications. This study examined whether supervised moderate-intensity exercise could mitigate the complications that occur during radiotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty women were randomized before radiotherapy after various operations for breast cancer. Seventeen patients who were assigned to the exercise gr...

Physiological monitoring of oxygen delivery to the brain has great significance for improving the management of patients at risk for brain injury. Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) is a rapidly growing optical technology able to non-invasively assess the blood flow index (BFi) at the bedside. The current limitations of DCS are the contamination introduced by extracerebral tissue and the ne...

Cerebral subcortical atrophy occurs in both Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) but its significance for clinical manifestations and differential diagnosis between these common types of dementia has not been extensively investigated. Objectives: To compare the severity of cerebral subcortical atrophy in FTD and AD and to analyze the correlations between cerebral subcortic...

BACKGROUND While opioids provide effective analgesia, opioid-induced constipation (OIC) can severely impact quality of life and treatment compliance. This pooled analysis evaluated the maintenance of efficacy and safety during long-term treatment with combined oxycodone/naloxone prolonged-release tablets (OXN PR) in adults with moderate-to-severe chronic pain. METHODS Patients (N = 474) recei...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Optimal estimation of cerebral blood-flow volume (BFV) may be an important indicator for better evaluation of the patients with cerebrovascular disorders. In this study, we compared the BFV values at bilateral internal carotid and vertebral arteries of healthy volunteers obtained with color Doppler, power Doppler, and B-flow ultrasound (US) studies and tried to determine ...

Cerebral subcortical atrophy occurs in both Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) but its significance for clinical manifestations and differential diagnosis between these common types of dementia has not been extensively investigated. Objectives To compare the severity of cerebral subcortical atrophy in FTD and AD and to analyze the correlations between cerebral subcorti...

Researchers often use exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to develop and refine questionnaires assessing the Big Five personality traits. We use sequential sampling and bootstrapping to determine the number of participants needed to yield stable loading patterns for the Big Five Inventory (BFI) and the International Personality Item Pool Big Five measure (IPIP). Overall 21,350 participants (BFI =...