conclusions immediate repair of the facial nerve injury will improve the process of recovery and rehabilitation of the face and forehead muscles and may play a very important role in the patient’s mental satisfaction and improve their quality of life. introduction facial paralysis is common following accidents, trauma, viral infection or tumors. case presentation a 24-year-old male patient was ...

Background: Epilepsy surgery has become a successful treatment option for patients with drug-resistant epilepsies. Objectives: This study aimed to assess temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery outcome and its association with epilepsy duration, the presence of pre-surgical generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS), and brain MRI findings. Materials & Methods: This retrospective study was perfo...

When monitoring elders daily routines, it is desirable to detect aberrant activity trends, as they may foreshadow a need for medical attention. But, traditional, unsupervised pattern classification techniques are ill-suited for this task, because the data distributions formed by the captured patterns are temporal in nature. To overcome this algorithmic deficit, we craft a framework for analyzin...

This paper introduces Temporal Concept Analysis (TCA) as the theory of temporal phenomena described with tools of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). The basic notion in TCA is that of a Conceptual Time System introduced by the author [42,45] such that state spaces and phase spaces can be defined as concept lattices which clearly represent the meaning of states with respect to the chosen time descri...

A new paradigm for the characterization of structure appearance is proposed, based on a combination of gray-level MRI intensity data and a shape descriptor derived from a priori principal components analysis of 3D deformation vector fields. Generated without external intervention, it extends into 3D more classic, 2D manual landmark-based shape models. Application of this novel concept led to a ...

background and aim: this study investigated whether objective temporal processing paradigms including voice-onset-time, speech-in-noise, and amplitude modulated-broad-band noise (am-bbn) are sensitive to disrupted temporal processing in elderly listeners with normal hearing (age-related-temporal processing deficit). methods: we evaluated 15 adults aged 64–80 years using behavioural measures of ...

This study examined the relation of dual-task performance to individual differences on neuropsychological tests. Neuropsychological test scores from 16 young and 16 older participants were simultaneously submitted to a factor analysis that yielded 2 factors (Attention/Executive and Memory) that differed by age and 2 (Motor Speed and Cognitive Status) that did not. Regression analyses revealed t...