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Sleep Quality and Electroencephalogram Delta Power.

Delta activity on electroencephalogram (EEG) is considered a biomarker of homeostatic sleep drive. Delta power is often associated with slee … a patients received the therapy, the difference may be caused by the treatment method. Cognitive or music therapy shows that a better therapeutic effect is associated with decreased delta power, whereas in drug treatment, there is an opposite change in delta power. Last, for healthy people, the difference in delta change may be related to sleep stages. …

Низкая частотная стимуляция звука значительно улучшила исход рефрактного постгерпетического нервного пациента с расстройством настроения и сна: отчет по делу.

Постгерпетическая нейронгия (PHN) является распространенным и серьезным хроническим осложнением вируса зостера (HZ) с продолжительной болью, которая может длиться от нескольких недель до нескольких лет. Первичное лечение связано с оральной терапией, хотя немногие пациенты испытывают боль более чем на 50%. Из-за ограниченного количества эффективных методов лечения симптомы и коморбиды, включая физическую неполноценность и эмоциональные расстройства, повторяются и препятствуют повседневной деятельности и сну. В течение примерно 3,5 лет 34-летний мужчина испытывал рефрактический ПХН справа от 3 д

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Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is a common and severe chronic complication of the herpes zoster (HZ) virus (shingles) involving prolonged pain … ity of life had improved significantly, and no side effects had been observed. LFSS is component of musical therapy, which categorized under complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It uses audible sound (40-120 Hz) to produce a physical effect through the transducer when applied directly to the body, which can affect pain perception via mood and s …

Hydrophobic Gating and 1/f Noise of the Anthrax Toxin Channel.

"Pink" or 1/f noise is a natural phenomenon omnipresent in physics, economics, astrophysics, biology, and even music and languages. In electrophysiology, the stochastic activity of a number of biological ion channels and artificial nanopores could be characterized by current noise with a 1/f power spectral density. In the anthrax toxin channel (PA63), it appears as fast voltage-independent current interruptions between conducting and nonconducting states. This behavior hampers potential development of PA63 as an ion-channel biosensor. On the bright side, the PA63 flickering represents a mesmer…

Musculoskeletal disorders and complaints in professional musicians: a systematic review of prevalence, risk factors, and clinical treatment effects.

PurposeMusicians' practice and performance routines reportedly lead to musculoskeletal complaints and disorders (MCD) that impact their wellbeing and performance abilities. This systematic review aims to assess the prevalence, risk factors, prevention and effectiveness of treatments for MCD in professional musicians and consider the methodological quality of the included studies.MethodsA systematic literature search was performed in December 2017 using electronic databases and supplemented by a hand search. Case-control studies, cohort studies, cross-sectional studies, interventional studies a…

Laparotomic myomectomy for a huge cervical myoma in a young nulligravida woman: A case report and review of the literature.

BACKGROUND: A huge cervical myoma (rare) in a young woman is a nightmare of every gynecologist owing to the associated technical challenges … a huge cervical myoma still plays a vital role in fertility preservation. We propose the mnemonic "MUSIC" as a helpful guide for a consistent strategy: M (preoperative MRI), U (prophylactic ureteric catheterization), S (shell out the myoma following Bonney's principles i.e. start-up and stay intracapsular), I (immediate suction to clarify dead space) a …

A backward encoding approach to recover subcortical auditory activity.

Several subcortical nuclei along the auditory pathway are involved in the processing of sounds. One of the most commonly used methods of measuring the activity of these nuclei is the auditory brainstem response (ABR). Due to its low signal-to-noise ratio, ABR's have to be derived by averaging over activity generated by thousands of artificial sounds such as clicks or tone bursts. This approach cannot be easily applied to natural listening situations (e.g. speech, music), which limits auditory cognitive neuroscientific studies to investigate mostly cortical processes. We propose that by individ…

Traditional practices and perceptions of epilepsy among people in Roma communities in Bulgaria.

PURPOSE: We attempted to identify cultural aspects of epilepsy among the Roma community in Bulgaria by elucidating cultural beliefs, traditi … d environmental and external factors such as high environmental temperatures, electric shocks, loud music, and fever as causes of seizures while others listed bad experiences, stress, trauma, and fear as possible causes. Epilepsy was seen by some as a divine punishment or resulting from black magic. Most considered epilepsy shameful and an obstacle to c …

The state of the art of sound therapy for subjective tinnitus in adults.

BACKGROUND: Sound therapy is a clinically common method of tinnitus management. Various forms of sound therapy have been developed, but ther … sion criteria. The search strategy used the following key words: tinnitus AND (acoustic OR sound OR music) AND (treatment OR therapy OR management OR intervention OR measure). RESULTS: There are various forms of sound therapy, and most of them show positive therapeutic effects. The effect of customized sound therapy is generally better than that of non …

Sedation and Analgesia for Adult Outpatient Burn Dressing Change: A Survey of American Burn Association Centers.

The management of pain and sedation during burn dressing change is challenging. Previous reviews and studies have identified wide variability in such practices in hospitalized burn patients. This survey-based study aimed to determine the most commonly utilized sedation and analgesia practices in adult burn patients treated in the outpatient setting. The goal was to identify opportunities for improvement and to assist burn centers in optimizing sedation procedures. A 23-question survey was sent to members of the American Burn Association. Nonpharmacological interventions including music, televi…

Using a Bone-Conduction Headset to Improve Speech Discrimination in Children With Otitis Media With Effusion.

The recommended management for children with otitis media with effusion (OME) is 'watchful waiting' before considering grommet surgery. Duri … veloped relatively inexpensive, comfortable, high-quality BC headsets for transmission of speech or music. This study assessed whether these headsets, paired with a remote microphone, improve speech discrimination for children with OME. Nineteen children aged 3 to 6 years receiving recommended management in the United Kingdom for children with OME parti …

Effect of Fractal Tones on the Improvement of Tinnitus Handicap Inventory Functional Scores among Chronic Tinnitus Patients: An Open-label Pilot Study.

Introduction  Music-based sound therapies become recently a trend in the treatment of tinnitus. Few publications have studied the therapeutic use of fractal tones to treat chronic tinnitus. Objective  The aim of this study was to determine the benefits of using fractal tones as a unique sound therapy for chronic tinnitus sufferers. Methods  Twelve participants were recruited; however, six could not be assigned. At baseline and at 1, 3 and 6 months, the participants were provided with the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and Hearing Handicap Inventory for Adults (HHIA) questionnaires, and thei…

Floating Forearm with Terrible Triad Injury of the Elbow: A Case Report.

INTRODUCTION: Limbus vertebral fracture is an uncommon injury described in adolescents. It refers to the separation of a bony fragment from the unfused ring apophysis of lumbar vertebral end plate. It usually presents with back pain with/without radiculopathy masquerading an acute disc prolapse. However, the presentation as acute cauda equina syndrome has seldom been reported. CASE REPORT: A 15-year-old male presented to the casualty with a history of acute-onset low back pain and bilateral lower limb radicular pain with weakness, after lifting of a heavy Indian musical instrument (Dholak). T…

Plasticity in the auditory system.

Over the last 30 years a wide range of manipulations of auditory input and experience have been shown to result in plasticity in auditory co … f human learning-related auditory system plasticity are those associated with language development, musical training, and improvement in performance with a cochlear implant. Almost all forms of plasticity involve changes in synaptic excitatory - inhibitory balance within existing patterns of connectivity. An attractive model applicable to a number of fo …

Effects of noise exposure on young adults with normal audiograms II: Behavioral measures.

An estimate of lifetime noise exposure was used as the primary predictor of performance on a range of behavioral tasks: frequency and intensity difference limens, amplitude modulation detection, interaural phase discrimination, the digit triplet speech test, the co-ordinate response speech measure, an auditory localization task, a musical consonance task and a subjective report of hearing ability. One hundred and thirty-eight participants (81 females) aged 18-36 years were tested, with a wide range of self-reported noise exposure. All had normal pure-tone audiograms up to 8 kHz. It was predict…

Single-center experience with intrathecal administration of Nusinersen in children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1.

BACKGROUND: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder mainly characterized by proximal muscle weakness. There have been enor … agement. We observed a beneficial distraction through the possibility to watch a movie or listen to music during the procedure. In some cases, an additional sedation was necessary. In patients accustomed to non-invasive ventilation, this was used during lumbar punctures. On average, 1.5 ± 1.0 puncture attempts were performed between L 4/5 and L 2/3. If …

The Assessment and Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Procedural Pain From Infancy to School Age Through a Developmental Lens: A Synthesis of Evidence With Recommendations.

UNLABELLED: The 2011 IOM report stated that pain management in children is often lacking especially during routine medical procedures. The p … harmacologic pain management strategies include reading stories, watching cartoons, or listening to music. DISCUSSION: A developmental approach to assessing and treating pain is critical. Swaddling, picture books, or blowing bubbles are easy and effective when used at the appropriate developmental stage and relieve both physical and emotional pain. Unt …

Innocent Cardiac Murmur in Puppies: Prevalence, Correlation with Hematocrit, and Auscultation Characteristics.

BACKGROUND: The aims of this study were to establish the prevalence of innocent cardiac murmurs in clinically healthy puppies, to investigat … gnosed in 28% of the 195 dogs in the principal study. Innocent murmurs were systolic, mostly with a musical character and with a maximal intensity of 2 of 6, and mostly with the point of maximal intensity in the left cardiac base. The hematocrit was significantly lower in the group with a murmur compared to the group without (P = .023). CONCLUSIONS AND …

Two cases of selective developmental voice-recognition impairments.

Recognizing other individuals is an essential skill in humans and in other species. Over the last decade, it has become increasingly clear t … processing per se was affected: face recognition, speech intelligibility, emotion recognition, and musical ability were all comparable to controls. The findings confirm the existence of developmental phonagnosia as a modality-specific impairment and allow a first rough prevalence estimate.

Sadness increases distraction by auditory deviant stimuli.

Research shows that attention is ineluctably captured away from a focal visual task by rare and unexpected changes (deviants) in an otherwis … eived either a sadness induction or a neutral mood induction by means of a mixed procedure based on music and autobiographical recall prior to taking part in an auditory-visual oddball task in which they categorized visual digits while ignoring task-irrelevant sounds. The results showed that although all participants exhibited significantly longer respo …

Lead and the deafness of Ludwig van Beethoven.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: To reexamine the cause of Beethoven's hearing loss because of significant recent articles. DATA SOURCES: Medical and musical literature online, in print, and personal communication. METHODS: Relevant literature review. RESULTS: Evidence of otosclerosis is lacking because close gross examination of Beethoven's middle ears at autopsy did not find any otosclerotic foci. His slowly progressive hearing loss over a period of years differs from reported cases of autoimmune hearing loss, which are rapidly progressive over a period of months. He also lacked bloody diarrhea tha…