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Communication skills and thalamic lesion: Strategies of rehabilitation.

AIM: To describe the speech rehabilitation history of patients with thalamic lesions. BACKGROUND: Thalamic lesions can affect speech and la … ULTS: According to our experience: (a) there is a close correlation between cognitive processes and communication skills; (b) alterations of attention, memory and executive functions cause a loss of efficiency in the language use; and (c) appropriate cognitive treatment improves pragmatic competence and therefore the linguistic disorder. CONCLUSION: For planni …

Болезни, общение и этика (внутренней) видимости.

Как показывает недавняя вспышка Эболы, видимость имеет ключевое значение для выработки политических, медицинских и социально-экономических решений. На симпозиуме, посвященном этому номеру Журнала биоэтических исследований, изучается нелегкая связь между необходимостью сделать болезни заметными, механизмами правовой и визуальной цензуры и общей этикой просмотра и просмотра, включая влияние освещения в средствах массовой информации на восприятие конкретных "маркированных" органов. Стипендия по всем дисциплинам коммуникации, антропологии, гендерных исследований и визуальных исследований, а также

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As the recent Ebola outbreak demonstrates, visibility is central to the shaping of political, medical, and socioeconomic decisions. The symp … a visibility on the perception of particular "marked" bodies. Scholarship across the disciplines of communication, anthropology, gender studies, and visual studies, as well as a photographer's visual essay and memorial reflection, throw light on various strategies of visualization and (de)legitimation and link these to broader socioeconomic concerns. Questions …

Paracrine communication between mechanically stretched myocytes and fibroblasts.

Mechanical stretch is a major factor for myocardial hypertrophy and heart failure. Stretch activates mechanical sensors from cardiac myocytes, leading to a series of signal transduction cascades, which can result in cell malfunction and remodeling. It is well known that mechanical stretch also induces the release of paracrine factors from cardiac fibroblasts, as well as myocytes. Due to complicated circumstance of heart tissue, it is difficult to fully investigate the characteristics of these factors in situ. Here we describe static stretch and conditioned medium experiments as methods to exam

New concepts of breast cell communication to bone.

Lactation is the most extreme case of normal physiological bone loss during a lifetime, and breast cancers have a strong tendency to metastasize to bone. In both the physiological and pathological circumstances, parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) plays a central role. Until recently there were no regulatory mechanisms to explain the induction of endocrine PTHrP secretion from breast cells during lactation. The mammary epithelium possesses a local serotonin signaling system which drives PTHrP expression during lactation and in breast cancer cells. The mammary gland serotonin system is

On communication between gut microbes and the brain.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Interest in the microbiota-gut-brain axis is increasing apace and what was, not so long ago, a hypothetical relationship … ns of communicating signals from gut microbes to the CNS. SUMMARY: Studies of microbiota-gut-brain communication are providing us with a deeper understanding of the relationship between the gut bacteria and their hosts while also suggesting the potential for microbial-based therapeutic strategies that may aid in the treatment of mood disorders.

Do physician communication skills influence screening mammography utilization?

BACKGROUND: The quality of physician communication skills influences health-related decisions, including use of cancer screening tests. We assessed whether patient-physician communication examination scores in a national, standardized clinical skills examination predicted future use of screening mammography (SM). METHODS: Cohort study of 413 physicians taking the Medical Council of Canada clinical skills examination between 1993 and 1996, with follow up until 2006. Administrative claims for SM performed within 12 months of a comprehensive health maintenance visit for women 50-69 years old wer…

Cocaine-related oronasal communication and hard palate destruction.

Four cases of midpalatal perforation in cocaine abusers are presented. Other potential etiological processes are discussed to establish an adequate differential diagnosis. These patients were treated at our department, due to the drawback promoted by the establishment of oronasal communication that was provided after an accurate diagnosis. Histopathological evaluation of the lesion margins were conducted in two of the four cases, and yielded no evidence of vasculitis or active cocaine abuse. Therapeutic approach consisted of reconstructive surgeries and/or sealing prostheses. Histological asse…

Brain-gut-microbe communication in health and disease.

Bidirectional signalling between the gastrointestinal tract and the brain is regulated at neural, hormonal, and immunological levels. This c … e more inclusive brain-gut-enteric microbiota axis and a sustained research effort to establish how communication along this axis contributes to both normal and pathological conditions. In this review, we will briefly discuss the critical components of this axis and the methodological challenges that have been presented in attempts to define what constitutes a …

Inter-plant vibrational communication in a leafhopper insect.

Vibrational communication is one of the least understood channels of communication. Most studies have focused on the role of substrate-borne signals in insect mating behavior, where a male and a female establish a stereotyped duet that enables partner recognition and localization. While the effective communication range of substrate-borne signals may be up to several meters, it is generally accepted that insect vibrational communication is limited to a continuous substrate. Until now, interplant communication in absence of physical contact between plants has never been demonstrated in a vibrat…

Children's views of communication and speech-language pathology.

Children have the right to express their views and influence decisions in matters that affect them. Yet decisions regarding speech-language pathology are often made on their behalf, and research into the perspectives of children who receive speech-language pathology intervention is currently limited. This paper reports a qualitative study which explored experiences of communication and of speech-language pathology from the perspectives of children with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN). The aim was to explore their perspectives of communication, communication impairment, and ass…

Communication interventions for individuals with acquired brain injury.

OBJECTIVE: This review synthesizes studies involving communication interventions for individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI). METHODS: Systematic searches of electronic databases, journals and reference lists identified 21 studies meeting inclusion criteria. These studies were evaluated in terms of: (a) participants, (b) communication mode, (c) targeted communication skills, (d) intervention procedures, (e) intervention results and (f) certainty of evidence. RESULTS: Across these studies, intervention was provided to a total of 184 participants aged 4-86 years. Communication skills targ…

Oroantral communication as an osteotome sinus elevation complication.

The sinus elevation procedure is a predictable technique to allow for placement of dental implants in the posterior maxilla when the height of the alveolar ridge is limited. The sinus elevation can be performed by various techniques. In the crestal approach, bone graft is utilized to hydraulically elevate the sinus membrane through an osteotomy prepared in the alveolar crest. The implant can be placed either immediately or at a later surgery. This is a case report of an oroantral communication that developed as a complication to a sinus elevation surgery performed with the crestal approach. A …

Microbial communication and virulence: lessons from evolutionary theory.

At the heart of tackling the huge challenge posed by infectious micro-organisms is the overwhelming need to understand their nature. A major question is, why do some species of bacteria rapidly kill their host whilst others are relatively benign? For example, Yersinia pestis, the causative organism of plague, is a highly virulent human pathogen whilst the closely related Yersinia pseudotuberculosis causes a much less severe disease. Using molecular techniques such as mutating certain genes, microbiologists have made significant advances over recent decades in elucidating the mechanisms that go

Cortical basis of communication: local computation, coordination, attention.

Human communication emerges from cortical processing, known to be implemented on a regular repetitive neuronal substratum. The supposed genericity of cortical processing has elicited a series of modeling works in computational neuroscience that underline the information flows driven by the cortical circuitry. In the minimalist framework underlying the current theories for the embodiment of cognition, such a generic cortical processing is exploited for the coordination of poles of representation, as is reported in this paper for the case of visual attention. Interestingly, this case emphasizes …

Future affective technology for autism and emotion communication.

People on the autism spectrum often experience states of emotional or cognitive overload that pose challenges to their interests in learning and communicating. Measurements taken from home and school environments show that extreme overload experienced internally, measured as autonomic nervous system (ANS) activation, may not be visible externally: a person can have a resting heart rate twice the level of non-autistic peers, while outwardly appearing calm and relaxed. The chasm between what is happening on the inside and what is seen on the outside, coupled with challenges in speaking and being

Older adults' pain communication: the effect of interruption.

The effect of interrupting older adults as they talk about their osteoarthritis pain was examined in a secondary analysis using a nonrandomi … visual cue after the auditory cue was noted to interrupt participant responses. Older adults' pain communication was audiotaped, transcribed, and content analyzed using 16 a priori criteria from the American Pain Society's (2002)Guidelines for the Management of Pain in Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Juvenile Chronic Arthritis. Older adults in the un …