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"My bitterness is deeper than the ocean": understanding internalized stigma f...
Background It is estimated that 8 million of the Chinese adult population had a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Stigma associated with mental illness, which is pervasive in the... -
Caregiver experiences of public services following child trauma exposure: a q...
Background Many children in low and middle income countries (LMIC) are exposed to trauma. Contact with public services are a potential influence on parent–child reactions and... -
Evaluation of dysphagia in different phenotypes of early and idiopathic Parki...
Background Parkinsonism (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorders into which dysphagia occurs mainly in the late stage and to a lesser extent in an early stage. Diagnosis of... -
Can Lokomat therapy with children and adolescents be improved? An adaptive cl...
Background Robot-assisted gait therapy is increasingly being used in pediatric neurorehabilitation to complement conventional physical therapy. The robotic device applied in... -
Risk of head and traumatic brain injuries associated with antidepressant use ...
Background Antidepressant use has been associated with an increased risk of falling, but no studies have been conducted on whether antidepressant use is associated with an... -
Exoskeleton assistance symmetry matters: unilateral assistance reduces metabo...
Background Many gait impairments are characterized by asymmetry and result in reduced mobility. Exoskeletons could be useful for restoring gait symmetry by assisting only one... -
Cognitive and imaging markers in non-demented subjects attending a memory cli...
Background The natural history and disease mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders (ADRD) are still poorly understood. Very few resources are available to... -
IgM response against amyloid-beta in aging: a potential peripheral protective...
Background The immune system plays a major role in the pathogenesis of age-related dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). An insight into age-associated changes in the... -
Overground walking with a robotic exoskeleton elicits trunk muscle activity i...
Background: The trunk muscles are critical for postural control. Recent neurophysiological studies have revealed sparing of trunk muscle function in individuals... -
Retained capacity for perceptual learning of degraded speech in primary progr...
Background Processing of degraded speech is a promising model for understanding communication under challenging listening conditions, core auditory deficits and residual... -
Associations of Bcl-2 rs956572 genotype groups in the structural covariance n...
Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease, and genetic differences may mediate neuronal degeneration. In humans, a single-nucleotide... -
Somatization disorder among adolescents in southeast Nigeria: a neglected issue
Background Adolescents do present with somatization disorder which is often neglected by pediatricians. This could have serious consequences if not curbed early. Objectives This... -
Trainer in a pocket - proof-of-concept of mobile, real-time, foot kinematics ...
Background Walking disabilities negatively affect inclusion in society and quality of life and increase the risk for secondary complications. It has been shown that external... -
The EMIF-AD Multimodal Biomarker Discovery study: design, methods and cohort ...
Background There is an urgent need for novel, noninvasive biomarkers to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the predementia stages and to predict the rate of... -
Muscle force distribution of the lower limbs during walking in diabetic indiv...
Background Muscle force estimation could advance the comprehension of the neuromuscular strategies that diabetic patients adopt to preserve walking ability, which guarantees... -
Accessibility and factors associated with utilization of mental health servic...
Background Youth-friendly health care services can facilitate young people’s access to health care services and promote their health, including their mental health. In Sweden, a... -
Auditory repetition suppression alterations in relation to cognitive function...
Background Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a neurodevelopmental genetic disorder causing cognitive and behavioural deficits. Repetition suppression (RS), a learning phenomenon in... -
Evaluation of EMG pattern recognition for upper limb prosthesis control: a ca...
Background Although electromyogram (EMG) pattern recognition (PR) for multifunctional upper limb prosthesis control has been reported for decades, the clinical benefits have... -
An Analysis of Waves Underlying Grid Cell Firing in the Medial Enthorinal Cortex
Layer II stellate cells in the medial enthorinal cortex (MEC) express hyperpolarisation-activated cyclic-nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels that allow for rebound spiking via an... -
Anemia is associated with incidence of dementia: a national health screening ...
Background The aim of this study was to investigate whether anemia is associated with dementia incidence in the elderly. Methods Using the Korean National Health Insurance...
