Deep learning for ultra-widefield imaging: a scoping review

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology - This article is a scoping review of published and peer-reviewed articles using deep-learning (DL) applied to ultra-widefield (UWF)...     

At the crossroads of gout and psoriatic arthritis: “psout”

Clinical Rheumatology - Psoriatic arthritis and gout are frequently encountered conditions sharing a number of common risk factors, which render their independent study difficult. Epidemiological...     

Subacute parkinsonism as a complication of Lyme disease

Journal of Neurology -     

REVIEW: Apathy Diagnosis,Assessment, and Treatment in Alzheimer's Disease

Apathy is defined as a disorder of motivation. There is wide acknowledgement that apathy is an important behavioral syndrome in Alzheimer's disease and in various neuropsychiatric disorders. In light of recent research and the renewed interest in the correlates and impacts of apathy and in its treatments, it is important to develop criteria for apathy that will be widely accepted, have clear operational steps, and be easy to apply in clinical practice and in research settings. Meeting these needs was the focus for a task force that included members of the European Psychiatric Association, the European Alzheimer's Disease Consortium and experts from Europe, Australia and North America.     

Re-admissions to inpatient paediatric pulmonary rehabilitation

Objective : To describe re-admission rates, identify reasons for re-admission and examine characteristics of children requiring re-admission to inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation. Methodology : Retrospective record review of infants and toddlers (less than three years of age) requiring oxygen or ventilator support discharged from an inpatient paediatric pulmonary rehabilitation programme between 1992 and 1999. Results : Forty-one initial admissions resulted in 45 readmissions with a mean re-admission rate of 1.1 (SD = 1.41) re-admissions per child. Children with re-admissions ( n = 22, 54%) required significantly more ventilator support ( p = 0.001) and nursing care ( p = 0.001) and were transferred to acute care more frequently ( p = 0.002) than children without re-admissions. One-half of the children re-admitted to inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation were re-admitted two or more times. Conclusions : Based on this cohort of children, dependence on supplemental oxygen and/or mechanical ventilation and medical complexity may be indicators that children will require re-admission to rehabilitation following a transfer back to acute care. Further examination of re-admission rates and reasons and children's clinical characteristics may have predictive value and provide practice improvement opportunities.     

Positive and Negative Cognitions of Sexual Submission: Relationship to Sexual Violence

This study investigated gender differences in cognitions of sexual submission as well as their association with sexual violence. Participants were 292 heterosexual undergraduate students who completed a 56-item checklist assessing positive and negative sexual cognitions; they also completed measures assessing experiences of sexual abuse in childhood, experiences of sexual coercion in adulthood, and use of sexual coercion. Two 10-item sexual submission subscales were developed from the checklist. One reflected how often respondents had experienced the sexual submission items as positive. The other reflected how often these items were experienced as negative. When overall frequency of sexual cognitions was controlled, compared to the men, the women reported a significantly greater frequency of both positive and negative cognitions of sexual submission. Submission cognitions were more often negative for women and were more often positive for men. Men and women who had experienced sexual abuse in childhood reported more frequent positive sexual submission cognitions but not more negative sexual submission cognitions. Conversely, men and women who had experienced sexual coercion in adulthood reported more frequent negative sexual submission cognitions but not more positive sexual submission cognitions. Having used sexual coercion was associated with more frequent positive cognitions of sexual submission for both men and women. Implications for the proposed links between sexual violence and preferences for cognitions of sexual submission are discussed.