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Baseline Regional Cholinergic Denervation Predicts Cognitive Trajectories in Moderate Parkinson Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive decline is a disabling and variable feature of Parkinson disease (PD). While cholinergic system degeneration is linked to cognitive impairments in PD, most prior research reported cross‐sectional associations. We aimed to fill this gap by investigating whether baseline regional cerebral vesicular acetylcholine transporter ...
Taylor Brown, Giulia Carli, Prabesh Kanel, Stiven Roytman, Jaimie Barr, Nicolaas I. Bohnen, Roger L. Albin   +6 more
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Access and Utilization of Information and Communication Technology by Students With Visual Impairment in Uganda's Public Universities

Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies, 2018
The centrality of information and communication technology in enhancing inclusive teaching and learning makes their access and use an imperative for all students at all levels of education.Persons with visual impairment tend to face major barriers in ...
Patrick Ojok
doaj   +1 more source

Surveying Persons with Disabilities: A Source Guide (Version 1) [PDF]

, 2006
As a collaborator with the Cornell Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. has been working on a project that identifies the strengths and limitations in existing disability
Bleeker, Martha, Cashion, James, Markesich, Jason   +2 more
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On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]

, 2017
This essay prefaces a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies (JRS) concerned with a sub-field of inquiry that might be termed the rural geography of disability, addressing multiple dimensions of disability, physical and mental, associated with ...
Chouinard, Vera, Philo, Chris, Pini, Barbara   +2 more
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Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy due to Biallelic Pathogenic Variants in PIGM

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective PIGM encodes a critical enzyme in the glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)‐anchor biosynthesis pathway. While promoter‐region mutations in PIGM have been associated with a relatively mild phenotype characterized by portal vein thrombosis and absence seizures, recent evidence suggests that coding‐region mutations result in a more severe
Júlia Sala‐Coromina, Anna Marcé‐Grau, Barbara Masotto, Marta Codina, Lamia BenJemaa, Yasmina Elaribi, Mónica Martinez‐Gallo, Roger Colobran, Angel Sanchez‐Montañez, Irene Valenzuela, Yoshiko Murakami, Alfons Macaya   +11 more
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The assessment of static balance in children with hearing, visual and intellectual disabilities

Acta Gymnica, 2017
Background: Balance is a fundamental part of many movement tasks a child performs. Maintaining upright posture is a complex process involving multiple body parts and functional systems.
Aija Klavina, Anna Zusa-Rodke, Zinta Galeja   +2 more
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Designing for designers: Towards the development of accessible ICT products and services using the VERITAS framework [PDF]

, 2015
Among key design practices which contribute to the development of inclusive ICT products and services is user testing with people with disabilities. Traditionally, this involves partial or minimal user testing through the usage of standard heuristics ...
Abascal, Barbotte, Braun, Chisholm, Choi, Cooper, Crabtree, Eriksson, European Commission Union, Fereday, Fotios Spyridonis, Gheorghita Ghinea, Hafkin, Hull, Huyer, Janarthanan, Kasday, Keates, Lange, Law, Leder, Michael James Scott, Milne, Navarro, Nielsen, Palmon, Papastergiou, Picking, Pruitt, Rubin, Santos, Schmidt, Scott, Scott, Scott, Smith, Spyridonis, Stephanidis, UNESCO, Van Eck, Westin, Westin, Yuan   +42 more
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FDG‐PET Associations With Disease Severity and Outcomes in NMDA‐Receptor IgG Autoimmune Encephalitis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with N‐methyl‐D‐aspartate (NMDA) receptor‐immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoimmune encephalitis (NMDAR‐IgG AE) demonstrate occipital lobe hypometabolism on baseline brain fluorodeoxyglucose‐positron emission tomography (bFDG‐PET).
Jonathan K. Lee, Jeffrey Lambe, Scott Johnson, Akua Abrah, Jennifer Bullen, Jeffrey A. Cohen, Tatchaporn Ongphichetmetha, Amy Kunchok   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing and doing: Feasibility study towards valuing visual impairment using simulation spectacles [PDF]

, 2007
Elicitation of utilities from those who do not have the health condition of interest generally uses verbal description of health states. This paper reports on the results of a small-scale investigation on the feasibility of an alternative approach, where
Aballéa, S., Tsuchiya, A.
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Accessibility-based reranking in multimedia search engines [PDF]

, 2016
Traditional multimedia search engines retrieve results based mostly on the query submitted by the user, or using a log of previous searches to provide personalized results, while not considering the accessibility of the results for users with vision or ...
Anastasios Drosou, Dimitrios Tzovaras, DS Friedman, EM Fine, F Liu, H Brettel, H Hirvelä, H Kim, I Kalamaras, Ilias Kalamaras, IY Kim, J Liu, J Sang, JR Lavery, KW-T Leung, L Zhang, M Wang, Nikolaos Dimitriou, NJ Belkin, PK Atrey, S Lawrence, S Tajima, S Yang, T-L Ji, Y Nikulin, Z Wang   +25 more
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