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Relationship between sociodemographic characteristics of stroke survivors and poststroke motor performance

Sahel Medical Journal, 2020
Background: Motor impairment is a frequent presentation of stroke leading to partial or total loss of function of a body part usually limbs. Objective: This study investigated poststroke motor performance and its association with sociodemographic and ...
Adamu Ahmad Rufai, Aisha Zannah Mustapha, Adewale Luqman Oyeyemi   +2 more
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Value of MRI Outcomes for Preventive and Early‐Stage Trials in Spinocerebellar Ataxias 1 and 3

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To examine the value of MRI outcomes as endpoints for preventive and early‐stage trials of two polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs). Methods A cohort of 100 participants (23 SCA1, 63 SCA3, median Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) score = 5, 42% preataxic, and 14 gene‐negative controls) was scanned at 3T up ...
Thiago J. R. Rezende, Emilien Petit, Young Woo Park, Sophie Tezenas du Montcel, James M. Joers, Jonathan M. DuBois, H. Moore Arnold, Michal Povazan, Ipek Özdemir, Guita Banan, Romain Valabregue, Philipp Ehses, Jennifer Faber, Chiadi U. Onyike, Peter B. Barker, Jeremy D. Schmahmann, Eva‐Maria Ratai, Sub H. Subramony, Thomas H. Mareci, Khalaf O. Bushara, Henry Paulson, Thomas Klockgether, Alexandra Durr, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Christophe Lenglet, Gülin Öz, READISCA Investigators   +26 more
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Volume 10, Issue 27 (3-2018) J Med Educ Dev 2018, 10(27): 141-154 | Back to browse issues page

Journal of Medical Education Development, 2018
Background & Objective: The present study aimed to identify the barriers in the current system of organizational performance measurement and determine the educational challenges within the framework of Stufflebeam and Coryn (2014) meta-evaluation model ...
Abbas Abbaspour, Hamid Rahimian, MohammadReza Mehregan, Hadi Ahmadnia   +3 more
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Illiteracy and dementia

Dementia & Neuropsychologia
There is a current concept that illiteracy and lower educational levels are risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia. Our aims were to review the association between illiteracy and dementia; and to describe some results on neuropsychological ...
Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki
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Structure–Function Decoupling of the Sensorimotor and Default Mode Networks in Black Americans With MS

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibits racially disparate rates of disease progression. Black people with MS (B‐PwMS) experience a more severe disease course than non‐Hispanic White people with MS (NHW‐PwMS). Here we investigated structural and functional connectivity as well as structure–function decoupling in the ...
Emilio Cipriano, Giacomo Boffa, Maria Petracca, Marta Ponzano, Nicole Graziano, Claire Wigley, Claire Riley, Jonathan Howard, Pietro Bontempi, Sylvia Klineova, Fred Lublin, Matilde Inglese   +11 more
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Gender, household headship and children’s educational performance in Nigeria: debunking the myth of poor performance in female-headed households

African Population Studies, 2013
This study examines how gender interacts with household headship to influence children’s educational performance. It evaluates the educational performance of children in senior secondary schools in Lagos, Nigeria by whether they live in male or female-headed households.
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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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Maternal half-sibling families with discordant fathers : A contrastive design assessing cross-generational paternal genetic transmission of alcohol use disorder, drug abuse and major depression

, 2020
BackgroundWe introduce and apply an elegant, contrastive genetic-epidemiological design - Maternal Half-Sibling Families with Discordant Fathers - to clarify cross-generational transmission of genetic risk to alcohol use disorder (AUD), drug abuse (DA ...
Kendler, Kenneth S., Ohlsson, Henrik, Sundquist, Kristina, Sundquist, Jan   +3 more
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Prevalence and predictors of depression and anxiety among medical students in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2019
Background Depression and anxiety are among the common mental health problems among medical students and are associated with poor academic performance, disability and poor quality of life.
Mebratu Abraha Kebede, Birke Anbessie, Getinet Ayano   +2 more
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Place-Based Diminished Returns of Parental Educational Attainment on School Performance of Non-Hispanic White Youth

Frontiers in Education, 2020
BackgroundYouth educational outcomes are a function of a wide range of factors including parental education level. This effect, however, is shown to be smaller for African American, Hispanic, and Asian American youth, a pattern called Marginalization ...
Shervin Assari, Shanika Boyce, Mohsen Bazargan, Mohsen Bazargan, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, Marc A. Zimmerman   +5 more
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