Pain Management

Fingolimod-associated PML with mild IRIS in MS: A clinicopathologic study.

OBJECTIVE: To clarify the clinical, neuropathologic, and virologic characteristics of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and its immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in a patient with fingolimod-treated MS.

Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition.

Adopting deep learning methods for human activity recognition has been effective in extracting discriminative features from raw input sequences acquired from body-worn sensors. Although human movements are encoded in a sequence of successive samples in time, typical machine learning methods perform recognition tasks without exploiting the temporal correlations between input data samples. Convoluti...

Vitamin D status in children with headache: A case-control study.

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin with hormonal properties, plays crucial functions in bone and mineral metabolism and has important regu...

Hand Passive Mobilization Performed with Robotic Assistance: Acute Effects on Upper Limb Perfusion and Spasticity in Stroke Survivors.

This single arm pre-post study aimed at evaluating the acute effects induced by a single session of robot-assisted passive hand mobilization on local ...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Is Associated with Social Recognition Memory Deficit and Altered Dopaminergic Neurotransmission in the Amygdala.

OBJECTIVE: Diabetic neuropathy is a chronic and often disabling condition that affects a significant number of individuals with diabetes mellitus (DM)...

Ant-inspired density estimation via random walks.

Many ant species use distributed population density estimation in applications ranging from quorum sensing, to task allocation, to appraisal of enemy ...

Development of a highly sensitive and specific ELISA method for the determination of l-corydalmine in SD rats with monoclonal antibody.

l-Corydalmine (l-CDL) is a potent analgesic constituent of the traditional Chinese medicine, Rhizoma Corydalis. However, the pharmacokinetic process a...

Technologically-advanced assessment of upper-limb spasticity: a pilot study.

BACKGROUND: Spasticity is a muscle disorder associated with upper motor neuron syndrome occurring in neurological disorders, such as stroke, multiple ...

Comparing the Effect of Adding Fentanyl, Sufentanil, and Placebo with Intrathecal Bupivacaine on Duration of Analgesia and Complications of Spinal Anesthesia in Patients Undergoing Cesarean Section.

BACKGROUND: Spinal anesthesia is the method of choice for most elective and emergency Cesarean sections. To increase the duration of anesthesia and im...

Spinal cord infarction following epidural and general anesthesia: a case report.

BACKGROUND: Epidural anesthesia is widely used for postoperative analgesia and rarely causes permanent neurological complications. We report a case of...

Tramadol sparing effect of dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant with lignocaine in preoperative stellate ganglion block for postoperative pain relief following upper limb surgeries.

BACKGROUND: Recent literature has established the role of stellate ganglion block (SGB) for management of acute postoperative pain. The effects of dex...

A novel approach to spinal 3-D kinematic assessment using inertial sensors: Towards effective quantitative evaluation of low back pain in clinical settings.

This paper presents a novel approach for evaluating LBP in various settings. The proposed system uses cost-effective inertial sensors, in conjunction ...

Prediction Effects of Personal, Psychosocial, and Occupational Risk Factors on Low Back Pain Severity Using Artificial Neural Networks Approach in Industrial Workers.

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to provide an empirical model of predicting low back pain (LBP) by considering the occupational, personal, and psychologi...

Calcifediol Rather Than Cholecalciferol for a Patient Submitted to Malabsortive Bariatric Surgery: A Case Report.

Vitamin D deficiency following malabsorptive bariatric surgery can lead to osteomalacia. We report a patient with severe vitamin D deficiency followin...

Effect of Midazolam and Dexmedetomidine Sedation on the Onset and Duration of Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block: A Randomised Comparative Study.

OBJECTIVE: Prolonging the duration of sensory blockade with bupivacaine following supraclavicular brachial plexus block is desirable for improved post...

Comparative Study of the Efficacy of Dexmedetomidine and Fentanyl as Adjuvants to Ropivacaine in Ultrasound-Guided Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block.

OBJECTIVE: Supraclavicular brachial plexus block is preferable to general anaesthesia in upper limb surgeries. Various adjuvants have been added to im...

Machine Learning Methods to Predict Diabetes Complications.

One of the areas where Artificial Intelligence is having more impact is machine learning, which develops algorithms able to learn patterns and decisio...

Automatic migraine classification via feature selection committee and machine learning techniques over imaging and questionnaire data.

BACKGROUND: Feature selection methods are commonly used to identify subsets of relevant features to facilitate the construction of models for classifi...

A Predictive Model for Guillain-Barré Syndrome Based on Single Learning Algorithms.

. Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) is a potentially fatal autoimmune neurological disorder. The severity varies among the four main subtypes, named as Ac...

Use of a machine learning framework to predict substance use disorder treatment success.

There are several methods for building prediction models. The wealth of currently available modeling techniques usually forces the researcher to judge...