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Filter by:Unilateral neglect is a neuropsychological disorder reflected by a disturbance in the spatial exploration and distribution of directed attention affecting the contralateral part of space and body relatively to the brain lesion. The chronic aspect of this pathology leads to a poor progression following rehabilitation and a decreased independence of patients in daily life. Thus, it is necessary to set up efficient and long lasting therapies for unilateral neglect patients to improve their daily quality of life. Prismatic adaptation is now a classical method which allows patients to improve their neglect through corrective pointing movements in response to a lateral displacement of the visual field. A large and growing body of literature has investigated prismatic adaptation as a very promising rehabilitation method, improving both visuomotor and cognitive features of unilateral neglect. However, its effects are somehow irregular and clinical applications of this method are still limited. The necessity for patients to come to the hospital to take advantage of prismatic adaption sessions draws some limitations about our knowledge concerning 1) the temporal dynamic of prism adaptation effects on a long-term basis and 2) the optimal duration of treatment (most of the time constrained by the hospitalization duration) and its therapeutical effects on a very long-term basis. Moreover, a large number of patients also suffer from motor deficits which reduce the possibility to optimize the prismatic adaptation session. Thus, the aim of this project is to develop and validate others modalities of prismatic adaptation which can be applied at home and for a longer duration. These modalities should allow the investigator to get insights about the temporal dynamic of prismatic adaptation on the cognitive system. First, the investigator will investigate the effects of a prismatic adaptation modality using virtual reality to reproduce the lateral displacement induced by the prismatic goggles. He will also investigate prismatic adaptation induced by motor imagery, i.e. with mental representations of pointing movements without concomitant motor execution. This project could enhance the fundamental knowledge and enable to design new modalities of therapeutical use of prismatic adaptation (virtual or imaged) so as to allow a home-based treatment and follow-up. Thus, the aim of this project is to demonstrate the implication of similar mechanisms through different modalities (virtual and imaged compared to classical application) and the feasibility of these new modalities of healthy subjects. Thereafter, the aim will be to use knowledge acquired during this project to set up clinical trials to test for the efficiency of these modalities on a long-term basis in a pathological population.
This study is to evaluate the effect and tolerance of a thymol containing dietary supplement, Musclin, in healthy adults.
The purpose of this research is to measure the extent of lung inflammation between different groups of participants using a radioactive tracer called [18F]NOS. A radioactive tracer is a type of imaging drug that is labeled with a radioactive tag and injected into the body.
This was a phase I, single-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study to assess the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of the investigational medicinal product in healthy volunteers.
The aim of the C3S study is research an equivalence with longitudinal, radial and circumferential, global and segmental strain value, in left Ventricular in 2 and 3 dimension between two echograph General Electric Vivid 9 (GE Vingmed, Horton, Norway) et Philips Epiq 7.
Recently, new clinical testing of saccular and utricular function have been developed and validated, the so-called vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials - VEMP (Brantberg et al. 2009, Cornell et al. 2009, Curthoys 2010, Manzari et al. 2012). Among them, the cervical VEMP (cVEMP) are short-latency electromyographic (EMG) modulations of the contracted sternocleidomastoid muscles in responses to vibration applied on the forehead. The clinical literature suggests that cVEMP are almost entirely saccular in origin (Halmagyi et al 1995). The aim of our research is to evaluate changes in the otolith function in microgravity and hypergravity using this clinical test. Cervical vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (cVEMP) will be recorded by surface EMG electrodes in response to bone conducted vibration to specifically assess saccular function (Halmagyi et al 1995). The primary measures will include muscle activity response amplitudes and the stimulus intensity threshold at which the cVEMP is detected. Given that there is an off-loading of the saccules in microgravity and an increased loading in hypergravity, we hypothesize that there will be a reduction in cVEMP amplitude in microgravity and an increase in cVEMP amplitude in hypregravity compared to normal gravity. These changes in amplitude will be accompanied by changes in the threshold of the stimulus level required to elicit a cVEMP.
During weightlessness, the cardiovascular system is subject to rapid changes which has been demonstrated in studies of short term (Space Shuttle) and long term missions to Skylab, MIR, and the International Space Station (Nicogossian et al., 1989; Blomquist, 1994; Platts et al., 2014). There is also evidence for changes in the blood vessel structure, the metabolism and the responses to vasodilator and constrictor substances that might have long-term health consequences resembling the effects of aging on the cardiovascular system (Hughson and Shoemaker, 2004). Cardiovascular adaptations cause an increased incidence of postflight orthostatic intolerance (fainting), decreased cardiac output and reduced exercise capacity. Besides these postflight effects, weightlessness could also have harmful consequences during the flight. For example, it has been shown that cardiac arrhythmia may occur during space missions, even in healthy individuals (Convertino, 2009). To understand the cardiovascular reactions of the human body to changing conditions of gravity is thus an important aim of space science. While non-invasive imaging of microcirculation is a very promising tool to evaluate cardiovascular condition, knowledge on the involvement of the microcirculation in cardiovascular alterations induced by weightlessness is very limited and further research in this field seems promising. Before using a non-invasive technique for imaging the microcirculation during space flights, it has to be evaluated on earth. Different proven simulation models exist for investigating the effects of weightlessness on the human body under terrestrial conditions: head down bed rest, dry and wet immersion, and parabolic flights. Among these models, only parabolic flight recreates a real state of weightlessness (see the participant document of information for a description of parabolic flights). Cardiovascular studies have often been performed during parabolic flights. Within the limitations inherent to the method (short duration of weightlessness - about 21 s - following and followed by hypergravity 20 s periods at 1.8g), some remarkable results have been published over the years. The aim of our research approach is to test feasibility of the in vivo evaluation of the microcirculation in parabolic flight in order to be able to better describe cardiovascular response mechanisms under these conditions. In this context, we expect alterations in the microcirculatory flow during the weightlessness period of parabolic flight. Our approach might help develop a diagnostic tool to more easily identify weightlessness-induced cardiovascular diseases and improve strategies for adapting astronauts to weightlessness prior to the space mission.
Background: The Laboratory of Immune System Biology (LISB) works with other labs at the National Institutes of Health. They study how parts of living things come together to make a whole. LISB designs and improves research tests on human samples like blood and cells. In order to do its work, LISB needs to have a lot of these samples available. Objective: To collect biological specimens to use for designing and improving research tests. Specimens include blood, stool, saliva, and skin/mucosal swabs. Eligibility: Healthy people ages 18-80 Design: Participants will be screened with an interview about their general health and their medical history. They will have a physical exam and blood tests. If the results of the screening are normal, participants will be asked to give one or more of these samples: Blood will be drawn from an arm vein with a needle and syringe. Mucus and skin will be collected by rubbing the area with a cotton swab. The areas may include the top of the tongue, inside the cheek, nostrils, behind the ear, elbow pit, or vagina. Participants will spit into a tube to collect saliva. Participants will pass stool into a plastic container that fits in the toilet under the seat. They will get sampling kits and instructions. Over the next 5 years, if more samples are needed, participants will be contacted to set up another visit to the NIH. These visits will each take about 1 hour. About every 2 years, when participants come to NIH for a visit, extra blood will be collected. It will be tested for HIV and hepatitis B and C.
Background: Problem drinking affects nearly half the people who drink alcohol. Drinking alcohol affects a person s social behavior and brain structure, but researchers don t have a good understanding of how. They want to test a technique called neurofeedback to learn more about how to treat problem drinking. Objectives: To study what happens in the brains of people who drink alcohol when they look at pictures of social things and of alcohol. To learn if people can control brain activity in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner and if this helps people with drinking. Eligibility: Adults ages 21 65 who have an alcohol use disorder. Healthy volunteers ages 21 65 Design: Participants will be screened with Physical exam Medical history Blood, urine, and heart tests Mental health interview Questions about their alcohol drinking. At each session, participants will have: A urine test for drugs and pregnancy. If they test positive, they cannot participate. A breath alcohol test and assessment for alcohol withdrawal. Participants will complete surveys, talk to researchers about behaviors, and play games. Participants will have MRI brain scans. The scanner is a metal cylinder in a strong magnetic field. They will lie on a table that slides in and out of the scanner for 1 2 hours. Participants will do tasks in the scanner: They will look at pictures, sometimes of alcohol. They will try to hit a goal. Some participants will get feedback during this task. They will see how their brain activity changes or how someone else s changes. Participants may have follow-up phone questions at least 3 times over about 6 months.
This randomized controlled trial is for investigating the effects of multidisciplinary intervention program on cognition and activity of daily living ability in community dwelling healthy elderly. The intervention consists of cognitive group training every month, daily home cognitive training using cognitive training smartphone application, record of weekly physical activity and body weight and feedback program, and alcohol and smoking cessation monitoring and feedback program. Among these interventions, app-based cognitive training at home is the major intervention in this study. The total duration of intervention is 1 year, and the tablet-based cognitive screening test and the patient-reported questionnaires to evaluate subjective memory decline, quality of life, depression, and activity of daily living are used for outcome measures.