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Filter by:The regulation of the cardiovascular respiratory system after changing environmental conditions or changes in work rates are essential for cognitive as well as physical functioning. For decades, it is known that high level of headward acceleration (+Gz) impairs cardiovascular function that may cause loss of consciousness. Some "anti-g" maneuvers, such as muscle contraction of the lower extremities and buttocks or intermittent exhalation on exertion (i.e., exhalation against a closed airway) have been proved to increase tolerance to high +Gz. Main objective of this experiment is to investigate the effects of anti-g maneuvers on cardiovascular and respiratory tolerance to the push-pull-effect. Cardiovascular and respiratory functions will be evaluated with the following parameters: heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, blood pressure, oxygen uptake, carbon dioxide output, ventilation, breathing frequency, body core temperature. Electromyography (EMG) will not be a judgment criteria but will be used to check the quality of 'muscle contraction' anti-g maneuver. The main hypothesis is that anti-g maneuvers will increase cardiovascular and respiratory tolerance to the push-pull effect, especially when they are combined.
Bipolar disorder is a chronic and frequent mood pathology, that impacts on emotional and socio-professional life of sick subjects, and also increase mortality by suicide. Suicide is considered as a bipolar disorder result. The main goal of this study is the endophenotype characterization from a clinical and cognitive point of view, of a bipolar spectrum's disorder present in a family, and then highlight a mutation of one of the genes involved is this disorder.
The purpose of the study is to compare the immunological response of homeopathic vaccines to placebo and to conventional vaccines in healthy young adults.
Title: Collection of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells (PBMCs) from Healthy People for the Expansion of T Cells for Adoptive Cell Therapy Background: New therapies are being developed that use a person s own immune system to fight tumors. Some of the tumors being studied include cancers caused by viruses. Researchers want to use the healthy cells of volunteers to perform research studies. To do this, they are collecting lymphocytes through leukapheresis. Objectives: To collect healthy cells from volunteers for research studies for new cancer therapies. Eligibility: Healthy people ages 18 and older Design: Participants will be screened with a standard donor questionnaire. It asks about their health and past medical problems. It also asks about risky behaviors that could increase their exposure to viruses or bacteria that could be transmitted through a transfusion. Participants will give a blood sample to make sure they are able to donate. They will have a physical exam. A finger stick test will check their hemoglobin, or red blood cell, level. They might give a urine sample. Participants will undergo apheresis. For this, a needle is placed in a vein in each of their arms. Their blood is taken from one arm. A machine separates the white cells from the red cells and plasma by a spinning process. The white cells are removed and directed into a plastic bag. The red cells and plasma are returned through the needle in the other arm. The entire procedure takes 4 6 hours. Participants may donate every 21 days in this protocol if they choose to. ...
Cardiovascular events remain the main cause of death of the industrialized world (Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2010. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2011). Arterial hypertension, hyperlipoproteinemia, smoking, diabetes and family history represent the main cardiovascular risk factors. Arteriosclerosis leads to coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular insufficiency and peripheral vascular diseases that reflect in myocardial infarction and stroke. The main objective of this experiment is to investigate the differential effect of microgravity on central aortic blood pressure. The main criterion is the central aortic pressure (measured in mmHg). The hypothesis is that microgravity leads to an increased central aortic pressure.
The study to explore the development of these abilities with age, and called "Development of the conflict detection during the reasoning - Decor" will take place at CYCERON center and will include two groups of 22 participants: adolescents and young adults (N = 44). More specifically, this study aims to compare the changes in the brain of adolescents and young adults when conducting reasoning tasks for which there may be a cognitive conflict. Both groups of participants then spend an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) focused on the brain and in which they will carry out two classic tasks covering the main areas of reasoning (probabilistic and economic). Each of these tasks will be manipulated to include, or not, of making information call intuition to create or not a conflict between the correct answer (logic, normative) and biased response (intuitive, heuristic). Because of the major implication of this brain region in cognitive inhibition processes [of intuitive answer], measured brain activity in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) during both tasks version "with" or "no" conflict will be compared between groups. To better understand the links between the development of the CCA from adolescence to adulthood and conflict detection, activity measurements will be correlated with a part in morphometric measurements taken from the same area (volume Substance Grise - SG; characteristics of cortical sulci) and secondly to cognitive measures (executive functions - inhibitory control). This cross-sectional study focused on two age groups: 11-15 years and 19-25 years. For each age group, the participation of men / boys and women / girls will be balanced up.
Children's understanding of linear-order (e.g., Dan is taller than Lisa, Lisa is taller than Jess) and set-inclusion (i.e., All tulips are flowers, All flowers are plants) relationships is critical for the acquisition of deductive reasoning, that is, the ability to reach logically valid conclusions from given premises. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies in adults suggest processing differences between these relations: While arguments that involve linear-orders may be preferentially associated with spatial processing, arguments that involve set-inclusions may be preferentially associated with verbal processing. In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how and when these processing differences appear in children from 8 to 14.
The purpose of the study is to assess the efficacy of high-frequency non-invasive ventilation on apnea duration, carbon dioxide clearance and oxygen delivery in healthy subjets and patients with lung disease.
Background: We are involved in testing new behavioral science methods and measures for future research projects. In the course of these evaluations, we will also test research questions related to parents psychological experiences and how these relate to the responses they have when they encounter different types of communication about child health. We are testing multiple research questions in the course of this research. Objective: - To learn about technologies and approaches to use in future research studies. Eligibility: - Parents (fathers and mothers) of children between the ages of 3-7. Design: As part of the main study, participants will do four tasks: Task 1: Before participants arrive for an in-person visit, they will answer questions online about themselves, their child, and their thoughts and opinions related to health. Task 2: At the in-person visit, participants will watch a short scene from a movie and answer some questions Task 3: At the in-person visit, participants will read information about a child health topic and answer questions Task 4: At the in-person visit, participants will use a virtual reality-based buffet restaurant simulation to make hypothetical food choices for their child
It is well documented that a few days stay in space induces a change in the vestibular-ocular reflex reflecting a reinterpretation of sensory inputs following the disappearance of gravity. If the change of eye reflexes actually the result of a reinterpretation of sensory input, the investigators should also expect to see an alteration of the vestibular-cardiovascular reflexes. The modification of these reflexes may modulate the carotid baroreflex and thus participate in the post-flight cardiovascular deconditioning. The first objective of this project is to study the carotid baroreflex under different supine (dorsal, ventral and lateral) inducing different otolith stimulation in normal-gravity.