Using connectivity-based real-time fMRI neurofeedback to modulate attentional and resting state networks in people with high trait anxiety.

High levels of trait anxiety are associated with impaired attentional control, changes in brain activity during attentional control tasks and altered network resting state functional connectivity (RSFC). Specifically, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to anterior cingulate cortex (DLPFC - ACC) functional connectivity, thought to be crucial for effective and efficient attentional control, is reduced in high trait anxious individuals. The current study examined the potential of connectivity-based real-time functional magnetic imaging neurofeedback (rt-fMRI-nf) for enhancing DLPFC - ACC functional connectivity in trait anxious individuals.

Disc extrusions and bulges in nonspecific low back pain and sciatica: Exploratory randomised controlled trial comparing yoga therapy and normal medical treatment.

Background: Previous trials of yoga therapy for nonspecific low back pain (nsLBP) (without sciatica) showed beneficial effects.

Objective: To test effects of yoga therapy on pain and disability associated with lumbar disc extrusions and bulges.

Methods: Parallel-group, randomised, controlled trial.

Circle of Sisters: raising awareness of Native American women to breast cancer.

The Circle of Sisters is a breast cancer education initiative that incorporates free mammography for American Indian women. In two separate but similar initiative-sponsored one-day events, 37 American Indian women underwent screening mammography and experienced a full day of culturally tailored educational activities. Women observed a cooking demonstration, participated in moderate exercise activity, strung beads to learn about the dimensions of breast tumors, and listened to an American Indian breast cancer survivor recount her story of diagnosis and treatment.

Proteomic profiling of amniotic fluid in preterm labor using two-dimensional liquid separation and mass spectrometry.

Objective: Simultaneous analysis of the protein composition of biological fluids is now possible. Such an approach can be used to identify biological markers of disease and to understand the pathophysiology of disorders that have eluded classification, diagnosis, and treatment. The purpose of this study was to analyze the differences in protein composition of the amniotic fluid of patients in preterm labor.

Abnormal coagulation studies associated with levofloxacin. Report of three cases.

Complications arising from antibiotic use are of interest to neurosurgeons because many neurosurgical patients are treated for infection. In this report, the authors describe three patients with spine disorders who developed coagulopathies after treatment with levofloxacin, an antibiotic commonly used by neurosurgical services. Three patients with spine disorders developed urinary tract infections (UTIs) for which they received a 3-day course of oral levofloxacin.