Publications by authors named "C Cordes"
Anxiety is among the most prevalent mental health issues in children. While it is well established that gonadal steroids influence anxiety-like behavior in adulthood, a potential role in prepubertal juveniles has been overlooked because it is commonly thought that the gonads are quiescent during the juvenile period. However, the juvenile gonads secrete measurable amounts of steroids, and we have recently found that prepubertal ovariectomy decreases anxiety-like behavior of juvenile Siberian hamsters in the light/dark box test.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe neuropeptide, arginine vasopressin (AVP), has been implicated in social communication across a diverse array of species. Many rodents communicate basic behavioral states with negative versus positive valence through high-pitched vocalizations above the human hearing range (ultrasonic vocalizations; USVs). Previous studies have found that Brattleboro (Bratt) rats, which have a mutation in the Avp gene, exhibit deficits in their USVs from the early postnatal period through adolescence, but the magnitude of this effect appears to decrease from the juvenile to adolescent phase.
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- Kids who use manual wheelchairs because of spinal cord injuries often face shoulder pain as they grow up.
- Researchers looked at how using the handrim (the part of the wheelchair you push) affects their shoulder health using special scanning tools.
- They found connections between how hard they push and changes in their shoulder structures, which could help improve wheelchair design and reduce pain.
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- Pediatric shoulder pain and dysfunction can stem from both congenital and acquired conditions, but imaging techniques to assess these issues in children aren't as advanced as those for adults.!
- The review focuses on promising quantitative imaging applications for common pediatric shoulder problems like brachial plexus birth palsy and recurrent shoulder instability, while also considering shoulder growth and development.!
- It also emphasizes the current state of quantitative imaging in pediatric care and identifies areas where improved imaging methods could enhance patient care.
The design, development, and successful implementation of pop-up Langmuir probes installed in the water-cooled divertor of W7-X are described. The probes are controlled by drive coils (actuators) installed behind the divertor plates. These drive coils make use of the magnetic field in W7-X to move the probe tips into and out of the plasma.
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