Consumer Limitations on the Digitalization of the Insurance Market and Ways to Overcome Them.

The article analyzes consumer dispositions (preferences) in the Russian insurance market. Their influence on the digitalization of insurance activities has been revealed. The consumer preferences of policyholders and their impact on the digitalization of business processes have been studied.

[Endoscopic treatment of choledocholithiasis in patients over 80 years old].

Objective: To analyze endoscopic treatment of choledocholithiasis in patients over 80 years old.

Material And Methods: A single-center retrospective study included 90 consecutive patients aged ≥80 years and 58 patients aged 60-79 years. Early outcomes including efficacy of calculus removal, incidence of complications and their risk factors were evaluated.

Enhancement of Declarative Memory: From Genetic Regulation to Non-invasive Stimulation.

The problem of memory enhancement is extremely important in intellectual activity areas and therapy of different types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). The attempts to solve this problem have come from different research fields. In the first part of our review, we describe the results of targeting certain genes involved in memory-associated molecular pathways.

Feature binding in auditory modality requires attention as indexed by mismatch negativity and N2b in an active discrimination task.

Currently, there are two opposing views on feature binding in the auditory modality: according to behavioral studies, this process requires focused attention, whereas electrophysiological studies suggest that feature binding may be fully automatic and independent of attention. Here, we examined whether feature binding depends on higher-level attentional processes by manipulating the attentional focus. We used four auditory stimuli that differed in two features: pitch and location.

Distributed feature binding in the auditory modality: experimental evidence toward reconciliation of opposing views on the basis of mismatch negativity and behavioral measures.

Current understanding of feature binding remains controversial. Studies involving mismatch negativity (MMN) measurement show a low level of binding, whereas behavioral experiments suggest a higher level. We examined the possibility that the two levels of feature binding coexist and may be shown within one experiment.