Comparing Sensitivity, Specificity, and Accuracy of Fall Risk Assessments in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

Purpose: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has implemented the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths, and Injuries (STEADI) initiative. This initiative provides an algorithm for fall risk screening. However, the algorithm has the potential to overcategorize individuals as high risk for falling upon initial screening, which may burden clinicians with the task of recategorizing individuals after follow-up testing.

Familial Hemiplegic Migraines and Baseline Neuropsychological Testing: A Case Report.

Objective: To explore the neuropsychological correlates and implications of familial hemiplegic migraines (FHMs).

Background: FMH is a rare, autosomal dominant subtype of migraine that only occurs in 0.01% of the population.

Challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice: support for urban adolescents' critical consciousness development.

This mixed-model study examined the relationship between urban adolescents' perceived support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice from peers, family, and community members and their critical consciousness development. These relationships were examined by relating participants' qualitative perceptions of support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice to quantitative data obtained from Likert-type measures of the reflection and action components of critical consciousness. Perceived support for challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice had a significant impact upon the reflection component of critical consciousness; the significance criterion was supported by effect size estimates.

Impaired awareness of deficits and treatment adherence among people with traumatic brain injury or spinal cord injury.

Objective: To examine the relation between impaired awareness of deficits (IAD) and treatment adherence and to verify previous findings regarding the types of disabilities that people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) tend to underestimate.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Participants: Twenty-four persons with moderate to severe TBI and 16 persons with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) admitted to an inpatient neurorehabilitation program.

Loss of heterozygosity occurs centromeric to RB without associated abnormalities in the retinoblastoma gene in tumors from patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

Tumor suppressor genes have been found to have loss of function in a number of malignancies. This loss of function is believed to contribute to malignant transformation or metastatic spread. In the present study, expression of the retinoblastoma (RB) tumor suppressor gene was examined in cell lines and tumor tissue obtained from primary renal and metastatic sites in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma.