Musical experience prior to traumatic exposure as a resilience factor: a conceptual analysis.

Resilience mechanisms can be dynamically triggered throughout the lifecourse by resilience factors in order to prevent individuals from developing stress-related pathologies such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some interventional studies have suggested that listening to music and musical practice experiencing a traumatic event decrease the intensity of PTSD, but surprisingly, no study to our knowledge has explored musical experience as a potential resilience factor the potential occurrence of a traumatic event. In the present conceptual analysis, we sought to summarize what is known about the concept of resilience and how musical experience could trigger two key mechanisms altered in PTSD: emotion regulation and cognitive control.

The effect of learning an individualized song on autobiographical memory recall in individuals with Alzheimer's disease: A pilot study.

Numerous neuropsychological studies have investigated the effect of music on patients with Alzheimer's disease. Findings suggest that music can improve behavioral symptoms, but its potential effects on cognitive abilities of patients still require more investigation. In this 2 × 2 crossover study, we measured the impact of learning an individualized song on autobiographical memory recall and other cognitive abilities in 12 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

A graph-cut approach for pulmonary artery-vein segmentation in noncontrast CT images.

Lung vessel segmentation has been widely explored by the biomedical image processing community; however, the differentiation of arterial from venous irrigation is still a challenge. Pulmonary artery-vein (AV) segmentation using computed tomography (CT) is growing in importance owing to its undeniable utility in multiple cardiopulmonary pathological states, especially those implying vascular remodelling, allowing the study of both flow systems separately. We present a new framework to approach the separation of tree-like structures using local information and a specifically designed graph-cut methodology that ensures connectivity as well as the spatial and directional consistency of the derived subtrees.

[Assessment of maternal satisfaction with epidural analgesia for pain control during labour].

Background: To determine the level of satisfaction and the sociodemographic characteristics of patients who receive epidural analgesia during labour.

Material And Methods: A SERVQHOS questionnaire administered, with consecutive sampling, to 140 patients who had received an epidural anaesthetic for pain control during labour between January and June 2014, at the Hospital San Pedro.

Results: A total of 140 questionnaires were completed.

Mutual regulation of hypoxic and retinoic acid related signalling in tubular proximal cells.

Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) and all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) afford protection in several experimental models of kidney disease. HIF-1α protein is degraded under normoxia but stabilized by hypoxia, which activates its transcription factor function. ATRA activates another set of transcription factors, the retinoic acid receptors (RAR) α, β and γ, which mediate its effects on target genes.