Colonic SSLs are thought to predispose to ∼30% of colonic adenocarcinomas. This increased risk, compared to benign HPs, makes their distinction vitally important. However, no gold standard exists to differentiate them, and wide observer variability is reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale: Asthma is a chronic airway condition that occurs more often in women than men during reproductive years. Population studies have collectively shown that long-term use of oral contraceptives decreased the onset of asthma in women of reproductive age. In the current study, we hypothesized that steady-state levels of estrogen would reduce airway inflammation and airway hyperresponsiveness to methacholine challenge.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNumber writing involves transcoding from number words (e.g., "thirty-two") to written digit strings (32) and is an important unique predictor of arithmetic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConverting visual-Arabic digits to auditory number words and vice versa is seemingly effortless for adults. However, it is still unclear whether this process takes place automatically and whether accessing the underlying magnitude representation is necessary during this process. In two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, adults were presented with identical (e.
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