Publications by authors named "G Bruzzi"
Objective: it is well known that during an intentional behavior, the final goal of the action shapes the entire sequence of motor acts. This chained organization has been previously demonstrated to be altered in school-age autistic children, who modulate only the final motor act according to the action goal. Here, we investigate the temporal modulation during the intentional action in three groups of preschoolers: neurotypical, autistic, and non-autistic siblings of autistic children.
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- The study looks at how a lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) can cause problems during breathing and mechanical ventilation.
- Researchers want to understand how different lung pressures affect the disease and how they can measure this with special lung scans.
- They found that patients with IPF had more "over-aerated" (too much air) lung areas compared to healthy people, which could help explain how the disease gets worse.
Non-invasive respiratory support, namely, non-invasive ventilation, continuous positive airway pressure, and high-flow nasal cannula, has been increasingly used worldwide to treat acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, giving the benefits of keeping spontaneous breathing preserved. In this scenario, monitoring and controlling respiratory drive could be helpful to avoid patient self-inflicted lung injury and promptly identify those patients that require an upgrade to invasive mechanical ventilation. In this review, we first describe the physiological components affecting respiratory drive to outline the risks associated with its hyperactivation.
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- The study examined the effectiveness of social skills training for adolescents with Level 1 Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by analyzing data from 36 randomized controlled trials involving nearly 2,800 participants.
- Results indicated that social skills training was more effective than waiting list or standard care in improving social skills and reducing behavioral and anxiety/depressive symptoms, but significant variability and potential bias were noted among the studies.
- The authors concluded that while social skills training shows promise, future research should focus on personalized approaches to address the unique needs of individuals with Level 1 ASD.
Background: The molecular pathways involved in the onset and progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) still need to be fully clarified as some are shared with lung cancer development. HOXB7, a member of the homeobox () gene family, has been found involved in various cancers.
Methods: Immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis was run on lung tissue samples from surgical lung biopsy (SLB) of 19 patients with IPF, retrospectively selected from the IPF database of the University Hospital of Modena.