Neuroimaging assessment of basal ganglia volumes in Tourette Syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: An increasing number of studies indicate that anatomical, physiological, and histological differences in the basal ganglia(BG) lie in the etiology of Tourette Syndrome(TS). However, the fact that there are very few studies on the anatomy of the BG in TS, small sample sizes, and unclear information as a consequence of these studies' contradictory findings is a significant gap in the scientific literature. The current systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to examine the differences in BG volumes between TS and controls.

Effects of caffeine on temporal perception in Rattus norvegicus.

We report two studies that tested the effects of caffeine, the world's most widely used psychoactive drug, on temporal perception. We trained Wistar rats using the Bisection Procedure (Experiment 1) or the Stubbs' Procedure (Experiment 2) to discriminate between short and long light stimuli. Once training finished, we administered caffeine orally (0, 9.

Evaluation of atherosclerosis as a risk factor in COPD patients by measuring the carotid intima-media thickness.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate atherosclerosis as comorbidity by measuring the carotid (bulb and common carotid artery) Carotid intima-media thickness in COPD-diagnosed patients and to evaluate the relationship of atherosclerosis with the prevalence of COPD, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.

Methods: This study was conducted out between January 2019-December 2019 consisting of a total of 140 participants (70 COPD-diagnosed patients-70 healthy individuals). The COPD-diagnosed patients have been planned according to the selection and diagnosis criteria as per the GOLD 2019 guide.

Anatomical Variations of the Musculocutaneous Nerve in the Human Fetus.

Objectives: Knowing the motor branches and variations of the musculocutaneous nerve to the muscles along its course will facilitate the treatment of flexor spasticity and supracondylar fractures of the humerus in order to minimize nerve lesion. In fetal cadavers, the purpose of our study was to determine the number and course of the formation variations and motor branches of the musculocutaneous nerve. The significance of studying fetal nerve variations is due to injury to the brachial plexus roots during birth.

The efficacy of F-FDG PET/CT in monitoring disease progression in malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Objective: In the event of suspicion of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) progression, imaging plays an important role. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of F-FDG PET/CT in monitoring disease progression by comparing it with CT, and estimate median overall survival (OS) according to progression status with CT and F-FDG PET/CT.

Materials And Methods: This was an observational, retrospective, single-institution study with MPM patients who had both F-FDG PET/CT and CT for monitoring disease progression from March 2009 to February 2020.