Publications by authors named "J M Hupe"
In patients with left ventricular assist device (LVAD), infections and thrombotic events represent severe complications. We investigated device-specific local and systemic inflammation and its impact on cerebrovascular events (CVE) and mortality. In 118 LVAD patients referred for F-FDG-PET/CT, metabolic activity of LVAD components, thoracic aortic wall, lymphoid and hematopoietic organs, was quantified and correlated with clinical characteristics, laboratory findings, and outcome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe tested whether the acquisition of grapheme-color synesthesia during childhood is related to difficulties in written language learning by measuring whether it is more frequent in 79 children receiving speech and language therapy for such difficulties than in the general population of children (1.3%). By using criteria as similar as possible to those used in the reference study (Simner et al.
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- - Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is when some people automatically associate specific colors with letters or numbers, creating unique color perceptions that can shed light on how the brain processes color and imagination.
- - A study tested whether brain activity patterns for real colors and synaesthetic colors were similar using advanced imaging techniques, involving both synaesthetes and control participants, but found no shared neural circuits or differences in processing between the two groups.
- - The research concluded that understanding the brain's coding of synaesthetic color experiences is challenging and requires better methodologies, like larger sample sizes and improved imaging techniques, as there was no clear involvement of the brain's color network in these subjective experiences.
Background: Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) present with similar signs and symptoms, yet their treatment strategies differ greatly. AWS treatment includes the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment (CIWA) protocol, which grades withdrawal signs and symptoms. A major purpose of CIWA is to guide the addition and titration of central nervous system (CNS) depressants, most commonly benzodiazepines.
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