On-site physiotherapy in older emergency department patients following a fall: a randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: Greater fear of falling (FOF) is associated with an increased risk of falling in patients aged 65 and older. This study aims to assess the impact of physiotherapy on FOF in older patients and investigates the feasibility of such an intervention in the emergency department (ED) setting.

Methods: All patients aged 65 or older, who presented to the ED of the University Hospital Basel after a fall between January 2022 and June 2023 were screened for inclusion.

Time-frequency analysis of event-related brain recordings: Effect of noise on power.

In neuroscience, time-frequency analysis is widely used to investigate brain rhythms in brain recordings. In event-related protocols, it is applied to quantify how the brain responds to a stimulation repeated over many trials. We here focus on two common measures: the power of the transform for each single trial averaged across trials, avgPOW; and the power of the transform of the average evoked potential, POWavg.

Time-Frequency Analysis of Event-Related Brain Recordings: Connecting Power of Evoked Potential and Inter-Trial Coherence.

Objective: In neuroscience, time-frequency analysis has been used to get insight into brain rhythms from brain recordings. In event-related protocols, one applies it to investigate how the brain responds to a stimulation repeated over many trials. In this framework, three measures have been considered: the amplitude of the transform for each single trial averaged across trials, avgAMP; inter-trial phase coherence, ITC; and the power of the evoked potential transform, POWavg.

Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in an inpatient population in the Swiss Canton of Basel-Country.

Aims: Vitamin D deficiency remains very common in the general population. Adding to the importance of this issue is the discovery that vitamin D plays a role in many other tissues apart from the bone, including muscle, brain, prostate, breast and colon. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in a large group of patients hospitalised in the cantonal hospital Basel-Country, and analysed the dependence of serum vitamin D concentrations on gender, time of the year and age.

The Flipside of Eradicating a Disease; Human African Trypanosomiasis in a Woman in Rural Democratic Republic of Congo: A Case Report.

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a neglected disease caused by the protozoan parasites Trypanosoma brucei and transmitted by tsetse flies that progresses in two phases. Symptoms in the first phase include fever, headaches, pruritus, lymphadenopathy, and in certain cases, hepato- and splenomegaly. Neurological disorders such as sleep disorder, aggressive behavior, logorrhea, psychotic reactions, and mood changes are signs of the second stage of the disease.