Publications by authors named "J Robert Britton"
Background: The COVID‐19 pandemic had a major impact on healthcare, contributing to a mass exodus of the workforce. This poses a concern for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) care, which benefits from consistent care routine and staff that know the resident. Therefore, it is important to understand nursing home staff perspectives on maintaining high staff morale, which impacts recruitment, retention, and care quality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Seizures, including status epilepticus (SE), are common in anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (NMDARE). We aimed to describe clinical and electrographic features of patients with seizures with NMDARE, determine factors associated with SE, and describe long-term seizure outcomes.
Methods: We retrospectively identified patients with seizures in the setting of NMDARE treated at inpatient Mayo Clinic sites during the acute phase of encephalitis between October 2008 and March 2023.
Introduction: During centrifuge-simulated suborbital spaceplane flights, launch and re-entry frequently cause visual symptoms, and G-induced loss of consciousness can occur. G-related effects may be more prominent during re-entry from microgravity on actual flights. A modified anti-G maneuver that does not involve a breath strain and is suitable for members of the public may be effective against these effects.
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- The Phonological Mismatch Negativity (PMN) is a brain response indicating how the brain processes phonological (speech sound) information, particularly when there's a violation of expected phonemes.
- In a study, participants listened to three-syllable words and three-note tunes, focusing either on the language or music, and were tested for their reactions when the first sounds mismatched what they expected.
- Results showed the PMN only occurred with phoneme mismatches and not with musical mismatches, suggesting it might be specifically sensitive to language, but further investigation is needed to clarify its relationship with other brain responses like the N400.