Descriptive Assessment of Race, Ethnicity, Comorbidities, and SARS-CoV-2 Infection- Fatality in North Carolina.

Background: SARS-CoV-2 infection has caused variable clinical outcomes including hospitalization and death. We analyzed state-level data from the North Carolina COVID-19 Surveillance System (NC COVID) to describe demographics of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 and to describe factors associated with infection-fatality in North Carolina.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study using surveillance data on positive SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals (N = 214,179) identified between March 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020.

Rural-urban outcome differences associated with COVID-19 hospitalizations in North Carolina.

People living in rural regions in the United States face more health challenges than their non-rural counterparts which could put them at additional risks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Few studies have examined if rurality is associated with additional mortality risk among those hospitalized for COVID-19. We studied a retrospective cohort of 3,991 people hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infections discharged between March 1 and September 30, 2020 in one of 17 hospitals in North Carolina that collaborate as a clinical data research network.

Mindfulness-based strengths practice improves well-being and retention in undergraduates: a preliminary randomized controlled trial.

With high rates of mental health concerns on college campuses, effective positive psychology interventions could greatly improve student well-being and academic outcomes. Working undergraduates (N = 52). This preliminary, randomized controlled trial investigated the effects of the 8-week Mindfulness-based strengths practice (MBSP) on Seligman's five domains of well-being, as measured by the PERMA-Profiler, Workplace PERMA-Profiler, and student retention in working undergraduates.

Accuracy of self-perception and Body Mass Index compared to actual body fat percentage in athletes and non-athletes.

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the accuracy of self-reported weight status compared to weight status based on actual body fat percentage in athletes and non-athletes.

Methods: Adult athletes (N.=76; 43 female and 33 male) and non-athletes (N.

Lower extremity functional electrical stimulation cycling promotes physical and functional recovery in chronic spinal cord injury.

Objective: To examine the effect of long-term lower extremity functional electrical stimulation (FES) cycling on the physical integrity and functional recovery in people with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Retrospective cohort, mean follow-up 29.1 months, and cross-sectional evaluation.

Age-related hip proprioception declines: effects on postural sway and dynamic balance.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of age on hip proprioception, and determine whether age-related hip proprioception declines disrupt balance.

Design: Survey of proprioception and balance differences between 3 age groups.

Setting: University balance laboratory.

Contribution of hip joint proprioception to static and dynamic balance in cerebral palsy: a case control study.

Background: Balance problems are common in cerebral palsy (CP) but etiology is often uncertain. The classic Romberg test compares ability to maintain standing with eyes open versus closed. Marked instability without vision is a positive test and generally indicates proprioceptive loss.

Somatosensory-evoked cortical activity in spastic diplegic cerebral palsy.

Somatosensory deficits have been identified in cerebral palsy (CP), but associated cortical brain activity in CP remains poorly understood. Functional MRI was used to measure blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) responses during three tactile tasks in 10 participants with spastic diplegia (mean age: 18.70 years, SD: 7.

Functional connectivity for somatosensory and motor cortex in spastic diplegia.

Functional connectivity (fcMRI) was analyzed in individuals with spastic diplegia and age-matched controls. Pearson correlations (r-values) were computed between resting state spontaneous activity in selected seed regions (sROI) and each voxel throughout the brain. Seed ROI were centered on foci activated by tactile stimulation of the second fingertip in somatosensory and parietal dorsal attention regions.

Joint-position sense and kinesthesia in cerebral palsy.

Objectives: To examine joint-position sense and kinesthesia in all extremities in participants with diplegic or hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP).

Design: Survey of joint-position sense and kinesthesia differences between aged-matched controls and 2 groups with CP.

Setting: University movement assessment laboratory.

Multiple parietal operculum subdivisions in humans: tactile activation maps.

We focused the present analysis on blood-oxygen-level-dependent responses evoked in four architectonic subdivisions of human posterior parietal operculum (PO) during two groups of tasks involving either vibrotactile stimulation or rubbing different surfaces against the right index finger pad. Activity localized in previously defined parietal opercular subdivisions, OP 1-4, was co-registered to a standard cortical surface-based atlas. Four vibrotactile stimulation tasks involved attention to the parameters of paired vibrations: (1) detect rare target trials when vibration frequencies matched; (2) select the presentation order of the vibration with a higher frequency or (3) longer duration; and (4) divide attention between frequency and duration before selecting stimulus order.

Tactile sensory abilities in cerebral palsy: deficits in roughness and object discrimination.

Motor deficits in cerebral palsy (CP) have been well documented; however, associated sensory impairment in CP remains poorly understood. We examined tactile object recognition in the hands using geometric shapes, common objects, and capital letters. Discrimination of tactile roughness was tested using paired horizontal gratings of varied groove widths passively translated across the index finger.