Happiness Detected by the Emotion Cognition System Is Associated with Burnout in an Information Technology Products and Services Trading Company.

(1) Background: Although many previous studies have found an association between burnout and emotions, none have examined the association between emotions detected by an emotion cognition system and burnout. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the emotions detected by the emotion cognition system and burnout among workers. We hypothesized that burnout survivors are less likely to express their emotions as facial expressions.

Validity of intraoperative ECoG in the parahippocampal gyrus as an indicator of hippocampal epileptogenicity.

Purpose: Intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG) in the parahippocampal gyrus is sometimes used as a substitute for intraoperative ECoG in the hippocampus. This study aimed to elucidate the validity of parahippocampal ECoG as an indicator of hippocampal epileptogenicity.

Methods: We retrospectively identified 10 patients with drug-resistant unilateral mesial temporal lobe epilepsy who achieved Engel class I or II after anteromedial temporal lobectomy.

Effect of retinoic acid signaling on Ripply3 expression and pharyngeal arch morphogenesis in mouse embryos.

Background: Pharyngeal arches (PA) are sequentially generated in an anterior-to-posterior order. Ripply3 is essential for posterior PA development in mouse embryos and its expression is sequentially activated in ectoderm and endoderm prior to formation of each PA. Since the PA phenotype of Ripply3 knockout (KO) mice is similar to that of retinoic acid (RA) signal-deficient embryos, we investigated the relationship between RA signaling and Ripply3 in mouse embryos.

Effects of sevoflurane anesthesia on intraoperative high-frequency oscillations in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

Purpose: This is a cross-sectional study without an unexposed group. We elucidated the effects of sevoflurane anesthesia on high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) to examine the usefulness of assessing intraoperative HFOs.

Methods: We recorded electrocorticography in seven patients with medication-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) caused by unilateral hippocampal sclerosis who were seizure-free after temporal lobectomy.

Questionnaire dataset: Attitude of epileptologists and obstetricians to pregnancy among women with epilepsy.

This data article presents supplementary material for our report "Role of obstetricians in promoting pregnancy-related knowledge among women with epilepsy in Japan" (Egawa et al. 2020). To provide more effective preconception counseling and perinatal care, we surveyed the attitude of epileptologists and obstetricians about pregnancy-related issues in women with epilepsy (WWE).

Role of obstetricians in promoting pregnancy-related knowledge among women with epilepsy in Japan.

The importance of informing women with epilepsy (WWE) of pregnancy-related issues when they are of reproductive age is well recognized. However, in Japan, education on pregnancy-related issues for these patients is insufficient. Obstetricians encounter patients who have self-discontinued their medications upon realizing they are pregnant.

Physician requests by patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma in Japan.

Background: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a fatal and rare disease that is caused by the inhalation of asbestos. Treatment and care requests made by MPM patients to their physicians were collected and analyzed.

Methods: This cross-sectional survey was part of a larger study (N = 133) regarding the quality of life of MPM patients.

Public awareness and experiences associated with epilepsy in Japan, 2013-2017.

Background: Public attitudes and stigma toward epilepsy may limit people with epilepsy (PWE) in seeking treatment and participating in social activities. The prevalence of epilepsy is approximately 0.8% in Japan, similar to rates reported in other countries.

Vowel-speech versus pure-tone processing in healthy subjects.

To investigate the characteristics of speech perception, we evaluated the differences in mismatch negativity (MMN) between vowel change and frequency change. Additionally, we examined the effects of gender, age, and educational length on MMN. Forty healthy adults (21 females), who were native Japanese speakers, participated in the study.

Quality of life of survivors of malignant pleural mesothelioma in Japan: a cross sectional study.

Background: Previous studies have indicated that people with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) have a poor quality of life (QOL); however, information about the QOL of people with MPM in Japan is anecdotal. The aims of this study were to investigate the QOL of survivors of MPM in Japan and to determine the factors that correlate with their QOL.

Methods: This was a cross sectional study.

Longitudinal investigation into implicit stigma of epilepsy among Japanese medical students before and after mass media coverage of car accidents associated with people with epilepsy.

Objective: Public attitudes and stigma toward epilepsy may limit patient motivation for treatment and participation in social activities. Stigma research requiring individuals to report personal beliefs is useful but is subject to social desirability bias. Self-reporting methods often do not capture implicit attitudes; therefore, in this study, implicit stigma was measured using the implicit association test (IAT), which is a word sorting task to minimize this bias.

Nutritional counseling regulates interdialytic weight gain and blood pressure in outpatients receiving maintenance hemodialysis.

Maintenance hemodialysis outpatients must limit salt and water intake to maintain electrolyte balance and blood pressure. In Kawashima Hospital, nationally registered dietitians provide hemodialysis patients with monthly nutritional counseling. We investigated whether nutritional counseling affects interdialytic weight gain (IDWG) and blood pressure.

Clinical effects of long-term (36-month) lanthanum carbonate administration in hemodialysis patients in Japan.

In this study, we investigated the clinical effects of long-term administration of the phosphorus (P) binder lanthanum carbonate (LC), which was launched in Japan in 2009. The subjects were 58 dialysis patients who began receiving LC, and we evaluated the clinical effects for up to 36 months after treatment initiation. The average serum P concentration remained low during the 36-month study period, with a significant reduction from 6.

[Formation of oxalate in oxaliplatin injection diluted with infusion solutions].

Oxaliplatin use can cause acute peripheral neuropathy characterized by sensory paresthesias, which are markedly exacerbated by exposure to cold temperatures, and is a dose-limiting factor in the treatment of colorectal cancer.Oxalate is eliminated in a series of nonenzymatic conversions of oxaliplatin in infusion solutions or biological fluids.Elimination of oxalate from oxaliplatin has been suggested as one of the reasons for the development of acute neuropathy.

Changes in the duration and frequency of deviant stimuli engender different mismatch negativity patterns in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event-related potential (ERP) component that reflects preattentive sensory memory functions. Previous research revealed that MMN is generated by distinct sources in the frontal and temporal lobes. Event-related potential abnormalities have been shown in the vicinity of seizure foci in epilepsy.

Pre-attentive auditory processing of non-scale pitch in absolute pitch possessors.

Absolute pitch (AP) refers to the ability to identify the pitch of sound without reference. To clarify the neurophysiological characteristics of AP, we compared mismatch negativity (MMN) elicited by scale and non-scale notes between AP possessors and non-AP individuals. Eight individuals who were able to identify pitch with perfect accuracy were defined as AP possessors.

Distinct pre-attentive responses to non-scale notes: an auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) study.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine patterns of neural activity in response to variations in scale notes and alterations from a scale note to a non-scale note.

Methods: Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in response to scale and non-scale violin notes using an odd-ball mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm. Standard stimuli were set to the scale note A4 (440 Hz).

Aroma helps to preserve information processing resources of the brain in healthy subjects but not in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Purpose: Inhalation of ylang-ylang aroma has been shown to reduce the auditory P300, an event-related potential thought to reflect higher-order processing. Because olfactory function is sometimes disturbed in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the objective of the present study was to determine whether the effect of ylang-ylang aroma on the auditory P300 was impaired in patients with TLE.

Method: Fourteen subjects with TLE and 14 healthy controls participated in this study.

A case of (double) ANCA-negative granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's).

A 60-year-old man had experienced cough, bloody sputum, and a 38 °C fever for 1.5 months. He visited an outpatient clinic and received antibiotics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

Mismatch negativity for speech sounds in temporal lobe epilepsy.

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an electrophysiological trace of change detection, measured by electroencephalography (EEG), and is a reliable marker for pre-attentive auditory sensory memory. We used a phonetic oddball paradigm in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) to elicit the MMN response at fronto-central sites and the mismatch positivity (MMP) response at mastoid sites. The MMN in 26 patients was compared with that of 26 age- and gender-matched healthy control participants.

Abnormal mismatch negativity for pure-tone sounds in temporal lobe epilepsy.

Auditory processing abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) were assessed by investigating mismatch negativity (MMN) in a group of 20 TLE patients and 20 healthy control subjects. MMN is an event-related potential (ERP) component that reflects pre-attentive sensory memory function. A passive oddball paradigm using frequency changes in sinusoidal tones was employed to evoke MMN.

Dynamic Granger-Geweke causality modeling with application to interictal spike propagation.

A persistent problem in developing plausible neurophysiological models of perception, cognition, and action is the difficulty of characterizing the interactions between different neural systems. Previous studies have approached this problem by estimating causal influences across brain areas activated during cognitive processing using structural equation modeling (SEM) and, more recently, with Granger-Geweke causality. While SEM is complicated by the need for a priori directional connectivity information, the temporal resolution of dynamic Granger-Geweke estimates is limited because the underlying autoregressive (AR) models assume stationarity over the period of analysis.

A case of lupus nephritis with diffuse podocytic infolding into the glomerular basement membrane.

In this manuscript, we describe a case of lupus nephritis with diffuse podocytic infolding in the glomerular basement membrane (GBM). A 23-year-old woman presenting with proteinuria, leukopenia, a high value of antinuclear antibody, and positive for anti-dsDNA and anti-Sm antibodies was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus. A renal biopsy was performed which showed diffuse change in the GBM and focal segmental mesangial hypercellularity under light microscopy.