A Neural Mechanism of Cue-Outcome Expectancy Generated by the Interaction Between Orbitofrontal Cortex and Amygdala.

Taste perception is important for animals to take adequate nutrients and avoid toxins for their survival. Appetitive and aversive behaviors are produced by value evaluation of taste and taste expectation caused by other sensations. The value evaluation, coupled with a cue presentation, produces outcome expectation and guides flexible behaviors when the environment is changed.

Secondary osteoporosis in long-term bedridden patients with cerebral palsy.

Background: The aim of the present paper was to investigate 20 pediatric patients with cerebral palsy and secondary osteoporosis and consider the efficacy, influence and index of treatment.

Methods: A total of 10 boys and 10 girls, age 1-16 years (mean 7.6 years) with secondary osteoporosis and cerebral palsy treated for 6 months, were studied.

[A case of intractable epilepsy showing frequent gelastic seizures by administration of clobazam].

A 13-year-old boy patient had severe mental retardation and spastic quadriplegia due to fetal distress and hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in the perinatal period. He suffered from West syndrome at the age of 7 months, and subsequently was diagnosed as having symptomatic localization-related epilepsy. His intractable epileptic seizures were not controlled by combination of various antiepileptic drugs.