(SKC) and (FSKC) are economically important resources exploited in southern South America. The effect of refrigerated storage (4 °C on flake ice) on physico-chemical (pH, thiobarbituric reactive substances (TBARs), total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N), water holding capacity (WHC), and water content (WC)), microbiological (total viable mesophilic bacteria (TVMC), psychrotrophic bacteria (TVPC), spp, coliforms, enterobacteria, molds and yeasts) and sensory (odor, appearance, texture, juiciness, and taste) parameters was analyzed in the cooked SKC and FSKC . For each species, cooked from 36 animals were randomly distributed into 6 groups, corresponding to 0, 2, 5, 8, 11, and 14 days of storage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Handwriting deteriorates proportionally to the writer's cognitive state. Such knowledge is of special importance in the case of a contested will, where dementia of the testator is claimed, but medical records are often insufficient to decide what the testator's cognitive state really was. By contrast, if the will is handwritten, handwriting analysis allows us to gauge the testator's cognitive state at the precise moment when he/she was writing the will.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Autoimmune encephalitis (AE) is a rare inflammatory disorder characterized by important psychiatric and neurologic symptoms. The literature documents high rates of neuropsychological dysfunction in N-methyl D-aspartate-receptor (NMDAr) encephalitis but papers don't consider specifically calculation disturbances between the long-term deficits, although deficits in executive control and episodic memory were less likely to resolve.
Case Report: Here we present a severe case of NMDAr encephalitis in a young patient without a relevant past medical history.
We describe a rare case of intracranial malignant triton tumor (MTT) arising in the middle cranial fossa in a 74-year-old female patient who had previously been exposed to radiation in the Chernobyl disaster. The patient underwent a surgical subtotal removal of the mass and radiation therapy, but the progression-free survival was only 2.5 months and death occurred four months after the onset of symptoms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany years after its initial description, paratonia remains a poorly understood concept. It is described as the inability to relax muscles during muscle tone assessment with the subject involuntary facilitating or opposing the examiner. Although related to cognitive impairment and frontal lobe function, the underlying mechanisms have not been clarified.
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