Virtual reality as a telerehabilitation strategy for people with autism spectrum disorder during the COVID-19 quarantine scenario: physical activity, motor performance and enjoyment.

Purpose: People with autism spectrum disorder could benefit from physical activity during the pandemic and COVID-19 restrictions, mainly to maintain adequate physical activity. We aimed to evaluate the feasibility, enjoyment, and potential effect of telerehabilitation using a serious game named 'MoveHero'.

Materials And Methods: Registered in Clinical Trials (NCT04402034).

Cardiac autonomic modulation in response to postural transition during a virtual reality task in individuals with spinal cord injury: A cross-sectional study.

Purpose: The postural transition from sitting to standing is a moment of dysautonomic occurrence in individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). Different tools can be used to minimize this event, such as virtual reality. Thus, we aimed to analyze cardiac autonomic modulation in individuals with SCI during postural transition from the sitting to orthostatism position using a cognitive virtual reality (VR) task.

Effect of Longitudinal Practice in Real and Virtual Environments on Motor Performance, Physical Activity and Enjoyment in People with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Prospective Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial.

(1) Background: People with ASD commonly present difficulty performing motor skills and a decline in physical activity (PA) level and low enjoyment of PA. We aimed to evaluate whether longitudinal practice of an activity in virtual and real environments improves motor performance and whether this improvement is transferred to a subsequent practice when changing the environment, promoting PA and providing enjoyment; (2) Methods: People with ASD, aged between 10 and 16 years, were included and distributed randomly into two opposite sequences. The participants performed a 10 session protocol, with five sessions practicing in each environment (virtual or real).

Comparison of cardiac autonomic modulation of athletes and non-athletes individuals with spinal cord injury at rest and during a non-immersive virtual reality task.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To compare cardiac autonomic modulation of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) that practice different amounts of moderate to vigorous physical activity (PA) and able-bodied controls at rest and during a non-immersive Virtual Reality task.

Setting: Athletes with SCI of wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, wheelchair handball, WCMX (wheelchair motocross), and para-swimming were assessed at the Faca na Cadeira Institute, ICEL and Clube Espéria in São Paulo, Brazil; non-athletes with SCI and able-bodied controls were assessed at the Acreditando Centro de Recuperação Neuromotora, São Paulo, Brazil.

Oral HPV16 DNA as a screening tool to detect early oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.

Given that oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) have now surpassed cervical cancer as the most common human papillomavirus (HPV)-driven cancer, there is an interest in developing non-invasive predictive biomarkers to early detect HPV-driven OPSCC. In total, 665 cancer-free individuals were recruited from Queensland, Australia. Oral HPV16 DNA positivity in those individuals was determined by our in-house developed sensitive PCR method.

Oral HPV16 Prevalence in Oral Potentially Malignant Disorders and Oral Cavity Cancers.

The role of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) in oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMD) and oral cavity carcinoma (OC) is still under debate. We investigated HPV16 prevalence in unstimulated saliva, oral rinse samples, oral swabs and tumour biopsies collected from OPMD ( = 83) and OC ( = 106) patients. HPV16 genotype, viral load, physical status (episomal vs.

Systematic Review of the Main Motor Scales for Clinical Assessment of Individuals with down Syndrome.

: The aim of the present review was to identify the motor scales currently used to assess individuals with Down Syndrome (DS).: PubMed, WOS and BVS databases were systematically searched to identify the most relevant published studies that used motor scales in the evaluation of individuals with DS.: Of the 99 studies that met the eligibility criteria in this process, 20 experimental and observational studies were found to fully meet the eligibility criteria.

Motor learning and transfer between real and virtual environments in young people with autism spectrum disorder: A prospective randomized cross over controlled trial.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction, including impaired multisensory integration, which might negatively impact cognitive and motor skill performance, and hence negatively affect learning of tasks. Considering that tasks in virtual environment may provide an engaging tool as adjuncts to conventional therapies, we set out to compare motor performance between young people with ASD and a typically developing (TD) control group that underwent coincident timing tasks based on Kinect (no physical contact) and on Keyboard (with physical contact) environments. Using a randomized repeated cross-over controlled trial design, 50 young people with ASD and 50 with TD, matched by age and sex were divided into subgroups of 25 people that performed the two first phases of the study (acquisition and retention) on the same device-real or virtual-and then switched to the other device to repeat acquisition and retention phases and finally switched on to a touch screen (transfer phase).

Fractal correlations and linear analyses of heart rate variability in healthy young people with different levels of physical activity.

Changes in cardiac autonomic regulation, expressed by increased sympathetic activity and decreased heart rate variability, have an important relationship with the onset of lethal cardiac phenomena. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the cardiac autonomic behaviour in young people according to their level of physical activity. Through the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, 55 healthy young non-smokers with no history of previous diseases and whose parents did not suffer from metabolic syndrome were assessed and divided into groups: sedentary (n=12), insufficiently active (n=16), active (n=14), and very active (n=13).

Achievement of Virtual and Real Objects Using a Short-Term Motor Learning Protocol in People with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: A Crossover Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To evaluate whether people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) practicing a task in a virtual environment could improve performance given a similar task in a real environment, as well as distinguishing whether there is transference between performing the practice in virtual environment and then a real environment and vice versa.

Methods: Twenty-two people with DMD were evaluated and divided into two groups. The goal was to reach out and touch a red cube.

Management of invasive cervical resorption using a surgical approach followed by an internal approach after 2 months due to pulpal involvement.

Invasive cervical resorption (ICR) is an aggressive and invasive form of external tooth resorption that commences in the cervical region which can be managed using either a nonsurgical, surgical or a combination of nonsurgical and surgical approach. The restoration of resorptive defects having a coronal and radicular extent can be challenging as a single material cannot be used to restore the entire defect. This case presented with Heithersay's Class 3 ICR lesion in tooth #12, which was managed initially using a surgical approach and restoration of ICR defect with a combination of resin modified glass ionomer cement, composite resin and mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA).

Motor learning characterization in people with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.

Unlabelled: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder primarily characterized by deficits in social interaction, communication and implicit skill learning.

Objective: To analyse the results of research on "motor learning" and the means used for measuring "autistic disorder".

Methods: A systematic literature search was done using Medline/PubMed, Web of Science, BVS (virtual health library), and PsycINFO.

Motor performance of individuals with cerebral palsy in a virtual game using a mobile phone.

Objectives: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a permanent disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture that is caused by damage to the immature and developing brain. Research has shown that Virtual Reality (VR) technology can be used in rehabilitation to support the acquisition of motor skills and the achievement of functional tasks. The aim of this study was to explore for improvements in the performance of individuals with CP with practice in the use of a virtual game on a mobile phone and to compare their performance with that of the control group.

Improvements in motor tasks through the use of smartphone technology for individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Background: In individuals severely affected with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), virtual reality has recently been used as a tool to enhance community interaction. Smartphones offer the exciting potential to improve communication, access, and participation, and present the unique opportunity to directly deliver functionality to people with disabilities.

Objective: To verify whether individuals with DMD improve their motor performance when undertaking a visual motor task using a smartphone game.

Acute myelomonocytic leukemia presenting with gingival enlargement as the only clinical manifestation.

A 34 year old woman reported for evaluation of generalized gingival swelling pain and bleeding. The patient also reported menstrual irregularities. Based on the oral and systemic examinations and hematological investigations, a provisional diagnosis of 'menstrual cycle associated gingivitis' was made.

Long-term clinical evaluation of platelet-rich plasma in the treatment of human periodontal intraosseous defects: A comparative clinical trial.

Objective: To compare the long-term clinical outcomes obtained by the combination of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and a porous hydroxyapatite at the test site with those obtained from the use of a mixture of hydroxyapatite and saline at the control site in the treatment of human intraosseous defects.

Method And Materials: Sixty healthy, nonsmoking subjects diagnosed with chronic periodontitis were included in this study. Using a split-mouth design, intraosseous defects were surgically treated with a combination of PRP and a porous hydroxyapatite or a mixture of hydroxyapatite and saline.

Sequential Bayesian kernel modelling with non-Gaussian noise.

This paper presents a sequential Bayesian approach to kernel modelling of data, which contain unusual observations and outliers. The noise is heavy tailed described as a one-dimensional mixture distribution of Gaussians. The development uses a factorised variational approximation to the posterior of all unknowns, that helps to perform tractable Bayesian inference at two levels: (1) sequential estimation of the weights distribution (including its mean vector and covariance matrix); and (2) recursive updating of the noise distribution and batch evaluation of the weights prior distribution.