Publications by authors named "M Baertschi"
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- Nearly half of astronauts experience "Spaceflight associated neuro-ocular syndrome" (SANS) after long-duration missions, with the exact causes still unclear.
- This study will involve healthy subjects undergoing parabolic flights that simulate microgravity to investigate changes in retinal blood circulation using advanced imaging techniques.
- By examining retinal vessel changes and measuring intra-ocular pressure during these flights, the research seeks to determine if these factors play a role in the development of SANS.
Background: Despite successful functional neurosurgery, patients suffering from epilepsy or Parkinson's disease may experience postoperative psychological distress and social maladjustments. Difficulties in coping with postoperative changes, even positive ones, have shown to be related to patients' presurgery cognitive representations (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is a debate on possible alterations of self-identity following deep brain stimulation for neurological disorders including Parkinson's disease. Among the psychological variables likely to undergo changes throughout such a medical procedure, illness representations and coping strategies have not been the target of much research to this day. In order to remedy this, we investigated the dynamics of illness representations and coping strategies in an 18-month longitudinal study involving 45 patients undergoing deep brain stimulation for idiopathic Parkinson's disease.
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