Effects of pro-cholinergic treatment in patients suffering from spatial neglect.

Spatial neglect is a neurological condition characterized by a breakdown of spatial cognition contralateral to hemispheric damage. Deficits in spatial attention toward the contralesional side are considered to be central to this syndrome. Brain lesions typically involve right fronto-parietal cortices mediating attentional functions and subcortical connections in underlying white matter.

[Adolescence and migration: an age of interbreeding].

The migrant adolescent can be looked at as a "hybrid", mixed race individual, who has to be cared for taking into account his migration journey. As a developing person, who is entangled between filiation, affiliation and migration, he needs to be approached as a cosmopolitan individual struggling with the construction of his identity and a sense of multiple belongings. This is why any health care provider must comprehend such situations within a complex network of stakeholders working in a non exclusive way, so to propose to the adolescent a complementary care which will enable him to find his own way in the world, even if he has not received parental support, such as in the case of non accompanied minors.

Management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Unlabelled: Standard recommendations for the clinical management of patient with ALS have been edited in recent years. These documents emphasise the importance of patient's autonomy.

Aim Of Study: To measure how these different recommendations can be applied in the context of a general hospital without a specific ALS clinic.

Plantar pressure distribution in Type 2 diabetic patients without peripheral neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease.

Aims: To evaluate the distribution of plantar pressure during walking on a level gradient in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus without any microvascular and macrovascular complications and to compare them with non-diabetic control subjects.

Methods: A group of 15 patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus without either peripheral neuropathy or peripheral vascular disease (PVD), as well as without both diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy, was compared with a group of 15 non-diabetic subjects matched for age, sex, body weight and height. The plantar pressure and duration of plantar pressure were measured on big toe, 1st, 3rd and 5th metatarsal heads, and on the heel of both feet by Force Sensing Resistors sensors.

Immunogenicity of trivalent subunit versus virosome-formulated influenza vaccines in geriatric patients.

The safety and immunogenicity of a commercial trivalent subunit influenza vaccine and an experimental virosome-formulated influenza vaccine were evaluated among geriatric patients in a double-blind, randomized manner. The virosome vaccine was produced by incorporating hemagglutinin (HA) into the membrane of liposomes composed of phosphatidylcholine. Both vaccines elicited a significant (P < 0.