Publications by authors named "R J JAFFE"
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- * Using health and tax data from 2007 to 2017 on 18,050 TBI patients, the research found significant income reductions—averaging CAD $7,635 in the first year and CAD $5,000 by the third year after injury—compared to uninjured individuals.
- * Additionally, 7.8% of TBI survivors became newly unemployed each year after their injury, highlighting the ongoing socioeconomic challenges faced by these individuals.
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- The study aimed to assess changes in hemoglobin levels and kidney function in patients 5-12 months after undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), along with exploring the relationship between these changes.
- After TAVR, the average hemoglobin level significantly improved, with anemia in patients decreasing from 67.5% to 53.9%, even though there was a slight decline in kidney function.
- The analysis did not find specific clinical predictors for ongoing anemia post-TAVR, suggesting that TAVR may help reduce gastrointestinal blood loss associated with severe aortic stenosis (AS).
The current understanding of sensory and motor cortical areas has been defined by the existence of topographical maps across the brain surface, however, higher cortical areas, such as the prefrontal cortex, seem to lack an equivalent organization, and only limited evidence of functional clustering of neurons with similar stimulus properties is evident in them. We thus sought to examine whether neurons that represent similar spatial and object information are clustered in the monkey prefrontal cortex and whether such an organization only emerges as a result of training. To this end, we analyzed neurophysiological recordings from male macaque monkeys before and after training in spatial and shape working memory tasks.
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