Can Verbal Interview Decrease Preoperative Anxiety and Postoperative Discomfort in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Patients?: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Background: Preoperative anxiety is a condition that can be seen frequently in oral and maxillofacial surgery patients and affects the recovery process.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of preoperative educational or informative interviews on preoperative anxiety levels and postoperative discomfort in patients undergoing oral and maxillofacial surgery.

Study Design, Setting, And Sample: This prospective randomized clinical trial involved patients who underwent oral and maxillofacial surgery at Aydın-Adnan-Menderes University, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Hospital.

The effect of subperichondrial dissection on nasal vascularity in septorhinoplasty operations.

Purpose: Nasal vascularization runs above the superficial musculoaponeurotic system (SMAS). Perichondrium covers the lower and upper lateral cartilages. In this study, nasal vascularization was compared between subperichondrial and supraperichondrial dissection in closed septorhinoplasty.

Cholinergic control of striatal GABAergic microcircuits.

Cholinergic interneurons (CINs) are essential elements of striatal circuits and functions. Although acetylcholine signaling via muscarinic receptors (mAChRs) has been well studied, more recent data indicate that postsynaptic nicotinic receptors (nAChRs) located on striatal GABAergic interneurons (GINs) are equally critical. One example is that CIN stimulation induces large disynaptic inhibition of striatal projection neurons (SPNs) mediated by nAChR activation of GINs.

Efficiency of hypericum perforatum, povidone iodine, tincture benzoin and tretinoin on wound healing.

Different topical agents have been used to accelerate wound healing. The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and efficacy of topical application of the extract of Hypericum perforatum (HPE), povidone iodine (PI), tincture benzoin (TB) and tretinoin (T) on surgical wound healing. Ten adult female, Wistar albino rats were included in the study.

A behavioral paradigm for cortical control of a robotic actuator by freely moving rats in a one-dimensional two-target reaching task.

Background: Controlling the trajectory of a neuroprosthesis to reach distant targets is a commonly used brain-machine interface (BMI) task in primates and has not been available for rodents yet.

New Method: Here, we describe a novel, fine-tuned behavioral paradigm and setup which enables this task for rats in one-dimensional space for reaching two distant targets depending on their limited cognitive and visual capabilities compared to those of primates. An online transform was used to convert the activity of a pair of primary motor cortex (M1) units into two robotic actions.