Learning Impact of a Virtual Brain Electrical Activity Simulator Among Neurophysiology Students: Mixed-Methods Intervention Study.

Background: Virtual simulation is the re-creation of reality depicted on a computer screen. It offers the possibility to exercise motor and psychomotor skills. In biomedical and medical education, there is an attempt to find new ways to support students' learning in neurophysiology.

Evaluation of patients' sleep by nurses in an ICU.

Aims And Objectives: To determine how intensive care unit evaluations of patients' sleep by nurses correspond to polysomnography and if changes in patients' physiologic parameters could be helpful in sleep evaluation.

Background: The evaluations of patients' sleep by nurses have not corresponded very well with objective sleep recordings, so there is a need for further knowledge in this field.

Design: Correlational study of patients' sleep, nurses' sleep evaluations and the sleep-related heart rate and blood pressure changes.

Sleep and nursing care activities in an intensive care unit.

This study aimed to describe the quality of sleep of non-intubated patients and the night-time nursing care activities in an intensive care unit. The study also aimed to evaluate the effect of nursing care activities on the quality of sleep. An overnight polysomnography was performed in 21 alert, non-intubated, non-sedated adult patients, and all nursing care activities that involved touching the patient were documented by the bedside nurse.

Early surgery improves the cure of aneurysm-induced oculomotor palsy.

Background: Aneurysm of the internal carotid-posterior communicating artery (ICA-PCoA) is the most frequent cause of sudden unilateral oculomotor palsy. Timely surgery for the aneurysm is the most important factor for third nerve recovery.

Methods: We scrutinized the world literature with nearly one thousand cases of isolated unilateral oculomotor palsy caused by intracranial aneurysms and treated with surgery.

Management outcome in third ventricular colloid cysts in a defined population: a series of 40 patients treated mainly by transcallosal microsurgery.

Background: Third ventricular colloid cysts account for 0.5% - 1.5% of all intracranial tumors.