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Response Inhibition in Tic Disorders: Waiting to Respond Is Harder When ADHD Is Present.

J Atten Disord

March 2016

Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Objective: Tic disorders such as Gilles-de-la-Tourette syndrome (TS) are associated with difficulties in withholding movements and sometimes inappropriate actions. The present study examined whether these disorders lead to a specific difficulty in withholding preprogrammed voluntary movements irrespective of decisions on whether or not to move.

Method: Children with TS with or without attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and controls performed a fast-paced simple reaction time task involving responses to a target in a rapid letter stream (9 letters/s, average foreperiod 332 ms) with feedback on response speed.

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Human papillomavirus distribution in invasive cervical carcinoma in sub-Saharan Africa: could HIV explain the differences?

Trop Med Int Health

December 2012

Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada  Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center, Montreal, QC, Canada  Unit of Infections and Cancer, Institut Català d'Oncologia, Barcelona, Spain  CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain  Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal  Faculté de Médecine, Université de Bamako, Bamako, Mali  Hôpital Principal de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal  Department of Pathology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda  Lagos University Teaching Hospital Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria  Red Temàtica de Investigaciòn Cooperativa en Càncer, RTICC, Barcelona, Spain.

Objectives: To describe human papillomavirus (HPV) distribution in invasive cervical carcinoma (ICC) from Mali and Senegal and to compare type-specific relative contribution among sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.

Methods: A multicentric study was conducted to collect paraffin-embedded blocks of ICC. Polymerase chain reaction, DNA enzyme immunoassay and line probe assay were performed for HPV detection and genotyping.

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