Short bowel syndrome with intestinal failure in adults.

Short bowel syndrome is a rare condition that can lead to intestinal failure. It occurs as a congenital condition or due to massive small bowel resection. This article provides an overview of this condition in adult patients, including diagnosis and treatment in inpatient and outpatient settings.

Similarities Between Somatosensory Cortical Responses Induced Natural Touch and Microstimulation in the Ventral Posterior Lateral Thalamus in Macaques.

Lost sensations, such as touch, could be restored by microstimulation (MiSt) along the sensory neural substrate. Such neuroprosthetic sensory information can be used as feedback from an invasive brain-machine interface (BMI) to control a robotic arm/hand, such that tactile and proprioceptive feedback from the sensorized robotic arm/hand is directly given to the BMI user. Microstimulation in the human somatosensory thalamus (Vc) has been shown to produce somatosensory perceptions.

Insomnia: Behavioral Treatment in the Elderly.

Sleep quality in elderly individuals is affected by increased mental and physical health issues associated with aging, but also a decrease in sleep drive and an advance of the circadian phase. These issues may, in part, be due to lifestyle changes in older adults, such as retirement and/or reduced social and physical activity, which can lead to spending more time in bed, resulting in chronic insomnia. Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia has been shown to be an effective treatment method for difficulty sleeping in elderly individuals and should be the first-line treatment due to its efficacy and safety profile.

A qualitative analysis to identify the elements that support department level change in the life sciences: The PULSE Vision & Change Recognition Program.

The 2011 report, Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action, provided the impetus to mobilize the undergraduate life sciences education community to affect change in order to enhance the educational experiences of life sciences majors. The work of the appointed Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) Vision and Change (V&C) Leadership Fellows has focused on the development of programs and resources to support departmental change. In this report, we present a qualitative assessment of several documents generated from the PULSE V&C Leadership Fellow Recognition Team.

The PULSE Vision & Change Rubrics, Version 1.0: A Valid and Equitable Tool to Measure Transformation of Life Sciences Departments at All Institution Types.

The PULSE Vision & Change Rubrics, version 1.0, assess life sciences departments' progress toward implementation of the principles of the Vision and Change report. This paper reports on the development of the rubrics, their validation, and their reliability in measuring departmental change aligned with the Vision and Change recommendations.

Characterization of the chondroitin sulfates in wild type Caenorhabditis elegans.

The purpose of this study was to isolate and characterize the GAGs from the wild type nematode Caenorhabditis elegans in preparation for the characterization of the transgenic form constructed by Link [Proc. Natl. Acad.