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The relationship between depression, clinical pain, and experimental pain in a chronic pain cohort
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-05)
Objective Individuals with chronic pain frequently display comorbid depression, but the impact of symptoms of depression on pain processing is not completely understood. This study evaluated the effect of symptoms of ...
Predictors of Persistent Elbow Tendonitis Among Auto Assembly Workers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-09)
Introduction : Lateral and medial epicondylitis associated with work activity is a common upper extremity musculoskeletal disorder with a prevalence of 4–30% depending upon the work setting and diagnostic criteria. The ...
Momentary relationship between cortisol secretion and symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia Presented in part at the 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, San Antonio, TX, October 2004. The opinions and assertions expressed herein are those of the authors and are not to be construed as reflecting the views of the USUHS or the US Department of Defense.
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-11)
Objective To compare the momentary association between salivary cortisol levels and pain, fatigue, and stress symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia (FM), and to compare diurnal cycles of cortisol secretion in patients ...
Intratumoral injection of BCNU in ethanol (DTI-015) results in enhanced delivery to tumor – a pharmacokinetic study
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2005-07)
Solvent facilitated perfusion (SFP) has been proposed as a technique to increase the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents to tumors. SFP entails direct injection of the agent into the tumor in a water-miscible organic ...
Autosomal recessive primary generalized dystonia in two siblings from a consanguineous family
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-02)
We describe the clinical features of a brother and sister with non–dopa-responsive, childhood-onset, generalized dystonia. The children were born to consanguineous parents, had no family history of neurologic disease, no ...
Patient selection and assessment recommendations for deep brain stimulation in Tourette syndrome
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-11)
In response to recent publicity regarding the potential use of deep brain stimulation (DBS) for reducing tic severity in Tourette's syndrome (TS), the Tourette Syndrome Association convened a group of TS and DBS experts ...
Contrast sensitivity in Parkinson's disease patients with subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2009-04-15)
This study examined whether deep brain stimulation (DBS) would affect the contrast sensitivity (CS) curve in patients with PD. CS was tested in 12 nondemented PD patients treated with bilateral subthalamic nucleus DBS on ...
Prenatal diagnosis of hereditary spastic paraplegia This article is a US Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2001-03)
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a degenerative neurologic disorder that causes progressive, often severe, spastic weakness in the legs. Autosomal dominant HSP is a highly penetrant, genetically heterogeneous disorder ...
Management of Intrathecal Catheter-Tip Inflammatory Masses: A Consensus Statement
(Blackwell Science Inc, 2002-12)
In a companion article, we synthesized current clinical and preclinical data to formulate hypotheses about the etiology of drug administration catheter-tip inflammatory masses. In this article, we communicate our recommendations ...
A Cross-Sectional Assessment of the ACGIH TLV for Hand Activity Level
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-03)
The ACGIH Worldwide Threshold Limit Value (TLV) for hand activity “considers average hand activity level or “HAL” and peak hand force.” We report cross-sectional data that assess the validity of the TLV with respect to ...