A seizure is a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain. It can cause changes in your behavior, movements or feelings, and in levels of consciousness. If you have two or more seizures or a tendency to have recurrent seizures, you have epilepsy.
this is a complete discussion and an approach to a child with febrile seizure / convulsion.
It contains:-
Case scenario
Causes of Seizures in the setting of fever
Definition of Febrile Seizure
Age of Occurrence
Types of Febrile Convulsions
Risks of Recurrent Febrile Seizures
Risk For Developing Epilepsy After Febrile Seizures
Workup for Febrile Seizure
Red Flags in Febrile Seizures
Treatment
Prognosis
Deep Brain Stimulation for Therapeutics: What is the prognosis?Katina Michael
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) techniques for therapeutics were introduced in France in 1987. Since their inception a great deal of ongoing research has shed light into the potential applications of DBS to give people suffering from dystonia, Parkinson’s Disease, Tourette’s Syndrome, and Major Depressive Disorder, a chance at a better quality of life. In some cases, the DBS can be used to treat patients without the need for additional drugs that may carry a variety of side effects for individuals. More recently, DBS is also being considered for its potential to be used to put at bay Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), persons suffering overly from anxiety, among other applications. DBS requires biomedical engineers to work closely together with medical specialists and surgeons in the development of appropriate technology. DBS is not a cure, rather two electrodes (in the case of a bilateral implantation) are implanted in the brain (e.g. ventrointermediate nucleus (VIM) of the thalamus, globus pallidus internus or the subthalamic nucleus) and electric impulses sent to fend off overactivity. E.g. in the case of a patient who tremors, the stimulation helps them to stop tremoring by “zapping” that part of the brain responsible for the tremors. It follows then, for the patient who is feeling major depressive thoughts, the stimulation may help reduce periods of darkness. This is particularly the hope for those suffering from mental illness who seem to be drug resistant. Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) acts in a similar way but instead of being embedded in the brain, the electrodes are placed in the vagus nerve, which is responsible for sending the mild pulses of electrical energy. A VNS sends continuous stimulation periodically, and is mainly used in those who suffer from epilepsy. There is now growing evidence to suggest that both DBS and VNS are having a positive impact on patients, but for some it has been proven to have no effect, or even a negative effect.
As the brain pacemaker industry becomes a multi-billion dollar industry, patient safety issues have entered the spotlight. The potential for infection, defective devices, devices that are misprogrammed, or even cyberhacking have received increasing attention. Some patients are now raising concerns about manufacturer discussions that devices should be linked to the Internet and what this might mean in the context of electromagnetic interference and the potential impact not only to render stimulators inoperable but the impact on the brain itself. Others hypothesise that if you can make corrections through stimulators, then you can also create problems with stimulators. How long might it be before DBS becomes a general purpose product possibly marketed for memory enhancement or use in defence contexts?
A seizure is a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain. It can cause changes in your behavior, movements or feelings, and in levels of consciousness. If you have two or more seizures or a tendency to have recurrent seizures, you have epilepsy.
this is a complete discussion and an approach to a child with febrile seizure / convulsion.
It contains:-
Case scenario
Causes of Seizures in the setting of fever
Definition of Febrile Seizure
Age of Occurrence
Types of Febrile Convulsions
Risks of Recurrent Febrile Seizures
Risk For Developing Epilepsy After Febrile Seizures
Workup for Febrile Seizure
Red Flags in Febrile Seizures
Treatment
Prognosis
Deep Brain Stimulation for Therapeutics: What is the prognosis?Katina Michael
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) techniques for therapeutics were introduced in France in 1987. Since their inception a great deal of ongoing research has shed light into the potential applications of DBS to give people suffering from dystonia, Parkinson’s Disease, Tourette’s Syndrome, and Major Depressive Disorder, a chance at a better quality of life. In some cases, the DBS can be used to treat patients without the need for additional drugs that may carry a variety of side effects for individuals. More recently, DBS is also being considered for its potential to be used to put at bay Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), persons suffering overly from anxiety, among other applications. DBS requires biomedical engineers to work closely together with medical specialists and surgeons in the development of appropriate technology. DBS is not a cure, rather two electrodes (in the case of a bilateral implantation) are implanted in the brain (e.g. ventrointermediate nucleus (VIM) of the thalamus, globus pallidus internus or the subthalamic nucleus) and electric impulses sent to fend off overactivity. E.g. in the case of a patient who tremors, the stimulation helps them to stop tremoring by “zapping” that part of the brain responsible for the tremors. It follows then, for the patient who is feeling major depressive thoughts, the stimulation may help reduce periods of darkness. This is particularly the hope for those suffering from mental illness who seem to be drug resistant. Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) acts in a similar way but instead of being embedded in the brain, the electrodes are placed in the vagus nerve, which is responsible for sending the mild pulses of electrical energy. A VNS sends continuous stimulation periodically, and is mainly used in those who suffer from epilepsy. There is now growing evidence to suggest that both DBS and VNS are having a positive impact on patients, but for some it has been proven to have no effect, or even a negative effect.
As the brain pacemaker industry becomes a multi-billion dollar industry, patient safety issues have entered the spotlight. The potential for infection, defective devices, devices that are misprogrammed, or even cyberhacking have received increasing attention. Some patients are now raising concerns about manufacturer discussions that devices should be linked to the Internet and what this might mean in the context of electromagnetic interference and the potential impact not only to render stimulators inoperable but the impact on the brain itself. Others hypothesise that if you can make corrections through stimulators, then you can also create problems with stimulators. How long might it be before DBS becomes a general purpose product possibly marketed for memory enhancement or use in defence contexts?
Diagnosis and Management of Special Populations 2010Dominick Maino
Diagnosis and Management of Special Populations presents the latest in the assessment and treatment of those with physical, cognitive, and behavioral abnormalities. Up to date information concerning the etiology, prevalence/incidence and physical/cognitive findings of individuals with developmental/acauired disabilities (Cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, autism, acquired/traumatic brain injury) will be discussed. New diagnostic and treatment techniques are reviewed. The eye care practitioner will be able to confidently provide eye and vision care for those with disability at the end of this presentation.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
What are greenhouse gasses how they affect the earth and its environment what is the future of the environment and earth how the weather and the climate effects.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
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Grand mal Tonic-clonic
Drop attack Atonic