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Volume 30, Index, Canadian Medical Association

Canadian Journal of Surgery

The mission of CJS is to contribute to the effective continuing medical education of Canadian surgical specialists, using innovative techniques when feasible, and to provide surgeons with an effective vehicle for the dissemination of observations in the areas of clinical and basic science research.

Visit the journal website at http://canjsurg.ca/ for more.

What's Happening: December 23, 1987, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Ua66/14/3 Nursing Pinning Ceremony, Wku Nursing

WKU Archives Records

Pinning ceremony program listing graduates of the WKU Nursing program.

What's Happening: December 16, 1987, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: December 9, 1987, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: December 2, 1987, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Spruce Run News (December 1987), Spruce Run Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Uwomj Volume 57, No.1, Western University

University of Western Ontario Medical Journal

The title of our cover "Give all little children their chance" in Creole

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

The Effects Of Touch On Responsive Behaviors Of Confused Elderly Nursing Home Residents, Diane Hollis

MSN Research Projects

This research study was a quasi-experimental one designed to investigate the effects of touch on responsive behaviors of confused elderly nursing home residents. This study is based on Neuman's Systems Model of Nursing and examines the effects of touch as a means of communication between the confused elderly person and the environment. The population included all confused elderly residents in a nursing home in the southeastern region of the United States. The sample was comprised of 16 residents over the age of 55 years who scored three to eight errors on the Mental Status Questionnaire (Kahn, Goldfarb, Pollack, & Gerber, …

The Effects Of Stress On Menstrusal Symptomatology In College-Age Women, Denese E. Cunningham

MSN Research Projects

This was a correlational study designed to investigate the relationship of stress and menstrual symptomatology in college-age women. The null hypothesis stated there would be no significant correlation between stress levels and menstrual symptomatology in women attending college. Data were collected from 90 subjects between the ages of 18 and 40 years who were attending college and who currently experience menses. All of the subjects were given the Menstrual Distress Questionnaire, Form C (MDQ) and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Form Y-1 (STAX). Using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, the scores were compared at the .05 level of significance. The …

中華民國復健醫學會復健醫學科專科醫師甄審規則, N/A

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of A Self Directed Program On Locus Control And Control Of Diabetes, Mary Elizabeth Boyle

Theses & Dissertations

Does a self directed program have a significant impact on an individual's locus of control and the control of diabetes as measured by glycosolated hemoglobin?

Reconsidering Drug Involvement Among Youth And Young Adults: Implications For Targeted Primary Prevention, Mark W. Fraser

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The purpose of this; paper is to review two dominant social perspectives on the etiology of substance abuse among youths and young adults-the stage and risk factor outlooks-and to discuss them in light of recent demographic and ecological research. The differential demography of drug abuse strongly suggests that the environmental context influences the use and abuse of substances. In an era of great public concern about substance abuse, the use of individually-focused perspectives appears to have resulted in person-centered skills training programs and "say no" media campaigns. Consideration of community-level factors in the etiology of drug abuse permits the identification …

Historical Perspectives On The Care And Treatment Of The Mentally Ill, Albert R. Roberts, Linda Farms Kurtz

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

An examination of the history of mental illness and its treatment over the centuries reveals that the mentally ill have few advocates except each other and that their treatment has consisted of confinement and neglect. Reformers have pioneered for change, experienced brief success, but ultimately conditions for the mentally ill regress. Society continues to abhor mental illness as though its collective consciousness still believes in possession by evil spirits. Discussion of the early history moves from banishment to ships of fools, to European asylums, and to institutions run by the states in America. More recent history focuses on the National …

An Evaluation Of The Effects Of An Infant-Care Skills Training Program On Fathering Behaviors, G. Joseph Vrazo

Masters Theses

This study replicated the findings and expanded the assessment procedures of a previous study that had established the effectiveness of a multi-component infant-care skills training program for first-time fathers. A multiple probe design was used in this study to demonstrate that the training program produced criterion performance of the infant-care skills by four experimental fathers; also, an increase in the frequency of infant stimulation activities initiated by these fathers was observed. A pre/post training evaluation of the effects of the training program on the fathers' performance of play and affectional behaviors and daily infant-care activities yielded negative results. Four control …

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Balancing Activity And Rest, Lynn A. Lowe

Masters Theses

Fatigue is a major symptom of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), along with joint pain, stiffness and functional impairment. Balancing activity and rest in order to decrease fatigue is frequently mentioned by health professionals as an important strategy in the management of the disease. One hundred and three adult men and women with RA were surveyed via a written questionnaire about their experience of fatigue, four types of rest, employment status, duration of illness, age, sex, and advice about rest. Frequencies related to these variables are reported. Some rest variables were found to be significantly correlated with age and fatigue. No significant …

Molecular Cloning And Sequence Analysis Of The Plasmodium Falciparum Dihydrofolate Reductase-Thymidylate Synthase Gene., David J. Bzik, Wu-Bo Li, Toshihiro Horii, Joseph Inselburg

Dartmouth Scholarship

Genomic DNA clones that coded for the bifunctional dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) and thymidylate synthase (TS) (DHFR-TS) activities from a pyrimethamine-sensitive strain of Plasmodium falciparum were isolated and sequenced. The deduced DHFR-TS protein contained 608 amino acids (71,682 Da). The coding region for DHFR-TS contained no intervening sequences and had a high A + T content (75%). The DHFR domain, in the amino-terminal portion of the protein, was joined by a 94-amino acid junction sequence to the TS domain in the carboxyl-terminal portion of the protein. The TS domain was more conserved than the DHFR domain and both P. falciparum domains …

Vital Signs, December 1987, Boonshoft School Of Medicine

Vital Signs

A twelve page newsletter created by the Boonshoft School of Medicine to document the current affairs of the school. This issue includes a variety of feature articles, alumni profiles, class notes, and more.

Dance Injuries, Ching-Long Chou, Tao-Chang Hsu, Jiung-Jer Wu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Dancing population has been increaseing in Taiwan for the past 15years, but report of studing dance injuries are still few. Eighty-one theatrical dancing students (Male 18, Female 63 ) at National Institute of the Arts and Chinese Culture university were diagnosed and followed in our OPD to study the patterns, severity & mechanisms of dance injuries. A total of 260injuries in the students were reported. We found that the major injury sites by rate were back: 23.46%;ankle: 22.3%;knee: 21.45%; foot:9.23%; hip & thight: 9.6%; other site including: leg, shoulder, elbow, wrist were 14.2%. Approximately three fourths of the dancerelated injuries …

The Excitability Of Spinal Motoneurons In Stroke Patients, Hsin-Ying Chen, Chue-Fun Chen, I-Nan Lien

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Thirty hemiplegics and 15normal persons were enrolled in this study. Measuring the recovery time of H reflex by dual stimulation technique to tibial nerve was performed to evaluate the excitability of spinal motoneurons. It was found that the recovery time of H reflex in normal persons and nonhemiplegic sides of hemiplegics was 57.0±27.3 msec and 57.3±21.4 msec respectively. The recovery time of hemiplegic sides was 37.5±12.8 msec and it was very significantly shorter than the normal ones. The shortening of the recovery time showed good correlation with the neurological recovery as well as the spasticity of the patients. These findings …

A Preliminary Chinese Version Of The Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery, Nai-Wen Guo, I-Wen Yuen, Tao-Chang Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Content Subscales C1 to C5 and C9 to C11 the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery were revised to make a Chinese version. It was administered to 48 brain-damaged patients of a rehabilitation center. Upon Cheching the difficulty levels of test items and the relative coefficients between items and subscales, we corrected 10 unsuitable items and dropped one. This second revision has 200items and 21 Factor Subscales. Mean scores and SD's of the brain-damaged group for every item and every subscale are presented. Finally, some suggestions for future study and application are made.

Musculo-Skeletal Problems In Fiddlers, Man-Wen Chen, I-Nan Lien

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

According to the questionnaries from 72 subjects of fiddle players, of whom 13 examined, the total rate of musculo-skeletal involvement was 80.6%. There was no obvious different rates between total subjects (including person who played piano or other instruments as a chief one) and the subjects who played violin or viola as a chief instrument.The symptoms occurred most frequently on left side. The ratio between left and right side was 1.9: 1.The most frequently involved muscles were trapezius, levator scapulae and serratus posterior superior. This was closely related to the posture of playing.

Crossed Aphasia: Casereport, Choon-Khim Chong, May-Kuen Wong, Jorie Wu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Crossed aphasia is defined as the combination of left hcmiplegia (-paresis) and aphasia in a right-handed patient. The incidence of such cases is very low, reported as 0.4%-3.75% in all aphasics. Henderson (1983) reviewed that for the crossed aphasics, the correlation between fluency and infaret localization was similar to that of right-handed aphasics with left hemisphere lesion.A fluent jargon aphasia following a right cerebral infraction developed in a 52-year-old right-handed Chinese woman. She was a case of myxoma in left atrium with sudden onset of cerebral infarction. Computed tomographic scan showed a large infarction in right basal ganglion, temporal and …

Treatment For Mandarin Agrammatism: Casereport, Shu-Er Lee, Tao-Chang Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

A syntax stimulation program, based upon the syntactic hierarchy of difficulty, was used to treat a thirty year old brain injury patient with severe agrammatism. This program is designed to elicit the basic Mandarin sentence constructions using a story completion technique. With 80 sessions of treatment, the patient's spontaneous speech and picture description showed increased phrase length, use of grammatical onstructions and communication skills. From the preliminary study, this program appears to have therapeutic merit in training syntactic skills of agrammatic Chinese patients.

Report Of The Commissioner's Task Force On Self-Destructive Behaviors And Teen Suicide, Department Of Mental Health And Mental Retardation

Maine Collection

Report of the Commissioner's Task Force on Self-Destructive Behaviors and Teen Suicide.

Susan B. Parker, Commissioner - Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Augusta, Maine (December 1987).

Contents: Foreward / Task Force Members / Introduction / Characteristics of Self-Destructive Teens / Factors Contributing to Self-Destructive Behaviors / Findings and Recommendations / References

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Aspects Of Endocrinology, Michael Kleerekoper, Raymond C. Mellinger

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Hypothalamic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism In An Adolescent Male: A Rare Manifestation Of Aqueductal Stenosis, Robert J. Wilson, Max Wisgerhof

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Pituitary Metastasis: Lung Cancer Presenting As Bitemporal Hemianopsia With Diabetes Insipidus And Anterior Pituitary Deficiency, A. Keith Cryar, Jay Morgan, Jack P. Rock, Max Wisgerhof

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Symptoms and signs of pituitary disease are rarely the first manifestations of malignancy originating in another organ. We present a case which exemplifies the key points that suggest a diagnosis of metastatic pituitary disease. Our patient's diagnosis was adenocarcinoma of the lung with a metastasis to the intrasellar and suprasellar regions, which caused diabetes insipidus, anterior pituitary deficiency, and visual field defects. The metastasis had a dumbbell appearance and extended from the sella turcica into the suprasellar region. Diabetes insipidus was the initial clinical manifestation of lung cancer in this patient. A metastasis to the pituitary should be suspected if …

Naltrexone Does Not Affect Adrenal Steroidogenesis In Women With Hirsutism/Oligomenorrhea, Jeffrey A. Jackson, Thomas J. Wincek, Jose F. Pliego

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

We studied the effects of the oral opiate receptor antagonist naltrexone on basal and ACTH-stimulated adrenal steroid levels in six women with hirsutism/oligomenorrhea and preexisting elevation of serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate. One of the six patients met the criteria for partial 3-β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency. No statistical differences were detected in steroid levels or ratios before and after 14 days of 50 mg/day of naltrexone. Thus, we find no support for the hypothesis that opioid peptides acting through opiate receptors (predominantly μ subtype) modulate the abnormal adrenal androgen secretion seen in these women with hirsutism/oligomenorrhea.