Resting-State Functional Connectivity and Cognitive Impairment in Children with Perinatal Stroke by Nigul Ilves, Pilvi Ilves, Rael Laugesaar, Julius Juurmaa, Mairi Männamaa, Silva Lõo, Dagmar Loorits, Tiiu Tomberg, Anneli Kolk, Inga Talvik, Tiina Talvik

“…The children with PVI had no significant differences in the resting-state networks compared to the controls and their cognitive functions were normal. …”
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Association between peripheral and coronary microvascular function and the impact of myocardial bridging by Takumi Toya, Shotaro Yoshida, Kazuhiko Kuinose, Shun Akai, Tsukasa Urushima, Kaoru Naito, Masanori Oobori, Yusei Nakashima, Akira Miyauchi, Yuji Nagatomo, Takeshi Adachi

“…In this cross‐sectional study, 38 patients underwent noninvasive RHI assessment alongside invasive coronary microvascular function testing. …”
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Sexual Functioning in Females with OCD: A Comparative Cross-sectional Study by Nirupama Jaiswal, Adarsh Tripathi, Bandna Gupta, Shweta Singh

“…Method: Heterosexual sexually active females of 18 and 45 years with OCD seeking treatment at a tertiary care center in north India were assessed on the Relationship Assessment Scale (RAS), Female Sexual Functioning Index (FSFI), and Sexual Quality of Life-Female (SQOL). …”
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Associations between Prospective Memory, Executive Function and Physical Activity in Schoolchildren by Anouk Irina Glättli, Markus Gerber, Sebastian Ludyga

“… Introduction Prospective memory refers to a system that allows us to remember to perform an intended task without an explicit reminder. Executive function such as working memory or inhibition are responsible for goal-directed behavior and cognitive control processes. …”
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Development of functional beverage with rice bran protein (Hom mali 105) by Saveboworn Wanticha, Rittisak Sriwiang, Schoenlechner Regine, Wangtueai Sutee, Charoen Ratchanee

“…The enzymetic method was used to extract protein from rice bran (Hom mali 105). Physical and functional properties of rice bran protein extracted had 0.45 g/ml of density, 7.73% of moisture content, 22.32% of protein and 7.28 mg gallic/g for phenolic content and 2,495.26 mg ASC/g sample of ABTS values. …”
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Assessment of Clinical Skills and Knowledge in Ophthalmology in Undergraduate Medical Students by Amna Rizwan, Muhammad Ali, Nida Khalid, Asfandyar Asghar

“…Over 70% of students reported confidence in performing basic ophthalmic skills, including extraocular muscle function, visual acuity, pupillary examination, history taking, visual fields, and squint assessment. …”
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Left ventricular function in patients with cardiorenal pathology and chronic renal failure by M. M. Dudar, A. V. Fendrikova, A. K. Arutyunov, E. A. Kudryashov, V. V. Skibitsky

“…At the same time, remodeling features and diastolic LV myocardial function in CRF patients are still understudied. The present study aimed to assess structural and functional LV features inpatients with early CRF stages and combined cardio-renal pathology. …”
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Joint functional disability in children of early age with olygoarticular juvenile arthritis by T A Shelepina

“…Mean age of children at the disease onset was 22,4+10 months (from 9 to 46 months), mean disease duration at the first hospitalization — 9,5±5,5 months. Functional status and daily activities limitations (decrease of moving capacity and hand performance) were assessed at the beginning of the disease, at admission to the institute and at discharge after drug and rehabilitation treatment. …”
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AFFECTIVE DISORDERS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE ACCORDING TO PSYCHOMETRIC TESTS DATA by S. Yu. Mukhtarenko, T. M. Murataliev, Z. T. Radzhapova, Yu. N. Neklyudova

“…The aim was to study the frequency and severity of affective disorders and quality of life in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD): unstable and stable angina of II–III functional class.Materials and methods. 488 patients with verified CHD were examined to identify and assess anxiety-depressive spectrum disorders by the screening questionnaire of Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry, Ministry of Health of Russia. 172 patients with CHD from the screening group – 96 (55.81 %) patients with unstable angina and 76 (44.19 %) with stable angina, 136 (79.07 %) men and 36 (20.93 %) women were examined with psychometric tests: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). …”
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Quality of life and sexual function of women operated on reproductive system organs by О. S. Lashkul

“…The results for each scale are presented in a point scale (from 1 to 100), where a higher score corresponds to a better quality of life. To assess the sexual function a questionnaire was conducted using the female sexual function index (FSFI). …”
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Challenges in Laparoscopic Simple Nephrectomy of Non-functioning Kidneys Due to Urolithiasis by Güner Yıldız, Özcan Kılıç, Ali Furkan Batur, Murat Akand

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The Functional Outcome of Reconstruction of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Using Hamstring Autograft by Gaurav Arora, Avinash Singh, N C Arora, Mahipal Singh Sidhu, Puneet Kamra, Kuldeep Prakashchandra Pindaria

“…Results: We found 88% of patients had a good-to-excellent functional outcome, and the rest had fair outcome. …”
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Distal Femur Type III Open Fractures: Functional Outcome Analysis by Arul R Bhagyaraj, Anand Ashok, Manisha J Kumar, Krupakaran Ganesan, Anand Kurian, Dan B Inja, Manasseh Nithyananth, Vinoo M Cherian, Jeremy Bliss

“…The primary fixation group had 64% patients with excellent functional outcomes, whereas among those who underwent staged procedures, only 30% had excellent functional outcomes. …”
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Nutritional status and its correlation with cognitive function in patients with Parkinson’s disease by LI Jing, BIAN Laifang, SHEN Jun, JIANG Yu, ZHOU Renhua

“…A total of 71 patients had cognitive impairment， with an incidence rate of 47.3%.In the low GNRI group， 43 patients had cognitive impairment， with an incidence rate of 61.4% and an MMSE score of 21.5 （14.0， 26.0）. …”
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Intermuscular Adipose Tissue Is Muscle Specific and Associated with Poor Functional Performance by Lori J. Tuttle, David R. Sinacore, Michael J. Mueller

“…Methods. 10 healthy obese people, 11 with type 2 diabetes, 24 with diabetes and peripheral neuropathy, had assessments of muscle morphology, physical function and muscle performance. …”
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Comparison of injury related functional tests in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers by Bahman Mirzaei, ali shamsi majelan, Rasoul Bayati

“…The FMS developed by Cook was used to assess functional movement (3). Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestlers were analyzed by the Independent Sample t-Test. …”
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Development and validation of odour identification tests for olfactory assessment in Singapore by Xinni Xu, Margaret Ru Xiang Zhang, Terese Huiying Low, Yew Kwang Ong

“…Odour identification tests need to be adapted to a population to accurately assess olfactory function. This study’s objectives were to validate the Singapore version of the Sniffin’ Sticks (SS-Sg) and a locally-developed odour recognition test (Scentsor) for Singapore. …”
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Changes in the Structural and Functional Albumin Properties in Patients with Decompensated Liver Cirrhosis by A. A. Turkina, M. V. Maevskaya, M. S. Zharkova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Despite the normal values of serum albumin in 72.5% of patients with cirrhosis B and in 26.7% in the cirrhosis C group, only 12.3% in the cirrhosis B group had normal albumin function and in cirrhosis C nо patients had normal albumin function.Conclusion. …”
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Extracting Cognitive Impairment Assessment Information From Unstructured Notes in Electronic Health Records Using Natural Language Processing Tools: Validation with Clinical Assess... by Wang KY, Mahesri M, Novoa-Laurentiev J, Bessette LG, York C, Zakoul H, Lee SB, Ngan K, Zhou L, Kim DH, Lin KJ

“…Suite 3030, Boston, MA, 02120, USA, Tel +1 (617) 278-0930, Fax +1 (617) 232-8602, Email jklin@bwh.harvard.eduPurpose: We aimed to develop a Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm to extract cognitive scores from electronic health records (EHR) data and compare them with cognitive function recorded by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-mandated clinical assessments in nursing homes and home health visits.Patients and Methods: We identified a cohort of Medicare beneficiaries who had either the Minimum Data Set (MDS) or Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) linked to EHR data from the Research Patient Data Registry (Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA) from 2010 to 2019. …”
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Effect of Auditory Recognition on the Vocabulary Knowledge of Children with Functional Articulation Disorder by YAN Jiajian, WANG Chengdong, LU Jianliang, LI Yuchang, SHEN Longbin, OU Jianlin, CHEN Zhuoming

“…There was a significant positive correlation between digit memory span test and spatial memory span task test (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001); there was a significant positive correlation between digit memory span test and PPVT score (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001); there was a significant positive correlation between spatial memory span task test and PPVT score (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001). 2) Auditory working memory (β=0.322, <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001) alone had a significant mediating effect on auditory recognition function and vocabulary knowledge function; visual working memory alone (β=0.389, <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001) had a significant mediating effect on auditory recognition function and vocabulary knowledge function.ConclusionAuditory recognition can not only directly affect vocabulary knowledge, but also affect vocabulary knowledge through a separate mediation of auditory working memory and visual working memory. …”
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