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Fjeldstad, Cecilie; Pardo, Gabriel; Bemben, Debra; Bemben, Michael – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 2011
To evaluate balance in women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have low disability and minimal clinical impairments as measured by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), and compare them with healthy age-matched controls. Patients were aged between 18 and 64 years; 67 individuals with MS (mu = 44.0 plus or minus 1.2 years) and 45 healthy…
Descriptors: Sensory Integration, Females, Physical Disabilities, Severity (of Disability)
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Keane, Brian P.; Rosenthal, Orna; Chun, Nicole H.; Shams, Ladan – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2010
Autism involves various perceptual benefits and deficits, but it is unclear if the disorder also involves anomalous audiovisual integration. To address this issue, we compared the performance of high-functioning adults with autism and matched controls on experiments investigating the audiovisual integration of speech, spatiotemporal relations, and…
Descriptors: Autism, Comparative Analysis, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception
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Jaholkowski, Piotr; Kiryk, Anna; Jedynak, Paulina; Abdallah, Nada M. Ben; Knapska, Ewelina; Kowalczyk, Anna; Piechal, Agnieszka; Blecharz-Klin, Kamilla; Figiel, Izabela; Lioudyno, Victoria; Widy-Tyszkiewicz, Ewa; Wilczynski, Grzegorz M.; Lipp, Hans-Peter; Kaczmarek, Leszek; Filipkowski, Robert K. – Learning & Memory, 2009
The role of adult brain neurogenesis (generating new neurons) in learning and memory appears to be quite firmly established in spite of some criticism and lack of understanding of what the new neurons serve the brain for. Also, the few experiments showing that blocking adult neurogenesis causes learning deficits used irradiation and various drugs…
Descriptors: Animals, Memory, Brain, Novels