Sensory Impairments and Autism: A Re-Examination of Causal Modelling

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1449-1463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Gerrard ◽  
Gordon Rugg
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-36
Author(s):  
Maryam Bahrami ◽  
Ghasem Mosayebi ◽  
Ali Ghazavi ◽  
Ali Ganji

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory and demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system (CNS) that can cause cognition, mobility, and sensory impairments. Studies have shown that the immune system through inflammation and autoreactive T cells are involved in the progression of MS. The present article aimed to review the potent anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and immunomodulatory agents that could modulate the immune response in MS. In herbal medicine, various medicinal plants including Olive, Silybum marianum, Grape, Pomegranate peel extract, Nigella sativa, Turmeric, Green tea, Aloysia citrodora, Boswellia papyrifera, Boswellia serrata, Ruta graveolens, and Andrographis paniculata are known with therapeutic benefits in MS patients through immunoregulation and reduction of major symptoms.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Charlotte M. Reed ◽  
Hong Z. Tan ◽  
Yang Jiao ◽  
Zachary D. Perez ◽  
E. Courtenay Wilson

Stand-alone devices for tactile speech reception serve a need as communication aids for persons with profound sensory impairments as well as in applications such as human-computer interfaces and remote communication when the normal auditory and visual channels are compromised or overloaded. The current research is concerned with perceptual evaluations of a phoneme-based tactile speech communication device in which a unique tactile code was assigned to each of the 24 consonants and 15 vowels of English. The tactile phonemic display was conveyed through an array of 24 tactors that stimulated the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the forearm. Experiments examined the recognition of individual words as a function of the inter-phoneme interval (Study 1) and two-word phrases as a function of the inter-word interval (Study 2). Following an average training period of 4.3 hrs on phoneme and word recognition tasks, mean scores for the recognition of individual words in Study 1 ranged from 87.7% correct to 74.3% correct as the inter-phoneme interval decreased from 300 to 0 ms. In Study 2, following an average of 2.5 hours of training on the two-word phrase task, both words in the phrase were identified with an accuracy of 75% correct using an inter-word interval of 1 sec and an inter-phoneme interval of 150 ms. Effective transmission rates achieved on this task were estimated to be on the order of 30 to 35 words/min.


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Author(s):  
Jennifer Malik ◽  
Barak M. Spector ◽  
Zhenxing Wu ◽  
Jennifer Markley ◽  
Songzhu Zhao ◽  
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Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Brown ◽  
David McHugh ◽  
Penny Standen ◽  
Lindsay Evett ◽  
Nick Shopland ◽  
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NeuroImage ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1456-1464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Reyt ◽  
Chloé Picq ◽  
Valérie Sinniger ◽  
Didier Clarençon ◽  
Bruno Bonaz ◽  
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