scholarly journals Neurosurgeon, nota bene! … brain!

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
M.E. Polishchuk
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Social Factor ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Functional Defects

Advances in radiology, and introduction of modern neuroimaging technologies into practice, make it possible to identify pathological zones in various parts of the brain, that measure in millimeters. Modern tractography reveals the influence of various lesion on the conductors of the brain. Applications of the modern neurophysiology technology – electroencephalography, evoked potentials, etc., reveal the functions of various parts of the brain. Utilization of neuronavigation, microsurgery, endoscopy, provide access to the deepest structures of the brain, including the brain stem regions, which were previously inaccessible, and the localization of the process in this area was a serious taboo for neurosurgery. Disputable is the functional acceptability of surgical interventions in order to minimize disorders affecting the quality of patients life. It is necessary to take into account the social factor when before planing the operation with possible functional defects. Neurosurgery has gone from a hammer, a chisel, and removal of brain tumor with a «smart» finger in microsurgery, endoscopy, and endovascular surgery. As the most technologically equipped, she approached the introduction of artificial intelligence both in scientific research and in practical activities, more than other sciences. The usage of modern technologies for predicting neurosurgical interventions should be based in the core of indications and contraindications for surgery.

7. Into the 21st century

2018 ◽  
pp. 112-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Burns
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
New Science ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Manage Mental

‘Into the 21st century’ explains how there is an increased focus on how our body, and not just the brain, influences our mental health. Rapidly advancing computer technology, including artificial intelligence and virtual reality, is beginning to provide new treatment possibilities, not just support and simplify the old ones. The development of sophisticated imaging has supercharged the area of neurosciences and the increased understanding of genetics and the new science of epigenetics provide psychiatry with greater tools to identify and manage mental illnesses. A paradox with our increasingly technological and scientific advances is that the core dilemmas of psychiatry appear not to be diminishing. Psychiatry will survive the 21st century, but certainly it is changing.

The core vital values and requirements defining quality of life of country people are more senior than working-age of the Kaliningrad region

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Yu.V. Mikhaylova ◽  
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I. B. Shikina ◽  
T. A. Siburina ◽  
I.Yu. Chukhrienko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Kaliningrad Region ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Country People

Article is devoted to studying specific needs of persons also their interests affecting quality of their life are more senior than working-age. The purpose of work is to reveal the core vital values and requirements defining quality of life of country people is more senior than working-age of the Kaliningrad region. Within the project of Partnership “Northern measurement” in the field of health care and social wellbeing in 2019 the social research among 211 villagers aged from 60 up to 88 years is conducted. Methods of carrying out work: sociological, analytical, mathematical statistics. Distribution of age and gender structure of the interviewed population reflects universal trends. Social and demographic and medico-social characteristics of country people are studied. Results of a research showed that the quality of life of persons is more senior than working-age most is defined by priority vital values and requirements: state of health and level of material welfare; loneliness; difficulties in use of digital technologies; the disrespect shown from youth i.e. quite objective reasons which solution generally depends on the state measures for support of the senior generation. Significant first 10 vital values at elderly people during the different periods of time are tracked.

scholarly journals QOLP-10. PATIENT-REPORTED OUTCOMES DURING TREATMENT FOR GLIOBLASTOMA: SYMPTOM BURDEN AND ASSOCIATED IMPACT ON DAILY LIFE

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (Supplement_6) ◽  
pp. vi199-vi199
Author(s):  
Meghan Hultman ◽  
Megan Tipps ◽  
Minda Liu ◽  
Nilanjana Banerji ◽  
Patricia Bruns ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Symptom Burden ◽  
Clinical Information ◽  
Symptom Experience ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Late Treatment

Abstract INTRODUCTION Glioblastoma is the most common primary malignant brain tumor, with an annual incidence of 3–4 new cases per 100,000 people. Despite advances in chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgical interventions, prognosis remains poor. Aims of treatment for life-limiting diagnoses should extend beyond increasing survival time to include palliation of symptoms and promotion of quality of life. Here we describe patient-reported symptoms both early and late in the glioblastoma treatment trajectory, as well as their associated interference with daily life. METHODS Fifty patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma were recruited between September 2015-March 2018. Demographic and clinical information was collected from medical records. Patients also completed the brain tumor-specific MD Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI-BT) approximately every 8 weeks from completion of chemoradiation through cessation of active disease treatment. Both individual and categories of related symptoms reported in the initial two (early treatment) and final two (late treatment) MDASI-BT assessments were examined for symptom frequency, severity, and relationships between symptom severity and interference with daily life. Patients still receiving treatment or who completed < 4 total MDASI-BT assessments were excluded from the analysis. RESULTS The most commonly reported symptoms were often, but not always, consistent with the symptoms rated as most severe. This was true for individual symptoms as well as categories of symptoms. The most common/severe symptoms also changed from early to late treatment. Overall symptom burden was positively correlated with symptom interference in daily life (r=0.67, p< 0.0001). Regression analysis identified different symptoms as predictors of interference in early as opposed to late treatment, and these predictors did not necessarily align with the most common/severe symptoms. CONCLUSION Symptom experience for patients with glioblastoma is complex and dynamic. Attention to symptom trajectories for patients with glioblastoma may direct approaches to assessment, early identification, and symptom management, thus promoting better quality of life.

scholarly journals Factors Underlying Perceptions of Quality of Life Among Acne Patients in R. N. Macedonia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljupcho Efremov ◽  
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Aneta Petrusevska ◽  
Vera Dimitrievska ◽  
Valentina Simonovska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Psychological Intervention ◽  
Acne Vulgaris ◽  
Social Factor ◽  
General Notion ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
The Social ◽  
Three Components

Introduction: Acne vulgaris is a disorder of the pilosebaceous units. It is a chronic inflammatory dermatosis notable for open/closed comedones, papules, pustules, nodules. It is characterized by open comedones, closed comedones and pustular nodules. Aim of study: To examine factors underlying the quality of life of people with acne. Materials and method: A total of 576 respondents were included in the study. Acne specific Quality of Life questionnaire was used for this purpose. A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted, performed in private dermatological clinic as well as on-line. All analyses were conducted by using the SPSS.26 for Windows. Results and Discussion: 5.7 % were males and 94.3 percent were females. About 69.4% were aged between 15-25; 16.7 % between 26 to 30; 8.8% between 31 to 35 years old. Quality of life and emotional perception towards the social environment is demonstrated by the three components (self-perception of discomfort, functionality, and social factor). The reliability levels for the three components were .858 for self-perception of discomfort, .779 for functionality and .745 for the social factor. The factor analysis discovered three underlying factors: self-perception of discomfort, social factor and functionality in daily life. Conclusion: The findings confirm the general notion that people with acne have problems in quality of life and therefore special attention to psychological intervention should be given in the treatment of acne.

scholarly journals Modeling of Brain Physics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kholmanskiy
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Functional Organization ◽  
Social Factor ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Quantum Correlations ◽  
Electromagnetic Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Basic Physics ◽  
Nonlocal Quantum ◽  
The Brain

The physics of the human brain has two components &ndash; basic physics common to all mammals and the physics of thinking inherent only in man. The development of the mental component of the structural and functional organization of the brain in phylogeny was associated with the chiral factor of the external environment, and in ontogenesis - with the social factor. The sensitivity of the brain to these factors was based on the single-connected nature of its aqueous basis, the mechanism of electromagnetic induction, and the features of the thermodynamics of the brain in a state of night sleep. In order to unify the description of the mechanism of electromagnetic processes in the brain, the concept of a quasiphoton has been introduced, combining all forms of excitation of electronic and molecular-cellular structures of the brain. Equivalent schemes of vibrational contours of neural network elements and macrostructures of the brain are proposed. Estimates of the kinetic parameters (activation energy, velocity) of the physical processes underlying the energy-information exchange of the brain with the external environment are made. Mechanisms of operative (physical) and permanent (chemical) memory of the brain, including a model of nonlocal quantum correlations, are discussed.

Circulatory disturbances and changes in body temperature during anesthesia in brain surgery

1986 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-195
Author(s):  
F. N. Kazantsev ◽  
E. Kh. Kamalov
Keyword(s):  
Nitrous Oxide ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Body Temperature ◽  
Postoperative Period ◽  
Brain Surgery ◽  
Central Hemodynamics ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Balanced Anesthesia ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Circulatory Disturbances

To assess the adequacy of anesthetic protection during surgical interventions on the brain and in the postoperative period, it is necessary to monitor the central hemodynamics and body temperature regime. Therefore, we performed such control in 52 patients aged from 17 to 60 years old during the operative interventions on the brain under the conditions of intravenous balanced anesthesia with the use of sodium oxybutyrate or nitrous oxide and during 14-16 days in the postoperative period. All patients underwent bone-plastic craniotomy with opening of the dura mater. In 32 patients a brain tumor was removed, in 20 patients a subdural hematoma and cerebral detritus were removed.

The construction of the “quaternity” mode of professional connotation construction in higher vocational colleges

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092098400
Author(s):  
Dongsheng Tang ◽  
Qiongyu Yang ◽  
Lingyan Kang
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
City Management ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chongqing City ◽  
The Social ◽  
Curriculum Construction ◽  
Construction Mode

In order to adapt to the development of society and cultivate suitable talents, the department of Finance and economics of Chongqing City Management College has put forward the idea of “controlling the scale, strengthening the connotation and expanding the denotation”, and actively carried out educational reform and innovation; strengthen the construction of professional connotation. Through the formation of teams, investigation, implementation of research, It has formed the “Quaternity” mode of professional connotation construction with “curriculum construction as the core, school-enterprise cooperation as the platform, themed activities as the carrier and team building as the guarantee”. Through practice, It has greatly improved the social service ability and social influence of the major, the comprehensive quality and employment rate for the students, and the overall quality of the teaching staff. It is fully proved that this mode is an effective professional connotation construction mode.

scholarly journals Non-Coding RNAs and Brain Tumors: Insights Into Their Roles in Apoptosis

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omid Reza Tamtaji ◽  
Maryam Derakhshan ◽  
Fatemeh Zahra Rashidi Noshabad ◽  
Javad Razaviyan ◽  
Razie Hadavi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Solid Tumors ◽  
The Core ◽  
Neural Tissues ◽  
The World ◽  
Non Coding Rnas ◽  
Essential Contribution ◽  
Treatment And Diagnosis ◽  
The Brain

A major terrifying ailment afflicting the humans throughout the world is brain tumor, which causes a lot of mortality among pediatric and adult solid tumors. Several major barriers to the treatment and diagnosis of the brain tumors are the specific micro-environmental and cell-intrinsic features of neural tissues. Absence of the nutrients and hypoxia trigger the cells’ mortality in the core of the tumors of humans’ brains: however, type of the cells’ mortality, including apoptosis or necrosis, has been not found obviously. Current studies have emphasized the non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) since their crucial impacts on carcinogenesis have been discovered. Several investigations suggest the essential contribution of such molecules in the development of brain tumors and the respective roles in apoptosis. Herein, we summarize the apoptosis-related non-coding RNAs in brain tumors.

scholarly journals Deep Learning in Oncology- A Case Study on Brain Tumor

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Error Rate ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Tumor Detection ◽  
Tumor Diagnosis ◽  
The Brain

The brain tumor detection continues to be a challenge owing to the complexity of its symptoms. The research era indicates the tumor diagnosis and identification of tumor exact indicators are still uncertain. These tumors can appear anywhere in the brain and have any kind of shape, size, and contrast. The brain tumor exploration with deep learning is a solution for flexible, high capacity and extreme efficiency. The deep learning is an application of the artificial intelligence with multiple layers helping to predict the outcome of the disease early detection. This paper presents an approach to recognize the indicators and show that deep learning drops error rate for brain tumor diagnoses by 80%.

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