Biomedical subjects

K Eadie

Publications and source records attributed to K Eadie.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2003

Changes in genetic types and population dynamics of Moraxella catarrhalis in hospitalized children are not associated with an exacerbation of existing disease.

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing was performed on a retrospective set of 129 Moraxella catarrhalis isolates obtained over a 20 month period from 70 children admitted to, or presenting at, the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The mean age of the children (at the end of the study) was 2.5 years, with a range of 6 months to 15 years. Fifty-one different M. catarrhalis types were isolated from the hospitalized children, with 31 % (22/70) being infected with two particularly prevalent M. catarrhalis types. These two prevalent types also exhibited different protein profiles. The majority (72%; 16/22) of the children infected with these two predominant types had spent at least 1 week on two paediatric intensive care wards. No exacerbation of existing disease or new disease was observed in children who experienced M. catarrhalis type changes.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1999

Normative data for a new memory test: the Shum Visual Learning Test.

This study reports normative data and test-retest reliabilities for a visuo-spatial memory test, the Shum Visual Learning Test (SVLT). Participants were 146 Caucasians (70 males and 76 females, age range between 17-83 years). The test was administered to 116 participants once and 30 participants twice (1 month apart). Age (but not gender and education) was found to affect SVLT test performance. The norms, therefore, were presented according to seven age groups (viz., 17-19, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, 60-69, 70+ years). Three indices (learning, retention after interference, and delayed retention) were derived for descriptive and clinical purposes. The test-retest reliabilities for all trials of the SVLT (except Trial 6) were found to be significant (rs ranged from .63 to .82). Normative data reported allow neuropsychologists to compare patient performances with those of appropriate controls and are important for fostering clinical application of this test.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1995

Assessment of visual memory: a comparison of Chinese characters and geometric figures as stimulus materials.

The study compared the suitability of geometric figures and Chinese characters for assessing visual memory. In Study 1, 40 Chinese characters were found to be significantly less verbalisable than were 40 geometric figures from the Biber Figure Learning Test. In Study 2, memory for Chinese characters, for Biber figures, and for items on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test were compared using 14 subjects with left cerebrovascular accident, 15 subjects with right cerebrovascular accident, and 29 matched controls. Subjects in the left hemisphere group showed impairment on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test but not on Chinese characters, whereas subjects in the right hemisphere group showed impairment on Chinese characters but not on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. This double dissociation was not evident when comparisons involved the Biber Figure Learning Test. The Chinese character set used in this study was thus judged to be more suitable than were geometric figures in the Biber Figure Learning Test for assessing visual memory.

Adolescent↗