[Insulin binding capacity in the serum of patients with essential obesity].
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M Gatto
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Evaluating a measure of everyday problem solving for use in African Americans.
Results from previous research on everyday problem solving involving Caucasians suggests that it may be a useful concept in studying cognitive aging in African Americans. The purpose of this investigation was to examine: (1) the factor structure of an everyday problem solving in a sample of African Americans, (2) the internal consistency of everyday-problem solving in a sample of African Americans, and (3) the relationship of problem solving to demographic factors, physical functioning, and measures of fluid ability. The sample included subjects recruited from Baltimore, MD. The sample consisted of 249 community dwelling African-American adults with a mean age of 67.8 years (SD = 8.47). Variables included the Everyday Problem Solving Test (EPT), gender, age, education, physical functioning, and inductive reasoning. Everyday problem solving as a latent construct was confirmed and the split half reliability was high (.89). As in previous research, inductive reasoning and physical functioning were related to everyday problem solving abilities. We also found that certain domains of the EPT are more influenced by demographic factors than others. Our finding suggest that the Everyday Problems Test is appropriate for use with African American samples.
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Hemiballism in a patient with partial motor status epilepticus treated with phenytoin.
A 13-year-old girl developed left partial motor status epilepticus with severe postictal hemiparesis. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a right frontoparietal hyperintense T2 weighted signal. Treated with phenytoin, carbamazepine and phenobarbital, seizures subsided but left choreic-like flinging movements, consistent with hemiballism, presented 2 days later. On phenytoin withdrawal, symptoms gradually remitted with mild residual dystonia at 14 months follow-up. It is speculated that the lesion might have rendered the cortex more susceptible to phenytoin, inducing unilateral toxicity.
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