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Arsenic hazard in shallow Cambodian groundwaters
- D. A. Polya, A. G. Gault, N. Diebe, P. Feldman, J. W. Rosenboom, E. Gilligan, D. Fredericks, A. H. Milton, M. Sampson, H. A. L. Rowland, P. R. Lythgoe, J. C. Jones, C. Middleton, D. A. Cooke
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- Mineralogical Magazine / Volume 69 / Issue 5 / October 2005
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- 05 July 2018, pp. 807-823
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Our recent discovery of hazardous concentrations of arsenic in shallow sedimentary aquifers in Cambodia raises the spectre of future deleterious health impacts on a population that, particularly in non-urban areas, extensively use untreated groundwater as a source of drinking water and, in some instances, as irrigation water. We present here small-scale hazard maps for arsenic in shallow Cambodian groundwaters based on >1000 groundwater samples analysed in the Manchester Analytical Geochemistry Unit and elsewhere. Key indicators for hazardous concentrations of arsenic in Cambodian groundwaters include: (1) well depths greater than 16 m; (2) Holocene host sediments; and (3) proximity to major modern channels of the Mekong (and its distributary the Bassac). However, high-arsenic well waters are also commonly found in wells not exhibiting these key characteristics, notably in some shallower Holocene wells, and in wells drilled into older Quaternary and Neogene sediments.
It is emphasized that the maps and tables presented are most useful for identifying current regional trends in groundwater arsenic hazard and that their use for predicting arsenic concentrations in individual wells, for example for the purposes of well switching, is not recommended, particularly because of the lack of sufficient data (especially at depths >80 m) and because, as in Bangladesh and West Bengal, there is considerable heterogeneity of groundwater arsenic concentrations on a scale of metres to hundreds of metres. We have insufficient data at this time to determine unequivocally whether or not arsenic concentrations are increasing in shallow Cambodian groundwaters as a result of groundwater-abstraction activities.
Earliest occurrence of lophogastrid mysidacean arthropods (Crustacea, Eucopiidae) from the Anisian Luoping Biota, Yunnan Province, China
- Rodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Shixue Hu, Jinyuan Huang, Changyong Zhou, Qiyue Zhang, Wen Wen, Tao Xie, Frederick R. Schram, Wade T. Jones
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- Journal of Paleontology / Volume 91 / Issue 1 / January 2017
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- 05 December 2016, pp. 100-115
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Tiny, pelagic arthropods from the Anisian Luoping Biota exposed in two quarries near Luoping, Yunnan Province, China, represent the numerically most abundant organisms in the assemblage. They form the basis for definition of two, and possibly three, species referred to the order Lophogastrida, family Eucopiidae. Yunnanocopia grandis new genus new species and Y. longicauda n. gen. new species represent the oldest occurrence of mysidaceans in the fossil record. Their anatomy allies them with the Ladinian species Schimperella acanthocercus Taylor, Schram, and Shen, 2001, from Guizhou Province, China, which previously was thought to be the oldest lophogastrid, and with extant species of Eucopiidae. Their appearance in the Anisian represents one additional element of the early faunal radiation within the Luoping Biota following the end-Permian extinction event. Presence of well-preserved oostegites, along with other morphological features, documents a conservative bauplan expressed in Eucopiidae.
Decadally Resolved Lateglacial Radiocarbon Evidence from New Zealand Kauri–CORRIGENDUM
- Alan Hogg, John Southon, Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Pavla Fenwick, Gretel Boswijk, Ulf Buntgen, Michael Friedrich, Gerhard Helle, Konrad Hughen, Richard Jones, Bernd Kromer, Amexandra Noronha, Frederick Reinig, Linda Reynard, Richard Staff, Luckas Wacker
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- Radiocarbon / Volume 58 / Issue 4 / December 2016
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- 08 December 2016, p. 947
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- December 2016
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Decadally Resolved Lateglacial Radiocarbon Evidence from New Zealand Kauri
- Alan Hogg, John Southon, Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Pavla Fenwick, Gretel Boswijk, Ulf Büntgen, Michael Friedrich, Gerhard Helle, Konrad Hughen, Richard Jones, Bernd Kromer, Alexandra Noronha, Frederick Reinig, Linda Reynard, Richard Staff, Lukas Wacker
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- Radiocarbon / Volume 58 / Issue 4 / December 2016
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- 24 October 2016, pp. 709-733
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- December 2016
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The Last Glacial–Interglacial Transition (LGIT; 15,000–11,000 cal BP) was characterized by complex spatiotemporal patterns of climate change, with numerous studies requiring accurate chronological control to decipher leads from lags in global paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental, and archaeological records. However, close scrutiny of the few available tree-ring chronologies and radiocarbon-dated sequences composing the IntCal13 14C calibration curve indicates significant weakness in 14C calibration across key periods of the LGIT. Here, we present a decadally resolved atmospheric 14C record derived from New Zealand kauri spanning the Lateglacial from ~13,100–11,365 cal BP. Two floating kauri 14C time series, curve-matched to IntCal13, serve as a 14C backbone through the Younger Dryas. The floating Northern Hemisphere (NH) 14C data sets derived from the YD-B and Central European Lateglacial Master tree-ring series are matched against the new kauri data, forming a robust NH 14C time series to ~14,200 cal BP. Our results show that IntCal13 is questionable from ~12,200–11,900 cal BP and the ~10,400 BP 14C plateau is approximately 5 decades too short. The new kauri record and repositioned NH pine 14C series offer a refinement of the international 14C calibration curves IntCal13 and SHCal13, providing increased confidence in the correlation of global paleorecords.
The first Paleozoic stenopodidean from the Huntley Mountain Formation (Devonian–Carboniferous), north-central Pennsylvania
- Wade T. Jones, Rodney M. Feldmann, Carrie E. Schweitzer, Frederick R. Schram, Rose-Anna Behr, Kristen L. Hand
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- Journal of Paleontology / Volume 88 / Issue 6 / November 2014
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- 14 July 2015, pp. 1251-1256
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A single specimen of a shrimp-like crustacean, Devonostenopus pennsylvaniensis, new genus and species is described from the Huntley Mountain Formation, which is Devonian–Carboniferous (Mississippian) in age. The specimen was collected in north-central Pennsylvania. Devonostenopus pennsylvaniensis is attributed to Stenopodidae. Co-occurrence of the specimen with pinnules of Archaeopteris halliana Goeppert, 1852, suggests that it is Devonian in age. Occurrence of a stenopodidean in the Devonian of North America is significant, as only three definitive decapods have been previously described from the Paleozoic and only two have been described from the Devonian. The earliest stenopodideans described to date are Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Santonian) in age. As such, Devonostenopus pennsylvaniensis extends the geologic range of Stenopodidea from Cretaceous to Late Devonian. Occurrence of a stenopodidean in the Devonian of North America, as well as the occurrence of the only two other known Devonian decapods in North America, suggests that Laurentia might have been a major area of endemism for Devonian decapods.
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- By Mitchell Aboulafia, Frederick Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert M. Adams, Laird Addis, James W. Allard, David Allison, William P. Alston, Karl Ameriks, C. Anthony Anderson, David Leech Anderson, Lanier Anderson, Roger Ariew, David Armstrong, Denis G. Arnold, E. J. Ashworth, Margaret Atherton, Robin Attfield, Bruce Aune, Edward Wilson Averill, Jody Azzouni, Kent Bach, Andrew Bailey, Lynne Rudder Baker, Thomas R. Baldwin, Jon Barwise, George Bealer, William Bechtel, Lawrence C. Becker, Mark A. Bedau, Ernst Behler, José A. Benardete, Ermanno Bencivenga, Jan Berg, Michael Bergmann, Robert L. Bernasconi, Sven Bernecker, Bernard Berofsky, Rod Bertolet, Charles J. Beyer, Christian Beyer, Joseph Bien, Joseph Bien, Peg Birmingham, Ivan Boh, James Bohman, Daniel Bonevac, Laurence BonJour, William J. Bouwsma, Raymond D. Bradley, Myles Brand, Richard B. Brandt, Michael E. Bratman, Stephen E. Braude, Daniel Breazeale, Angela Breitenbach, Jason Bridges, David O. Brink, Gordon G. Brittan, Justin Broackes, Dan W. Brock, Aaron Bronfman, Jeffrey E. Brower, Bartosz Brozek, Anthony Brueckner, Jeffrey Bub, Lara Buchak, Otavio Bueno, Ann E. Bumpus, Robert W. Burch, John Burgess, Arthur W. Burks, Panayot Butchvarov, Robert E. Butts, Marina Bykova, Patrick Byrne, David Carr, Noël Carroll, Edward S. Casey, Victor Caston, Victor Caston, Albert Casullo, Robert L. Causey, Alan K. L. Chan, Ruth Chang, Deen K. Chatterjee, Andrew Chignell, Roderick M. Chisholm, Kelly J. Clark, E. J. Coffman, Robin Collins, Brian P. Copenhaver, John Corcoran, John Cottingham, Roger Crisp, Frederick J. Crosson, Antonio S. Cua, Phillip D. Cummins, Martin Curd, Adam Cureton, Andrew Cutrofello, Stephen Darwall, Paul Sheldon Davies, Wayne A. Davis, Timothy Joseph Day, Claudio de Almeida, Mario De Caro, Mario De Caro, John Deigh, C. F. Delaney, Daniel C. Dennett, Michael R. DePaul, Michael Detlefsen, Daniel Trent Devereux, Philip E. Devine, John M. Dillon, Martin C. Dillon, Robert DiSalle, Mary Domski, Alan Donagan, Paul Draper, Fred Dretske, Mircea Dumitru, Wilhelm Dupré, Gerald Dworkin, John Earman, Ellery Eells, Catherine Z. Elgin, Berent Enç, Ronald P. Endicott, Edward Erwin, John Etchemendy, C. Stephen Evans, Susan L. Feagin, Solomon Feferman, Richard Feldman, Arthur Fine, Maurice A. Finocchiaro, William FitzPatrick, Richard E. Flathman, Gvozden Flego, Richard Foley, Graeme Forbes, Rainer Forst, Malcolm R. Forster, Daniel Fouke, Patrick Francken, Samuel Freeman, Elizabeth Fricker, Miranda Fricker, Michael Friedman, Michael Fuerstein, Richard A. Fumerton, Alan Gabbey, Pieranna Garavaso, Daniel Garber, Jorge L. A. Garcia, Robert K. Garcia, Don Garrett, Philip Gasper, Gerald Gaus, Berys Gaut, Bernard Gert, Roger F. Gibson, Cody Gilmore, Carl Ginet, Alan H. Goldman, Alvin I. Goldman, Alfonso Gömez-Lobo, Lenn E. Goodman, Robert M. Gordon, Stefan Gosepath, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Daniel W. Graham, George A. Graham, Peter J. Graham, Richard E. Grandy, I. Grattan-Guinness, John Greco, Philip T. Grier, Nicholas Griffin, Nicholas Griffin, David A. Griffiths, Paul J. Griffiths, Stephen R. Grimm, Charles L. Griswold, Charles B. Guignon, Pete A. Y. Gunter, Dimitri Gutas, Gary Gutting, Paul Guyer, Kwame Gyekye, Oscar A. Haac, Raul Hakli, Raul Hakli, Michael Hallett, Edward C. Halper, Jean Hampton, R. James Hankinson, K. R. Hanley, Russell Hardin, Robert M. Harnish, William Harper, David Harrah, Kevin Hart, Ali Hasan, William Hasker, John Haugeland, Roger Hausheer, William Heald, Peter Heath, Richard Heck, John F. Heil, Vincent F. Hendricks, Stephen Hetherington, Francis Heylighen, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Risto Hilpinen, Harold T. Hodes, Joshua Hoffman, Alan Holland, Robert L. Holmes, Richard Holton, Brad W. Hooker, Terence E. Horgan, Tamara Horowitz, Paul Horwich, Vittorio Hösle, Paul Hoβfeld, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Frances Howard-Snyder, Anne Hudson, Deal W. Hudson, Carl A. Huffman, David L. Hull, Patricia Huntington, Thomas Hurka, Paul Hurley, Rosalind Hursthouse, Guillermo Hurtado, Ronald E. Hustwit, Sarah Hutton, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, Harry A. Ide, David Ingram, Philip J. Ivanhoe, Alfred L. Ivry, Frank Jackson, Dale Jacquette, Joseph Jedwab, Richard Jeffrey, David Alan Johnson, Edward Johnson, Mark D. Jordan, Richard Joyce, Hwa Yol Jung, Robert Hillary Kane, Tomis Kapitan, Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, James A. Keller, Ralph Kennedy, Sergei Khoruzhii, Jaegwon Kim, Yersu Kim, Nathan L. King, Patricia Kitcher, Peter D. Klein, E. D. Klemke, Virginia Klenk, George L. Kline, Christian Klotz, Simo Knuuttila, Joseph J. Kockelmans, Konstantin Kolenda, Sebastian Tomasz Kołodziejczyk, Isaac Kramnick, Richard Kraut, Fred Kroon, Manfred Kuehn, Steven T. Kuhn, Henry E. Kyburg, John Lachs, Jennifer Lackey, Stephen E. Lahey, Andrea Lavazza, Thomas H. Leahey, Joo Heung Lee, Keith Lehrer, Dorothy Leland, Noah M. Lemos, Ernest LePore, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Isaac Levi, Andrew Levine, Alan E. Lewis, Daniel E. Little, Shu-hsien Liu, Shu-hsien Liu, Alan K. L. Chan, Brian Loar, Lawrence B. Lombard, John Longeway, Dominic McIver Lopes, Michael J. Loux, E. J. Lowe, Steven Luper, Eugene C. Luschei, William G. Lycan, David Lyons, David Macarthur, Danielle Macbeth, Scott MacDonald, Jacob L. Mackey, Louis H. Mackey, Penelope Mackie, Edward H. Madden, Penelope Maddy, G. B. Madison, Bernd Magnus, Pekka Mäkelä, Rudolf A. Makkreel, David Manley, William E. Mann (W.E.M.), Vladimir Marchenkov, Peter Markie, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Ausonio Marras, Mike W. Martin, A. P. Martinich, William L. McBride, David McCabe, Storrs McCall, Hugh J. McCann, Robert N. McCauley, John J. McDermott, Sarah McGrath, Ralph McInerny, Daniel J. McKaughan, Thomas McKay, Michael McKinsey, Brian P. McLaughlin, Ernan McMullin, Anthonie Meijers, Jack W. Meiland, William Jason Melanson, Alfred R. Mele, Joseph R. Mendola, Christopher Menzel, Michael J. Meyer, Christian B. Miller, David W. Miller, Peter Millican, Robert N. Minor, Phillip Mitsis, James A. Montmarquet, Michael S. Moore, Tim Moore, Benjamin Morison, Donald R. Morrison, Stephen J. Morse, Paul K. Moser, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Ian Mueller, James Bernard Murphy, Mark C. Murphy, Steven Nadler, Jan Narveson, Alan Nelson, Jerome Neu, Samuel Newlands, Kai Nielsen, Ilkka Niiniluoto, Carlos G. Noreña, Calvin G. Normore, David Fate Norton, Nikolaj Nottelmann, Donald Nute, David S. Oderberg, Steve Odin, Michael O’Rourke, Willard G. Oxtoby, Heinz Paetzold, George S. Pappas, Anthony J. Parel, Lydia Patton, R. P. Peerenboom, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Adriaan T. Peperzak, Derk Pereboom, Jaroslav Peregrin, Glen Pettigrove, Philip Pettit, Edmund L. Pincoffs, Andrew Pinsent, Robert B. Pippin, Alvin Plantinga, Louis P. Pojman, Richard H. Popkin, John F. Post, Carl J. Posy, William J. Prior, Richard Purtill, Michael Quante, Philip L. Quinn, Philip L. Quinn, Elizabeth S. Radcliffe, Diana Raffman, Gerard Raulet, Stephen L. Read, Andrews Reath, Andrew Reisner, Nicholas Rescher, Henry S. Richardson, Robert C. Richardson, Thomas Ricketts, Wayne D. Riggs, Mark Roberts, Robert C. Roberts, Luke Robinson, Alexander Rosenberg, Gary Rosenkranz, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Adina L. Roskies, William L. Rowe, T. M. Rudavsky, Michael Ruse, Bruce Russell, Lilly-Marlene Russow, Dan Ryder, R. M. Sainsbury, Joseph Salerno, Nathan Salmon, Wesley C. Salmon, Constantine Sandis, David H. Sanford, Marco Santambrogio, David Sapire, Ruth A. Saunders, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Charles Sayward, James P. Scanlan, Richard Schacht, Tamar Schapiro, Frederick F. Schmitt, Jerome B. Schneewind, Calvin O. Schrag, Alan D. Schrift, George F. Schumm, Jean-Loup Seban, David N. Sedley, Kenneth Seeskin, Krister Segerberg, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Dennis M. Senchuk, James F. Sennett, William Lad Sessions, Stewart Shapiro, Tommie Shelby, Donald W. Sherburne, Christopher Shields, Roger A. Shiner, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert K. Shope, Kwong-loi Shun, Wilfried Sieg, A. John Simmons, Robert L. Simon, Marcus G. Singer, Georgette Sinkler, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Matti T. Sintonen, Lawrence Sklar, Brian Skyrms, Robert C. Sleigh, Michael Anthony Slote, Hans Sluga, Barry Smith, Michael Smith, Robin Smith, Robert Sokolowski, Robert C. Solomon, Marta Soniewicka, Philip Soper, Ernest Sosa, Nicholas Southwood, Paul Vincent Spade, T. L. S. Sprigge, Eric O. Springsted, George J. Stack, Rebecca Stangl, Jason Stanley, Florian Steinberger, Sören Stenlund, Christopher Stephens, James P. Sterba, Josef Stern, Matthias Steup, M. A. Stewart, Leopold Stubenberg, Edith Dudley Sulla, Frederick Suppe, Jere Paul Surber, David George Sussman, Sigrún Svavarsdóttir, Zeno G. Swijtink, Richard Swinburne, Charles C. Taliaferro, Robert B. Talisse, John Tasioulas, Paul Teller, Larry S. Temkin, Mark Textor, H. S. Thayer, Peter Thielke, Alan Thomas, Amie L. Thomasson, Katherine Thomson-Jones, Joshua C. Thurow, Vzalerie Tiberius, Terrence N. Tice, Paul Tidman, Mark C. Timmons, William Tolhurst, James E. Tomberlin, Rosemarie Tong, Lawrence Torcello, Kelly Trogdon, J. D. Trout, Robert E. Tully, Raimo Tuomela, John Turri, Martin M. Tweedale, Thomas Uebel, Jennifer Uleman, James Van Cleve, Harry van der Linden, Peter van Inwagen, Bryan W. Van Norden, René van Woudenberg, Donald Phillip Verene, Samantha Vice, Thomas Vinci, Donald Wayne Viney, Barbara Von Eckardt, Peter B. M. Vranas, Steven J. Wagner, William J. Wainwright, Paul E. Walker, Robert E. Wall, Craig Walton, Douglas Walton, Eric Watkins, Richard A. Watson, Michael V. Wedin, Rudolph H. Weingartner, Paul Weirich, Paul J. Weithman, Carl Wellman, Howard Wettstein, Samuel C. Wheeler, Stephen A. White, Jennifer Whiting, Edward R. Wierenga, Michael Williams, Fred Wilson, W. Kent Wilson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John F. Wippel, Jan Woleński, Allan B. Wolter, Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Rega Wood, W. Jay Wood, Paul Woodruff, Alison Wylie, Gideon Yaffe, Takashi Yagisawa, Yutaka Yamamoto, Keith E. Yandell, Xiaomei Yang, Dean Zimmerman, Günter Zoller, Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert, Jack A. Zupko (J.A.Z.)
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- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Surgery: Definition of Candidacy
- Michael W. Jones, Frederick Andermann
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- Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Volume 27 / Issue S1 / May 2000
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- 02 December 2014, pp. S11-S13
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Medical intractability is one of the absolute indications for considering temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. This is a relative concept that has to be highly individualized. It is quite easy to determine when a patient's seizures are fully controlled. On the other hand, “continuing seizures are not necessarily a measure of intractability or disability”. A positive decision to operate would be based on some of the following factors: assurance of a firm diagnosis, seizures that are frequent and disabling, and seizures occurring in patients who are drug refractory to optimal anti-epileptic medications and dosages.
Y. Nadeau, A COMMENTARY ON THE SIXTH SATIRE OF JUVENAL (Collection Latomus 329). Brussels: Éditions Latomus, 2011. Pp. 472. isbn9782870312704. €68.00.
- Frederick Jones
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- The Journal of Roman Studies / Volume 103 / November 2013
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- 14 October 2013, pp. 340-341
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- November 2013
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The Eclogues - (J.) Van Sickle Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse. Framed by Cues for Reading Aloud and Clues for Threading Texts and Themes. Pp. 288. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Cased, £44, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-8018-9799-3.
- Frederick Jones
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- The Classical Review / Volume 62 / Issue 2 / October 2012
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- 12 September 2012, pp. 496-498
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- October 2012
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ACTIVE Cognitive Training and Rates of Incident Dementia
- Frederick W. Unverzagt, Lin T. Guey, Richard N. Jones, Michael Marsiske, Jonathan W. King, Virginia G. Wadley, Michael Crowe, George W. Rebok, Sharon L. Tennstedt
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- Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society / Volume 18 / Issue 4 / July 2012
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- 09 March 2012, pp. 669-677
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Systematic cognitive training produces long-term improvement in cognitive function and less difficulty in performing activities of daily living. We examined whether cognitive training was associated with reduced rate of incident dementia. Participants were from the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study (n = 2,802). Incident dementia was defined using a combination of interview- and performance-based methods. Survival analysis was used to determine if ACTIVE treatment affected the rate of incident dementia during 5 years of follow-up. A total of 189 participants met criteria for incident dementia. Baseline factors predictive of incident dementia were older age, male gender, African American race, fewer years of education, relationship other than married, no alcohol use, worse MMSE, worse SF-36 physical functioning, higher depressive symptomatology, diabetes, and stroke (all p < .05). A multivariable model with significant predictors of incident dementia and training group revealed that cognitive training was not associated with a lower rate of incident dementia. Cognitive training did not affect rates of incident dementia after 5 years of follow-up. Longer follow-up or enhanced training may be needed to fully explore the preventive capacity of cognitive training in forestalling onset of dementia. (JINS, 2012, 18, 1–9)
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- By Jane E. Adcock, Yahya Aghakhani, A. Anand, Eva Andermann, Frederick Andermann, Alexis Arzimanoglou, Sandrine Aubert, Nadia Bahi-Buisson, Carman Barba, Agatino Battaglia, Geneviève Bernard, Nadir E. Bharucha, Laurence A. Bindoff, William Bingaman, Francesca Bisulli, Thomas P. Bleck, Stewart G. Boyd, Andreas Brunklaus, Harry Bulstrode, Jorge G. Burneo, Laura Canafoglia, Laura Cantonetti, Roberto H. Caraballo, Fernando Cendes, Kevin E. Chapman, Patrick Chauvel, Richard F. M. Chin, H. T. Chong, Fahmida A. Chowdhury, Catherine J. Chu-Shore, Rolando Cimaz, Andrew J. Cole, Bernard Dan, Geoffrey Dean, Alessio De Ciantis, Fernando De Paolis, Rolando F. Del Maestro, Irissa M. Devine, Carlo Di Bonaventura, Concezio Di Rocco, Henry B. Dinsdale, Maria Alice Donati, François Dubeau, Michael Duchowny, Olivier Dulac, Monika Eisermann, Brent Elliott, Bernt A. Engelsen, Kevin Farrell, Natalio Fejerman, Rosalie E. Ferner, Silvana Franceschetti, Robert Friedlander, Antonio Gambardella, Hector H. Garcia, Serena Gasperini, Lorenzo Genitori, Gioia Gioi, Flavio Giordano, Leif Gjerstad, Daniel G. Glaze, Howard P. Goodkin, Sidney M. Gospe, Andrea Grassi, William P. Gray, Renzo Guerrini, Marie-Christine Guiot, William Harkness, Andrew G. Herzog, Linda Huh, Margaret J. Jackson, Thomas S. Jacques, Anna C. Jansen, Sigmund Jenssen, Michael R. Johnson, Dorothy Jones-Davis, Reetta Kälviäinen, Peter W. Kaplan, John F. Kerrigan, Autumn Marie Klein, Matthias Koepp, Edwin H. Kolodny, Kandan Kulandaivel, Ruben I. Kuzniecky, Ahmed Lary, Yolanda Lau, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki, Maria K. Lehtinen, Holger Lerche, Michael P. T. Lunn, Snezana Maljevic, Mark R. Manford, Carla Marini, Bindu Menon, Giulia Milioli, Eli M. Mizrahi, Manish Modi, Márcia Elisabete Morita, Manuel Murie-Fernandez, Vivek Nambiar, Lina Nashef, Vincent Navarro, Aidan Neligan, Ruth E. Nemire, Charles R. J. C. Newton, John O'Donavan, Hirokazu Oguni, Teiichi Onuma, Andre Palmini, Eleni Panagiotakaki, Pasquale Parisi, Elena Parrini, Liborio Parrino, Ignacio Pascual-Castroviejo, M. Scott Perry, Perrine Plouin, Charles E. Polkey, Suresh S. Pujar, Karthik Rajasekaran, R. Eugene Ramsey, Rahul Rathakrishnan, Roberta H. Raven, Guy M. Rémillard, David Rosenblatt, M. Elizabeth Ross, Abdulrahman Sabbagh, P. Satishchandra, Swati Sathe, Ingrid E. Scheffer, Philip A. Schwartzkroin, Rod C. Scott, Frédéric Sedel, Michelle J. Shapiro, Elliott H. Sherr, Michael Shevell, Simon D. Shorvon, Adrian M. Siegel, Gagandeep Singh, S. Sinha, Barbara Spacca, Waney Squier, Carl E. Stafstrom, Bernhard J. Steinhoff, Andrea Taddio, Gianpiero Tamburrini, C. T. Tan, Raymond Y. L. Tan, Erik Taubøll, Robert W. Teasell, Mario Giovanni Terzano, Federica Teutonico, Suzanne A. Tharin, Elizabeth A. Thiele, Pierre Thomas, Paolo Tinuper, Dorothée Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité, Sumeet Vadera, Pierangelo Veggiotti, Jean-Pierre Vignal, J. M. Walshe, Elizabeth J. Waterhouse, David Watkins, Ruth E. Williams, Yue-Hua Zhang, Benjamin Zifkin, Sameer M. Zuberi
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- The Causes of Epilepsy
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8 - Functional imaging of chronic pain
- Frederick A. Lenz, Kenneth L. Casey, Edward G. Jones, University of California, Davis, William D. Willis, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
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Introduction
In Chapter 5, we discussed the normal responses to a variety of noxious stimuli and their modulation by peripheral and central neural mechanisms. This review showed that noxious stimuli preferentially and most commonly activate a set of interconnected structures, namely the insula and secondary (SII) somatosensory cortices, anterior cingulate gyrus and thalamus. Several additional structures are also activated during normal acute pain although somewhat less frequently: the primary (SI) somatosensory cortex, components of the striatum, the cerebellum, premotor cortex, dorsolateral and orbitofrontal regions of the prefrontal cortex, and the medial midbrain in the region of the periaqueductal gray matter.
In this chapter we review the evidence that chronically painful conditions, whether of peripheral or central origin, may alter the nociceptive processing that normally follows the application of noxious or innocuous stimuli (see Chapter 7). In clinical practice and in the interpretation of the results of pain research, the assumption is often made that the perceptual abnormalities sometimes associated with chronic pain states are attributable only to changes occurring at the peripheral or spinal level. Although this assumption may be correct in most instances, functional imaging studies provide evidence to the contrary in some cases. We cannot assume that, in pathological or chronically painful conditions, information ascending through the spinothalamic tract will be processed by the same mechanisms used for acute pain; this has important clinical implications for the management of chronic pain.
The term “chronic pain” is seldom defined.
7 - Peripheral and central mechanisms and manifestations of chronic pain and sensitization
- Frederick A. Lenz, Kenneth L. Casey, Edward G. Jones, University of California, Davis, William D. Willis, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
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Neuropathic pain is pain following a disease or injury to the nervous system, and can be categorized by the location of the causative injury. Chronic pain following injury of the peripheral nervous system, distal to the oligodendroglial cell – Schwann cell junction, can be termed deafferentation pain or peripheral neuropathic pain. Chronic pain “associated with lesions of the CNS” is termed central pain syndrome (Merskey, 1986; Bonica, 1991). There are many situations in which there is injury of both the peripheral and central nervous system, particularly with injuries of the conus medullaris. In this chapter we will consider primate neuropathic pain states, beginning with peripheral neuropathic or deafferentation syndromes, and concluding with central pain syndromes.
In general terms, both central and peripheral chronic pain syndromes have similar characteristics. These include evidence of sensory loss, ongoing pain and pain evoked by stimuli that are not normally painful (allodynia or hyperalgesia). The sensory loss and hypersensitivity are demonstrated by quantitative sensory testing (QST). In addition, a number of primate models have been developed which mimic the sensory abnormalities in patients with neuropathic pain.
Clinical characteristics of peripheral neuropathic pain
The cause of most neuropathies is based on the medical history, supported by laboratory investigations (Casey et al., 1996b). Diabetes is the most common cause of painful neuropathy. Generally, a progressive course suggests an inherited, metabolic or recurrent toxic etiology.
2 - Organization of the central pain pathways
- Frederick A. Lenz, Kenneth L. Casey, Edward G. Jones, University of California, Davis, William D. Willis, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
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Inputs from nociceptors
The nature of nociceptors
Nociceptors are sensory receptors that respond to stimuli that are damaging or potentially damaging to tissues (Sherrington,1906). The thresholds for activation of many nociceptors can be reached when stimuli of only moderate or non-damaging intensities are applied, but responses continue to increase as stimulus intensity is progressively increased to a level that produces overt damage. By contrast, other nociceptors respond only to intense stimuli and some may not respond at all, even to the strongest mechanical stimuli, unless they are first sensitized (Lynn and Carpenter, 1982; Meyer et al., 1991; Kress et al., 1992; Davis et al., 1993; Treede et al., 1998). The last mentioned have been called “silent nociceptors” (Schaible and Schmidt, 1985, 1988a, 1988b; Schmidt et al., 1995, 2000). Overall, if we include receptors responding to innocuous warming and cooling of the skin, there may be as many as six receptor classes specific for cooling, warming, noxious heat or cold, destructive mechanical or mixed noxious stimuli in humans and other animals.
Types of nociceptors
Nociceptors can be subdivided according to the tissue in which they are found, the size or conduction velocity of the afferent fiber supplying them and the type of stimulus that activates them. Most experimental studies of nociceptors have been performed on common laboratory animals, especially rodents and cats. Some of the most informative, however, have been made during recordings from peripheral nerves of monkeys or human subjects (reviewed in Willis and Coggeshall, 2004).
9 - Functional implications of spinal and forebrain procedures for the treatment of chronic pain
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The clinical descriptions of cordotomy played a major role in elucidating the function and the anatomy of the human spinothalamic tract (STT) (Chapter 1). There are a number of other examples of surgical interventions which have informed our understanding of the pain system. In particular, the pain-related role of the cingulate gyrus is suggested by imaging studies and by the effect of cingulotomy on experimental pain (Rainville et al., 1997; Gildenberg, 2004). Similarly the role of the motor cortex in these systems has suggested the effects of stimulation on activity throughout the pain system (Brown and Barbaro, 2003; Brown, 2004; Peyron et al., 2007). The purpose of this chapter is to examine these surgical interventions in terms of the anatomy and function of structures involved in these interventions. The inclusion of procedures in this chapter is arbitrary and many other such procedures which might have been included have been excluded.
Cordotomy and myelotomy
Percutaneous cordotomy produces relief of pain by interrupting the transmission of signals in the STT from below the level of intervention (Tasker, 1988; Tasker, 2004). The anterolateral quadrant of the spinal cord has long been recognized as the location of the STT (Chapter 1). Recent findings indicate that the dorsal column system also has an important role in visceral nociception (Nauta et al., 1997; Willis et al., 1999). The STT terminates in the primate thalamus, brainstem and other structures such as the hypothalamus and amygdala whereas the dorsal column system terminates in the dorsal column nuclei (Newman et al., 1996).
5 - Functional brain imaging of acute pain in healthy humans
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Introduction
Before the introduction of computerized tomographic (CT) brain imaging, studying human brain mechanisms of pain was largely limited to clinical reports and the post-mortem analysis of brain lesions. Although this approach provided important information and established the background for current investigations, these studies were usually limited by clinical descriptions of each patient's condition. Somatosensory psychophysics seldom included studies of pain and even then it was not possible to relate these observations to brain function or physiology. Because the living brain was invisible (except in the neurosurgery operating suite), research on pain mechanisms focused almost exclusively on the peripheral nervous system.
Brain CT scans introduced the opportunity to apply quantitative sensory testing to the study of living patients with visible, localized brain lesions and to begin to test hypotheses about functional localization and brain mechanisms of pain. The introduction of functional imaging by positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI; fMRI) launched a new investigational paradigm into the study of pain mechanisms. Now it is possible to go well beyond the lesion analysis method and to relate human experience, in this case using somatosensory psychophysics, directly to a surrogate measure of activity in groups of neurons at the level of visible, localized brain structure. Since the early 1990s, the number and technical sophistication of functional brain imaging studies, including those related to pain, has increased at a rate that makes it almost impossible to incorporate the results into a conceptual framework.
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6 - Pain modulatory systems
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It is well known that much of the sensory input to the central nervous system can be modulated by centrifugally organized control systems that originate in the central nervous system (Head and Holmes, 1911; Hagbarth, 1960). The control mechanisms can be excitatory or inhibitory processes that may occur in the periphery or within the central nervous system. Inhibition can be at pre- and/or postsynaptic sites (Fig. 6.1(I)). Presynaptic inhibition at the first central synapse of a sensory pathway has the potential advantage of being able to reduce sensory input prior to wide dissemination of that sensory input within the central nervous system through the activation of interneuronal networks and multiple ascending pathways, for example, in the spinal cord (Schmidt, 1973; see Chapter 3).
Pre- and postsynaptic inhibition can have somewhat different effects on the stimulus-response curves of second-order sensory neurons, as shown in Fig. 6.1(II). Postsynaptic inhibition involves inhibitory postsynaptic potentials that sum with excitatory postsynaptic potentials (Fig. 6.1(IIA)). If there is a linear summation, the stimulus-response curve will be shifted to the right in a parallel fashion (Carstens et al., 1980). However, if the IPSP is generated in a membrane area near that in which the EPSP is generated, the excitatory current may be shunted and the slope of the stimulus-response curve reduced, causing a reduction in the gain of synaptic transmission (Fig. 6.1(IIB)). A similar reduction in gain can be produced by presynaptic inhibition.
1 - Discovery of the anterolateral system and its role as a pain pathway
- Frederick A. Lenz, Kenneth L. Casey, Edward G. Jones, University of California, Davis, William D. Willis, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
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On January 19 1911, persuaded by his colleague, the neurologist William Spiller, a Philadelphia surgeon named Edward Martin made a small transverse cut in the spinal cord of a patient suffering from severe pain caused by a tumor affecting the lower end of the spinal column. The cut, made with a thin cataract knife, was no more than 2 mm deep or wide and entered the cord some 3 mm ventral to the entry of a dorsal root in the middle thoracic region. The patient experienced much relief from what had until then been intractable pain (Spiller and Martin,1912). The operation of “chordotomie” or section of the anterolateral tracts of the spinal cord had been introduced in 1910 by Schüller in work on monkeys in which he was exploring the possibility of using the operation for the alleviation of spastic paralysis and tabetic crises in humans. Spiller argued for the procedure on the basis of clinico-pathological observations that appeared to implicate the anterolateral tracts as pathways for conduction of impulses related to pain and temperature through the spinal cord (Müller, 1871; Gowers, 1879; Spiller, 1905; Petrén, 1910). Reports of other successful cases quickly followed (Beer, 1913; Foerster, 1913) and soon, at the hands of Foerster (1913, 1927; Foerster and Gagel, 1932) in Germany and Frazier (1920) in the United States, cordotomy was to become for a time the surgical method of choice in dealing with intractable pain.
4 - Physiology of supraspinal pain-related structures
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It is well understood that there are different components to the sensation of pain (Melzack and Casey,1968). The sensory-discriminative aspect of pain refers to the location, intensity and quality of the sensory experience of pain. The affective-motivational aspect of pain refers to the unpleasantness of the pain and how likely it is that it will motivate the animal to escape the pain. We refer to these different components of the pain sensation throughout this review as we examine the possibility that these different components are mediated by different structures in the brain.
The spinothalamic tract (STT) is the spinal tract projecting toward the brain which is most often associated with the sensation of pain (Price and Dubner, 1977; Willis, 1985; Price et al., 2003). Cells of origin of the STT can be divided into those which respond to low-threshold stimuli (LT cells), those which respond to stimuli across the intensive continuum into the noxious range (wide dynamic range, WDR), and those that respond only to noxious stimuli (nociceptive specific, NS). Evidence that any structure mediates the sensory aspect of pain is grouped into four lines: that the structure is connected to other structures known to demonstrate pain-related activity; that neural elements in that structure respond to noxious stimuli; that stimulation of that structure produces pain; and that interventions which interfere with the function of that structure interfere with the sensation of pain evoked by noxious stimuli (Price and Dubner, 1977).