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J Mycol Med 2019 Jan 16. Epub 2019 Jan 16.

Infectious Diseases Research Center (IDRC), Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. Electronic address:

Objective: Asymptomatic carriage is a condition of positive dermatophyte scalp culture without signs and symptoms of tinea capitis. Carriers are the source of dermatophytes that are able to transfer fungal agents to other people. The aim of this study was evaluating asymptomatic dermatophyte scalp carriage among students of primary schools in Arak city. Read More

Dermatol Ther 2019 Jan 18:e12828. Epub 2019 Jan 18.

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, Alameda Prof. Hernani Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.

Basal cell carcinoma is the most frequent malignant neoplasm in white-skinned individuals. It develops in different body areas, including in the scalp, which is a unique anatomical region due to the high number of pilosebaceous follicles; the scalp is protected from UV exposure, a main risk factor for basal cell carcinoma development. Moreover, scalp basal cell carcinoma has been described as more aggressive and difficult to treat than other forms of basal cell carcinoma. Read More

J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 2019 Jan 7. Epub 2019 Jan 7.

Department of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine, 4 Rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, 1211 Geneva 14, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address:

Background: The adjunction of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is emerging as a promising approach to enhance the long-term survival of fat grafting, but there are still insufficient data on its efficacy. The aim of this in vivo study was to assess the effect of the addition of non-activated PRP on fat graft outcome.

Methods: Human adipose tissue mixed with 20% of non-activated PRP was injected under the scalp skin of nude Balb/cAnNRj mice and compared to grafted fat mixed with 20% of saline. Read More

J Clin Med 2019 Jan 17;8(1). Epub 2019 Jan 17.

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon 164, Korea.

Congenital melanocytic nevi need surgical excisions. However, the effect of the size and location of the nevi on pain and emergence agitation have yet to be studied. The objective of this study was to evaluate (1) the ideal parameter of the nevus size and (2) the effects of the size and location of the nevus on pain and emergence agitation. Read More

Cutis 2018 Dec;102(6):E10-E12

Section of Dermatology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA.

Clin Exp Dermatol 2019 Jan 17. Epub 2019 Jan 17.

Department of Dermatology, Hospital de Cabuenes, Gijón, Asturias, Spain.

Clin Case Rep 2019 Jan 4;7(1):189-192. Epub 2018 Dec 4.

Sanglah General Public Hospital Denpasar Indonesia.

Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia (ALHE) is a benign tumor of the skin which may mimic other benign or malignant lesion of the skin. Practitioners should consider this diagnosis as a differential when encounter such lesion as papule or nodule on the face and scalp area. Read More

Ann Emerg Med 2019 Jan 14. Epub 2019 Jan 14.

Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Study Objective: Existing clinical decision rules guide management for head-injured children presenting 24 hours or sooner after injury, even though some may present greater than 24 hours afterward. We seek to determine the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries for patients presenting to emergency departments greater than 24 hours after injury and identify symptoms and signs to guide management.

Methods: This was a planned secondary analysis of the Australasian Paediatric Head Injury Rule Study, concentrating on first presentations greater than 24 hours after injury, with Glasgow Coma Scale scores 14 and 15. Read More

J Biophotonics 2019 Jan 17:e201800391. Epub 2019 Jan 17.

Department of Dermatology and Allergy, University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany.

Actinic keratosis (AKs) corresponds to the earliest stage of in-situ squamous cell carcinoma and arises on chronically sun-exposed skin. Around the clinically evident AKs, the apparently healthy epidermis may contain different grades of atypia that can be detected by non-invasive imaging techniques such as reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) and optical coherence tomography (OCT). Subclinical actinic keratosis (sAKs) have captured increasing interest as a potential target of field therapies. Read More

Medicine (Baltimore) 2019 Jan;98(3):e14185

Department of Neurology, Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, 71, Xinmin Street, Changchun, P. R. China.

Rationale: The diagnosis of myoclonic epilepsy and the classification of generalized or partial type may be challenging, especially when the scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) is normal. In such situation, how to apply another electrophysiological technique to begin the diagnosis and classification? The utility of Jerk-locked back averaging technique has been described in our case.

Patient Concerns: A Chinese patient (male, 21 years old) presented with frequent unilateral or bilateral shoulder-jerking. Read More

J Biophotonics 2019 Jan 16. Epub 2019 Jan 16.

Laboratory of Laser Sports Medicine, College of Physical Education and Sports Science, South China Normal University, University Town, Guangzhou, GD, China.

Neonatal hypoxia-ischemia (HI) injury caused by oxygen deprivation is the most common cause of mortality and severe neurologic deficits in neonates. The present work evaluated the preventative effect of photobiomodulation (PBM) preconditioning, and its underlying mechanism of action on brain damage in a HI model in neonatal rats. According to the optimal time response of ATP levels in brain samples removed from normal rats, a PBM preconditioning regimen (808 nm CW laser, 1 cm spot, 100 mW/cm , 12 J/cm ) was delivered to the scalp 6 hours before HI. Read More

Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown) 2019 Jan 11. Epub 2019 Jan 11.

Department of Neurosurgery, Baylor Scott & White Health, Scott and White Medical Center, Temple, Texas.

Background And Importance: Decompressive hemicraniectomy (DH) is the mainstay of treatment for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction (MMI). Although this operation significantly reduces mortality and improves functional outcomes, the conventional technique involves a reverse question mark incision starting anterior to the tragus that can injure the scalp's major blood supply, the superficial temporal artery (STA), which increases the risk of postoperative complications.

Clinical Presentation: We developed a modified DH technique to reduce surgical morbidity associated with injury to the STA, accommodate a large bone window for effective decompression, and improve operative speed. Read More

Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed 2019 Jan 16. Epub 2019 Jan 16.

Division of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Background: Scalp psoriasis is a major therapeutic challenge due to the hindrance caused by hair. Treatment with the 308-nm excimer lamp is purported to provide many benefits over conventional phototherapy. This retrospective study evaluates the efficacy, safety, and effective dosage of 308-nm excimer light in the treatment of scalp psoriasis. Read More

Cureus 2018 Nov 3;10(11):e3539. Epub 2018 Nov 3.

Ophthalmology, School of Medical Sciences/Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bharu, MYS.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) manifestations in a child are varied. We report a unique and rare presentation of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a child who presented with frontal swelling involving bilateral upper lids. A previously healthy one-year-old girl presented with progressively increasing frontal swelling of seven months duration. Read More

Reumatologia 2018 23;56(6):392-398. Epub 2018 Dec 23.

Department of Dermatology, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior, Warsaw, Poland.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory dermatosis affecting 1-3% of the general population. Patients with psoriasis represent a heterogeneous population with individual disease expression - different degrees and severity of skin involvement. Psoriatic lesions in particular localizations such as the face, scalp, intertriginous or palmoplantar areas significantly reduce quality of life. Read More

Skin Appendage Disord 2018 Nov 22;5(1):27-31. Epub 2018 May 22.

Dermatopathology Department, "Dr. Manuel Gea González" General Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico.

Introduction: There are no reports of the density of hair follicles in the scalp of Mexican mestizo population, necessitating the determination of normal references values for this population compared with other ethnic groups.

Objective: To determine the average hair follicle count on the scalp in Mexican mestizo population.

Materials And Methods: A total of 50 scalp samples (25 men and 25 women) from Mexican mestizo individuals aged between 19 and 60 years, with no clinical evidence of hair disease, obtained by biopsy punch at General Hospital "Dr. Read More

Skin Appendage Disord 2018 Nov 18;5(1):1-8. Epub 2018 Jul 18.

Department of Dermatology, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.

Trichoscopy (dermoscopy of the hair and scalp) is a technique that improves diagnostic accuracy and follow-up with hair and scalp disorders. Although several studies of trichoscopy have been made in Caucasian and Asian populations, little has been published regarding trichoscopy findings in skin of color, despite the great prevalence of hair diseases in populations with this kind of skin. The aim of this review was to describe the trichoscopic features of normal scalp and of hair disorders in patients with dark skin phototypes. Read More

Am J Dermatopathol 2019 Jan 11. Epub 2019 Jan 11.

Ackerman Academy of Dermatopathology, New York, NY.

Hailey-Hailey disease (familial benign chronic pemphigus) is a genodermatosis with a typical clinical presentation of macerated plaques involving intertriginous areas of the body and affects multiple family members. Epidermal acanthosis, incipient, and completed acantholysis of many of the spinous keratinocytes of the epidermis and foci of dyskeratosis are well-recognized histologic findings. We have observed solitary lesions on the "scalp" of patients having a Hailey-Hailey-like pattern, and not the suprabasilar clefting of pemphigus represents the first manifestation of pemphigus vulgaris, which was confirmed with direct immunofluorescence in all our patients. Read More

Am J Dermatopathol 2019 Jan 11. Epub 2019 Jan 11.

Dermatology and Venereology and.

Background: Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) results from shortening of the anagen phase of the hair cycle and, subsequently, miniaturization of hair follicles. Alopecia areata (AA) is a disease of autoimmunity where T cells attack anagen hair follicles and shows multifactorial etiology. Dickkopf-1 (DKK-1) is a gene that is responsible for transformation of anagen to catagen, which suggests that it is involved in development of both diseases. Read More

IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 2019 Jan 14. Epub 2019 Jan 14.

Detecting event-related potential (ERP) is a challenging problem because of its low signal-to-noise ratio and complex spatial-temporal features. Conventional detection methods usually rely on the ensemble averaging technique, which may eliminate subtle but important information in ERP signals and lead to poor detection performance. Inspired by the good performance of discriminative restricted Boltzmann machine (DRBM) in feature extraction and classification, we propose a spatial-temporal DRBM (ST-DRBM) to extract spatial and temporal features for ERP detection. Read More

Iran J Pathol 2018 12;13(3):317-324. Epub 2018 Sep 12.

Molecular Dermatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

Background And Objective: Non-scarring alopecia is a challenge in the diagnosis and treatment, rarely studied in Asian countries.The current study aimed at evaluating histopathological features including hair count of different subtypes of non-scarring alopecia in Iranian patients.

Methods: The current study was conducted on 114 cases diagnosed with non-scarring alopecia in Molecular Dermatology Research Center and Pathology Department of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Read More

J Inj Violence Res 2018 Jan 12;11(1). Epub 2018 Jan 12.

Department of Surgery, Foothills Medical Center, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. Email:

Background: Craniomaxillofacial (CMF) injuries are very common in both civilian and military settings. Nearly half of all civilian trauma incidents include a scalp laceration and historical rates of CMF battle injuries increased from 16%-21% to 42.2%. Read More

Neurophysiol Clin 2019 Jan 8. Epub 2019 Jan 8.

Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, University "G. d'Annunzio", via L. Polacchi 11, 66100 Chieti, Italy. Electronic address:

Background And Objective: Application parameters of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for therapeutic purposes are relatively restricted. The aim of this study was to assess safety and effects on motor cortex excitability of an intensive anodal-tDCS protocol.

Methods: In 26 healthy subjects, five 15-minute anodal-tDCS sessions were delivered, at increasing time intervals, over 24hours. Read More

J Cogn Neurosci 2019 Jan 11:1-12. Epub 2019 Jan 11.

University of California, San Diego.

How do we prepare to stop ourselves in the future? Here, we used scalp EEG to test the hypothesis that people prepare to stop by putting parts of their motor system (specifically, here, sensorimotor cortex) into a suppressed state ahead of time. On each trial, participants were cued to prepare to stop one hand and then initiated a bimanual movement. On a minority of trials, participants were instructed to stop the cued hand while continuing quickly with the other. Read More

J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2019 Jan 11. Epub 2019 Jan 11.

Division of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Background: Hair and scalp involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) can manifest as scarring alopecia, non-scarring alopecia or scalp/hair shaft changes without apparent hair loss. While trichoscopic signs in chronic cutaneous lupus are well estabished, data on SLE patients with normal-looking or non-scarring scalp are limited.

Objectives: To investigate trichoscopic features of SLE patients without chronic cutaneous scalp lesions and compare the findings with normal controls, as well as determine which feature associates with systemic disease. Read More

J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 2019 Jan 11. Epub 2019 Jan 11.

Dept. of Dermatology and Allergology, Klinikum Vest GmbH, Recklinghausen, Germany.

Background: The efficacy and safety of methyl aminolevulinate daylight photodynamic therapy (MAL DL-PDT) for actinic keratosis (AK) treatment has previously been demonstrated in several studies.

Objective: To evaluate patient reported outcomes, effectiveness and tolerability of patient self-applied MAL DL-PDT.

Patients And Methods: An open study was conducted in Germany in patients with thin or non-hyperkeratotic and non-pigmented AK. Read More

Ann Plast Surg 2019 Jan 9. Epub 2019 Jan 9.

Department of Orthopedics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

Background: We report new data for a rare face transplant performed 3 years ago. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) (Wegener) is a severe autoimmune necrotizing vasculitis and parenchymal inflammatory disease that can affect any organ including those of the craniofacial region. Skin involvement manifests as malignant pyoderma. Read More

Front Behav Neurosci 2018 18;12:315. Epub 2018 Dec 18.

Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is defined as a fetal growth retardation, resulting in an estimated fetal weight less than the 10th centile for gestational age. IUGR developing brain is affected by the atypical fetal growth, presenting altered structure and connectivity and increased risk for neurodevelopmental impairments. Behaviorally, IUGR infants show reduced responsiveness and engagement with human faces during mother-child exchanges. Read More

Stress 2019 Jan 10:1-7. Epub 2019 Jan 10.

a Department of Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience , University Maastricht , Maastricht , The Netherlands.

Ample experimental and associative studies have shown that carrying two short (S) alleles of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) contributes to an increased vulnerability for stress and related affective disorders. Recent findings indicate that this relationship might become even more profound when also possessing a negative ruminative (stress-related) thinking style. However, previous studies on the relationship among 5-HTTLPR, stress, and stress-responsiveness almost exclusively measured salivary cortisol concentrations during exposure to a single acute (laboratory) stressor. Read More

Int J Womens Dermatol 2018 Dec 8;4(4):230-235. Epub 2018 Sep 8.

Skin Research Center, Department of Dermatology, Razi hospital, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.

Background: Isolated distant cutaneous metastasis of breast carcinoma is uncommon. Furthermore, isolated metastasis of the scalp seems to be very rare in breast cancer.

Case Presentation: A 44-year-old woman was referred to our dermatology department with concerns of a firm, painless, immobile, hardened, skin-colored mass fixed to the underlying tissues. Read More

Int J Womens Dermatol 2018 Dec 19;4(4):203-211. Epub 2018 Jun 19.

Section of Dermatology, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy.

Female pattern hair loss (FPHL) is the most common form of alopecia in women. Affected women may experience psychological distress and impaired social functioning. Early diagnosis and initiation of treatment are desirable because treatments are more effective to avoid the progression of hair loss than stimulating regrowth. Read More

Auris Nasus Larynx 2019 Jan 6. Epub 2019 Jan 6.

Department of Head and Neck Surgery. Electronic address:

Objective: In the case of deep invasion of an infratemporal fossa (ITF) tumor, surgeons find it difficult to gain sufficient visualization and working space by conventional surgical approaches. To overcome these limitations, we have developed a novel surgical technique, maxillo-orbito-zygomatic (MOZ) approach, by combining partial lateral maxillectomy with the conventional orbito-zygomatic approach.

Methods: A 63-year-old male presented with the fifth recurrent adenoid-cystic carcinoma in the right deep ITF. Read More

Neuropsychobiology 2019 Jan 9:1-9. Epub 2019 Jan 9.

Department of Psychiatry, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan.

Objectives: eLORETA (exact low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography) is a technique created by Pascual-Marqui et al. [Int J Psychophysiol. 1994 Oct; 18(1): 49-65] for the 3-dimensional representation of current source density in the brain by electroencephalography (EEG) data. Read More

Neuroscience 2019 Jan 6. Epub 2019 Jan 6.

Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; Discipline of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Electronic address:

Transcranial photobiomodulation (PBM), which involves the application of low-intensity red to near-infrared light (600-1100 nm) to the head, provides neuroprotection in animal models of various neurodegenerative diseases. However, the absorption of light energy by the human scalp and skull may limit the utility of transcranial PBM in clinical contexts. We have previously shown that targeting light at peripheral tissues (i. Read More

PLoS One 2019 9;14(1):e0209173. Epub 2019 Jan 9.

School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.

The auditory system needs to fuse the direct wave (lead) from a sound source and its time-delayed reflections (lag) to achieve a single sound image perception. This lead-lag fusion plays crucial roles in auditory processing in reverberant environments. Here, we investigated neural correlates of the lead-lag fusion by tracking human cortical potentials evoked by a break in the correlation (BIC) between the lead and lag when the time delay between the two was 0, 2, or 4 ms. Read More

PLoS One 2019 9;14(1):e0208118. Epub 2019 Jan 9.

Department of Integrated Science and Engineering for Sustainable Society, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan.

Purpose: Many breast cancer patients suffer from chemotherapy-induced hair loss. Accurate information about temporal changes in chemotherapy-induced hair loss is important for supporting patients scheduled to receive chemotherapy, because it helps them to prepare. However, accurate information, on issues such as the frequency of hair loss after chemotherapy, when regrowth starts, the condition of regrown hair, and the frequency of incomplete hair regrowth, is lacking. Read More

IEEE J Biomed Health Inform 2019 Jan;23(1):83-94

The recent advances in pervasive sensing technologies have enabled us to monitor and analyze the multi-channel electroencephalogram (EEG) signals of epilepsy patients to prevent serious outcomes caused by epileptic seizures. To avoid manual visual inspection from long-term EEG readings, automatic EEG seizure detection has garnered increasing attention among researchers. In this paper, we present a unified multi-view deep learning framework to capture brain abnormalities associated with seizures based on multi-channel scalp EEG signals. Read More

J Neurosci 2019 Jan 8. Epub 2019 Jan 8.

Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston MA 02115.

Current understanding of the origin of occipital headache falls short of distinguishing between cause and effect. Most preclinical studies involving trigeminovascular neurons sample neurons that are responsive to stimulation of dural areas in the anterior 2/3 of the cranium and the periorbital skin. Hypothesizing that occipital headache may involve activation of meningeal nociceptors that innervate the posterior 1/3 of the dura, we sought to map the origin and course of meningeal nociceptors that innervate the posterior dura overlying the cerebellum. Read More

Front Psychol 2018 13;9:2528. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Department of Music, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.

The early right anterior negativity (ERAN) in event-related potentials (ERPs) is typically elicited by syntactically unexpected events in Western tonal music. We examined how visual predictive information influences syntactic processing, how musical or non-musical cues have different effects, and how they interact with sequential effects between trials, which could modulate with the strength of the sense of established tonality. The EEG was recorded from musicians who listened to chord sequences paired with one of four types of visual stimuli; two provided predictive information about the syntactic validity of the last chord through either musical notation of the whole sequence, or the word "regular" or "irregular," while the other two, empty musical staves or a blank screen, provided no information. Read More

Front Neuroinform 2018 10;12:95. Epub 2018 Dec 10.

College of Information and Computer Science, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China.

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects approximately fifty million people according to the World Health Organization. While electroencephalography (EEG) plays important roles in monitoring the brain activity of patients with epilepsy and diagnosing epilepsy, an expert is needed to analyze all EEG recordings to detect epileptic activity. This method is obviously time-consuming and tedious, and a timely and accurate diagnosis of epilepsy is essential to initiate antiepileptic drug therapy and subsequently reduce the risk of future seizures and seizure-related complications. Read More

Front Neuroinform 2018 18;12:92. Epub 2018 Dec 18.

Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Recordings of extracellular electrical, and later also magnetic, brain signals have been the dominant technique for measuring brain activity for decades. The interpretation of such signals is however nontrivial, as the measured signals result from both local and distant neuronal activity. In volume-conductor theory the extracellular potentials can be calculated from a distance-weighted sum of contributions from transmembrane currents of neurons. Read More

Front Neuroinform 2018 20;12:86. Epub 2018 Dec 20.

Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Epilepsy is among the most common serious disabling disorders of the brain, and the global burden of epilepsy exerts a tremendous cost to society. Most people with epilepsy have acquired forms of the disorder, and the development of antiepileptogenic interventions could potentially prevent or cure epilepsy in many of them. However, the discovery of potential antiepileptogenic treatments and clinical validation would require a means to identify populations of patients at very high risk for epilepsy after a potential epileptogenic insult, to know when to treat and to document prevention or cure. Read More

Front Hum Neurosci 2018 13;12:503. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology, Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

The neural principles behind semantic category representation are still under debate. Dominant theories mostly focus on distinguishing concrete from abstract concepts but, in such theories, divisions into categories of concrete concepts are more developed than for their abstract counterparts. An encompassing theory on semantic category representation could be within reach when charting the semantic attributes that are capable of describing both concept types. Read More

Front Neurosci 2018 13;12:954. Epub 2018 Dec 13.

Department of Neurology & Stroke, and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Ongoing brain activity has been implicated in the modulation of cortical excitability. The combination of electroencephalography (EEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in a real-time triggered setup is a novel method for testing hypotheses about the relationship between spontaneous neuronal oscillations, cortical excitability, and synaptic plasticity. For this method, a reliable real-time extraction of the neuronal signal of interest from scalp EEG with high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is of crucial importance. Read More

J Am Acad Dermatol 2018 Oct 25. Epub 2018 Oct 25.

Department of Clinical-Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Science, Institute of Dermatology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.

Background: It is general opinion that histopathology is nonspecific and of little value in diagnosing erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp (EPDS).

Objectives: Clinicopathologic correlation of erosive pustular dermatosis of the scalp.

Methods: The clinical and pathological records of patients with a clinicopathologic diagnosis of EPDS, between 2011-2016, at the Dermatopathology Unit of the Turin University were reviewed. Read More

G Ital Dermatol Venereol 2019 Feb;154(1):96-98

Unit of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

Neuroscience 2019 Jan 4;400:62-71. Epub 2019 Jan 4.

Otolaryngology Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China; School of Communication Sciences and Disorder, Dalhousie University, Halifiax, Canada. Electronic address:

Since the first report of noise-induced synaptic damage in animals without permanent threshold shifts (PTSs), the concept of noise-induced hidden hearing loss (NIHHL) has been proposed to cover the functional deficits in hearing associated with noise-induced synaptopathy. Moreover, the potential functional deficit associated with the noise-induced synaptopathy has been largely attributed to the loss of auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) with a low spontaneous spike rate (SSR). As this group of ANFs is critical for coding at suprathreshold levels and in noisy background, coding-in-noise deficit (CIND) has been considered to be main consequence of the synaptopathy. Read More

J Craniofac Surg 2018 Dec 29. Epub 2018 Dec 29.

Department of Plastic Surgery, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Background: Total scalp avulsion is a fairly rear but severe soft tissue injury. Even with microsurgical replantation, the survival rate is still low. In this study, the authors incorporated 2 main modifications (Halo-Vest head ring and quick hair removing) and assessed the surgical outcomes versus those of traditional replantation. Read More

J Craniofac Surg 2018 Dec 29. Epub 2018 Dec 29.

Plastic and Burn Surgery Department, FX Michelet Center.

Introduction: Multiplication of incisions and/or radiotherapy on the scalp, lead to skin necrosis and chronic osteitis. In this situation, reconstructive surgery can be useful to cover complex lack of tissue.

Materials And Methods: The 5 patients were treated with the neurosurgery department of our hospital. Read More

Skin Res Technol 2019 Jan 7. Epub 2019 Jan 7.

Department of Dermatology, the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China.

Objectives: To investigate the characteristics of hairs in Female pattern hair loss (FPHL) patients and healthy females in Southern China.

Materials And Methods: Three fundamental hair parameters in different scalp areas of 90 Southern Chinese FPHL patients and 83 healthy controls were analyzed by phototrichogram.

Results: Female pattern hair loss patients showed reduced hair density, hair diameter, and terminal/vellus hair ratio. Read More