Methods of Neuropsychological Studies

Methods of Neuropsychological Studies The term ‘syndrome’ denotes the statistical co-occurrence of a cluster of symptoms. However, it is not imperative that all symptoms of a syndrome be present in a given patient. The statistical cluster is supposed to indicate an underlying cause of various symptoms. A major thrust of cognitive neuroscience is the clarification of structure function of relationships in the human brain understanding the relationship between the human brain structure and function is a major focus of cognitive neuroscience. The methods available to achieve this goal have undergone significant changes over the last 15 years; in particular, functional neuroimaging is rapidly replacing neuropsychological studies of people with brain lesions as the central method in this field, over the last several years, functional neuroimaging has risen in prominence relative to the lesion studies that formed the historical core of work in this field. At the outset, it is important to bear in mind that regardless of the specific method used, inferences from impaired performances following brain damage always focus on the same conclusion; which is, an assumption regarding which structures are necessary to perform a given task. The study of cognitive and behavioural consequences of focal brain lesions has been an indispensable method for relating brain structure to function. Lesion studies rely on correlating damaged structure and abnormal function to determine crucial brain regions necessary for normal function. For this purpose it is necessary not only to detect lesions but also to accurately delineate their spatial extent. The lesion method was influential for our understanding of functions as diverse as memory, emotion, hemispheric specialization, language, vision and motor control. For example, recent neuropsychological research has refined our understanding of how emotions are processed, with damage to the amygdala resulting i n difficulty in recognizing whether faces are expressing fear (Adolphs et al., 1995), and damage to the left insula and basal ganglia leading to a selective difficulty in identifying disgust (Calder et al., 2000).Work involving patients with brain damage has also shown that the posterior ventral cortex is involved in recognizing objects, and that the posterior dorsal regions are involved in integrating visual information with goal-directed motor responses e.g. grasping a door handle (Goodale Milner, 1992). Various types of disorders have been described by clinical neurologists and none has been more frequent and vivid than the syndrome of unilateral spatial neglect. Hemispatial neglect is a common disabling condition following unilateral brain damage, particularly of the right hemisphere. Although it can be caused by various different pathological conditions, it is most often observed after cerebral infarction or hemorrhage and affects up to two thirds of right hemisphere of stroke patients acutely (Stone et al., 1991; Bowen et al., 1999). Unilateral neglect is traditionally defined as a failure to report, respond to or orient towards stimuli in contralesional space (Driver Mattingley, 1998; Halligan, Fink, Marshall, Vallar, 2003; Heilman, Watson, Valenstein, 1993). Perhaps a more appropriate description, especially for severe neglect patients, would be to suggest that the patient behaves as if one half – the contralesional side (the left side for patients with right brain da mage) – of their world has simply ceased to exist, they attend instead to items towards the same side as their brain damage—their ipsilesional side. Their neglect may be so profound that they are unaware of large objects, or even people, in extrapersonal space. Neglect may also extend or be confined to personal space, with patients failing to acknowledge their own contralesional body parts in daily life (Bisiach et al., 1986; Zoccolotti Judica, 1991; Beschin Robertson, 1997). The earliest descriptions of unilateral neglect that were able to localize the underlying lesion with any degree of certainty came from cases initially described by Paterson and Zangwill (1944). Identifying the neuroanatomical correlate of spatial neglect in humans is as challenging because human brain lesions vary tremendously in size and the neglect syndrome itself is multifaceted. While the Paterson and Zangwill (1944) case described a patient with a discrete lesion resulting from a penetrating head wound, the more common cause of neglect is a middle cerebral artery stroke causing widespread damage to the lateral cortical surface and underlying white matter that this artery subserves (Duvernoy, 1999). Unilateral spatial neglect has been investigated in a systematic manner, by comparing performances of unselected groups of right and left brain-damaged patients, both of which were asked to perform tasks requiring an adequate exploration of space. However, the results of these studies have been somewhat varied, and there is still disagreement about both qualitative and incidence aspects of unilateral neglect in lateralized cerebral lesions. For example Battersby et al., (1956) found that lesions of the posterior areas of either hemisphere frequently produced unilateral neglect but Hecaen (1962), in his observation series of 59 patients with unilateral spatial neglect found only one case was suffering from a left hemispheric lesion, and emphasized the relationship between unilateral spatial neglect and lesions of the minor hemisphere. Also, Gainotti (1968) attempted to study the same problem by means of a battery of tests simple enough to be administered to all patients; his results s howed that unilateral spatial neglect is not only significantly more frequent, but also definitely more severe in patients suffering from lesions of the right hemisphere. Lesions of the right hemisphere are far more likely to lead to severe and enduring neglect than left hemisphere damage (Bowen et al., 1999; Stone et al., 1992), perhaps because of the specialization of the latter for language. Cortical damage involving the right inferior parietal lobe or nearby temporoparietal junction has classically been implicated in causing neglect (Vallar Perani, 1986). It has become apparent, however, that the syndrome may also follow focal lesions of the inferior frontal lobe (Vallar, 2001; Husain Kennard, 1997), although lesions confined to the frontal lobe may lead to a more transientneglect (Walker, 1998). Recent studies making use of fMRI scans in neglect patients have suggested that the critical region of overlap in a series of neglect patients’ lesions is either in the superior temporal gyrus (Karnath et al., 2001; Karnath et al., 2004) or the temporoparietal junction (Mort et al., 2003). Regarding localization of functions, research has demonstrated the variability (Kertesz, 1979) as well as the extent of the lesions that give rise to particular language disorders. Paul Broca (1861) suggested that lesions in the inferior frontal gyrus, now corresponding to Brodmann’s areas (BA) 44 and 45, were implicated in speech production disorders (Schiller, 1992). However, as advances in technology have made patients’ lesion information easier to obtain (e.g. CT and MRI scans), lesion–symptom relationships derived from the classical models of aphasia have proven to be less predictive than expected. In many instances, left frontal lesions do not result in Broca’s aphasia (Basso, Lecours, Moraschini, Vanier, 1985; Willmes Poeck, 1993). Moreover, fluency problems can be reliably associated to lesions outside of Broca’s area, including underlying white matter tracts and anterior insula (Bates et al., 2003; Damasio, 1992; Dronkers, 1996; Mohr et a l., 1978). Conversely, lesions to Broca’s area can cause deficits in domains other than speech production, indeed even outside of language (Saygin, Wilson, Dronkers, Bates, 2004). Research has shown that a lesion restricted to Broca’s area gives rise to a transient impairment of language production and that the full complement of symptoms associated with Broca’s aphasia (articulation problem coupled with simplified sentence structure—the pattern known as â€Å"agrammatism†) is the result of more extensive damage to the frontal cortex (Mohr et al., 1978). Evidence suggests, moreover, that the articulation problem present in Broca’s aphasia (â€Å"apraxia of speech†) is associated with damage to a portion of the insula, a part of the cerebral cortex that is not visible from the brain’s surface because of the growth of other parts of the frontal lobe (Dronkers, 1996). There are specialized mechanisms for the perception of speech, which consists of brief stimuli that change rapidly in wavelength composition. Isolating input to critical left temporal areas as a result of a left hemisphere lesion, or in some cases lesions in both hemispheres (the lesion on the right deprives the left hemisphere of transcallosal input), results in the disorder known as â€Å"pure word deafness,† in which patients can hear but cannot understand speech; their native tongue, for example, sounds to them like a foreign language. Moreover, these patients have difficulty discriminating between speech sounds (between â€Å"pa† and â€Å"ba,† for example), although they have little or no difficulty producing speech and understanding written language (Saffarn et al., 1976). Virtually all aphasic patients suffer from verbal short-term limitations (as measured, for example, by asking them to repeat digit strings; their performance tends to be well below the n ormal span of about seven.). One particular group with left posterior parietal lesions (Shallice vallar, 1990) suffers from short-term memory limitations but little else, and many of these patients have sentence comprehension deficits similar to those described in Broca’s aphasics (Saffaran Martin. 1990). It is interesting to note that Broca patients also have difficulty with certain grammaticality judgment tasks, in particular, those that entail linking particular word identities (and/or their meanings) to particular locations in the sentence. Thus, they proved to be insensitive to infractions involving reflexive sentences (e.g., â€Å"The woman looked at himself in the mirror†) in which the gender of the pronoun conflicts with that of the noun to which it refers (Linebarger et al., 1983; Linebarger, 1995). This further suggests that the capacity to integrate the various types of information required for the understanding of sentences is limited in these patients. It may also be the case that frontal activation is critical for sentence production. One view of the sentence production deficit in Broca’s aphasics is that it reflects a timing problem in which lexical items are retrieved too slowly to integrate with sentence structure (Kolk, 1995). Lesions that affect anteri or inferior regions of the left temporal lobe are known to result in semantic deficits in which patients have difficulty finding words and understanding them and often exhibit impairments with pictured materials as well (Howard Patterson, 1992).Studying aphasia and its associated lesions in the late 19th century led to many insights about the neural organization of language functions and many of these insights have been confirmed and elaborated in more recent studies using advanced imaging to localize areas of dysfunctional brain tissue associated with particular language deficits or using functional imaging to identify areas of the brain that were activated during a particular language task in normal controls (Wise, 2003; Bookheimer, 2002) or in recovering aphasic Individuals (Price Crinion, 2005). Technological advances in recent years (e.g. functional imaging techniques) have allowed neuroscientists to measure and localize brain activity in healthy individuals. This has fueled the zeitgeist that the lesion method is an inferior and conceivably antiquated technique. Nonetheless, while the lesion method has notable weaknesses, it can be argued that it supplements the newer methods. Additionally, recent developments deals with many of the criticisms of the lesion method. Patients with brain lesions provide a unique window into brain function, and this methodology will fill an important niche in the growing resource of tools that constantly become available to neuroscientists and neuropsychologists for future research. Nevertheless, it is beneficial to consider whether new technologies can be used to optimize the lesion method. Whilst, some of the lesion method’s limitations are intrinsic to the technique, other weakness can be addressed by recent technical innovations. Th e lesion method has much to offer, despite its limitations; new techniques for imaging the brain and analyzing lesion data have the potential to improve the lesion method. Still, the strength and weaknesses of the lesion method and other imaging techniques such as fMRI are complementary, as some brain functions might be difficult to determine using the lesion method alone or functional neuroimaging alone, but can be successfully undertaken with a combination of these techniques (Price Friston, 2002).

Discussing Act.1 Scene 7 of Macbeth

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Electronic Health Records Pros Free Essays

Abstract This paper will provide the pros and cons of changing to an all-electronic health records structure and the data that is entered into the records. It will also provide an example of an innovative system integrated into the Veterans Affairs healthcare system. Electronic health records are an innovative new system that manages patients’ files. We will write a custom essay sample on Electronic Health Records Pros or any similar topic only for you Order Now It has altered from the old patient info systems into this more arranged and regulated database. It creates a system that connects the data of all patients; from past hospital visits, allergies, treatments and demographics. EHR’s are crucial to the growth of the medical field; it allows a comprehensive visual of the health care field. A patient is able to handle their individual health information with simplicity and identify any erroneous data. One is able to revise their insurance and payment information with just a few clicks. The innovated EHR allows patients to have some kind of reassurance on the accuracy of the data being seen by their physicians and staff; that their checkups will be without delay because the need of unnecessary paperwork would be out of place. Medical doctors are capable to enter the system distantly without any slit, which is critical in case of emergencies. The EHR supports evidence-based medicine across the system because it permits clinical census to increase and advance the effectiveness of health methods. EHR systems let patients involve themselves in clinical trials; find doctors that are specified in services that they possibly will necessitate, and let medical students and clinicians situate medical environments that contribute to their trained and educational focuses. The EHR structures may have its rewards but there are limitations to maintain a system, which is roughly a national catalog for patient data and files. One shortcoming to the system is the cost linked to changing and the financial setback that small clinic could sustain. The value of the EHR ranges from the tools acquirement to make the transition and the cross training necessitated to have doctors and medical staff current with the latest system. A supplementary apprehension for the EHR system is privacy. The patients are vigilant of information systems that contain their medical files, insurance and billing data such as patient location, economical, and insurance are located in the files, the safety and threats of hackers’ amplifies. Sickbays protect their files by providing and having regular inspection at all time because of legal matters. The Department of Veterans Affairs has refurbished his database to fit the veterans increasing population. Its new structure called VistA permits health care practitioners to review, modify and generate a comprehensive patient record. The system by design links over 1000 health care facilities connected to the Veterans Affairs nationwide and it encloses specialists’ info and multimedia data. The system also has put forward a space for physician’s orders and worries to be matched for veteran. The Veterans Affairs went through a massive privacy breach in 2006, when a laptop containing veterans’ information was brought home by an employee. The agency had to issue alerts, send letters out to the affected veterans informing them of the possibly breach of their privacy. The database enclosed the names, social security numbers and dates of birth of as many as 26. 5 million veterans and their families, according to the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The agency realized the infringement of policy after the member of staff’s house was broken into. The breach was labeled one of the largest security and privacy breach at the time and veterans had to be vigilant about their finances and credit reports. ? References Veteransaffairs. gov Laura Dunlop (2007). Hoffman S, Podgurski, securityfocus. com/news/11393 Retrieved on January 7, 2012 How to cite Electronic Health Records Pros, Papers

Accounting Concept & Practices Financial Performances

Question: Discuss about theAccounting Concept Practicesfor Financial Performances. Answer: Introduction:- The stakeholders often use the financial statements of various companies to compare and evaluate the financial performances and positions of the business firm. However, they often face several issues to compare the performances of the different companies on the basis of the financial statements. The main issues, which affect the evaluation processes, are the differences in the accounting methods and principles, adopted by the different companies. Such differences lead to different outcomes for same type of transactions or events. In such cases, the users of the financial statements cannot compare the outcomes effectively and take proper investment-related or other financial decision in accordance to the outcomes (Armstrong et al., 2015). Nestle is a popular Swiss company, which deal with producing and marketing food items. It has extended its business operation in all over the world. The financial statements of Nestle Ltd. are compared with those of Patties Foods and Kraft Foods, based in Australia and America respectively to evaluate the financial performance of Nestle Ltd. However, it should be noted that the three companies belong to three different countries. The accounting rules and methods, followed by each company might be different from each other in many aspects. Therefore, it is very necessary to consider the aspects, which can cause discrepancies in the outcomes of the financial statements, before commencing the comparison amongst the companies (Nobes, 2014). The major factors, which should be considered carefully, are discussed below: Accounting Convention Accounting Standards:- Nestle Ltd. uses to prepare the consolidated financial statements in compliance with International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), as stated by International Accounting Standard Boards (IASB) and the guidelines of Swiss Law. The statements are prepared on the basis of accrual method and historical cost convention concept. The financial year for the company ends on 31st December. Patties Foods is based on Australia and hence, apart from complying with IFRS, it also follows the rules of Australian Accounting Standard Board, (AASB), Urgent Issues Group Interpretations (UIGI) and Corporation Act, 2001. As the financial statements of the company are prepared in accordance to IFRS, the company also follows historical cost convention method. The accounting year of the company closed at 30th June. On the other hand, Kraft Foods is an American food company, which considers the US GAAP standard as issued by Financial Accounting Standard Board (FASB), which is very popular amongst the American companies. The company closes all its accounts on 31st December. The company uses to record some assets as per historical costs and some at the lower of cost or market price. Now, as the accounting standards, and related guidelines, followed by the companies, are not same, the process of recording and disclosing any transaction or event become different also. Moreover, the closing dates of each company are also not identical. Therefore, the present value of the financial outcome of each company cannot be compared with each other due to different closing period (Pratt,2013).Moreover, every country has its own accounting culture, which reflects in the related corporate laws. The corporate laws influence the financial reporting of the companies, which causes discrepancies in the corporate reporting of different companies from different countries (Frias?Aceituno et al., 2014). Consolidate Companies:- Nestle Ltd. and Patties Foods both use to consolidate the financial report with all its subsidiaries and associates, even if the subsidiaries and associate are not fully owned by the companies. Kraft Foods includes the subsidiaries, which are wholly-owned only, for consolidated financial reporting. It does not incorporate the companies as associates, where the company does not have full voting right. It implies that the financial statements of Nestle and Patties Food reflect the financial performances of its associates and subsidiaries also, which are not fully controlled by the respective companies. Kraft Foods exhibits the performances of the associates, which are under full control of the company only (Leuz Wysocki, 2015). Foreign Currencies:- Nestle uses to convert its foreign currencies in various forms. Non-Monetary assets and liabilities are recorded at historical exchange rate. On the other hand, there are many events, which are recorded at the exchange rate either on the date of the event or as per the forward contract. Kraft Food record the foreign transactions mostly at forward foreign exchange rate, whereas, Patties Food follows same method as Nestle. The difference is recording the foreign transactions causes problem in comparing the value of various foreign currency related financial items. Moreover, the home currencies of the three companies are also different. Hence, the currency exchange rates, applied for conversions, use to be different also with each other (Balakrishnan et al., 2014). Conclusion:- From the above discussion, it can be stated that if the stakeholders have to evaluate Nestle Ltd. by comparing its performance with Patties Food and Kraft Food, then they should minimize the discrepancies, explained above. Otherwise, the comparison would not be proper. The stakeholders should measure all the financial items of each company under any single method, which can be applicable and appropriate for all the companies. Requirement A:- In the Books of Salzer Graphics Adjustment Journal Entries Dr. Cr. Date Particulars Amount Amount 30/06/2013 Supplies A/c. Dr. $1,300 To, Supplies Expenses A/c. $1,300 Interest Expenses A/c. Dr. $2,000 To, Interest Payable A/c. $2,000 Prepaid Insurance A/c. Dr. $1,200 To, Insurance Expenses A/c. $1,200 Accounts Receivable A/c. Dr. $1,100 To, Unearned Consulting Revenue A/c. $1,100 Accounts Receivable A/c. Dr. $2,000 To, Graphic Revenue A/c. $2,000 Depreciation Expenses A/c. Dr. $1,500 To, Accumulated Depreciation A/c. $1,500 Requirement B:- In the Books of Salzer Graphic Adjustment Worksheet as on 30/06/2013 Trial Balance Adjustment Adjusted Trial Balance Particulars Debit Credit Debit Credit Debit Credit Cash $9,500 $9,500 Accounts Receivable $14,000 $3,100 $17,100 Equipment $45,000 $45,000 Insurance Expenses $1,800 $1,200 $600 Salaries Expenses $30,000 $30,000 Supplies Expenses $3,700 $1,300 $2,400 Advertising Expenses $1,900 $1,900 Rent Expenses $1,500 $1,500 Utilities Expenses $1,700 $1,700 Notes Payable $20,000 $20,000 Accounts Payable $9,000 $9,000 Jill Salzer, Capital $22,000 $22,000 Graphic Revenue $52,100 $2,000 $54,100 Consulting Revenue $6,000 $6,000 Supplies in hand $1,300 $1,300 Interest Expenses $2,000 $2,000 Interest Payable $2,000 $2,000 Prepaid Insurance $1,200 $1,200 Unearned Consulting Revenue $1,100 $1,100 Depreciation Expenses $1,500 $1,500 Accumulated Depreciation $1,500 $1,500 TOTAL $109,100 $109,100 $9,100 $9,100 $115,700 $115,700 Requirement C:- In the books of Salzer Graphics Income Statement For the period ended 30/06/2013 Particulars Amount Amount Revenue: Graphic Revenue $54,100 Consulting Revenue $6,000 Total Revenue $60,100 Expenses: Insurance Expenses ($600) Salaries Expenses ($30,000) Supplies Expenses ($2,400) Advertising Expenses ($1,900) Rent Expenses ($1,500) Utilities Expenses ($1,700) Depreciation Expenses ($1,500) Total Operating Expenses ($39,600) Net Operating Profit before Interest $20,500 Interest Expenses ($2,000) Net Profit for the period $18,500 In the books of Salzer Graphics Statement of Change in Equity For the period ended 30/06/2013 Particulars Amount Amount Jill Salzer, Capital $22,000 Add: Additional Capital $0 Jill Salzer, Closing Capital $22,000 Opening Retained Earnings $0 Add: Net Profit for the period $18,500 Less: Drawings $0 Closing Retained Earnings $18,500 In the books of Salzer Graphics Balance Sheet as on 30/06/2013 Particulars Amount Amount Current Assets: Cash $9,500 Accounts Receivable $17,100 Supplies in Hand $1,300 Prepaid Insurance $1,200 TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS $29,100 Non-Current Assets: Equipment $45,000 Less: Accumulated Depreciation ($1,500) $43,500 TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS $43,500 TOTAL ASSETS $72,600 Current Liabilities: Accounts Payable $9,000 Interest Payable $2,000 Unearned Consulting Revenue $1,100 Notes Payable $20,000 TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES $32,100 TOTAL NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES $0 TOTAL LIABILITIES $32,100 Equity: Jill Salzer, Capital $22,000 Retained Earnings $18,500 TOTAL EQUITY $40,500 TOTAL LIABILITIES EQUITY $72,600 References Bibliography:- Armstrong, C., Guay, W. 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