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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
Validation scientifique effectuée le 17/02/2025
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
National Unit of Pediatric Oncology, Francisco Marroquin University School of Medicine, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit, Tegucigalpa School Hospital, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Pediatric Oncology Unit, Dr Jose Renan Esquivel Children's Hospital, Panama City, Panama.
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Department of Oncology, Benjamin Bloom National Children's Hospital, El Salvador City, El Salvador.
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Department of Oncology, St Damien Hospital, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Department of Oncology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
Division of Palliative and End of Life Care, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Division of Palliative and End of Life Care, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee.
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Pediatric Oncology/Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Affiliations :
Departamento de Ecología Humana, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav), Unidad Mérida, Mérida, Mexico.
Publications dans "Amérique centrale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Amérique centrale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
The Vanderbilt Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Publications dans "Amérique centrale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neurology Service, Hospital Santo Tomás, Panama City 0819-03752, Panama.
School of Medicine, Universidad Interamericana de Panamá, Panama City 0830-00929, Panama.
Publications dans "Amérique centrale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neurology Service, Hospital San Juan de Dios CCSS, San Jose 1475-1000, Costa Rica.
Publications dans "Amérique centrale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neurology Service, Hospital Horacio Oduber, Oranjestad 569, Aruba.
Publications dans "Amérique centrale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neurology Service, Complejo Hospitalario Dr. Arnulfo Arias Madrid CSS, Panama City 0831-01654, Panama.
Publications dans "Amérique centrale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Neurology Service, Hospital Regional Rafael Hernández CSS, David City 0816-06808, Panama.
Publications dans "Amérique centrale" :
Sleep facilitates hippocampal-dependent memories, supporting the acquisition and maintenance of internal representation of spatial relations within an environment. In humans, however, findings have be...
Aims of the present article are:...
Spatial anxiety (i.e., feelings of apprehension and fear about navigating everyday environments) can adversely impact people's ability to reach desired locations and explore unfamiliar places. Prior r...
Cervical dystonia (CD) is an intricate neurological condition with motor and nonmotor symptoms. These include disruptions in visual perception, self-orientation, visual working memory, and vestibular ...
This study aimed to examine the effects of CD on linear motion perception, hypothesizing impaired heading discrimination in both vestibular and visual tasks, and that such deficits correlate with the ...
We employed a cutting-edge motion platform to precisely control whole-body linear motion. Through repeated two-alternative forced-choice tasks, we assessed vestibular heading direction discrimination....
Heading perception is impaired in individuals with CD, particularly evident in vestibular heading discrimination. CD severity correlated with elevated thresholds for both vestibular and visual heading...
Contrary to previous beliefs, our findings challenge the idea that CD-related heading discrimination issues mainly arise from peripheral vestibular effects. Instead, abnormal proprioceptive input from...
Reinforcement learning (RL) models have been influential in characterizing human learning and decision making, but few studies apply them to characterizing human spatial navigation and even fewer syst...
Spatial navigation is a complex function involving the integration and manipulation of multisensory information. Using different navigation tasks, many promising results have been achieved on the spec...
Human spatial cognition has been mainly characterized in terms of egocentric (body-centered) and allocentric (world-centered) wayfinding bhavior. It was hypothesized that allocentric spatial coding, a...
Uncertainty abounds in the real world, and in environments with multiple layers of unobservable hidden states, decision-making requires resolving uncertainties based on mutual inference. Focusing on a...
Efficient navigation is supported by a cognitive map of space. The hippocampus plays a key role for this map by linking multimodal sensory information with spatial memory representations. However, in ...
Active navigation seems to yield better spatial knowledge than passive navigation, but it is unclear how active decision-making influences learning and memory. Here, we examined the contributions of t...