The Role of Occupational Therapy with People Living with Epilepsy: A Scoping Review

Objective: The aim of this scoping review is to systematically examine and organize current literature describing the current roles of occupational therapists with people living with epilepsy, including assessments, interventions, and other behaviors. This will help identify current gaps in the literature to facilitate future research. Methods: Using scoping review methodology, an electronic database search was conducted using the search terms “occupational therapy and epilepsy”. Data was extracted and charted independently by the investigator by way of finding themes and codes through analysis. Results: The total number of studies included was 12. The primary methodology noted were case studies. Per the data, the most common behaviors of OT practitioners when working with individuals living with epilepsy are evaluation and intervention. The assessments and interventions greatly varied due to the vast differences in the way epilepsy presents and affects people, including potential comorbidity involvement. Discussion: The primary limitations of this study include studies only published in English, limited access to literature, and lack of current published literature specifically addressing occupational therapy intervention and epilepsy.https://soar.usa.edu/otdcapstonessummer2021/1011/thumbnail.jp

Meeting the Archive Through An Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice

This practice research thesis investigates creative approaches to ‘the archive’, through the making and analysis of contemporary art works that are located across and between screen-based, live, and installation art forms. The methodology focuses on encountering and responding to moving image collections, in particular films where the body is instructive, active and moving. Artistic strategies include the creative re-appropriation and enactment of archival material that interrogates the relationships between artefact, body and digital space through the use of archival scenarios. This aligns with Uriel Orlow’s concept of the ‘archive thinker’, where artists test the nature of archives beyond a singular collection and include the socialising potential of their content. This thesis, which includes a number of video and installation artworks, responds to the increasing availability of digitized and online historic film and video material. It also deliberates on the destabilising effect when an archivist, librarian or specialist is not available to help to discover and contextualise historic online content. It considers the shifting mode of analogue to digital access and takes a playful approach to these concerns through archive thinking. In this, the performing body acts as an agent and interlocutor to translate and enliven the digital archive and to free historical records from an object based taxonomy. As such, this enquiry aims to produce artwork that explores how to counter or extend archival content, testing the relevance of, or necessity of having access to, the provenance of originating material

Heartside’s Glean Ride: Bringing Fresh Food and Ideas to the Heart of Grand Rapids

The Heartside Gleaning Initiative (HGI), a local non-profit organization, is a powerful example of place-based social justice work that fosters both sustainable and healthy living within the Heartside neighborhood of Michigan’s second largest city, Grand Rapids. Since 2014 HGI has been utilizing a bottom-up approach by actively listening to its community members in order to cultivate radical change around the issue of food insecurity within the Heartside neighborhood. The Food Fighters, an interdisciplinary team of Grand Valley State University (GVSU) students enrolled in LIB322 “Wicked Problems of Sustainability” during the winter semester of 2015, were tasked to work with HGI in order to address a local “wicked” challenge project. The team put their diverse knowledge, unique skill set, and values to work in tackling the wicked problem of food waste, food insecurity, and community sustainability. Armed with both the methods for ameliorating wicked problems and with key partnerships in the local community, the Food Fighters sought to further HGI’s mission to provide healthy food and education to the residents of the Heartside community, specifically designing tools to increase food distribution. Our efforts resulted in the Heartside Glean Ride mobile food cart plan as well as a brochure for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) boxes

Risky Play Research Report: Becky Gates Children's Center

This research report investigates parents with children attending Becky Gates Children Center (BGCC) located in College Station, Texas on their perspectives on children's risky play. The problem with the risky play is it can bring questions and worries from parents, especially for programs or child centers that encourage children to engage in such behaviors. This study aims to understand parents' stance on risky play with an emphasis on rough and tumble play behaviors during children's play interactions. To the best of our knowledge, a limited number of studies have examined specific influences on parents' attitudes towards RTP as a form of risky play between children. This report centers on the key demographic information from parents and children, risk tolerance, specific domains of risk, and key themes/ideas from the selected open-ended responses on risks and rough and tumble pla

Homeodomain-Interacting Protein Kinase (HIPK)-1 Is Required for Splenic B Cell Homeostasis and Optimal T-Independent Type 2 Humoral Response

The homeodomain-interacting protein kinase (HIPK) family is comprised of four highly related serine/threonine kinases originally identified as co-repressors for various homeodomain-containing transcription factors. The HIPKs have been shown to be involved in growth regulation and apoptosis, with numerous studies highlighting HIPK regulation of the tumor suppressor p53. In this study, we have discovered a B cell homeostatic defect in HIPK1-deficient (HIPK1−/−) mice. Lymphopoietic populations within the thymus and bone marrow of HIPK1−/− mice appeared normal based upon FACS analysis; however, the spleen exhibited a reduced number of total B cells with a significant loss of transitional-1 and follicular B cell populations. Interestingly, the marginal zone B cell population was expanded in HIPK1−/− mice, yielding an increased frequency of these cells. HIPK1−/− B cells exhibited impaired cell division in response to B cell receptor cross-linking in vitro based upon thymidine incorporation or CFSE dilution; however, the addition of CD40L rescued HIPK1−/− proliferation to wild-type levels. Despite the expanded MZ B cell population in the HIPK1−/− mice, the T-independent type 2 humoral response was impaired. These data identify HIPK1 as a novel kinase required for optimal B cell function in mice

Selective Complexation and Reactivity of Metallic Nitride and Oxometallic Fullerenes with Lewis Acids and Use as an Effective Purification Method

Metallic nitride fullerenes (MNFs) and oxometallic fullerenes (OMFs) react quickly with an array of Lewis acids. Empty-cage fullerenes are largely unreactive under conditions used in this study. The reactivity order is Sc4O2@Ih-C80 \u3e Sc3N@C78 \u3e Sc3N@C68 \u3e Sc3N@D5h-C80 \u3e Sc3N@Ih-C80. Manipulations of Lewis acids, molar ratios, and kinetic differences within the family of OMF and MNF metallofullerenes are demonstrated in a selective precipitation scheme, which can be used either alone for purifying Sc3N@Ih-C80 or combined with a final high-performance liquid chromatography pass for Sc4O2@Ih-C80, Sc3N@D5h-C80, Sc3N@C68, or Sc3N@C78. The purification process is scalable. Analysis of the experimental rate constants versus electrochemical band gap explains the order of reactivity among the OMFs and MNFs

Conceptualizing the commercial determinants of dietary behaviors associated with obesity: A systematic review using principles from critical interpretative synthesis.

IntroductionUnhealthy diet is an important preventable risk factor for overweight and obesity. Identifying the key drivers of an unhealthy diet is an important public health aim. "Big Food" has been identified as an influential factor shaping dietary behavior and obesity, and their practices have broadly been labeled as the "commercial determinants of obesity," but there is a lack of definitions and conceptualizations for these terms. This review aimed to synthesize literature on the commercial determinants of dietary behavior associated with obesity. It presents the development of an integrative definition and a conceptual framework involving potential influences on dietary behavior, and it examines the prevalence of certain narratives within papers that focus on children and adolescents.MethodsFour electronic databases (Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus) were searched up to December 2020. Eighty-one articles met the inclusion criteria: they were published in a peer-reviewed academic journal, described a practice from the food/beverage industry in relation to dietary behavior or obesity. Data were integrated using critical interpretative synthesis.ResultsThe commercial determinants of dietary behavior are conceptualized in terms of three corporate spheres of action-political and legal; production, processing and design; and marketing and preference shaping-which enable powerful food industry to successfully pursue their business, market, and political objectives. The most frequently reported sphere of action targeting children and adolescents was marketing and preference shaping.ConclusionsIn the included literature, the commercial determinants of dietary behavior associated with obesity have been conceptualized as being part of a complex system where corporate practices are enabled by power structures. The proposed framework can facilitate a structured identification and systematic study of the impact of specific aspects of food industry's strategies and increase opportunities for primary prevention by anticipating industry responses and by discouraging corporate practices that harm health

Reverse geroscience: how does exposure to early diseases accelerate the age‐related decline in health?

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135360/1/nyas13297.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135360/2/nyas13297_am.pd