Culture and the Sweet 16 Boys Basketball Tournament

This is a cultural look at the importance of the Kentucky Boys Sweet 16 Basketball Tournament

P3‐290: Measuring transitions into dementia and cognitive impairment: Evaluating the efficacy of longitudinal survey data in the public domain

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/152605/1/alzjjalz2012051513.pd

P2‐032: Transitions into dementia and Alzheimer’s across time: Emerging research opportunities in the use of longitudinal survey data in the public domain

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/152622/1/alzjjalz2010051052.pd

Social Work Ethics: Decision Making and Accountability

Book accompanies course that examines the interplay of social work, values, ethics, and decision-making processes. Through the use of practice scenarios, social workers will learn how to approach risk management and thorny ethical dilemmas that are common to many practice areas. The course discusses the role of laws and regulations in regard to ethics, highlights the importance of the distinction between legal and moral problems, and describes the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics

Trust Fund Doctrine Revisited, Part II

We have chosen the problem of recovery of unpaid subscriptions to illustrate the influence of the trust fund doctrine in our jurisdiction upon actions by creditors against shareholders

Hepatic encephalopathy: a neurochemical, neuroanatomical, and neuropsychological study.

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is normally diagnosed by neuropsychological (NP) tests, which are not very specific and do not reveal the underlying pathology. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) of the brain offer alternative and possibly more specific markers for HE. These methods were applied in conjunction with NP testing in order to determine their usefulness in the identification of HE and to understand the pathogenesis of HE more clearly. MR imaging and spectroscopy examinations, in addition to a battery of 15 NP tests, were administered to investigate 31 patients awaiting liver transplantation and 23 healthy controls. MR image intensities from the globus pallidus region were calculated and normalized to those of the thalamus. Absolute concentrations and ratios with respect to creatine (Cr) of several metabolites were computed from MR spectra. The MR data were correlated with the results of NP tests. The patients showed impairment in NP tests of attention and visuospatial and verbal fluency. In T1-weighted MRI, the relative intensity of the globus pallidus with respect to that of the thalamus region was significantly elevated in patients and correlated(negatively) with three NP tests (Hooper, FAS, and Trails B). The absolute concentrations of myo-inositol (mI) and choline (Ch) were significantly reduced in three brain regions. In addition, the absolute concentrations of glutamine (Gln) and combined glutamate and glutamine (Glx) were increased in all three locations, with Gln increase being significant in all areas while that of Glx only in the occipital white matter. In summary, this study partially confirms a hypothesized mechanism of HE pathogenesis, an increased synthesis of glutamine by brain glutamate in astrocytes due to excessive blood ammonia, followed by a compensatory loss of myo-inositol to maintain astrocyte volume homeostasis. It also indicates that the hyperintensity observed in globus pallidus could be used as complementary to the NP test scores in evaluating the mental health of HE patients