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Hartford Gerontological Nursing Leaders: From Funding Initiative to National Organization

Van Cleave, Janet H; Szanton, Sarah L; Shillam, Casey; Rose, Karen; Rao, Aditi D; Perez, Adriana; O'Connor, Melissa; Walker, Rachel; Buron, Bill; Boltz, Marie; Bellot, Jennifer; Batchelor-Murphy, Melissa
In 2000, the John A. Hartford Foundation established the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Program initiative, acknowledging nursing's key role in the care of the growing population of older adults. This program has supported 249 nurse scientists with pre- and postdoctoral awards. As a result of the program's success, several Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Program awardees formed an alumni organization to continue to advance the quality care of older adults. This group of Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Program awardees joined others receiving support from the John A. Hartford Foundation nursing initiatives to grow a formal organization, the Hartford Gerontological Nursing Leaders (HGNL). The purpose of this article is to present the development, accomplishments, and challenges of the HGNL, informing other professional nursing organizations that are experiencing similar accomplishments and challenges. This article also demonstrates the power of a funding initiative to grow an organization dedicated to impact gerontological health and health care through research, practice, education, and policy.
PMID: 26802588
ISSN: 1532-8481
CID: 1929352

Neural circuits. Inhibition protects acquired song segments during vocal learning in zebra finches

Vallentin, Daniela; Kosche, Georg; Lipkind, Dina; Long, Michael A
Vocal imitation involves incorporating instructive auditory information into relevant motor circuits through processes that are poorly understood. In zebra finches, we found that exposure to a tutor's song drives spiking activity within premotor neurons in the juvenile, whereas inhibition suppresses such responses upon learning in adulthood. We measured inhibitory currents evoked by the tutor song throughout development while simultaneously quantifying each bird's learning trajectory. Surprisingly, we found that the maturation of synaptic inhibition onto premotor neurons is correlated with learning but not age. We used synthetic tutoring to demonstrate that inhibition is selective for specific song elements that have already been learned and not those still in refinement. Our results suggest that structured inhibition plays a crucial role during song acquisition, enabling a piece-by-piece mastery of complex tasks.
PMCID:4860291
PMID: 26816377
ISSN: 1095-9203
CID: 1929102

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) [Guideline]

Klionsky, Daniel J; Abdelmohsen, Kotb; Abe, Akihisa; Abedin, Md Joynal; Abeliovich, Hagai; Acevedo Arozena, Abraham; Adachi, Hiroaki; Adams, Christopher M; Adams, Peter D; Adeli, Khosrow; Adhihetty, Peter J; Adler, Sharon G; Agam, Galila; Agarwal, Rajesh; Aghi, Manish K; Agnello, Maria; Agostinis, Patrizia; Aguilar, Patricia V; Aguirre-Ghiso, Julio; Airoldi, Edoardo M; Ait-Si-Ali, Slimane; Akematsu, Takahiko; Akporiaye, Emmanuel T; Al-Rubeai, Mohamed; Albaiceta, Guillermo M; Albanese, Chris; Albani, Diego; Albert, Matthew L; Aldudo, Jesus; Algul, Hana; Alirezaei, Mehrdad; Alloza, Iraide; Almasan, Alexandru; Almonte-Beceril, Maylin; Alnemri, Emad S; Alonso, Covadonga; Altan-Bonnet, Nihal; Altieri, Dario C; Alvarez, Silvia; Alvarez-Erviti, Lydia; Alves, Sandro; Amadoro, Giuseppina; Amano, Atsuo; Amantini, Consuelo; Ambrosio, Santiago; Amelio, Ivano; Amer, Amal O; Amessou, Mohamed; Amon, Angelika; An, Zhenyi; Anania, Frank A; Andersen, Stig U; Andley, Usha P; Andreadi, Catherine K; Andrieu-Abadie, Nathalie; Anel, Alberto; Ann, David K; Anoopkumar-Dukie, Shailendra; Antonioli, Manuela; Aoki, Hiroshi; Apostolova, Nadezda; Aquila, Saveria; Aquilano, Katia; Araki, Koichi; Arama, Eli; Aranda, Agustin; Araya, Jun; Arcaro, Alexandre; Arias, Esperanza; Arimoto, Hirokazu; Ariosa, Aileen R; Armstrong, Jane L; Arnould, Thierry; Arsov, Ivica; Asanuma, Katsuhiko; Askanas, Valerie; Asselin, Eric; Atarashi, Ryuichiro; Atherton, Sally S; Atkin, Julie D; Attardi, Laura D; Auberger, Patrick; Auburger, Georg; Aurelian, Laure; Autelli, Riccardo; Avagliano, Laura; Avantaggiati, Maria Laura; Avrahami, Limor; Awale, Suresh; Azad, Neelam; Bachetti, Tiziana; Backer, Jonathan M; Bae, Dong-Hun; Bae, Jae-Sung; Bae, Ok-Nam; Bae, Soo Han; Baehrecke, Eric H; Baek, Seung-Hoon; Baghdiguian, Stephen; Bagniewska-Zadworna, Agnieszka; Bai, Hua; Bai, Jie; Bai, Xue-Yuan; Bailly, Yannick; Balaji, Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy; Balduini, Walter; Ballabio, Andrea; Balzan, Rena; Banerjee, Rajkumar; Banhegyi, Gabor; Bao, Haijun; Barbeau, Benoit; Barrachina, Maria D; Barreiro, Esther; Bartel, Bonnie; Bartolome, Alberto; Bassham, Diane C; Bassi, Maria Teresa; Bast, Robert C Jr; Basu, Alakananda; Batista, Maria Teresa; Batoko, Henri; Battino, Maurizio; Bauckman, Kyle; Baumgarner, Bradley L; Bayer, K Ulrich; Beale, Rupert; Beaulieu, Jean-Francois; Beck, George R Jr; Becker, Christoph; Beckham, J David; Bedard, Pierre-Andre; Bednarski, Patrick J; Begley, Thomas J; Behl, Christian; Behrends, Christian; Behrens, Georg Mn; Behrns, Kevin E; Bejarano, Eloy; Belaid, Amine; Belleudi, Francesca; Benard, Giovanni; Berchem, Guy; Bergamaschi, Daniele; Bergami, Matteo; Berkhout, Ben; Berliocchi, Laura; Bernard, Amelie; Bernard, Monique; Bernassola, Francesca; Bertolotti, Anne; Bess, Amanda S; Besteiro, Sebastien; Bettuzzi, Saverio; Bhalla, Savita; Bhattacharyya, Shalmoli; Bhutia, Sujit K; Biagosch, Caroline; Bianchi, Michele Wolfe; Biard-Piechaczyk, Martine; Billes, Viktor; Bincoletto, Claudia; Bingol, Baris; Bird, Sara W; Bitoun, Marc; Bjedov, Ivana; Blackstone, Craig; Blanc, Lionel; Blanco, Guillermo A; Blomhoff, Heidi Kiil; Boada-Romero, Emilio; Bockler, Stefan; Boes, Marianne; Boesze-Battaglia, Kathleen; Boise, Lawrence H; Bolino, Alessandra; Boman, Andrea; Bonaldo, Paolo; Bordi, Matteo; Bosch, Jurgen; Botana, Luis M; Botti, Joelle; Bou, German; Bouche, Marina; Bouchecareilh, Marion; Boucher, Marie-Josee; Boulton, Michael E; Bouret, Sebastien G; Boya, Patricia; Boyer-Guittaut, Michael; Bozhkov, Peter V; Brady, Nathan; Braga, Vania Mm; Brancolini, Claudio; Braus, Gerhard H; Bravo-San Pedro, Jose M; Brennan, Lisa A; Bresnick, Emery H; Brest, Patrick; Bridges, Dave; Bringer, Marie-Agnes; Brini, Marisa; Brito, Glauber C; Brodin, Bertha; Brookes, Paul S; Brown, Eric J; Brown, Karen; Broxmeyer, Hal E; Bruhat, Alain; Brum, Patricia Chakur; Brumell, John H; Brunetti-Pierri, Nicola; Bryson-Richardson, Robert J; Buch, Shilpa; Buchan, Alastair M; Budak, Hikmet; Bulavin, Dmitry V; Bultman, Scott J; Bultynck, Geert; Bumbasirevic, Vladimir; Burelle, Yan; Burke, Robert E; Burmeister, Margit; Butikofer, Peter; Caberlotto, Laura; Cadwell, Ken; Cahova, Monika; Cai, Dongsheng; Cai, Jingjing; Cai, Qian; Calatayud, Sara; Camougrand, Nadine; Campanella, Michelangelo; Campbell, Grant R; Campbell, Matthew; Campello, Silvia; Candau, Robin; Caniggia, Isabella; Cantoni, Lavinia; Cao, Lizhi; Caplan, Allan B; Caraglia, Michele; Cardinali, Claudio; Cardoso, Sandra Morais; Carew, Jennifer S; Carleton, Laura A; Carlin, Cathleen R; Carloni, Silvia; Carlsson, Sven R; Carmona-Gutierrez, Didac; Carneiro, Leticia Am; Carnevali, Oliana; Carra, Serena; Carrier, Alice; Carroll, Bernadette; Casas, Caty; Casas, Josefina; Cassinelli, Giuliana; Castets, Perrine; Castro-Obregon, Susana; Cavallini, Gabriella; Ceccherini, Isabella; Cecconi, Francesco; Cederbaum, Arthur I; Cena, Valentin; Cenci, Simone; Cerella, Claudia; Cervia, Davide; Cetrullo, Silvia; Chaachouay, Hassan; Chae, Han-Jung; Chagin, Andrei S; Chai, Chee-Yin; Chakrabarti, Gopal; Chamilos, Georgios; Chan, Edmond Yw; Chan, Matthew Tv; Chandra, Dhyan; Chandra, Pallavi; Chang, Chih-Peng; Chang, Raymond Chuen-Chung; Chang, Ta Yuan; Chatham, John C; Chatterjee, Saurabh; Chauhan, Santosh; Che, Yongsheng; Cheetham, Michael E; Cheluvappa, Rajkumar; Chen, Chun-Jung; Chen, Gang; Chen, Guang-Chao; Chen, Guoqiang; Chen, Hongzhuan; Chen, Jeff W; Chen, Jian-Kang; Chen, Min; Chen, Mingzhou; Chen, Peiwen; Chen, Qi; Chen, Quan; Chen, Shang-Der; Chen, Si; Chen, Steve S-L; Chen, Wei; Chen, Wei-Jung; Chen, Wen Qiang; Chen, Wenli; Chen, Xiangmei; Chen, Yau-Hung; Chen, Ye-Guang; Chen, Yin; Chen, Yingyu; Chen, Yongshun; Chen, Yu-Jen; Chen, Yue-Qin; Chen, Yujie; Chen, Zhen; Chen, Zhong; Cheng, Alan; Cheng, Christopher Hk; Cheng, Hua; Cheong, Heesun; Cherry, Sara; Chesney, Jason; Cheung, Chun Hei Antonio; Chevet, Eric; Chi, Hsiang Cheng; Chi, Sung-Gil; Chiacchiera, Fulvio; Chiang, Hui-Ling; Chiarelli, Roberto; Chiariello, Mario; Chieppa, Marcello; Chin, Lih-Shen; Chiong, Mario; Chiu, Gigi Nc; Cho, Dong-Hyung; Cho, Ssang-Goo; Cho, William C; Cho, Yong-Yeon; Cho, Young-Seok; Choi, Augustine Mk; Choi, Eui-Ju; Choi, Eun-Kyoung; Choi, Jayoung; Choi, Mary E; Choi, Seung-Il; Chou, Tsui-Fen; Chouaib, Salem; Choubey, Divaker; Choubey, Vinay; Chow, Kuan-Chih; Chowdhury, Kamal; Chu, Charleen T; Chuang, Tsung-Hsien; Chun, Taehoon; Chung, Hyewon; Chung, Taijoon; Chung, Yuen-Li; Chwae, Yong-Joon; Cianfanelli, Valentina; Ciarcia, Roberto; Ciechomska, Iwona A; Ciriolo, Maria Rosa; Cirone, Mara; Claerhout, Sofie; Clague, Michael J; Claria, Joan; Clarke, Peter Gh; Clarke, Robert; Clementi, Emilio; Cleyrat, Cedric; Cnop, Miriam; Coccia, Eliana M; Cocco, Tiziana; Codogno, Patrice; Coers, Jorn; Cohen, Ezra Ew; Colecchia, David; Coletto, Luisa; Coll, Nuria S; Colucci-Guyon, Emma; Comincini, Sergio; Condello, Maria; Cook, Katherine L; Coombs, Graham H; Cooper, Cynthia D; Cooper, J Mark; Coppens, Isabelle; Corasaniti, Maria Tiziana; Corazzari, Marco; Corbalan, Ramon; Corcelle-Termeau, Elisabeth; Cordero, Mario D; Corral-Ramos, Cristina; Corti, Olga; Cossarizza, Andrea; Costelli, Paola; Costes, Safia; Cotman, Susan L; Coto-Montes, Ana; Cottet, Sandra; Couve, Eduardo; Covey, Lori R; Cowart, L Ashley; Cox, Jeffery S; Coxon, Fraser P; Coyne, Carolyn B; Cragg, Mark S; Craven, Rolf J; Crepaldi, Tiziana; Crespo, Jose L; Criollo, Alfredo; Crippa, Valeria; Cruz, Maria Teresa; Cuervo, Ana Maria; Cuezva, Jose M; Cui, Taixing; Cutillas, Pedro R; Czaja, Mark J; Czyzyk-Krzeska, Maria F; Dagda, Ruben K; Dahmen, Uta; Dai, Chunsun; Dai, Wenjie; Dai, Yun; Dalby, Kevin N; Dalla Valle, Luisa; Dalmasso, Guillaume; D'Amelio, Marcello; Damme, Markus; Darfeuille-Michaud, Arlette; Dargemont, Catherine; Darley-Usmar, Victor M; Dasarathy, Srinivasan; Dasgupta, Biplab; Dash, Srikanta; Dass, Crispin R; Davey, Hazel Marie; Davids, Lester M; Davila, David; Davis, Roger J; Dawson, Ted M; Dawson, Valina L; Daza, Paula; de Belleroche, Jackie; de Figueiredo, Paul; de Figueiredo, Regina Celia Bressan Queiroz; de la Fuente, Jose; De Martino, Luisa; De Matteis, Antonella; De Meyer, Guido Ry; De Milito, Angelo; De Santi, Mauro; de Souza, Wanderley; De Tata, Vincenzo; De Zio, Daniela; Debnath, Jayanta; Dechant, Reinhard; Decuypere, Jean-Paul; Deegan, Shane; Dehay, Benjamin; Del Bello, Barbara; Del Re, Dominic P; Delage-Mourroux, Regis; Delbridge, Lea Md; Deldicque, Louise; Delorme-Axford, Elizabeth; Deng, Yizhen; Dengjel, Joern; Denizot, Melanie; Dent, Paul; Der, Channing J; Deretic, Vojo; Derrien, Benoit; Deutsch, Eric; Devarenne, Timothy P; Devenish, Rodney J; Di Bartolomeo, Sabrina; Di Daniele, Nicola; Di Domenico, Fabio; Di Nardo, Alessia; Di Paola, Simone; Di Pietro, Antonio; Di Renzo, Livia; DiAntonio, Aaron; Diaz-Araya, Guillermo; Diaz-Laviada, Ines; Diaz-Meco, Maria T; Diaz-Nido, Javier; Dickey, Chad A; Dickson, Robert C; Diederich, Marc; Digard, Paul; Dikic, Ivan; Dinesh-Kumar, Savithrama P; Ding, Chan; Ding, Wen-Xing; Ding, Zufeng; Dini, Luciana; Distler, Jorg Hw; Diwan, Abhinav; Djavaheri-Mergny, Mojgan; Dmytruk, Kostyantyn; Dobson, Renwick Cj; Doetsch, Volker; Dokladny, Karol; Dokudovskaya, Svetlana; Donadelli, Massimo; Dong, X Charlie; Dong, Xiaonan; Dong, Zheng; Donohue, Terrence M Jr; Doran, Kelly S; D'Orazi, Gabriella; Dorn, Gerald W 2nd; Dosenko, Victor; Dridi, Sami; Drucker, Liat; Du, Jie; Du, Li-Lin; Du, Lihuan; du Toit, Andre; Dua, Priyamvada; Duan, Lei; Duann, Pu; Dubey, Vikash Kumar; Duchen, Michael R; Duchosal, Michel A; Duez, Helene; Dugail, Isabelle; Dumit, Veronica I; Duncan, Mara C; Dunlop, Elaine A; Dunn, William A Jr; Dupont, Nicolas; Dupuis, Luc; Duran, Raul V; Durcan, Thomas M; Duvezin-Caubet, Stephane; Duvvuri, Umamaheswar; Eapen, Vinay; Ebrahimi-Fakhari, Darius; Echard, Arnaud; Eckhart, Leopold; Edelstein, Charles L; Edinger, Aimee L; Eichinger, Ludwig; Eisenberg, Tobias; Eisenberg-Lerner, Avital; Eissa, N Tony; El-Deiry, Wafik S; El-Khoury, Victoria; Elazar, Zvulun; Eldar-Finkelman, Hagit; Elliott, Chris Jh; Emanuele, Enzo; Emmenegger, Urban; Engedal, Nikolai; Engelbrecht, Anna-Mart; Engelender, Simone; Enserink, Jorrit M; Erdmann, Ralf; Erenpreisa, Jekaterina; Eri, Rajaraman; Eriksen, Jason L; Erman, Andreja; Escalante, Ricardo; Eskelinen, Eeva-Liisa; Espert, Lucile; Esteban-Martinez, Lorena; Evans, Thomas J; Fabri, Mario; Fabrias, Gemma; Fabrizi, Cinzia; Facchiano, Antonio; Faergeman, Nils J; Faggioni, Alberto; Fairlie, W Douglas; Fan, Chunhai; Fan, Daping; Fan, Jie; Fang, Shengyun; Fanto, Manolis; Fanzani, Alessandro; Farkas, Thomas; Faure, Mathias; Favier, Francois B; Fearnhead, Howard; Federici, Massimo; Fei, Erkang; Felizardo, Tania C; Feng, Hua; Feng, Yibin; Feng, Yuchen; Ferguson, Thomas A; Fernandez, Alvaro F; Fernandez-Barrena, Maite G; Fernandez-Checa, Jose C; Fernandez-Lopez, Arsenio; Fernandez-Zapico, Martin E; Feron, Olivier; Ferraro, Elisabetta; Ferreira-Halder, Carmen Verissima; Fesus, Laszlo; Feuer, Ralph; Fiesel, Fabienne C; Filippi-Chiela, Eduardo C; Filomeni, Giuseppe; Fimia, Gian Maria; Fingert, John H; Finkbeiner, Steven; Finkel, Toren; Fiorito, Filomena; Fisher, Paul B; Flajolet, Marc; Flamigni, Flavio; Florey, Oliver; Florio, Salvatore; Floto, R Andres; Folini, Marco; Follo, Carlo; Fon, Edward A; Fornai, Francesco; Fortunato, Franco; Fraldi, Alessandro; Franco, Rodrigo; Francois, Arnaud; Francois, Aurelie; Frankel, Lisa B; Fraser, Iain Dc; Frey, Norbert; Freyssenet, Damien G; Frezza, Christian; Friedman, Scott L; Frigo, Daniel E; Fu, Dongxu; Fuentes, Jose M; Fueyo, Juan; Fujitani, Yoshio; Fujiwara, Yuuki; Fujiya, Mikihiro; Fukuda, Mitsunori; Fulda, Simone; Fusco, Carmela; Gabryel, Bozena; Gaestel, Matthias; Gailly, Philippe; Gajewska, Malgorzata; Galadari, Sehamuddin; Galili, Gad; Galindo, Inmaculada; Galindo, Maria F; Galliciotti, Giovanna; Galluzzi, Lorenzo; Galluzzi, Luca; Galy, Vincent; Gammoh, Noor; Gandy, Sam; Ganesan, Anand K; Ganesan, Swamynathan; Ganley, Ian G; Gannage, Monique; Gao, Fen-Biao; Gao, Feng; Gao, Jian-Xin; Garcia Nannig, Lorena; Garcia Vescovi, Eleonora; Garcia-Macia, Marina; Garcia-Ruiz, Carmen; Garg, Abhishek D; Garg, Pramod Kumar; Gargini, Ricardo; Gassen, Nils Christian; Gatica, Damian; Gatti, Evelina; Gavard, Julie; Gavathiotis, Evripidis; Ge, Liang; Ge, Pengfei; Ge, Shengfang; Gean, Po-Wu; Gelmetti, Vania; Genazzani, Armando A; Geng, Jiefei; Genschik, Pascal; Gerner, Lisa; Gestwicki, Jason E; Gewirtz, David A; Ghavami, Saeid; Ghigo, Eric; Ghosh, Debabrata; Giammarioli, Anna Maria; Giampieri, Francesca; Giampietri, Claudia; Giatromanolaki, Alexandra; Gibbings, Derrick J; Gibellini, Lara; Gibson, Spencer B; Ginet, Vanessa; Giordano, Antonio; Giorgini, Flaviano; Giovannetti, Elisa; Girardin, Stephen E; Gispert, Suzana; Giuliano, Sandy; Gladson, Candece L; Glavic, Alvaro; Gleave, Martin; Godefroy, Nelly; Gogal, Robert M Jr; Gokulan, Kuppan; Goldman, Gustavo H; Goletti, Delia; Goligorsky, Michael S; Gomes, Aldrin V; Gomes, Ligia C; Gomez, Hernando; Gomez-Manzano, Candelaria; Gomez-Sanchez, Ruben; Goncalves, Dawit Ap; Goncu, Ebru; Gong, Qingqiu; Gongora, Celine; Gonzalez, Carlos B; Gonzalez-Alegre, Pedro; Gonzalez-Cabo, Pilar; Gonzalez-Polo, Rosa Ana; Goping, Ing Swie; Gorbea, Carlos; Gorbunov, Nikolai V; Goring, Daphne R; Gorman, Adrienne M; Gorski, Sharon M; Goruppi, Sandro; Goto-Yamada, Shino; Gotor, Cecilia; Gottlieb, Roberta A; Gozes, Illana; Gozuacik, Devrim; Graba, Yacine; Graef, Martin; Granato, Giovanna E; Grant, Gary Dean; Grant, Steven; Gravina, Giovanni Luca; Green, Douglas R; Greenhough, Alexander; Greenwood, Michael T; Grimaldi, Benedetto; Gros, Frederic; Grose, Charles; Groulx, Jean-Francois; Gruber, Florian; Grumati, Paolo; Grune, Tilman; Guan, Jun-Lin; Guan, Kun-Liang; Guerra, Barbara; Guillen, Carlos; Gulshan, Kailash; Gunst, Jan; Guo, Chuanyong; Guo, Lei; Guo, Ming; Guo, Wenjie; Guo, Xu-Guang; Gust, Andrea A; Gustafsson, Asa B; Gutierrez, Elaine; Gutierrez, Maximiliano G; Gwak, Ho-Shin; Haas, Albert; Haber, James E; Hadano, Shinji; Hagedorn, Monica; Hahn, David R; Halayko, Andrew J; Hamacher-Brady, Anne; Hamada, Kozo; Hamai, Ahmed; Hamann, Andrea; Hamasaki, Maho; Hamer, Isabelle; Hamid, Qutayba; Hammond, Ester M; Han, Feng; Han, Weidong; Handa, James T; Hanover, John A; Hansen, Malene; Harada, Masaru; Harhaji-Trajkovic, Ljubica; Harper, J Wade; Harrath, Abdel Halim; Harris, Adrian L; Harris, James; Hasler, Udo; Hasselblatt, Peter; Hasui, Kazuhisa; Hawley, Robert G; Hawley, Teresa S; He, Congcong; He, Cynthia Y; He, Fengtian; He, Gu; He, Rong-Rong; He, Xian-Hui; He, You-Wen; He, Yu-Ying; Heath, Joan K; Hebert, Marie-Josee; Heinzen, Robert A; Helgason, Gudmundur Vignir; Hensel, Michael; Henske, Elizabeth P; Her, Chengtao; Herman, Paul K; Hernandez, Agustin; Hernandez, Carlos; Hernandez-Tiedra, Sonia; Hetz, Claudio; Hiesinger, P Robin; Higaki, Katsumi; Hilfiker, Sabine; Hill, Bradford G; Hill, Joseph A; Hill, William D; Hino, Keisuke; Hofius, Daniel; Hofman, Paul; Hoglinger, Gunter U; Hohfeld, Jorg; Holz, Marina K; Hong, Yonggeun; Hood, David A; Hoozemans, Jeroen Jm; Hoppe, Thorsten; Hsu, Chin; Hsu, Chin-Yuan; Hsu, Li-Chung; Hu, Dong; Hu, Guochang; Hu, Hong-Ming; Hu, Hongbo; Hu, Ming Chang; Hu, Yu-Chen; Hu, Zhuo-Wei; Hua, Fang; Hua, Ya; Huang, Canhua; Huang, Huey-Lan; Huang, Kuo-How; Huang, Kuo-Yang; Huang, Shile; Huang, Shiqian; Huang, Wei-Pang; Huang, Yi-Ran; Huang, Yong; Huang, Yunfei; Huber, Tobias B; Huebbe, Patricia; Huh, Won-Ki; Hulmi, Juha J; Hur, Gang Min; Hurley, James H; Husak, Zvenyslava; Hussain, Sabah Na; Hussain, Salik; Hwang, Jung Jin; Hwang, Seungmin; Hwang, Thomas Is; Ichihara, Atsuhiro; Imai, Yuzuru; Imbriano, Carol; Inomata, Megumi; Into, Takeshi; Iovane, Valentina; Iovanna, Juan L; Iozzo, Renato V; Ip, Nancy Y; Irazoqui, Javier E; Iribarren, Pablo; Isaka, Yoshitaka; Isakovic, Aleksandra J; Ischiropoulos, Harry; Isenberg, Jeffrey S; Ishaq, Mohammad; Ishida, Hiroyuki; Ishii, Isao; Ishmael, Jane E; Isidoro, Ciro; Isobe, Ken-Ichi; Isono, Erika; Issazadeh-Navikas, Shohreh; Itahana, Koji; Itakura, Eisuke; Ivanov, Andrei I; Iyer, Anand Krishnan V; Izquierdo, Jose M; Izumi, Yotaro; Izzo, Valentina; Jaattela, Marja; Jaber, Nadia; Jackson, Daniel John; Jackson, William T; 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PMCID:4835977
PMID: 26799652
ISSN: 1554-8635
CID: 1922322

The Forebrain Song System Mediates Predictive Call Timing in Female and Male Zebra Finches

Benichov, Jonathan I; Benezra, Sam E; Vallentin, Daniela; Globerson, Eitan; Long, Michael A; Tchernichovski, Ofer
The dichotomy between vocal learners and non-learners is a fundamental distinction in the study of animal communication. Male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) are vocal learners that acquire a song resembling their tutors', whereas females can only produce innate calls. The acoustic structure of short calls, produced by both males and females, is not learned. However, these calls can be precisely coordinated across individuals. To examine how birds learn to synchronize their calls, we developed a vocal robot that exchanges calls with a partner bird. Because birds answer the robot with stereotyped latencies, we could program it to disrupt each bird's responses by producing calls that are likely to coincide with the bird's. Within minutes, the birds learned to avoid this disruptive masking (jamming) by adjusting the timing of their responses. Notably, females exhibited greater adaptive timing plasticity than males. Further, when challenged with complex rhythms containing jamming elements, birds dynamically adjusted the timing of their calls in anticipation of jamming. Blocking the song system cortical output dramatically reduced the precision of birds' response timing and abolished their ability to avoid jamming. Surprisingly, we observed this effect in both males and females, indicating that the female song system is functional rather than vestigial. We suggest that descending forebrain projections, including the song-production pathway, function as a general-purpose sensorimotor communication system. In the case of calls, it enables plasticity in vocal timing to facilitate social interactions, whereas in the case of songs, plasticity extends to developmental changes in vocal structure.
PMCID:4747672
PMID: 26774786
ISSN: 1879-0445
CID: 1921892

Reduction in spread of excitation from current focusing at multiple cochlear locations in cochlear implant users

Padilla, Monica; Landsberger, David M
Channel interaction from a broad spread of excitation is likely to be a limiting factor in performance by cochlear implant users. Although partial tripolar stimulation has been shown to reduce spread of excitation, the magnitude of the reduction is highly variable across subjects. Because the reduction in spread of excitation is typically only measured at one electrode for a given subject, the degree of variability across cochlear locations is unknown. The first goal of the present study was to determine if the reduction in spread of excitation observed from partial tripolar current focusing systematically varies across the cochlea. The second goal was to measure the variability in reduction of spread of excitation relative to monopolar stimulation across the cochlea. The third goal was to expand upon previous results that suggest that scaling of verbal descriptors can be used to predict the reduction in spread of excitation, by increasing the limited number of sites previously evaluated and verify the relationships remain with the larger dataset. The spread of excitation for monopolar and partial tripolar stimulation was measured at 5 cochlear locations using a psychophysical forward masking task. Results of the present study suggest that although partial tripolar stimulation typically reduces spread of excitation, the degree of reduction in spread of excitation was found to be highly variable and no effect of cochlear location was found. Additionally, subjective scaling of certain verbal descriptors (Clean/Dirty, Pure/Noisy) correlated with the reduction in spread of excitation suggesting sound quality scaling might be used as a quick clinical estimate of channels providing a reduction in spread of excitation. This quick scaling technique might help clinicians determine which patients would be most likely to benefit from a focused strategy.
PMCID:4907334
PMID: 26778546
ISSN: 1878-5891
CID: 1922002

Oral medicine (stomatology) across the globe: birth, growth, and future

Scully, Crispian; Miller, Craig S; Aguirre Urizar, Jose-Manuel; Alajbeg, Ivan; Almeida, Oslei P D; Bagan, Jose Vicente; Birek, Catalena; Chen, Qianming; Farah, Camile S; Figueirido, Jose Pedro; Hasseus, Bengt; Jontell, Mats; Kerr, A Ross; Laskaris, George; Lo Muzio, Lorenzo; Mosqueda-Taylor, Adalberto; Nagesh, Kikkeri S; Nikitakis, Nikolaos G; Peterson, Douglas; Sciubba, James; Thongprasom, Kobkan; Tovaru, Serban; Zadik, Yehuda
Oral medicine (stomatology) is a recognized and increasingly important dental specialty in many parts of the world that recognizes and fosters the interplay between medical health and oral health. Its dental activities rely greatly on the underlying biology of disease and evidence-based outcomes. However, full recognition of the importance of oral medicine to patient care, research, and education is not yet totally universally acknowledged. To address these shortcomings, we outline the birth, growth, and future of oral medicine globally, and record identifiable past contributions to the development of the specialty, providing an accurate, unique, and valuable resource on oral medicine. Although it was challenging to gather the data, we present this information as a review that endeavors to summarize the salient points about oral medicine, based on MEDLINE, other internet searches, communication with oral medicine and stomatological societies across the world, the web page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dental_organizations, and discussions with a wide range of key senior persons in the specialty.
PMID: 26792755
ISSN: 2212-4411
CID: 1921832

World Workshop on Oral Medicine VI: A systematic review of medication-induced salivary gland dysfunction

Villa, Alessandro; Wolff, Andy; Narayana, Nagamani; Dawes, Colin; Aframian, Doron J; Lynge Pedersen, Anne Marie; Vissink, Arjan; Aliko, Ardita; Sia, Ying Wai; Joshi, Revan Kumar; McGowan, Richard; Jensen, Siri Beier; Kerr, Alexander Ross; Ekstrom, Jorgen; Proctor, Gordon
OBJECTIVE: To perform a systematic review of the pathogenesis of medication-induced salivary gland dysfunction (MISGD). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Review of the identified papers was based on the standards regarding the methodology for systematic reviews set forth by the World Workshop on Oral Medicine IV and the PRISMA statement. Eligible papers were assessed for both the degree and strength of relevance to the pathogenesis of MISGD as well as on the appropriateness of the study design and sample size. A total of 99 papers was retained for the final analysis. RESULTS: MISGD in human studies was generally reported as xerostomia (the sensation of oral dryness) without measurements of salivary secretion rate. Medications may act on the central nervous system (CNS) and/or at the neuroglandular junction on muscarinic, alpha-and beta-adrenergic receptors and certain peptidergic receptors. The types of medications that were most commonly implicated for inducing salivary gland dysfunction were those acting on the nervous, cardiovascular, genitourinary, musculo-skeletal, respiratory, and alimentary systems. CONCLUSIONS: Although many medications may affect the salivary flow rate and composition, most of the studies considered only xerostomia. Thus, further human studies are necessary to improve our understanding of the association between MISGD and the underlying pathophysiology
PMID: 26602059
ISSN: 1601-0825
CID: 1919342

Single-sided Deafness Cochlear Implantation: Candidacy, Evaluation, and Outcomes in Children and Adults

Friedmann, David R; Ahmed, Omar H; McMenomey, Sean O; Shapiro, William H; Waltzman, Susan B; Roland, J Thomas Jr
OBJECTIVES: Although there are various available treatment options for unilateral severe-to-profound hearing loss, these options do not provide the benefits of binaural hearing since sound is directed from the poorer ear to the better ear. The purpose of this investigation was to review our center's experience with cochlear implantation in such patients in providing improved auditory benefits and useful binaural hearing. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective chart review. METHODS: Twelve adult patients and four pediatric patients with unilateral severe-to-profound hearing loss received an implant in the poorer ear. Outcome measures performed preoperatively on each ear and binaurally included consonant-nucleus-consonant (CNC) monosyllabic words and sentences in noise. The mean pure-tune average in the better ear was within normal range. RESULTS: Test scores revealed a significant improvement in CNC and sentence in noise test scores from the preoperative to most recent postoperative evaluation in the isolated implant ear. All adult subjects use the device full-time. CONCLUSIONS: The data reveal significant improvement in speech perception performance in quiet and in noise in patients with single-sided deafness after implantation. Performance might depend on factors including length of hearing loss, age at implantation, and device usage.
PMID: 26756150
ISSN: 1537-4505
CID: 1911352

Concurrent functional and metabolic assessment of brain tumors using hybrid PET/MR imaging

Sacconi, B; Raad, R A; Lee, J; Fine, H; Kondziolka, D; Golfinos, J G; Babb, J S; Jain, R
To evaluate diagnostic accuracy of perfusion weighted imaging (PWI) and positron emission tomography (PET) using an integrated PET/MR system in tumor grading as well as in differentiating recurrent tumor from treatment-induced effects (TIE) in brain tumor patients. Twenty patients (Group A: treatment naive, 9 patients with 16 lesions; Group B: post-therapy, 11 patients with 18 lesions) underwent fluorine 18 (18F) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) brain PET/MR with PWI. Two blinded readers predicted low versus high-grade tumor (for Group A) and tumor recurrence versus TIE (for Group B) based solely on tumor rCBV (regional cerebral blood volume) and SUV (standardized uptake values). Tumor histopathology at resection was the reference standard. Using rCBVmean 0.403), Group B (p > 0.06) and in the entire population (p > 0.07). Best overall sensitivity and specificity were obtained using rCBVmean
PMID: 26729270
ISSN: 1573-7373
CID: 1901082

Factors in Successful Elimination of Elective Tracheotomy in Mandibular Reconstruction With Microvascular Tissue

Lapis, Paul N; DeLacure, Mark D; Givi, Babak
Importance: Limited data exist on performing major oral cavity resections and reconstructions without elective tracheotomy. Objectives: To describe a group of patients who successfully underwent major microvascular mandibular reconstruction without an elective tracheotomy and to perform a literature review to identify commonalities between our group and the available literature to identify potential common factors that might contribute to the success of this approach. Design, Setting, and Participants: Case series with retrospective medical chart review of 15 patients who underwent fibula microvascular free flap reconstruction of mandibular defects without tracheotomy between 2000 and 2014 (the most common indication was osteoradionecrosis) conducted at a tertiary referral hospital center. Exposures: Mandibular reconstruction with fibula free flap without elective tracheotomy. Main Outcomes and Measures: Perioperative morbidity and mortality with a focus on airway management and perioperative complications. Results: The median age of 15 patients (11 males and 4 females) at the time of reconstruction was 42 years (range, 10-64 years). The indication for surgery was nonmalignant pathologic abnormalities in 8 patients (53%), osteosarcoma in 4 patients (27%), and oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma in 3 patients (20%). All patients were intubated endonasally and, excepting 1 pediatric case, were extubated the day following surgery. The fibula spanned the parasymphysis and/or symphysis in 2 patients, and was limited to the mandibular body in others (mean length, 7.6 cm [range, 4.0-15.0 cm]). The flap design was osteocutaneous in 3 patients and osseous in the rest. No patient required reintubation or tracheotomy. No complications due to endonasal intubation occurred. The average hospital length of stay was 11 days. Conclusions and Relevance: Major oral cavity resection and reconstruction with microvascular free flaps can be performed safely without elective tracheotomy in a select group of patients. Limited data exist on patient selection criteria. Further studies are needed to identify favorable factors and develop protocols for safe patient selection.
PMID: 26660711
ISSN: 2168-619x
CID: 1877792