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Objectives: 1. To assess the prevalence of pain in elderly with dementia and to study the relationship between the various subtypes of dementia and the presence of specific types of pain(e.g. nociceptive pain, neuropathic pain, and orofacial pain).…
The project has three main scientific objectives: (1) To investigate how speech processing with CIs affects listeners* mental representations at lexical and sub-lexical levels, as well as the flow of information between these levels; (2) To study…
To map phenomenolocal characteristics of hallucinations and delusions in psychiatric and neurologic patient populations as well as in the general population. By comparing this between all groups, different subtypes of hallucinations and delusions…
The primary objective of the proposed study is to examine the neural substrate of cognitive and social-emotional apathy in patients with schizophrenia. Secondary, we intend to explore the concentration of brain metabolites and structural differences…
To validate spectral analysis of the fHRV as a new method for fetal monitoring. To determine the exact influence on fHRV of several commonly used medicines in obstetric care; namely tocolytic drugs, corticosteroids, antihypertensive agents,…
Primary Objective(s): 1. To obtain preliminary data on whether (and to which extend) adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer results in (a) deterioration of contractile muscle properties and increased muscle fatigability, (b) increased inflammation…
The present study has 1 primary and 1 secondary objective:1: The primary objective of the present study is to analyse the effects of supplementation with ITFs of different chain lengths and RSC on hepatitis B vaccination efficacy. The main parameter…
Are Alphabodies against IL23 effecive in the transplant model of psoriasis
To determine the direct effects of morning light intensity on postprandial glucose and lipid metabolism and metabolic gene expression in adipose tissue.
The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate that free field word recognition scores in quiet and noise with CI *ON* are significantly better than the best aided pre-implant scores in the ear to be implanted (contralateral ear plugged)…
Primary objective: To investigate left ventricular diastolic function in AS-patients compared with osteoarthritis patients. Secondary objectives: To assess the prevalence of valvular heart diseases and conduction disturbances. To assess left…
Primary Objective: Identification of rare variants in candidate genes and regulatory elements in pediatric IBD patients. Secondary Objective(s): To determine the functional consequences of identified genetic variants in IBD, we will correlate…
The primary objective is to assess bone structure parameters and bone strength by high resolution peripheral quantitative CT evaluation (HRpQCT) and physical activity in relation with subsequent falls, fractures and mortality in patients with a…
With the proposed study we aim to gain insight into the effects of oxytocin (OT) on both parents* and grandparents* sensitive, empathic, and protective responses to their (grand)children, and in the neural origins of these responses.The primary…
to investigate whether microbial transplantation from either allogenic (healthy) or autologous (own) donor, administered through a small intestinal tube, has beneficial effects on immune status, betacell function c-peptide secretion upon mixed meal…
The aim of this study is to examine how many persons with burns experience problems in different social areas, and which factors prospectively impact on functioning. Predictors that will be investigated in this population relate to invalidation,…
The aim of this study is to study risk factors (in the field of public health and occupation as well as medical technical factors) to enable early detection of pregnant women at increased risk and to integrate these risk factors in a risk prognostic…
To test the hypothesis that metabolic inflexibility in pre-diabetic subjects and diabetic patients is due to a reduced capacity to form acetylcarnitines: We aim to investigate whether glucose intolerant subjects have a lower capacity to form acetyl-…
Primary Objective: To study the change on performance on executive function and memory function (as measured on Neurocart), after an active challenge with methylphenidate (monoaminergic) and galantamine (cholinergic), compared to placebo, in…
Main: To assess the effect of an early extra measles immunization between 6and 12 months of age on the development of humoral and cell-mediatedimmunity against measles following routine MMR immunization at 14months of age.Secundary:Determine effect…