Analysis of brain activation and wave frequencies during a sentence completion task: a paradigm used with EEG in aphasic participants.

Aphasia is a language disorder that occurs after brain injury and directly affects an individual's communication. The incidence of stroke increases with age, and one-third of people who have had a stroke develop aphasia. The severity of aphasia changes over time and some aspects of language may improve, while others remain compromised. Battery task training strategies are used in the rehabilitation of aphasics. The idea of this research is to use electroencephalography (EEG) as a non-invasive method, of electrophysiological monitoring, with a group of aphasic patients in rehabilitation process in a prevention and rehabilitation unit of the person with disabilities of the Unified Health System (SUS), of reference in the state of Bahia-Brazil. In this study, the goal is to analyze brain activation and wave frequencies of aphasic individuals during a sentence completion task, to possibly assist health professionals with the analysis of the aphasic subject's rehabilitation and task redefinition. We adopted the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm, proposed by the American Society for Functional Neuroradiology as a reference paradigm. We applied the paradigm in the group of aphasics with preserved comprehension, right hemiparesis, and left hemisphere injured or affected by stroke. We analyzed four electrodes (F3/F4 and F7/F8) corresponding to the left/right frontal cortex. Preliminary results of this study indicate a more robust activation in the right hemisphere (average of aphasics), with a difference of approximately 14% higher in Theta and Alpha frequencies, with 8% higher in low Beta (BetaL) and with approximately 1% higher in high Beta frequency (BetaH), Gamma frequency was higher by approximately 3% in the left hemisphere of the brain. The difference in electrical activation may be revealing to us a migration of language to the non-language dominant hemisphere. We point to possible evidence suggesting that EEG may be a promising tool for monitoring the rehabilitation of the aphasic subject.

Avaliação da Resistência de União Entre Resina Composta e Substrato Dentinário Exposto à Quitosana / Bond Strength Evaluation between Composite Resin and Dentin Exposed to Chitosan

Em endodontia, indicam-se substâncias quelantes para a remoção da lama dentinária. O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar, in vitro, por meio do microcisalhamento, a resistência de união da resina composta com superfícies dentinárias tratadas com EDTA (17%) e quitosana (0,2%). De 30 coroas de dentes bovinos foram removidas as paredes palatina, mesial e distal, expondo a superfície dentinária da parede vestibular da câmara coronária, que abrasionada produziu a camada de esfregaço. Após, a superfície foi tratada, estabelecendo-se 3 grupos (n=10): G1 (controle) com aplicação de água destilada (1min); G2 com aplicação de EDTA (3 min.), e lavagem com água destilada (1 min.); e G3 com aplicação de quitosana (3 min.), lavagem com água destilada (1 min.). Na sequência foram aplicados 2 ml de NaOCl (2,5%), 2 ml de água destilada (1 min), armazenando-as em água destilada (37 °C). Retiradas da água destilada (24 h), fixaram ­se 3 tubos Tygon (1mmX1mm) na dentina após o condicionamento local com sistema adesivo convencional de 2 passos. Preenchidos com resina composta e após fotoativação, os tubos foram removidos obtendo-se cilindros que foram submetidos ao microcisalhamento em máquina de ensaio universal. Os resultados de resistência de união (MPa) foram submetidos a Análise de Variância e Tukey, com nível de significância 5%. Observou-se que a resistência de união de G2 e G3 foram equivalentes estatisticamente (p>0,05), porém significativamente maiores que em G1 (p<0,05). Conclui-se que quitosana e EDTA promovem resistência de união semelhante nas condições testadas. (AU).

In endodontics, chelating substances are indicated for smear layer removal. This study evaluated, by micro-shear, the bond strength between composite resin and dentin surfaces treated with EDTA (17%) and chitosan (0.2%). The palatal, mesial and distal walls were removed from 30 crowns of bovine teeth, to expose buccal dentin of coronary chamber, whose abrasion produced the smear layer. The surface was treated, considering 3 groups (n = 10): G1 (control) distilled water (1min); G2 EDTA application (3 min), and distilled water (1 min); and G3 chitosan application (3 min.), distilled water (1 min.). All groups received 2 ml of NaOCl (2.5%), 2 ml of distilled water (1 min), and then stored in distilled water (37 °C). After that (24 h), 3 Tygon matrix (1 mmX1 mm) were fixed to the dentin after surface storing them with a two-step adhesive system. Then, the matrixes were filled with composite resin, and once photoactivated, the matrix were removed resulting in cylinders that were submitted to micro-shear bond test in universal test machine. The results (MPa) were submitted to ANOVA and Tukey, with significance level of 5%. It was observed that G2 and G3 bond strength were statistically equivalent (p> 0.05), but significantly higher than G1 (p <0.05). It is concluded that chitosan and EDTA resulted in similar bond strength under the conditions tested. (AU).

Aspectos psicológicos da revelação na adoção

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