Informal caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) often experience high stress and reduced wellbeing and quality of life. HeartMath’s Heart Lock-In® technique has been shown to reduce stress. In a...
Patients with somatic symptom disorder (SSD) may have declined parasympathetic activity and selective attention to negative information. We combined Stroop tasks and heart rate variability (HRV) measurements to explore the brain...
We used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to track symptoms during a clinical trial. Thirty-six participants with major depressive disorder (MDD) and MADRS scores ≥20 were enrolled in a nonrandomized 6-week open-label trial...
Dental anxiety distresses children and their families with consequent poor oral health and costly pediatric dental services. Children’s behaviors could be modified using a distraction technique for improved dental...
This study was planned to determine the effect of art-based mandala intervention on the distress and anxiety experienced by cancer patients.This semi-experimental study with a single group pretest-posttest design was performed...
To restore central vision in patients with atrophic age-related macular degeneration, we replace the lost photoreceptors with photovoltaic pixels, which convert light into current and stimulate the secondary retinal neurons....
Neurosurgical hemostasis can be performed with bipolar coagulation and with the support of several dedicated biomaterials including oxidized regenerated cellulose (ORC; e.g., Surgicel®, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ,...
Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) often report disturbances in their sleep quality, impairing their quality of life. This study aims to examine the trajectories of sleep quality from diagnosis up to 6-month after...
One task of CCTV operation is to decide whether footage shown in videos depicts criminal behaviour, or allows a viewer to predict its occurrence. An increasing prevalence of cameras in the world, means an increase in screens in...
To understand the distribution of Parkinson’s disease questionnaire-39 (PDQ-39) scores in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with or without depression, and to analyze the factors that influence the quality of life of...
Serotonin 2A receptors (HTR2A) play a crucial role in the therapeutic response to antidepressant. The activity of serotonergic system could modulate the connectivity of the default mode network (DMN) in human brain. Our research...
The aim of our study was to gather information on how people with epilepsy (PwE) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic during the national lockdown. An online questionnaire was therefore offered to the visitors of the Croatian...
