1.The Information Analysis of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Based on a Variety of Visualization Softwares
Journal of Medical Informatics 2015;(6):61-67
〔Abstract〕 Based on various visual softwares, the paper mines the data of SCI papers and published patents on Eastern Equine En-cephalitis ( EEE) during 1995-2015.2, analyzes the overall development, patent technology life circle, research area, cooperation and competition among countries/districts, basic information of institutes or outstanding individuals.The characteristics of various visual soft-wares are showed, the libraries should master data mining and information visualization technology, so as to provide consulting service to satisfy the deep level and personalized demands of users.
2.Dissociation between affective and cognitive empathy in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy
Ying HU ; Yubao JIANG ; Panpan HU ; Kai WANG
Chinese Journal of Neurology 2014;47(8):528-533
Objective To explore different aspects of empathy in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy and to study the effect of epileptiform discharges from different areas of the brain on empathy.Methods One hundred and fifty healthy controls and 62 patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy were administered with a neuropsychological battery for basic cognitive assessment and an empathy scale after 24-hour electroencephalography monitoring.Results Compared with healthy controls,patients with epilepsy obtained significantly lower total scores and the cognitive empathy scores including perspectivetaking and fantasy subscale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index-China (46.39 ± 9.74 vs 50.99 ± 9.97,t =-2.893,P=0.004; 23.31 ±7.10 vs 27.24 ±6.22,t =-3.974,P =0.000; 10.18 ±4.21 vs 11.84 ± 3.67,t =-2.838,P =0.005 ; 13.13 ± 4.46 vs 15.40 ± 3.84,t =-3.698,P =0.000,respectively).In contrast,the individuals with epilepsy did not score significantly different on the affective empathy,empathic concern and personal distress (P > 0.05,respectively).Patients with frontal epileptiform discharges suffered the most on the total empathy scores,cognitive empathy and perspective-taking subscale when compared with other three groups of individuals (P <0.05,respectively),whereas the groups did not differ from each other in affective empathy,empathic concern and personal distress (P >0.05,respectively).No correlation was found between the empathy ability and other cognitive neuropsychological tests.Conclusions Patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy is not associated with a general empathy deficit,but rather with a dissociated pattern combining impaired cognitive empathy and preserved affective one,which leads to a double-dissociation,supports the notion that affective and cognitive empathies are two distinct abilities.The activation of epileptiform discharges from the frontal lobe is a key factor that could diminish the empathy ability.
3.Radiomics in Precision Radiotherapy
Panpan HU ; Jiazhou WANG ; Weigang HU ; Zhen ZHANG
Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology 2017;26(1):103-106
Radiomics is a new area of research, which converts imaging data into high?resolution quantitative imaging features by applying the automatic high?throughput imaging?feature?extraction algorithm. With the development of data science, more and more attention has been paid to the non?invasive and quantitative method in precision radiotherapy all over the world. This paper will briefly introduce the concept of radiomics and its application in precision radiotherapy.
4.Preliminary study on apraxia of Alzheimer's disease patients
Juluo CHEN ; Xingui CHEN ; Panpan HU ; Changlin YIN ; Kai WANG
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2013;22(10):889-891
Objective To understand the capacity of application,and discuss the types as well as the mechanism of these dysfunctions.Methods A battery of neuropsychological tests including tool naming,tool naming by function,using of transitive tools,novel task test and naming photographs (living and inanimate) were applied in this study.20 AD patients and 20 healthy controls were enrolled in the study.Results The AD patients performed worse than the controls on the tool naming,tool naming by function,application of transitive tool,novel task test,naming tasks of living and inanimate pictures.The results represented significance in all of the tests (t =-6.54,-5.94,-4.16,-4.81,-2.17,-2.08 ; P < 0.05).There were significant correlations between the performances in application the tasks and the ADAS-cog,MMSE and ADL scores (P < 0.05).Conclusion The findings indicate that AD patients have apraxia,mainly impairment in ideomotor apraxia and ideational apraxia.Additionally,the patients have significantly decreased performance in ideational apraxia.The result suggests that AD patients' apraxia might result from the semantic processing disorder.
5.Effects of acupuncture at ST36 (Zusanli) on attention networks in healthy subjects
Gang LIU ; Panpan HU ; Jin FAN ; Kai WANG
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2013;22(12):1101-1103
Objective To investigate the effects of acupuncture at bilateral ST36 (Zusanli) on attention networks in healthy subjects.Methods The attention network test was used to compare the effects of after acupuncture at ST36 with the effects of before acupuncture on the efficiency of three anatomically defined attention networks:alerting,orienting,and executive control in 40 health university students.Results The alerting network effect was significantly higher (t=4.125,P<0.001) after acupuncture ((45.60±3.49) ms) than before acupuncture ((33.20±2.88) ms).The executive control network efficiency was significantly higher (t=2.638,P<0.05) after acupuncture ((87.97±4.21) ms) than before acupuncture ((97.67±4.66) ms).The orienting network efficiency was higher after acupuncture than before acupuncture,but there was no significant difference (P>0.05).The average reaction time was significantly lower (t=4.848,P<0.001) after acupuncture ((559.13 ± 10.66) ms) than before acupuncture ((590.57±12.80) ms).Conclusions These results suggest that there are selective enhancements of the alerting and executive control networks after acupuncture,while the orienting network is spared.
6.Effects of dopaminergic medication on decision-making under ambiguity in patients with early Par-kinson's disease
Juan FANG ; Huijuan MA ; Panpan HU ; Xianwen CHEN ; Kai WANG
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2016;25(12):1091-1095
Objective To investigate the effects of dopaminergic medication on decision-making un-der ambiguity in patients with early Parkinson's disease( PD) . Methods Using Iowa Gambling Task ( IGT) for 24 early non-medication idiopathic PD patients( Hoehn and Yahr Scale≤Ⅱlevel) ,24 early idiopathic PD patients with regular dopaminergic medication and also for 24 healthy controls( HC) whose age,gender,and education match to PD patients to test their ability of decision-making under ambiguity. Results The results showed non-medication PD group showed impairments on digtal span and verbal fluency and decision-making task. There was significant difference in IGT task scores among the three groups(F=6.024, P=0.004) . The total net scores of advantageous choices in IGT were significantly lower in non-medication PD group( (-4.50 ±22.19) scores) than medication PD group((8.83±23.24)scores) and healthy group((15.92±15.77) scores) . The difference of net scores in block1 to block5 between non-medication PD group and medication PD group was gradually increased,and the difference of net scores in block5 was significant(P<0.05) . There was no significant difference in total net scores and net scores in block1 to block5 between medication PD group and healthy group(P>0.05) . As the game processing,medication PD group gradually shifted their se-lections toward the advantageous choices. But non-medication group did not exhibit this shift pattern and the performance was much poorer. Meanwhile, the study also indicated the total net scores of advantageous choices for non-medication PD group was positive correlation to the MoCA scores ( r=0.614, P=0.001). Conclusion The present study has shown that non-medication PD group has impairment in decision-making under ambiguity risk condition and prefer to choose risky options. when exogenous complement dopaminergic medication,the risk decision-making ability of medication PD group has been improved.
7.Connotation, classification and characteristics of social capital involved in health information construction
Panpan QIN ; Minjiang GUO ; Yao HE ; Hongpu HU
Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science 2017;26(1):19-22
The classification of social capital involved in health information construction was proposed according to the connotation of social capital and health information construction, and the comprehensiveness, broadness, coop-erative variety, innovative technical application and good development situation of social capital involved in health information construction were dealt with.
8.Eeffect of K65R site-mutagenesis of cataracts-related gene Hsf4b on downstream heat shock proteins expression
Qiang LOU ; Panpan XIE ; Xiukun CUI ; Yuanfang MA ; Yanzhong HU
Chinese Journal of Pathophysiology 2015;(9):1699-1703
AIM:To clarify the impact of heart shock factor 4b (Hsf4b) K65R mutation on the regulation of downstream protein expression .METHODS:Non-functional Lys mutant plasmid pWZL-blast-HA-Hsf4b/K65R was genera-ted by replacing single , homologous amino acids using KOD-Plus-Mutagenesis-Kit.Mouse lens epithelial mLEC stable cell lines expressing Hsf4b or Hsf4b/K65R were constructed by lentivirus infection .The expression of Hsf4b in the mutant and the wildtype mLEC cells was confirmed by Western blotting .The expression of Hsf4b downstream proteins such as heat shock protein ( Hsp)70, Hsp90, Hsp27 and CryAB was examined by Western blotting and real-time PCR.RESULTS:The results of PCR and DNA sequencing confirmed the successful construction of mLEC Hsf 4b/K65R mutant.The K65R mutation didn’t influence Hsf4b expression in the mLEC cells.After K65R mutation in Hsf4b, the expression levels of Hsp27 and CryAB were down-regulated and the expression of Hsp 70i and Hsp90a upregulated.CONCLUSION: pWZL-blast-HA-Hsf4b/K65R can be used to construct a stable cell line by infecting with lentivirus .Hsf4b/K65R mutation influ-ences the regulation of downstream heat shock proteins .
9.Co-appearance analysis of papers on medical informatics
Fengqing QI ; Meng ZHANG ; Panpan HU ; Yu ZHANG ; Qian ZHU
Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science 2015;(2):34-37
The current situation of medical information was analyzed by displaying the co-appearance of countries and time, top 5 journals and co-appearance of subject headings in papers on medical information published in 1995-2014 with the papers on medical informatics covered in ISI Web of Science Database as an sample , in order to promote the study and provide reference for the related persons and institutions .
10.Analysis of the situation in application of patents associated with plaque researches
Yan XU ; Panpan HU ; Fengqing QI ; Meng ZHANG ; Xiaofang XUE
Chinese Journal of Medical Library and Information Science 2015;24(12):49-53
In order to show the development situation and trend in plaque research, Thomson Innovation Platform-covered application of patents associated with plaque researches was quantitatively analyzed using the Thomson Data Analyzer and Thomson Innovation or other tools, which revealed the overall development situation, the main accepted countries, the main application institutions and the technological direction layout of patents associated with plaque researches.