Activity

Body care and development of the premature infant. The observation of newborns’ reactions to different stimulations enables their behaviour to be interpreted and the support provided to be adjusted. Developmental care such as swaddling, tucked posture and skin-to-skin contact favours the harmonious development of premature infants and encourages the parents to become involved in their care as early as possible.Body and culture, nursing approach in home care. Working extremely closely with patients’ bodies when they provide care in the home, nurses interact with households’ private spheres. The intercultural dimension of their competencies enables them to approach the references and beliefs of their patients and to create with them the conditions favourable to the provision of care and relief for their unhealthy bodies.Illness and grieving the loss of a healthy body. Grief is a phenomenon which is part of the normal and the pathological. In the case of illness, it is felt for a body which is lost, different, becoming something other. This article studies the notions of grief, body schema and body image.Supporting the professionalisation of student nurses through the approach of the body. When student nurses begin their training, their approach to others’ bodies is shaped by social norms. This relationship changes through their studies and their practice placements, until they become qualified professionals. Becoming a caregiver requires them to change their relationship with the body. How does the training support students in the transformations of their representations, enabling them to be competent in the nurse-patient relationship within the other person’s private sphere?Nursing clinical approach, listening to the body. In their practice working closely with patients and their families, nurses base their clinical approach on the gathering and analysis of the multiple signals sent by the body of the patient they are caring for. In collaboration with the doctor, the monitoring of vital signs and biological data helps to guide the care and the choice and implementation of therapies. A concrete case illustrates the contribution of nursing sciences to the clinical approach led by the nurse.The body at the intersection of the natural, social and private. Confronted with a sick body, a body which no longer enjoys the “silence of the organs” within it, an ageing, tired body, caregivers, aside from the care they provide, are faced with a symbolic dimension. At the crossroads between the private and the social spheres, in a confrontation which connects them to an ancestral practice, that of the body as a tool of perception, both “touching and touched”, a site of “incorporated” consciousness, caregivers also question their relationship with their own body.Childhood trauma fundamentally shapes social cognition and basic processing of social cues, which frequently cascade into adverse behavioral outcomes. Recent studies indicate that epigenetic changes in oxytocin functioning might contribute to these long-term effects, although a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms is still lacking. The electroencephalographic N170 response to faces might capture a neural response at the core of these interactive effects of oxytocin gene methylation and childhood adversity, given that this response is considered to reflect fundamental face processing, to be susceptible to oxytocin administration and also to be a biomarker of various psychiatric disorders. We assessed the N170 response to neutral faces in relation to participant’s (81, women) recalled childhood trauma, methylation of their oxytocin structural (OXTg) and oxytocin receptor (OXTRg) genes, and endogenous levels of cortisol and testosterone. Additionally, we investigated the interactive effect of OXTg methylation and CTQ across three face sets of varying maturity. Methylation of OXTg relates to a weakened N170 response towards adults, children and infants. learn more Moreover, methylation of both OXTRg and OXTg shaped the directionality of adversity effects, predicting a weakened N170 response in those with high methylation and hyper-vigilance with participants with low methylation. Our results are the first to relate OXT(R)g methylation to the N170 response. They shed light on biological processes linking childhood adversity and epigenetic marks to altered behavior and potentially psychopathologies.

To investigate the clinical value of virtual unenhanced (VNC) spectral computed tomography (CT) images to replace the conventional true unenhanced spectral CT images (TNC) in diagnosing renal carcinoma.

Fifty-six cases of renal carcinoma confirmed by histopathology underwent conventional plain CT and contrast-enhanced spectral CT at arterial phase (AP) and venous phase (VP). VNC images were generated on an AW4.6 workstation. The CT attenuation, image noise, contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), and signal-noise-ratio (SNR) of the renal lesions and normal kidneys, long and short axis diameters of the lesion were measured from the three image sets and analysed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Two radiologists evaluated image quality subjectively using a five-point score, and lesion signature using a three-point score. Image quality scores were compared statistically and tested for consistency.

The two reviewers had good agreement for subjective evaluation (Kappa>0.70) and there was no difference in the quality of the scores among the three image groups. The lesion signature scores were all above the acceptable level. The CNR and SNR values in VNC were significantly higher than in TNC (p<0.05). VNC images had lower renal noise than in TNC (p<0.05). There was no difference in the long and short axis diameters of the lesion among the three image groups. VNC had higher CT attenuation values for the lesion and kidney than TNC (p<0.05), but the differences were <5 HU.

VNC images in spectral CT may be used to replace the conventional plain CT to reduce imaging duration and radiation dose in diagnosing renal carcinoma.

VNC images in spectral CT may be used to replace the conventional plain CT to reduce imaging duration and radiation dose in diagnosing renal carcinoma.