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Psychological Aspects of Recovery After Brain Injury: A Focus on Psychodynamic Factors
Brain injury may cause serious motor, cognitive and affective sequelae that significantly affect individual’s functioning, interfering with his/her independence in daily activities. Psychopathology, maladaptiv...
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ESO-ESSO-ESTRO Multidisciplinary Course in Oncology for Medical Students: 4 Years of Experience (2016–2019)
The ESO-ESSO-ESTRO Multidisciplinary Course in Oncology is intended to fill the gap of the undergraduate fragmented oncology education, to provide insight into all theoretical and practical aspects of oncology...
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Open AccessMultidisciplinary blended learning to build a breast cancer specialist career: survey on the perspective of the first 2 cohorts of the ESO-ULM Certificate of Competence in Breast cancer (CCB)
Breast Cancer (BC) specialists need to acquire comprehensive knowledge, covering their own specialty and principles of related disciplines. Blended learning, the integration of online and face-to-face learning...
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Correction to: Eight-Year Experience of the Certifcate of Competence and Advanced Studies Program Organized by the European School of Oncology
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Correction to: The Contribution of the European School Of Oncology Education to the Central Asian and Caucasian Regions
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Eight-Year Experience of the Certificate of Competence and Advanced Studies Program Organized by the European School of Oncology
The Certificate of Competence and Advanced Studies Program is an academically recognized postgraduate program that is organized by the European School of Oncology in collaboration with the University of Ulm an...
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The Contribution of the European School Of Oncology Education to the Central Asian and Caucasian Regions
The European School of Oncology (ESO) organizes educational activities within Europe, the Mediterranean region, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. In this paper, we report on the participation of oncologists from...
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Clinical Case Presentation and Discussion During ESO-ESMO Masterclass: a 10-Year Interactive Educational Experience
In this article, we report on the clinical case presentations that have been delivered during the ESO or ESO-ESMO Masterclasses in Clinical Oncology in the last 10 years. Masterclasses have been held in three ...
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ESO-ESMO Masterclass in Clinical Oncology: Analysis and Evaluation of the Learning Self-Assessment Test
Masterclass in Clinical Oncology (MCO) represents the “key educational event” of European School of Oncology’s (ESO) teaching program. MCO in collaboration with European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is ...
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Medio-lateral functional dissociation of the rostral prefrontal cortex with focal/non-focal cues during a prospective memory task
The rostral prefrontal cortex (rPFC) is crucial in prospective memory (PM) behavior. Several functional magnetic resonance imaging studies showed that its medial (mrPFC) and lateral (lrPFC) portions dissociate...
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Open AccessEstimating dyskinesia severity in Parkinson’s disease by using a waist-worn sensor: concurrent validity study
Our research team previously developed an accelerometry-based device, which can be worn on the waist during daily life activities and detects the occurrence of dyskinesia in patients with Parkinson’s disease. ...
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RBFOpt: an open-source library for black-box optimization with costly function evaluations
We consider the problem of optimizing an unknown function given as an oracle over a mixed-integer box-constrained set. We assume that the oracle is expensive to evaluate, so that estimating partial derivatives...
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Open AccessThe need for harmonisation and innovation of neuropsychological assessment in neurodegenerative dementias in Europe: consensus document of the Joint Program for Neurodegenerative Diseases Working Group
Cognitive, behavioural, and functional assessment is crucial in longitudinal studies of neurodegenerative dementias (NDD). Central issues, such as the definition of the study population (asymptomatic, at risk,...
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Psychodynamic Factors of Recovery After Brain Injury: A Role for Defence Mechanisms?
may cause serious motor, cognitive, and affective sequelae that significantly affect individual’s functioning, interfering with his/her autonomous living. Psychopathology and maladaptive co** styles are freq...
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Detecting freezing of gait with a tri-axial accelerometer in Parkinson’s disease patients
Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), which presents itself as an inability to initiate or continue gait. This paper presents a method to monitor FOG episodes based only...
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Erratum to: Forward and backward span for verbal and visuo-spatial data: standardization and normative data from an Italian adult population
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Black-Box Optimization of Lighting Simulation in Architectural Design
This paper deals with an application of optimization in architectural design. Formally, we consider the problem of optimizing a function that can only be evaluated through an expensive oracle. We assume that t...
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Reformulation of a model for hierarchical divisive graph modularity maximization
Finding clusters, or communities, in a graph, or network is a very important problem which arises in many domains. Several models were proposed for its solution. One of the most studied and exploited is the ma...
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Normative data for measuring performance change on parallel forms of a 15-word list recall test
Declarative memory evaluation is an essential step in the clinical and neuropsychological assessment of a variety of neurological disorders. It typically addresses the issue of normality/abnormality of an indi...
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Standardization and normative data obtained in the Italian population for a new verbal fluency instrument, the phonemic/semantic alternate fluency test
The phonemic/semantic alternate fluency test seems to overcome some limits of the instruments currently used to assess set-shifting abilities. In particular, this test does not make high demands on motor syste...
