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Subjects viewed a brief flash of 8-24 dots of either two or three colors randomly arrayed. Their task was to move a mouse cursor to the centroid (center-of-gravity) of each color in a pre-designated order. link= see more Conventional and idea-detector analyses show that subjects accurately judged all three centroids utilizing an astounding 13/24 stimulus dots, with only a modest loss of accuracy compared to judging a single-predesignated color centroid. The ability to concurrently compute three centroids is important because it is believed that centroid judgments are made on salience maps that record only salience and are ignorant of the features that produced the salience. Our explanation, instantiated in a computational model of salience processing, is that subjects have three salience maps. Dots are initially segregated into three groups according to color, then each color-group is recorded on a different salience map to compute a centroid. In Part 2, the data are analyzed in terms of Attention Operating Characteristics at in a brief flash of dots of three different colors, randomly interleaved, subjects can compute all three centroids. As a single salience map cannot discriminate dots of different colors, accurately reporting three centroids demonstrates that subjects have not just one, as is commonly believed, but at least three salience maps.Illusions can induce striking differences between perception and retinal input. For instance, a static Gabor with a moving internal texture appears to be shifted in the direction of its internal motion, a shift that increases dramatically when the Gabor itself is also in motion. Here, we ask whether attention operates on the perceptual or physical location of this stimulus. To do so, we generated an attentional tracking task where participants (N = 15) had to keep track of a single target among three Gabors that rotated around a common center in the periphery. see more During tracking, the illusion was used to make three Gabors appear either shifted away from or toward one another while maintaining the same physical separation. Because tracking performance depends in part on target to distractor spacing, if attention selects targets from perceived positions, performance should be better when the Gabors appear further apart and worse when they appear closer together. We find that tracking performance is superior with greater perceived separation, implying that attentional tracking operates over perceived rather than physical positions.
Recent literature has identified that the vestibular system is often involved following a sport-related concussion. Furthermore, the consequences of vestibular and ocular/oculomotor involvement have been explored and identified as potential predictors for prolonged recovery. Although vestibular and ocular/oculomotor involvement is common following head injury, the clinical assessment strategies for vestibular function are less commonly practiced in the sports medicine setting and have limited research. Therefore, despite the suspected link between vestibular consequences of concussion and prolonged recovery time, there is limited understanding on how these consequences affect outcomes following concussion and how to properly assess these functions.

The objectives of this scoping review were to (1) outline the current clinical assessment strategies for vestibular and ocular/oculomotor function in sports medicine to identify the best strategies for assessment, and (2) investigate the evidence regarding the influence of vestibular and ocular/oculomotor function on outcomes for patients with a sport-related concussion.

Two separate and independent reviews of the current literature were conducted to provide evidence for each specified objective. link2 Studies for potential inclusion were identified through electronic database searches. Inclusion criteria for each objective were used to identify the most effective studies and inquiries to address the outlined objectives.

The identified and included studies provided evidence-based information regarding the current assessment strategies as well as outcomes following concussion.

Despite agreement among studies, there was limited evidence to support each aim, identifying a need for further exploration into these objectives.
Despite agreement among studies, there was limited evidence to support each aim, identifying a need for further exploration into these objectives.
Differences in the excitability of motor generating neural pathways are reported following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) that is associated with quadriceps dysfunction and theorized to prevent the full recovery of muscle function.

The aims of this systematic review and meta-analysis were to compare quadriceps neural excitability between the involved ACLR limb, the uninvolved limb, and uninjured controls, and to determine at what time intervals these differences are present after surgery.

We conducted a search of PubMed, SPORTDiscus, Embase, and Web of Science, and extracted measures assessing difference of quadriceps spinal-reflexive, corticospinal, and intracortical excitability from studies that compared (1) involved limb to the uninvolved limb, (2) involved limb to a control limb, or (3) uninvolved limb to a control limb. We stratified time at 24months, since this represents a period of heightened risk for reinjury. A modified Downs and Black checklist and Egger's test were used tox (H-reflex) compared to uninjured controls (g = 0.38, 95% CI [0.00, 0.77]). MT were greater in the involved limb (g = 0.93, 95% CI [-0.01, 1.88]) and uninvolved limb (g = 0.57, 95% CI [0.13, 1.02]) compared to uninjured controls. MEP amplitudes in the involved limb were lesser compared to uninjured controls when evaluated more than 24months after ACLR (g = -1.11, 95% CI [-2.03, -0.20]).

The available evidence supports that there are neural excitability differences within the corticospinal tract in individuals with ACLR when compared to uninjured controls. Future research should focus further on longitudinal assessments of neural excitability prior to and following ACLR. link2 Identifying interventions aimed to facilitate corticospinal excitability after ACLR appears to be warranted to improve quadriceps function.

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Registered through PROSPERO CRD42020158714.Causal pathways between training loads and the mechanisms of tissue damage and athletic injury are poorly understood. Here, the relation between specific training load measures and metrics, and causal pathways of gradual onset and traumatic injury are examined. Currently, a wide variety of internal and external training load measures and metrics exist, with many of these being commonly utilized to evaluate injury risk. These measures and metrics can conceptually be related to athletic injury through the mechanical load-response pathway, the psycho-physiological load-response pathway, or both. However, the contributions of these pathways to injury vary. Importantly, tissue fatigue damage and trauma through the mechanical load-response pathway is poorly understood. Furthermore, considerable challenges in quantifying this pathway exist within applied settings, evidenced by a notable absence of validation between current training load measures and tissue-level mechanical loads. Within this context, the accurate quantification of mechanical loads holds considerable importance for the estimation of tissue damage and the development of more thorough understandings of injury risk. Despite internal load measures of psycho-physiological load speculatively being conceptually linked to athletic injury through training intensity and the effects of psycho-physiological fatigue, these measures are likely too far removed from injury causation to provide meaningful, reliable relationships with injury. link3 Finally, we used a common training load metric as a case study to show how the absence of a sound conceptual rationale and spurious links to causal mechanisms can disclose the weaknesses of candidate measures as tools for altering the likelihood of injuries, aiding the future development of more refined injury risk assessment methods.
Identifying risk factors for lower limb injury is an important step in developing injury risk reduction training and testing for player monitoring. Female athletes are distinct from male athletes, warranting separate investigation into risk factors.

To systematically review the literature and synthesise the evidence for intrinsic risk factors for lower limb injury in female team field and court sports.

Five online databases were searched from inception to April 2020. To be eligible for inclusion, studies were required to be a prospective study presenting intrinsic risk factors for lower limb injury in female team field or court sport athletes. Risk of bias was assessed using the Quality of Prognosis Studies tool.

Sixty-nine studies, capturing 2902 lower limb injuries in 14,492 female athletes, and analysing 80 distinct factors met the inclusion criteria. Risk factors for any lower limb injury included greater body mass (standardised mean difference [SMD] = 0.24, 95% confidence interval [95% CI]  0.18-e risk factors for lower limb injury in female athletes. Limited evidence showed an association between KOOS, SEBT anterior reach, single-leg hop distance and asymmetry, double-leg postural sway, agility, and lower limb injury.

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The off-season period in soccer leads necessarily to changes in fitness status. However, there is a lack of systematization that allows identifying the magnitude of these changes in groups participating in off-season training programs compared with those subjected to training cessation.

This systematic review with meta-analysis was conducted to assess the effects of training cessation in off-season training programs on men soccer players' body fat, maximal oxygen uptake (VO
), yo-yo intermittent recovery test (YYIRT), vertical jump, sprinting time, and repeated-sprint ability.

To qualify for inclusion in the systematic review, studies must have included (1) a detraining period of ≥ 2weeks; (2) controlled trials or cohorts of healthy men soccer players with no restriction on age; and (3) a pre-post training cessation or off-season training programs measure of body fat (%), VO
(mLkg
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), YYIRT performance (meters), vertical jump (height), sprinting (time), and repeated-sprint ability (total time).
r the implementation of more effective off-season training programs among male soccer players.
Detrimental effects on body composition and physical fitness were observed after both training cessation and off-season training programs. However, off-season training programs seem to ameliorate such detrimental effects on VO2max and repeated-sprint ability to some extent. The results presented here call for the implementation of more effective off-season training programs among male soccer players.The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number and embryo implantation potential in in vitro fertilization (IVF). A retrospective study of 319 blastocysts from patients undergoing preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) at Reproductive Medicine Center in Tongji Hospital from January 2016 to February 2018 was conducted. We used multiple annealing- and looping-based amplification cycles (MALBAC) technology to amplify the genetic materials from the trophectoderm cells of blastocysts, and next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to test mitochondrial DNA copy number. link3 Box-Cox transformation was introduced to eliminate the skewness distribution of mtDNA copy number, and the transformed data were defined as adjusted mtDNA. see more Subsequently, associations between adjusted mtDNA and the clinical characteristics of patients were assessed by univariate analysis and multiple linear regression. In addition, Gaussian Naive Bayes classifier was also used to predict pregnancy outcomes.
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