The Role of HIV Infection in Neurologic Injury

The central nervous system (CNS) is a very challenging HIV-1 sanctuary, in which HIV-1 replication is established early on during acute infection and can persist despite potent antiretroviral treatments.HIV-1 infected macrophages play a pivotal role acting as vehicles for HIV-1 to spread into the brain, and can be the major contributor of an early

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Acoustic analysis of oropharyngeal swallowing using Sonar Doppler

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: During the aging process, one of the functions that changes is swallowing.These alterations in oropharyngeal swallowing may be diagnosed by methods that allow both the diagnosis and biofeedback monitoring by the patient.One of the methods recently described in the literature for the evaluation of swallowing is the Sonar Doppl

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