ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN GAIT PERFORMANCE AND PAIN INTENSITY, PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS, EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AS WELL AS PREFRONTAL CORTEX ACTIVITY IN CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN PATIENTS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL FNIRS STUDY

IntroductionActivities of daily living, such as walking, are impaired in chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients compared to healthy individuals.Thereby, pain intensity, psychosocial factors, cognitive functioning and prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity during walking might be related to gait performance during single and dual task walking (STW, DTW).Ho

Abstract Disease-induced personality change results from endogenous and adaptive host responses or parasitic manipulation.Within animal husbandry systems understanding the connection between behaviour and disease is important for health monitoring and for designing systems considerate to animal welfare.However, understanding these relationships wit

Bluetongue (BT), a disease that affects mainly sheep, causes economic losses owing to not only its deleterious effects on animals but also its associated impact on the restriction of movement of livestock and livestock germplasm.The causative agent, bluetongue virus (BTV), can occur in the semen of rams and bulls at the time of peak viraemia and be

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) may affect competitive plant interactions, which are considered a prevalent force in shaping plant communities.Aiming at understanding the role of AMF in the competition between two pasture species and its dependence on soil nutritional status, a pot experiment with mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal Lolium multiflor