Month: January 2022

Brain Surface Area Alterations Correlate With Gait Impairments in Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disease with progressive gait, cognition, and overall functional decline. Surface area changes are frequently seen with aging. In neurodegenerative diseases, the changes can be evident with disease progression. The current study aimed to study the regional microstructural alterations using surface-based morphometry to correlate with gait measures of the […]

Published on January 27, 2022

Georgia Bill Aims to Limit Profits of Medicaid Managed-Care Companies

ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers will consider a bill that could force the state’s Medicaid managed-care insurers to repay millions of dollars if their spending on medical care doesn’t reach a certain threshold. The bipartisan bill, introduced Jan. 26 by the powerful Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, a Republican, is focused on improving the state’s mental […]

Published on January 27, 2022

Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience

Abstract We investigate the extent to which pragmatic versus conceptual factors can affect a speaker’s decision to mention or omit different components of an event. In the two experiments, we demonstrate the special role of pragmatic factors related to audience design in speakers’ decisions to mention conceptually “peripheral” event components, such as sources (i.e., starting […]

Published on January 27, 2022