Winston-Salem State University

Surgical management of cecal volvulus: a case report

A volvulus occurs when a loop of the intestine twists around itself and the supporting mesentery, accounting for 1–1.5% of all intestinal obstruction cases. Approximately one quarter of the colonic volvuli are cecal, with women being up to 80% of the cases. Surgical intervention,...

Expected reward value and reward prediction errors reinforce but also interfere with human time perception

Abstract Time perception is often investigated in animal models and in humans using instrumental paradigms where reinforcement learning (RL) and associated dopaminergic processes have modulatory effects. For example, interval timing, which includes the judgment of relatively shor...