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BACKGROUND Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder among children but symptoms may persist into adulthood. At Landspitali - the National University Hospital an interdisciplinary unit is responsible for ADHD-diagnosis and for commencing treatment of adult ADHD. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmaceu-tical treatment provided by the unit and the effects of psychiatric comorbidities. METHODS The study is retrospective and includes all individuals ≥18 years of age who received pharmaceutical treatment in the adult ADHD unit at Landspitali 2015-2017. Individuals who had previously received treatment by the unit or were already on medication for ADHD were excluded. Information on symptoms and wellbeing before and after treatment were obtained from three questionnaires, an ADHD rating scale, DASS and QOLS. RESULTS Of 211 patients who met inclusion criteria 144 (68%) completed the treatment provided by the unit on average 143 days. Impulsivity/hyperactivity predicted treatment failure with OR=0.96 (p=0.015). There was a statistically significant difference in all key response variables before and after pharmaceutical treatment (p less then 0.001). The Cohen's d effect size for ADHD variables were 3.18 for attention-deficit and 1.40 for impulsivity/hyperactivity. The effect size for quality of life was 1.00 and among the DASS subscales the maximum effect size was 1.43 for stress. Increased quality of life correlated with decreased symptoms as rated by DASS and the ADHD rating scale. Treatment success rates were significantly -higher for DASS but not for attention-deficit, impulsivity/hyperactivity and quality of life among individuals with psychiatric comorbidities alongside ADHD. Gender did not affect treatment effectiveness. buy Z-IETD-FMK CONCLUSIONS Those who complete treatment within the ADHD unit achieve good results with decreased psychiatric symptoms and improved quality of life. Treatment discontinuation is a challenge.INTRODUCTION To maximize the use of intensive care unit (ICU) re--sources, it is important to estimate the prevalence and risk factors for prolonged ICU unit stay after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS This retrospective cohort study included all patients who underwent primary isolated CABG at Landspitali between 2001 and 2018. Patient information was collected from hospital charts and death registries. Patients who stayed in the ICU for the conventional one night postoperatively were compared with those who needed longer stays in the ICU. Survival rate was estimated with the Kaplan-Meier method. Predictors for prolonged ICU stay were calculated with logistic regression and the outcome used to create a calculator that estimates the probability of prolonged ICU stay. RESULTS Out of 2177 patients, 20% required prolonged ICU stay. Patients with prolonged stay were more frequently female (23% vs 16%, p=0.001), had a higher rate of cardiovascular risk factors and higher EuroSCORE II (4.7 vs. 1.9, p less then 0.001). They also had a higher rate of impaired renal function before surgery (14% vs. 4%, p less then 0.001) and emergent surgery (18% vs. 2%, p less then 0.001). Furthermore, these patients had higher rates of both short-term and long-term complications, and lower long-term survival (85% vs 68% five-year survival rate, p less then 0.0001). Independent risk factors for prolonged ICU stay were advanced age, female gender, EuroSCORE II, history of heart diseases, impaired renal function and emergent surgery.  Conclusions Every fifth patient had a prolonged ICU stay after CABG. Several risk factors predicted prolonged ICU stay after CABG, in particular patients' medical condition before surgery, EuroSCORE II and emergent surgery. A better understanding of the risk factors for prolonged ICU stay will hopefully aid in scheduling CABG surgeries at Landspitali.BACKGROUND Chronic pain is a significant health care problem. To quantify the pain severity in patients and the efficacy of new or current treatments, researchers and clinicians apply tools such as the traditional visual analogue scale (VAS), that lead to inaccurate and subjective interpretation related to the main sensory pain. OBJECTIVE To validate pain measurements of a neuroscience-based 3D body mobile application called GeoPain. METHODS Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) patients were assessed using GeoPain measures in comparison to traditional pain and mood scales, respectively VAS and Positive and Negative Affects (PANAS). Principal Component Analysis (PCA), scatter score analysis, Pearson's methods and effect size were used to determine the correlation among GeoPain and VAS measures. RESULTS The PCA analysis resulted in two main orthogonal components PC1 and PC2. PC1 comprises a combination score of all GeoPain measures, which had a high internally consistent, and clustered together in TMD pain. PC2 inchttps//clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02247063.Descriptions of crustacean brains have focused mainly on three highly derived lineages of malacostracans the reptantian infraorders represented by spiny lobsters, lobsters, and crayfish. Those descriptions advocate the view that dome- or cap-like neuropils, referred to as 'hemiellipsoid bodies,' are the ground pattern organization of centers that are comparable to insect mushroom bodies in processing olfactory information. Here we challenge the doctrine that hemiellipsoid bodies are a derived trait of crustaceans, whereas mushroom bodies are a derived trait of hexapods. We demonstrate that mushroom bodies typify lineages that arose before Reptantia and exist in Reptantia thereby indicating that the mushroom body, not the hemiellipsoid body, provides the ground pattern for both crustaceans and hexapods. We show that evolved variations of the mushroom body ground pattern are, in some lineages, defined by extreme diminution or loss and, in others, by the incorporation of mushroom body circuits into lobeless centers. Such transformations are ascribed to modifications of the columnar organization of mushroom body lobes that, as shown in Drosophila and other hexapods, contain networks essential for learning and memory. © 2020, Strausfeld et al.