Reed Bendixen (chicksmile53)

Bariatric surgery (BS) is the most effective technique used to help patients with obesity achieve long-term weight loss. Although many patients report high levels of postoperative satisfaction after BS, some remain unsatisfied with their outcome. Studies of factors that predict postoperative satisfaction have yielded varying results. Weight loss has been identified as a predictor of satisfaction after BS, but debate remains concerning the impact of preoperative expectations and psychological variables. #link# Furthermore, the relevance of attribution and perception of equity to postoperative satisfaction has not been evaluated in patients undergoing BS. We assessed preoperative expectations and the levels of body dissatisfaction, anxiety, and depression in 80 patients undergoing BS. Satisfaction, attribution, feeling of equity, and psychological variables were evaluated 6months, 1year, and 2years after BS. Weight loss and equity were the two predictors of satisfaction 6months after BS. Body dissatisfaction was underscore the importance of considering the patient's personal experience after BS and not just their weight loss. Vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) has become the most commonly performed operation for the treatment of morbid obesity (JAMA. 312(9)959-61, 2014). Nevertheless, VSG is still associated with some early postoperative complications (JAMA. 312(9)959-61, 2014; Surg Obes Relat Dis. 9(5)816-29, 2013; Obes Surg. 27(8)1944-1951, 2017). Hiatal hernia is a complication that has been widely described in the literature, but not in the immediate postoperative course (Obes Surg. 17(7)962-9, 2007). We, herein, report a case of an acute postoperative hiatal hernia after sleeve gastrectomy. A 29-year-old female (BMI 38.54kg/m ) presented to our center and her options for metabolic surgery were discussed. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) was the chosen procedure. Preoperative assessment includes a chest x-ray, and standard lab-work up was within a normal limit. Barium swallow did not show any evidence of hiatal hernia. QNZ underwent a LSG. On POD 1, she was able to pass the bariatric clears trial and was discharged horangulation.Individuals have the ability to extract summary statistics from multiple items presented simultaneously. However, it is unclear yet whether we have insight into the process of ensemble coding. The aim of this study was to investigate metacognition about average face perception. Participants saw a group of four faces presented for 2 s or 5 s, and then they were asked to judge whether the following test face was present in the previous set (Experiment 1), or whether the test face was the average of the four member faces (Experiment 2). After each response, participants rated their confidence. Replicating previous findings, there was substantial endorsement for the average face derived from the four member faces in Experiment 1, even though it was not present in the set. When judging faces that had been presented in the set, confidence correlated positively with accuracy, providing evidence for metacognitive awareness of previously studied faces. Importantly, there was a negative confidence-accuracy relationship for judging average faces when duration was 2 s, and a near-zero relationship when duration was 5 s. By contrast, when the average face had to be identified explicitly in Experiment 2, performance was above chance level and there was a positive correlation between confidence and accuracy. These results suggest that people have metacognitive awareness about average face perception when averaging is required explicitly, but they lack insight into the averaging process when member identification is required.The Eriksen flanker task is a traditional conflict paradigm for studying the influence of task-irrelevant information on the processing of task-relevant information. In this task, participants are asked to respond to a visual target item (e