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Shaaban M, Ryan JT, Adediran E et al. · 2026 · F&S reports
Objective To study whether incident endometriosis diagnosis, staging, and typology are associated with concurrent elevated serum inflammatory markers interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF- α ).…
View details →Zebarjadi N, Kluge A, Adler E et al. · 2024 · eNeuro
The study of ideological asymmetries in empathy has consistently yielded inconclusive findings. Yet, until recently these inconsistencies relied exclusively on self-reports, which are known to be prone to biases and inaccuracies when…
View details →Anettová L, Šipková A, Cibulka P et al. · 2025 · Parasitology research
This study summarizes the findings of a comprehensive field investigation into the presence of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a zoonotic nematode responsible for meningitis, in selected regions of the eastern Mediterranean. Samples were…
View details →O'Connell SR, Wilson GE, Berkowitz DH et al. · 2026 · Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)
Groove is the pleasurable urge to move to the beat of music, a universally experienced human phenomenon. Because listeners are often inspired to move to music with groove, we asked whether high-groove music would promote greater motor…
View details →Colbeth HL, Riddell CA, Thomas M et al. · 2024 · Journal of epidemiology and community health
Background Structural racism's influence on workforce policies and practices presents possible upstream targets for assessing and reducing racial health disparities. This study is the first to examine workforce racial diversity in…
View details →Miller AL, Zhao Y · 2023 · Physical review letters
Over 10 years ago, Fermi observed an excess of GeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center whose origin is still under debate. One explanation for this excess involves annihilating dark matter, another requires an unresolved population of…
View details →King M, Bruinsma S, Ivry RB · 2024 · Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.)
Cerebellar involvement in language processing has received considerable attention in the neuroimaging and neuropsychology literatures. Building off the motor control literature, one account of this involvement centers on the idea of…
View details →Obara-Gołębiowska M · 2026 · Eating and weight disorders : EWD
Purpose To identify person-centered psychological profiles of eating-related risk based on early maladaptive schemas (EMS), emotion regulation difficulties, and eating behaviors, and to examine their external validation using…
View details →Bjørkheim SB, Hystad SW, Sætrevik B · 2026 · PeerJ
The way people perceive health risks is often assumed to influence how they adopt precautionary measures. However, people's assessment of a given phenomenon's risk may vary over time, and the relationship between perceived risk and…
View details →Kracht CL, Falkenhain K, Flanagan EW et al. · 2026 · JMIR mental health
Background Household chaos is an emerging risk factor for childhood obesity development, especially in families with lower socioeconomic status (SES). It is unclear if changes in household chaos, especially in pregnancy, may mediate the…
View details →Neelam P, Sowndarya K, Anupama H et al. · 2025 · Advanced biomedical research
Background Homocysteine (Hcy) and dyslipidemia are established risk parameters of atherosclerosis. Considerable research has been conducted using ratios of lymphocytes to other cellular components of the peripheral white blood cell count…
View details →Serimaa O, Keltikangas-Järvinen L, Lyytikäinen LP et al. · 2025 · Psychological medicine
Background Previous evidence has reported associations of a polygenic risk score for schizophrenia (PRS SCZ ) with negative developmental outcomes, such as psychiatric symptoms, adverse health behaviors, and reduced everyday functioning.…
View details →Cheema S, Augustin C, Göttlich M et al. · 2024 · eNeuro
The growing field of social neuroscience is reliant on the development of robust, ecologically valid paradigms for simulating social interaction and measuring social cognition in highly controlled laboratory settings. Perspective taking is…
View details →Fertig A, Hartman A, Iyer L et al. · 2026 · The journal of politics
Can financial incentives lead households to register land in women's names, thereby providing them with formal property rights? Can formal property ownership improve women's economic outcomes and change decision-making dynamics within the…
View details →Paulich KN, Place C, Giordano G et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in psychology
Introduction Cannabis, which contains cannabinoids delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), has become the third-most-commonly used psychoactive substance in the United States. The legal market has grown alongside the…
View details →Rock A, Neth MR, Newgard CD et al. · 2026 · Resuscitation plus
Study objective Our objective was to determine the association between anterior-posterior (AP) and anterior-lateral (AL) pad placement and outcomes for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with an initial non-shockable…
View details →Picerni E, Piras F, Laricchiuta D et al. · 2026 · Brain sciences
Background: Hypnotizability is a psychophysiological trait measured by standardized scales whose scores indicate the proneness to modify perception, memory, and behavior according to specific suggestions, and to experience the hypnotic…
View details →Haskaraca FN, Proft M, Liszkowski U et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in psychology
It has been long assumed that meta-representational theory of mind (ToM) -our ability to ascribe mental states to ourselves and other people- emerges around age four as indicated in performance on explicit verbal false belief tasks. In…
View details →Wang J, Moriguchi Y · 2023 · Heliyon
Media exposure, such as viewing fantastical content, can have negative, immediate, and long-term effects on children's executive function. A recent study showed that watching fantastical content on a tablet can impair children's inhibitory…
View details →Quddus DY, Aydin S, Waheed AA et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in nutrition
Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects 69 million individuals annually and represents a major global health burden. Ketogenic interventions have emerged as a potential therapy to address deficits following TBI. This scoping review…
View details →Liu F, Wang Q, Han S et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine
Introduction Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is associated with substantial functional limitation and recurrent hospitalization, while effective pharmacological options remain limited. Exercise-based cardiac…
View details →Mizuho T, Narumi T, Kuzuoka H · 2023 · IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Advances in virtual reality technology have enabled the creation of virtual environments (VEs) with significantly high visual fidelity when compared to real environments (REs). In this study, we use a high-fidelity VE to examine two…
View details →Corpening B, Bürgler A, Tamási B et al. · 2025 · Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Background Prior research suggests pollen allergies may be associated with cognitive function, although the effect sizes and specific cognitive outcomes varied across studies. With pollen seasons starting earlier and intensifying due to…
View details →Shkreli L, Woud ML, Bergunde L et al. · 2025 · European journal of psychotraumatology
Background: Steroid hormone dysregulations have frequently been implicated in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) pathogenesis. However, the translation into naturalistic clinical settings as markers of symptomatology and treatment…
View details →Nicolaou L, Reuland CJ, Yang M et al. · 2026 · Lancet regional health. Americas
Background Household air pollution (HAP) is a major global health risk. Observational studies link HAP exposure to impaired child growth, but randomized controlled trial (RCT) evidence is inconsistent. Methods We followed children born…
View details →Willems YE, Raffington L, Ligthart L et al. · 2024 · Frontiers in psychiatry
Background Difficulty with self-control, or the ability to alter impulses and behavior in a goal-directed way, predicts interpersonal conflict, lower socioeconomic attainments, and more adverse health outcomes. Etiological understanding,…
View details →Madrigano J, Yan D, Liu T et al. · 2024 · GeoHealth
Indonesia faces significant air quality issues due to multiple emissions sources, including rapid urbanization and peatland fires associated with agricultural land management. Limited prior research has estimated the episodic shock of…
View details →Wachowicz A, Galbarczyk A, Marcinkowska UM et al. · 2026 · American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
Objectives Duration and quality of sleep are influenced by many factors, including hormonal changes. The aim of this study was to investigate the differences between the phases of the menstrual cycle in total sleep duration and sleep stage…
View details →Jennings EA, Roberts-Toler C, Harriman NW et al. · 2026 · The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
Objectives Social isolation is a concern among aging populations, and household composition may play an important role in its impact on mental health. We use data from an aging cohort in rural South Africa to investigate the moderating…
View details →Abdul Jafar NK, Tham EKH, Fok D et al. · 2026 · Nutrients
Background: Maternal chronotype, maternal sleep, and breastfeeding practices are separately associated with maternal mood. However, it is not known if maternal mood mediates the associations between maternal chronotype or maternal sleep…
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