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Pauly-Takacs K, Younus S, Sigala N et al. · 2025 · Consciousness and cognition
Aphantasia is defined as the reduced capacity to form mental images voluntarily. Previous research provided mixed evidence regarding the effect this individual variation may have on other areas of cognition and different aspects of memory.…
View details →Du J, Jiang R, Liu Y et al. · 2026 · European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
Background Elevated homocysteine levels, known as hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy), have been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Most prior studies focused on first-episode or acute-phase schizophrenia patients, leaving the…
View details →Ward J, Bonnet D, Roumeau M et al. · 2026 · Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)
Background Head acceleration events (HAEs) are an increasing concern in rugby union due to their association with brain injury and long-term neurological health. Objectives This original research study aimed to establish essential baseline…
View details →Mills T, Pascoe L, Spencer-Smith M et al. · 2025 · The Clinical neuropsychologist
Objective To examine working memory performance in young adults born very preterm (VP) and full-term (FT) in the context of information processing. Methods A cohort of 118 young adults born VP (mean age 20.1 years) and 48 young adults born…
View details →Camilleri M, Busciglio I, Carlson P et al. · 2026 · Clinical and translational gastroenterology
Introduction Indomethacin is often used experimentally to induce intestinal hyperpermeability, enabling evaluation of interventions targeting barrier function. Methods We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study…
View details →Cavdan M, Drewing K · 2025 · IEEE transactions on haptics
Research has shown that affective visual and auditory events (e.g., a crying baby) are perceived as lasting longer compared to neutral ones. However, the impact of affective haptic experiences on time perception has hardly been studied.…
View details →Williams EP, Harris LN, Moore JS et al. · 2025 · Journal of fish biology
Many Arctic fishes experience prolonged periods of extreme cold and large thermal variation over both rapid and seasonal time scales which challenge critical physiological functions. In the central Canadian Arctic, we caught wild adult…
View details →Kim J, Kim J, Park J et al. · 2025 · Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) are considered one of the most promising next-generation batteries due to their outstanding safety and superior energy density. For the commercial success of ASSBs, developing a scalable wet-slurry-based…
View details →Sahar T, Minerbi A, Pagé MG et al. · 2025 · Clinical and experimental rheumatology
Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has caused prolonged stress, potentially exacerbating fibromyalgia (FM) symptoms. This study aimed to compare the health status of FM patients and healthy controls (HC) before and 2.5 years into the…
View details →Berli C, Schwaninger P, Scholz U et al. · 2025 · British journal of health psychology
Objective Digital technologies offer promising opportunities for smoking cessation interventions. Understanding whether interventions target key determinants of behaviour change is crucial for effective intervention development. This study…
View details →Manzke L, O'Sullivan K, Tiefenbeck V · 2025 · Appetite
Food choices profoundly impact population health and the environment. Related research often relies on self-reported data, which is prone to biases, compromising the accuracy and validity of conclusions about consumer behavior. There are…
View details →Ranucci R · 2025 · Health care management review
Background In delivering health care, hospitals contribute to climate change, which adversely impacts human health. Given this paradox, there are mounting efforts to encourage environmental sustainability in hospitals. Purpose With growing…
View details →He W, Slavik N, Braun J et al. · 2024 · American journal of physiology. Renal physiology
The impact of bladder filling rate on cystometric outcomes remains unclear. Clinically, faster bladder filling is believed to increase the likelihood of observing detrusor overactivity (DO) in those with bladder dysfunction, although…
View details →Moïn-Darbari K, Paromov D, Bacon BA et al. · 2025 · Neuroreport
From a vestibular perspective, it is remarkable that dancers are often performing challenging tasks such as pirouettes, and yet manage to do so without falling. Some have suggested that dancers' resistance to vertigo may be explained by a…
View details →Sarkar IN · 2026 · AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science
Reliable drug-indication knowledge is essential for clinical decision support and pharmacovigilance, yet manual curation is labor-intensive and difficult to scale. This study evaluated nine natural language processing approaches to extract…
View details →Danwitz L, von Helversen B · 2025 · Cognition
In decision-making scenarios, individuals often face the challenge of balancing between exploring new options and exploiting known ones-a dynamic known as the exploration-exploitation trade-off. In such situations, people frequently have…
View details →Saitta V, Rebora M, Piersanti S et al. · 2025 · Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.
This study investigates the attachment ability of harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), focusing on the synergic action of opposite legs, the anisotropy of adhesive organs and sexual dimorphism.…
View details →Felton PJ, Shine KJ, Yeadon MR et al. · 2025 · Journal of sports sciences
Research on strength in cricket fast bowling has focused on ball release speed over technique. This study investigates how increased strength affects performance and front foot contact-phase technique during fast bowling. A planar,…
View details →Pousty D, Betzalel Y, Mamane H · 2025 · AWWA Water Science
This study examined the impact of UV‐LED fluence rate (incident irradiance) and wavelengths on the inactivation of MS2 bacteriophage, determined by log reduction value (LRV). Three levels of fluence rates, each differing by an order of…
View details →Chuang Y-C, Behringer MG, Patton GE et al. · 2026 · Applied and environmental microbiology
Cross-feeding is prevalent in microbial communities. Through time, cross-feeding is thought to enrich for loss-of-function mutations, thereby creating or reinforcing dependencies between community members. However, few studies have…
View details →Ma R, Romano E, Perera G et al. · 2025 · General hospital psychiatry
Introduction Chronic pain (CP) is common among people with severe mental illness (SMI). It remains unclear whether patients with comorbid CP and SMI receive equivalent pain management referrals compared to those with CP alone. This…
View details →Chalifoux M, Avdeeva M, Posfai E · 2025 · Developmental biology
During the first cell fate decision in mammalian embryos, the inner cell mass cells, which will give rise to the embryo proper and other extraembryonic tissues, segregate from the trophectoderm cells, the precursors of the placenta. Cell…
View details →Jean A, Murphy H, Sullivan G et al. · 2025 · Anxiety, stress, and coping
Social anxiety is a common experience that ranges from mild, temporary distress to excessive, persistent, and impairing fear. The current study tested whether perfectionism contributes to social anxiety symptoms and post-event processing…
View details →Pennerman KK, Goldman P, Dilla-Ermita CJ et al. · 2025 · Molecular plant-microbe interactions : MPMI
Knowledge of the factors structuring populations of pathogenic fungi is fundamental to disease management efforts and basic biology. However, this crucial information is missing for many important pathogens, including broad-host-range and…
View details →Widom CS, Courtney K · 2025 · Child maltreatment
Previous studies have reported mixed findings regarding the relationship between childhood maltreatment and midlife mortality. To fill gaps in the literature, we examine the impact of childhood maltreatment on midlife mortality and test…
View details →Oliveira JS, Sherrington C, Lord SR et al. · 2025 · The lancet. Healthy longevity
Background Exercises targeting balance and strength are proven to prevent falls. Yoga is growing in popularity and can improve balance and mobility in older adults, but its effects on falls have not been rigorously tested. In this study,…
View details →Huan O, Wang Z · 2026 · Archives of gynecology and obstetrics
Purpose As artificial intelligence (AI) models evolve into their next generations, their application in specialized medical fields requires rigorous validation. While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in general medicine,…
View details →Held L, Pannermayr J, Kaufmann A et al. · 2025 · Heliyon
This study investigates the impact of gamification on response inhibition in a Stop-Signal Task (SST) and examines participants' gamification experience. The findings reveal that, after accounting for approach- and avoidance-motivation as…
View details →Spielmann J, Stern C · 2026 · Personality & social psychology bulletin
Do people prefer that artificial intelligence (AI) aligns with gender stereotypes when requesting help to answer a question? We found that people preferred gender stereotypicality (over counterstereotypicality and androgyny) in voice-based…
View details →Li Q, Yu H, Du S et al. · 2025 · The CRISPR journal
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing holds tremendous potential for accelerating genetic improvements in aquaculture. The success of the CRISPR-Cas9 system relies on the specificity and efficiency of engineered single-guide RNAs (sgRNAs). In this…
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