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Huang B, Zhang Q, Li H et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in psychology
Background Phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) between low- and high-frequency oscillations provides a candidate mechanism for integrating information across cortical networks. While PAC alterations have been reported in disorders of…
View details →Mizrahi O, Wilf M, Ovadia-Caro S · 2025 · Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Prism adaptation (PA) is a visuomotor adaptation paradigm resulting in transient sensorimotor shifts. Previous work shows PA can cause additional changes in higher-level visuospatial representations in healthy subjects. In patients with…
View details →Jun S, Bido-Medina R, Oviedo J et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in human neuroscience
Background Systemic viral infections with neurotropic potential pose significant global health challenges. The Zika virus (ZIKV) is known for its pronounced neurotropism, with recent infectious clusters raising renewed public health…
View details →Wentura D, Rohr M, Kiefer M · 2025 · Journal of experimental psychology. General
Masked priming paradigms are frequently used to shine light on the processes of nonconscious cognition. Introducing a new method to this field, Lähteenmäki et al. (2015) claimed that affective priming requires awareness. Specifically, they…
View details →Suiu LI, Vreju FA, Turcu-Stiolica A et al. · 2026 · Journal of clinical medicine
Background/Objective: Psoriasis is a systemic inflammatory disease often associated with metabolic comorbidities, including hyperuricemia. While biological therapies effectively target inflammatory pathways, their specific impact on serum…
View details →Wasiak M, Sypniewski M, Dobosz P et al. · 2026 · Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia worldwide and has a substantial genetic component. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified more than 100 susceptibility loci; however,…
View details →Gould RK, Moreau K, Fisher B et al. · 2025 · PloS one
It is well established that exposure to nature can reduce stress - but what if that "nature" is in a degraded state? We suggest a gap in research on nature-stress connections--and attempt to fill that gap. We conducted an experiment to…
View details →Brown AE, Marostica CW, Martini WA · 2026 · Journal of personalized medicine
Background/Objectives: Machine learning (ML) models can predict hospital admission from emergency department (ED) triage data with areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) exceeding 0.85. Whether incorporating the…
View details →Miles-Novelo A, Anderson CA · 2025 · Aggressive behavior
While numerous meta-analyses, reviews, and task forces from various scientific bodies have linked violent media use to aggression, some studies report null effects and claim that such a relationship is non-existent. Several scholars have…
View details →Juković M, Stošić S, Kostić D et al. · 2026 · Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background and Objectives : Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that progressively leads to brain atrophy and the accumulation of disability over time. In this study, we used FreeSurfer to…
View details →Sevigny JP, Schrank S, Donka RM et al. · 2026 · eNeuro
Synaptic physiology experiments are fundamental to neuroscience research. Consequently, accurate detection of synaptic currents is crucial for conducting high-quality experiments. Traditionally, detecting inhibitory and excitatory…
View details →Laguna Camacho A · 2024 · Food Quality and Preference.
Recall of recent eating episodes is a versatile approach to test influences on amount eaten of specific food. The present experiment explored if reminding current food intake prompts awareness for eating more healthy food. In a randomised…
View details →Mameno K, Suzuki T, Yamaguchi S et al. · 2026 · Pest management science
Background An economic incentive scheme is utilized to enhance citizens' support for managing invasive non-native species. However, the effectiveness of the incentive scheme in the outcomes of the management remains unclear. This study…
View details →Lantian A, Rose M · 2024 · Scandinavian journal of psychology
Transhumanism is a movement that emphasizes the improvement of the human condition by developing technologies and making them widely available. Conspiracy theories regularly refer to the allegedly transhumanist agenda of elites. We…
View details →Lamba S, Friedman J, Kandpal E · 2025 · Health policy and planning
A long-standing concern suggests that performance-based financing (PBF) may undermine the intrinsic motivation of health workers by heightening extrinsic motivation concerns via the novel introduction of financial incentives. However, the…
View details →Xie Y, Choi T, Al-Aly Z · 2026 · BMJ medicine
Objectives To assess whether initiation of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) rather than sulfonylureas is associated with all cause acute pancreatitis and cause specific acute pancreatitis and to characterise temporal…
View details →Hou J, Zhao S, Shi J et al. · 2026 · European journal of medical research
Background Frailty is notably prevalent in individuals aged 50 and older and has been associated with metabolic dysfunction. The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index is a reliable surrogate marker for insulin resistance. This study aimed to…
View details →Bona SD, Vicovaro M · 2024 · Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
When a subjective experience of difficulty is associated with a mental task, people tend to engage in systematic and deliberative reasoning, which can reduce the usage of intuitive and effortless thinking that gives rise to cognitive…
View details →Zeng S, Cheng W · 2026 · Medicine
The association between viral infections and subacute thyroiditis (SAT) has been recognized, yet whether a genetic causal relationship exists between them remains unclear. To address this, we conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization…
View details →Liu Z, Pan H, Lei H et al. · 2026 · Brain sciences
Objectives: Females are often underrepresented in preclinical fear research due to concerns over estrous cycle related variability. This study examined whether there were differences between female and male C57BL/6J mice in terms of fear…
View details →Schell C, Godinho A, Cunningham JA · 2026 · Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy
BACKGROUND: Invitation letters can be the first point of contact between research staff and potential participants and a number of modifiable variables have been studied to improve their effectiveness. The aim of this analysis was to…
View details →Dong J, Leger K, Lee AJ et al. · 2024 · Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
Many researchers have proposed that women perceive men with masculine face shapes to be less suitable as parents and long-term partners than men with feminine face shapes, causing women to find masculine men more attractive for short-term…
View details →Severijnen GGA, Bosker HR, McQueen JM · 2025 · Psychonomic bulletin & review
Speech is highly variable in rate, challenging the perception of sound contrasts that are dependent on duration. Listeners deal with such variability by perceiving incoming speech relative to the rate in the surrounding context. For…
View details →Mark S, Schwartenbeck P, Hahamy A et al. · 2026 · eLife
Humans' ability for generalization is outstanding. It is flexible enough to identify cases where knowledge from prior tasks is relevant, even when many features of the current task are different, such as the sensory stimuli or the size of…
View details →Floridi G, Gargiulo M, Aburto JM · 2026 · Population research and policy review
Since 2006, Mexico has experienced a surge in homicides due to national policies and international influences on drug trafficking activities. Although the effects of the so-called "Drug War" have been extensively studied in demography and…
View details →Grossman A · 2026 · Frontiers in neuroscience
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) prevalence has increased markedly across high-income countries, including Norway, yet environmental drivers remain poorly understood. We hypothesized that historical lead exposure may inversely…
View details →Sesay FA, Oware K, Violette LR et al. · 2026 · The Journal of infectious diseases
Doxycycline treats and prevents several bacterial and parasitic infections and has been proposed as a possible treatment for Trichomonas vaginalis. Nested in a trial of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis among cisgender women in Kenya,…
View details →Hu C, Xiao Q, Mei JJ et al. · 2026 · Medicine
The aim of this study was to use Mendelian randomization (MR) method to deeply explore the possible causal association between depression and rotator cuff injury. Using pooled data from genome-wide association studies covering large-scale…
View details →Guitard D, Neath I, Surprenant AM · 2026 · Memory & cognition
The word-length effect refers to the finding that memory on many short-term/working memory tasks is better for words with fewer syllables than words with more syllables. The standard account attributes this result to a combination of decay…
View details →Kipping R, Anne Simpson S, Hannam K et al. · 2026 · The Lancet regional health. Europe
Background Early childhood education and care (ECEC) provision is widespread. NAPSACC UK is an intervention in ECECs designed to improve nutrition and physical activity policies, practice and provision through ECEC staff workshops,…
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