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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Model-based planning is unaffected by ketamine, antidepressant and internet delivered cognitive behavioural therapy treatments in depression.

Donegan KR, Hossein S, Panny BM et al. · 2025 · Translational psychiatry

Cognitive impairments have been observed in patients with depression. These include deficits in inhibition, shifting, and updating; cognitive processes that are critical for goal-directed control over behavior ('model-based planning').…

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No Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Mortality for Thyroid Cancer in the US. Comment on Lee et al. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Thyroid Cancer Surgery. <i>Curr. Oncol.</i> 2024, <i>31</i>, 3579-3590.

Nocini R, Lippi G, Mattiuzzi C · 2024 · Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.)

Thyroid cancer is relatively rare in the general population compared to other malignancies, but its incidence appears to have increased in recent decades [...].

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Cognitive and physiological impacts of psychotherapy incorporating human-equine interactions during substance withdrawal: A scoping review.

Friend MM, Nicodemus MC, Cavinder CA et al. · 2025 · Journal of equine rehabilitation

The use of psychotherapy incorporating equine interaction (PIE) is becoming widely utilized for the treatment of a range of conditions; however, evidence supporting the efficacy of this treatment is highly variable, inconsistently defined,…

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Synthetic Versus Biologic Mesh for Complex Open Ventral Hernia Repair: 3-Year Follow-Up of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

Dhanani NH, Lyons NB, Lee KH et al. · 2025 · HCA healthcare journal of medicine

Background Biologic mesh is often used in complex hernia repair, but there has been limited clinical evidence to date to support this practice. The aim of this study was to compare clinical and patient-reported outcomes of biologic versus…

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Derailment in adolescence: Factor analytic structure and correlates.

Ratner K, Zhu G, Li Q et al. · 2024 · Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence

Derailment is the sense of being "off-course" in life. But what could this mean for adolescents, who are often establishing identity and self-direction for the first time? We examined the structure and correlates of the Derailment Scale…

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Early Sodium Bicarbonate Use in Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Single-Center, Retrospective Cohort Study, 2013-2023.

Duster NA, Grossestreuer AV, Sorcher JL et al. · 2025 · Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies

Objectives To explore the association of intra-arrest sodium bicarbonate (SB) use with outcomes in pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (p-IHCA) when accounting for the timing of initial SB administration. We hypothesized that…

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Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Before COVID-19, During COVID-19, and After Inactivated Vaccination: Experience From a Tertiary Referral Center in China.

Cao X, Yi H · 2024 · Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology

Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence rate and audiological characteristics of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) before the COVID-19 pandemic, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and after inactivated…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Progestogen supplementation to prevent miscarriage: Evidence and controversies.

Saccone G, Berghella V, Gulersen M et al. · 2026 · International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics

Progesterone plays a key role in the establishment and maintenance of pregnancy and its deficiency has been associated with early pregnancy loss. Progestogen supplementation has therefore been widely investigated as a preventive strategy…

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Semantic facilitation in blocked picture categorization: Some data and considerations regarding task selection.

Wöhner S, Luckow J, Brandt M et al. · 2024 · Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance

Semantic context effects in picture naming and categorization tasks are central to the development and evaluation of current models of word production. When pictures are named in a semantically blocked context, response latencies are…

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Do uncontrolled processes contribute to evaluative learning? Insights from a new two-US process dissociation procedure and ambivalence measures.

Béna J, Lacassagne D, Corneille O · 2025 · Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)

The contribution of uncontrolled processes to evaluative learning has been examined in evaluative conditioning procedures by comparing evaluations of conditioned stimuli between tasks or within tasks but between learning instruction…

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Same Sentences, Different Grammars, Different Brain Responses?: An MEG Study on Case and Agreement Encoding in Hindi and Nepali Split-Ergative Structures.

Chacón DA, Shrestha S, Dillon BW et al. · 2026 · Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.)

At first glance, the brain's language network appears to be universal, but languages clearly differ. Does the brain adapt to the specific details of individual grammatical systems? Here, we present a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study on…

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Does sensitive skin lie in epidermal barrier impairment or abnormalities? Results from an observational study assessing biophysical parameters.

Borghi A, Guarneri F, Pacetti L et al. · 2024 · Italian journal of dermatology and venereology

Background The pathophysiology of sensitive skin is largely unknown and no univocal data on the role of the epidermal barrier impairment have been identified. The aim of this study was to assess whether subjects with or without sensitive…

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An Exploratory Pilot Study to Investigate the Potential Relationship Between Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) Virus Viremia Changes and Barn Manure Pit Management Procedures.

Melini CM, Kikuti M, Yue X et al. · 2026 · Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland)

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV)-positive pigs can be exposed to high concentration of gases, such as ammonia and hydrogen sulfide when manure and urine stored in the pits beneath them is agitated and pumped.…

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Parent emotion regulation difficulties statistically mediate the association between parental adverse childhood experiences and child emotion regulation.

Freeman SE, Staples AD, Loverich TM et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in global women's health

Introduction Emotion regulation (ER) abilities predict positive outcomes among children. While parenting behaviors that promote young children's ER development have been widely studied, less is known about how a parent's history of early…

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Less Than Zero?

Hackländer RPM, Schlüter H, Rolke AK et al. · 2025 · Experimental psychology

Not all information encountered is equally important to remember. Some information may be valuable, while others may be irrelevant. Importantly, retrieving and acting upon some information may even have negative consequences. Research has…

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Internalizing symptoms, negative urgency, and coping motives: Potential pathways to alcohol consequences.

McDonald A, Corbin W · 2025 · Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors

Objective Building upon prior research, the present study tested coping motives as a mediator of relations between both negative urgency and internalizing symptoms (depression, anxiety, and stress), and alcohol-related consequences using…

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Abandoned HypothesisOpen accessMedicine

Finding Ramón: Navigating Failure and Luck in Mexico.

Jones GA · 2025 · Critical criminology

Failure is taboo. Yet as researchers we often encounter failure in the field and engage in confessional conversations with colleagues about 'what went wrong'. Failure is regarded as an unfortunate and unproductive part of research. Better…

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Overconfidence, Time-on-Task, and Medical Errors: Is There a Relationship?

Al-Maghrabi M, Mamede S, Schmidt HG et al. · 2024 · Advances in medical education and practice

Background Literature suggest that physicians' high level of confidence has a negative impact on medical decisions, and this may lead to medical errors. Experimental research is lacking; however, this study investigated the effects of high…

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Relationship between facility type and bulk tank milk bacteriology, udder health, udder hygiene, and milk production on Vermont organic dairy farms.

Jeffrey CE, Andrews T, Godden SM et al. · 2024 · Journal of dairy science

The primary objective of this cross-sectional observational study was to determine whether bulk tank milk quality, udder health, udder hygiene, and milk production outcomes were associated with facility type on organic dairies. A secondary…

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Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessMedicine

Clinical efficacy of subsensory sacral neuromodulation in adults with faecal incontinence: The SUBSoNIC crossover randomised controlled trial and cohort follow-up study.

Vollebregt PF, Goh YL, Bagul A et al. · 2025 · Colorectal disease : the official journal of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland

Aim Sacral neuromodulation (SNM) is considered the first-line surgical treatment in adults with refractory faecal incontinence (FI). However, its clinical efficacy has not been rigorously tested in a trial setting. Method Randomised,…

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