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Bates KE, Smith ML, Farran EK et al. · 2024 · Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Mental imagery (MI) is the ability to generate visual phenomena in the absence of sensory input. MI is often likened to visual working memory (VWM): the ability to maintain and manipulate visual representations. How MI is recruited during…
View details →Öster K, Tucker P, Söderström M et al. · 2024 · Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health
Objectives Quick returns ( Methods Of 225 nurses and assistant nurses who wore actigraphy wristbands and kept a diary of work and sleep for seven days, a subsample of 90 individuals with one observation of both a quick return and a control…
View details →Rooney JPK, Geoghegan G, O'Reilly F et al. · 2024 · Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration
Introduction : Serum heat shock protein (HSP) concentrations have been reported as potential biomarkers for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Here, we investigate the role of serum HSP70, HSP90, and DNAJC7 as biomarkers for ALS. Methods…
View details →Lenz KB, McDade J, Petrozzi M et al. · 2024 · 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 Social determinants of health (SDOH) are associated with disparities in disease severity and in-hospital outcomes among critically ill children. It is unknown whether SDOH are associated with later outcomes. We evaluated…
View details →Li C, Li X, Zhang Z · 2024 · Work (Reading, Mass.)
Background The involvement of Perchloroethylene (PCE) in the development of autoimmune diseases has been reported. However, few studies investigated immunotoxicity in PCE-exposed workers. Objective To study changes in the oxidative stress…
View details →Van Dyken PC, Yang K, Faria AV et al. · 2025 · Biological psychiatry global open science
Background White matter alterations observed using diffusion weighted imaging have become a hallmark of chronic schizophrenia, but it is unclear when these changes arise over the course of the disease. Nearly all studies reported to date…
View details →McMullin MP, Cadotte NB, Fuchs EM 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 We aimed to implement a post-cardiac arrest targeted temperature management (TTM) bundle to reduce the percent of time with a fever from 7% to 3.5%. Design A prospective, quality improvement (QI) initiative utilizing the Method…
View details →Liu C, Lyu Y, Jiang Y et al. · 2023 · Zhonghua yi xue yi chuan xue za zhi = Zhonghua yixue yichuanxue zazhi = Chinese journal of medical genetics
Objective To carry out genetic analysis for a fetus with confined placental mosaicism (CPM) for trisomy 2 (T2) in conjunct with fetal uniparental disomy (UPD). Methods Amniocentesis and chromosomal karyotyping was carried out for a…
View details →Rehe D, Subashchandran V, Zhang Y et al. · 2025 · Journal of clinical anesthesia
Study objective To determine whether preoperative LDL-C concentration affects the risk of perioperative major adverse cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events (MACCE) after noncardiac surgery. Design Single center retrospective cohort…
View details →Dickerson JF, Clarke G, Weersing VR et al. · 2025 · American journal of epidemiology
The current study estimated effects of intervention dose (attendance) of a cognitive behavioral prevention (CBP) program on depression-free days (DFDs) in adolescent offspring of parents with a history of depression. As part of secondary…
View details →De Gaudenzi M, Mozun R, Schlapbach LJ et al. · 2026 · 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 Healthcare improvement studies indicate a potential to reduce cardiac arrests in the PICU through anticipatory care and shared awareness. We developed a structured risk-assessment and anticipation tool (i.e., the Airway,…
View details →Tlili S, Ghabi H, Mami I et al. · 2026 · World journal of nephrology
Background The outcome of renal transplantation is influenced by the occurrence of various complications, including urological. One of the most frequently occurring complications is lymphocele with an incidence of 0.6% to 51%. In fact,…
View details →Faghihian E, Ghobadi S, Rezaei R et al. · 2025 · The Saudi dental journal
The current study investigated the relationship between the first central deciduous tooth eruption time and serum levels of maternal alpha-fetoprotein and related multiple of the median (MoM). The cross-sectional study was performed on a…
View details →Michel E, Garnier-Allain A, Kaliuzhna M et al. · 2026 · PloS one
Apathy and impulsivity are multidimensional constructs that shape goal-directed behavior. Although the motivational dopaminergic spectrum hypothesis frames them as opposing ends of a single continuum, questionnaire-based studies…
View details →Alaeddin S, Chatterjee A, Roberts TL et al. · 2025 · Brain, behavior, & immunity - health
Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) is a widely used microbiota-modulation technique to treat recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections (rCDI). Rodent studies and clinical trials on probiotic interventions indicate that alterations…
View details →Kösem A, Dai B, McQueen JM et al. · 2023 · NeuroImage
During listening, brain activity tracks the rhythmic structures of speech signals. Here, we directly dissociated the contribution of neural envelope tracking in the processing of speech acoustic cues from that related to linguistic…
View details →Bressan E, Zucchelli G, Tommasato G et al. · 2024 · Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Background and Objectives : The influence of the quantity and quality of peri-implant soft tissue on implant health and long-term maintenance is controversial. This consensus aimed to assess the importance of peri-implant soft tissue by…
View details →Feng Z, Yang M, Jin A et al. · 2025 · Neurology and therapy
Introduction Acute ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion (AIS-LVO) is mainly caused by in situ thrombosis (IST), artery-to-artery embolism (AAE), and cardioembolism (CE). The clinical characteristics and prognosis of each mechanism…
View details →Sezer B, Öner S · 2023 · Appetite
In the present study, we aimed to investigate how two types of self-licensing (functional and dysfunctional self-licensing) are related to unhealthy snack consumption. Self-licensing refers to the act of using justifications before…
View details →Scheen AJ · 2023 · Diabetes & metabolism
Stroke represents a major burden in patients with type 2 diabetes, yet this cerebrovascular complication has been less carefully investigated than the risk of cardiovascular mortality, heart failure and renal disease. Some data suggested…
View details →Inman EM, Inman EM, Ramsammy CW et al. · 2026 · Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Background Both HIV and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can affect neurocognitive performance. Among youth with perinatal HIV (PHIV), living with a chronic viral infection and experiencing ACEs simultaneously may result in an…
View details →Ray CC, Wolf J, Guillaumin J · 2025 · Frontiers in veterinary science
Introduction Locomotion improvement without serious complications is the main goal of treatment for feline aortic thromboembolism (FATE). We aimed to describe the survival and functional recovery of cardiogenic FATE treated with tissue…
View details →Lee T, Choi B, Choi S et al. · 2026 · Journal of eye movement research
Prior research on lexical elaboration (providing additional information about unfamiliar words) has yielded non-significant effects on incidental vocabulary acquisition. Building on this, the present study used eye-tracking technology to…
View details →Kumar SK, Misra S, Behera BK et al. · 2025 · Journal of anaesthesiology, clinical pharmacology
Background and aims No studies have compared the effects of ketamine and dexmedetomidine on bowel recovery. We evaluated the effects of intraoperative low-dose ketamine or dexmedetomidine infusion on postoperative bowel recovery in…
View details →Lu J, Xing J, Zang L et al. · 2024 · Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
Purpose Complete mesocolic excision (CME) is being increasingly used for the treatment of right-sided colon cancer, although there is still no strong evidence that CME provides better long-term oncological outcomes than D2 dissection. The…
View details →Duy WD, Pajewski NM, Williamson JD et al. · 2025 · The Journal of frailty & aging
Objective To compare the association of glaucoma and glaucoma suspect diagnoses with frailty, quantified via an electronic frailty index (eFI), and to evaluate whether a glaucoma diagnosis moderates the association between frailty and the…
View details →Metcalf D, Zhang D · 2023 · Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
Objectives This study explores racial and ethnic differences in 1) receiving tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) as treatment for ischemic stroke and 2) outcomes and quality of care after use of tPA or…
View details →Vander Missen MR, Giovanetti AK, Fisher JS et al. · 2025 · Journal of clinical psychology
Recent research has called into question the robustness and reliability of using body movements to activate motivational systems like approach-reward. The purpose of the current studies was to test the effect of a repeated flexion movement…
View details →Verrender A, Wallace NK, Loughran SP et al. · 2025 · Applied psychology. Health and well-being
While there is consistent evidence that the symptoms reported by people who experience Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance attributed to Electromagnetic Fields (IEI-EMF) are closely associated with a nocebo effect, and that alarmist media…
View details →Park CH, Driver N, Richards RC Jr et al. · 2025 · Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
Background/Objectives : CenteringPregnancy (CP) is a group prenatal care model that empowers pregnant women through risk assessment, education, and social support. CP participants have more contact time with providers compared to those in…
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