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Wang Y, Sha S, Gwenzi T et al. · 2026 · Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Background & aims Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency are common worldwide and linked to adverse health outcomes, including higher all-cause mortality. Two large randomized controlled trials (VITAL and D-Health), conducted in mostly…
View details →Braun D, Olmer A · 2026 · Frontiers in psychiatry
Background and hypothesis Toxoplasma gondii (TG) exposure and host immunogenetic variation have been implicated in psychosis. Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) is central to TG control; the IFN-γ +874T/A polymorphism has been linked to variability…
View details →Vinceti M, Vicentini M, Ottone M et al. · 2026 · Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements (GMS)
Background Consistent evidence from randomized controlled trials has shown that overexposure to selenium induces type 2 diabetes. However, uncertainties remain about the specific species and doses of selenium that trigger such diabetogenic…
View details →Arza A, Gong Y, Shu J et al. · 2026 · Physical review letters
Millicharged particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates arising in many extensions of the standard model. We show that, despite their tiny coupling e_{m} to photons, millicharged dark matter (mDM) in the Earth's geomagnetic field…
View details →Ishaqui AA, Alsaleh EA, Khalil AAA et al. · 2026 · Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology
Heart failure (HF) hospitalization is a high-risk transition period with frequent early post-discharge events; we evaluated whether oral metoprolol exposure during the index HF hospitalization is associated with lower all-cause death…
View details →Liu Y, Sorace A, Smith K · 2025 · Preprint
Previous research has proposed that bilinguals would rather be redundant than ambiguous. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an experiment examining lexical ambiguity in spoken Mandarin at the tonal, segmental, and orthographical levels.…
View details →Kashihara J, Kunisato Y, Sugawara D et al. · 2025 · Preprint
The Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders (UP) has gained popularity as an alternative to traditional disorder-specific psychotherapies, and its detailed treatment process remains unaddressed empirically. We…
View details →Castellano Bueno J, Paraskevopoulou A, Miller CW et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Fluid control protocols are widely used in neuroscience to motivate laboratory macaques to engage with behavioural tasks. Despite strong evidence that the physiology of the animals is not compromised by such protocols, fluid control…
View details →Ward J, Agbude R, Smees R et al. · 2025 · Hearing research
This study examined the concentrations of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters (glutamate and GABA respectively) in two regions of interest (auditory and insular cortices) and a control region (visual cortex) to test the hypothesis…
View details →Trotter D, Pariz A, Hutt A et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience
Introduction Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, widely used to manipulate neural excitability and behavior, are well studied at the meso- and macroscopic scales. However, less is known about their specificity at the level of…
View details →Makin A, Taylor A, Macpherson L · 2025 · Psychological reports
The attractiveness halo effect has been discussed for over a century. Physically attractive people are often judged more favourably and accrue many life advantages. Halo effects have been observed in university settings for decades, but…
View details →Greenleaf AT · 2025 · Preprint
Plant cognition has progressed from anecdote to rigor, yet the field still lacks a quantitative test for when distributed plant activity crosses into unified—perhaps conscious—processing. I introduce Pattern–Temporal Synergy (PTS), a…
View details →Lee P, Li J, Jones BC et al. · 2025 · Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
Researchers have suggested that men with more masculine facial characteristics have stronger immune systems but are perceived to be less likely to invest resources in partners and offspring. How women resolve this putative trade-off…
View details →Hornsby G, Pu C, Badamikar A et al. · 2025 · Preprint
ABSTRACT Introduction While improving water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) service delivery in schools supports the Sustainable Development Goals, rigorous trials have recently reported inconsistent effects of WASH in schools (WinS)…
View details →Codino A · 2025 · Preprint
The notion of Dark Matter originates from the violation of Virial Theorem in galaxy clusters and the empirical evidence of flat or increasing rotation curves in disk galaxies. From novel advances on basic properties of cosmic rays it…
View details →Stilp CE, Winn MB · 2026 · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Identification of speech sounds is influenced by spectral contrast effects (SCEs), the perceptual magnification of spectral differences between successive sounds. SCEs result in the categorization of a target sound being biased away from…
View details →Harding JF, Walzer J, Piatt R et al. · 2025 · Contraception
Objectives It is important to identify programs that can work in multiple contexts to support adolescent parents in achieving their reproductive health goals. A randomized controlled trial in Ohio in 2012 found that the Teen Options to…
View details →Ward J, Agbude R, Smees R et al. · 2025 · Preprint
This study examined the concentrations of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters (glutamate and GABA respectively) in two regions of interest (auditory and insular cortices) and a control region (visual cortex) to test the hypothesis…
View details →Bar Or M, Schonberg T · 2025 · Preprint
Understanding habit formation in humans remains a fundamental challenge, partly due to the constraints of laboratory-based studies. Thus, this study investigated whether prolonged, real-world engagement with a novel smartphone-based task…
View details →Guest H, Plack CJ, Munro KJ et al. · 2026 · International journal of audiology
Objective Adult auditory brainstem response (ABR) amplitudes are employed by both researchers and clinicians, but exhibit substantial between-subject variability, reducing their sensitivity as measures of underlying auditory health. One…
View details →Bar Or M, Schonberg T · 2025 · Preprint
Understanding habit formation in humans remains a fundamental challenge, partly due to the constraints of laboratory-based studies. Thus, this study investigated whether prolonged, real-world engagement with a novel smartphone-based task…
View details →Nielsen SP, Mathiesen L, Møller P · 2025 · Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology
This review examines the association between early life exposure to phthalates in human males and Leydig cell endocrine function. A systematic search was performed in PubMed and EMBASE, identifying 17 studies for analysis. Association…
View details →Zhu J, Yi Y, Ma L et al. · 2026 · Italian journal of pediatrics
BACKGROUND: Observational epidemiology studies suggested a relationship between single-carbon metabolism and vitamin levels with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk. We aimed to explore the causal relationship between them at the genetic…
View details →Rosales MR, Pulido JC, Sideris J et al. · 2026 · PloS one
Introduction Motor impairments have been reported in infants at elevated likelihood of autism and those later diagnosed with autism. However, empirical studies comparing higher to lower likelihood infants are lacking, limiting our…
View details →Bouwman V, Pittig A, Engelhard I et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Although exposure-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is generally effective for anxiety disorders, many people do not benefit. A better understanding of treatment predictors is required. This study investigated whether the dynamics of…
View details →Gusmão B, Zürn MK, Topolinski S · 2026 · Cognition & emotion
Individuals attribute a higher truth value to repeated compared to novel information, the well-known truth effect. Also, information that contradicts what we have heard earlier is considered falser than both repeated and completely new…
View details →Nieves-Méndez C · 2025 · Frontiers in human neuroscience
This perspective article explores the transformative potential of brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) in undergraduate systems engineering programs, a domain characterized by high attrition and a widening gap between rapid technological…
View details →Alotaibi AM, Alosaimi MH, Orfali RS et al. · 2025 · Brain research bulletin
Hallucinations are often associated with alterations in brain activation, particularly in language-related and sensory processing areas. Existing models suggest different frameworks for understanding the relationship between brain…
View details →Newton JD, Ellis T, Ruther M et al. · 2026 · Environmental research
Living near green areas with high vegetation may contribute to an active lifestyle, stress reduction, and enhance social cohesion, and consequently may be associated with improved cancer survival. Epidemiologic studies focused on greenness…
View details →Okunoye G, George Samuel C, Abdullahi H et al. · 2026 · Cureus
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a common pregnancy complication with significant maternal and neonatal risks, and its prevalence is particularly high in Qatar. Myo-inositol has been proposed as an insulin-sensitizing supplement that…
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