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Hauptman M, Bedny M · 2024 · Preprint
Inferring the causes of illness is a culturally universal example of causal thinking. We tested the hypothesis that implicit causal inferences about biological processes (e.g., illness) depend on the animacy semantic network. Participants…
View details →Dewi NA, Arfan M, Rahmasari H et al. · 2025 · Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
Purpose To evaluate macular vessel density using clinical parameters in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) without retinopathy. Patients and methods This cross-sectional study enrolled 32 participants (63 eyes) aged 40-60 years…
View details →Fu Y, Mei G · 2024 · Journal of vision
The visual system often undergoes a relatively stable perception even in a noisy visual environment. This crucial function was reflected in a visual perception phenomenon-serial dependence, in which recent stimulus history systematically…
View details →Nicolella V, Novarella F, Falco F et al. · 2025 · Neurology international
Objective We aimed to explore associations between plasma neurofilament light chain (pNfL) and cognition through patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods In this cross-sectional study, we included 211 people…
View details →Xiao LY, Zendle D, Petrovskaya E et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Card packs are physical products providing random content. Companies rely on them to monetise physical trading or collectible card games. Loot boxes are equivalent digital products inside video games that can similarly be bought to obtain…
View details →Verheyen S, Van den Berckt J, Heyman T · 2026 · International review of social psychology
This Registered Report pertains to the face-name matching effect (Zwebner et al. 2017), according to which people can match the first name to an unknown target face above chance level. The purpose of the Registered Report was twofold: (i)…
View details →Prowten S, Walker E, London B et al. · 2024 · Psychological science
People share information for many reasons. For example, Berger (2011, N = 40) found that undergraduate participants manipulated to have higher physiological arousal were more likely to share a news article with others via email than people…
View details →Ilfeld BM, Finneran JJ, Abdullah B et al. · 2026 · Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
Background A previous clinical trial applied percutaneous cryoneurolysis to lower limb amputees with phantom pain. The primary outcome measure was negative, but a secondary analysis suggested that patients with a below-knee amputation…
View details →Mace JH, Keller SR, Ingle KE · 2024 · Memory (Hove, England)
It is now well established that general information processing causes the activation of memories in the autobiographical memory system, and these memories on occasion emerge as involuntary autobiographical memories. This priming phenomenon…
View details →Patel H, Aks IR, Kemp EC et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Potentially traumatic events (PTEs) and substance use (SU) are commonly endorsed in early adolescence, a crucial period for neurodevelopment. Separately, they have been shown to alter within- and between-network connectivity in the three…
View details →Hunt EE, Arnold HP, Cortez KB et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in psychiatry
Inhibitory control (IC), the capacity to resist or suppress a dominant or automatic response, is a central component of self-regulation and executive functioning. Greater IC capacity in early development is also associated with a number of…
View details →Woodley SK, Agostini G, Jones DK et al. · 2024 · Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Wetland communities are increasingly threatened by multiple stressors simultaneously, such as pesticides and salinization. We examined the effects of ecologically-relevant exposures to broad-spectrum insecticides and salinization on…
View details →Awh KC, Hsu S · 2023 · Cureus
Pemphigoid gestationis (PG) is a rare autoimmune bullous disease that occurs during pregnancy or the postpartum period. PG has been associated with an increased risk of Graves' disease possibly due to shared genetic factors and immune…
View details →Sandlund J, Duriseti R, Ladhani SN et al. · 2025 · Paediatric respiratory reviews
Mask mandates for children were implemented at schools and childcare centers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the US continues to recommend masking down to the age of two in certain settings. Medical interventions should be informed by…
View details →Liu ZL, Zhou YY, Xu QX et al. · 2025 · Insect science
The clustered regularly interspaced small palindromic repeats (CRISPR) / CRISPR-associated nuclease 9 (Cas9)-mediated gene editing technology has revolutionized the study of fundamental biological questions in various insects. Diverse…
View details →Mei JJ, Zhu JS · 2025 · Medicine
The aim of this study was to assess whether diabetes mellitus is a potential causal factor in the development of meniscal injuries by means of Mendelian randomization (MR). Independent genetic variants strongly associated with diabetes…
View details →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').…
View details →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 [...].
View details →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,…
View details →Civile C · 2026 · Perception
This study investigated the role of perceptual learning in the composite face effect (CFE), which is characterized by reduced accuracy in recognizing the top half of a face when it is combined with the bottom half of another face,…
View details →Kerns EV, Engel S, Codner PA et al. · 2026 · PeerJ
Schistocephalus solidus , a parasitic cestode with a multi-host life cycle, reproduces in its terminal host either by outcrossing with similarly sized individuals or selfing. Previous work found that selfing greatly depresses egg hatching…
View details →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…
View details →Løhre E, Chandrashekar SP, Mayiwar L et al. · 2024 · Preprint
If you are trying to persuade someone, expressing your opinion with certainty intuitively seems like a good strategy to maximize your influence. However, Karmarkar and Tormala (2010) found that the effectiveness of this tactic depends on…
View details →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…
View details →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…
View details →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…
View details →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…
View details →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…
View details →Dexter F, Rolfzen ML, Hoffman J et al. · 2025 · Anesthesia and analgesia
Background Earlier studies have not examined the extent to which reducing postoperative opioid use after patient discharge would improve the quality of life of opioid naïve patients, knowledge needed for economic evaluations of drugs and…
View details →Mortimer AJ, Sander CF, Parmar AR et al. · 2026 · Scientific reports
Gene therapies are promising for diseases previously considered incurable. Adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9) demonstrates remarkable tropism for motor neurons (MNs) and represents an exciting candidate to target genetic causes of…
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