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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 →Hassan M, Al Balah O, Hegazy A et al. · 2026 · Journal of the Saudi Heart Association
Background Transcranial photobiomodulation (TPBM) using near-infrared (NIR) light is a novel, non-invasive neuromodulation strategy with potential to enhance neurorecovery. While preclinical studies are promising, clinical evidence in…
View details →MacMillan MB, Neath I, Roodenrys S · 2024 · Memory & cognition
A word's orthographic neighborhood is the set of words that differ from the target word by one letter. Both Roodenrys (2009) and Robert et al. (Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 44, 119-125, 2015) posit that orthographic neighbors are…
View details →Woodbury J, Offerdahl E · 2024 · CBE life sciences education
Team-based learning (TBL) is a highly intense active learning pedagogy that uses a cycle of preclass preparation, formative assessment for readiness, mini-lectures, and complex team exercises. Consistent with the literature on active…
View details →Bickerstaff L, Trinkl J, Munkwitz S et al. · 2025 · F1000Research
Background The photic sneeze reflex (PSR) is a common but underexplored phenomenon where bright light triggers sneezing, affecting ~30% of the population. This study aimed to characterise the light conditions inducing PSR. Methods One male…
View details →Bahadoran S, Vaeznia S, Hassanpour H · 2026 · Veterinary and animal science
This study evaluated the effects of dietary Echinacea purpurea supplementation on immune regulation, oxidative stress, and cellular aging in broiler chickens reared at high altitude (2100 m). One hundred and eight day-old male Ross 308…
View details →Klaiman T, Ianotte L, Josephs M et al. · 2023 · Preprint
Abstract Background : Heart failure (HF) is one of the most common reasons for hospital admission and is a major cause of morbidity, mortality, and increasing health care costs. The EMPOWER study was a randomized trial that used remote…
View details →Leger K, Dong J, DeBruine LM et al. · 2023 · Scientific reports
Perceptions of the trustworthiness of faces predict important social outcomes, including economic exchange and criminal sentencing decisions. However, the specific facial characteristics that drive trustworthiness perceptions remain poorly…
View details →Yoon S, Rottenberg J · 2025 · BMC psychology
Background Does what a person desires to feel (affect valuation) predict their future affective reaction to salient life events? We tested this idea in the context of an exam, a key achievement-oriented event for college students. Methods…
View details →Singstock M, Abdul Khader AHS, Wayant C et al. · 2026 · The oncologist
Background Oncology clinical trials, regardless of success in meeting their primary endpoint, often suffer from spin-the misrepresentation of research findings. Despite dramatic improvements in myeloma outcomes, numerous recent myeloma…
View details →Cusimano C, Kim J, Wong J · 2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
It is common to say that people feel entitled to rewards-they think they have earned or deserve them-based on their effort and achievement. However, effort and achievement draw on different principles to justify reward. They can also…
View details →Nakata Y, Watanabe Y, Ozaki A · 2026 · Cureus
Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the workstyle reform, aimed at improving physician health and safety, achieved a secondary goal of enhancing surgical productivity by applying the Malmquist Index (MI) model. We…
View details →Xu H, He Y · 2026 · BMC psychology
BACKGROUND: Interparental relationship quality and attachment are theorized to be associated with young adults’ marital attitudes, yet evidence in Chinese cultural contexts is mixed. We tested whether interparental conflict versus divorce…
View details →Coker JA, Sun R, Polzer PM et al. · 2026 · ACS chemical biology
Point mutations in the exonuclease (ExoN) site of nonstructural protein 14 (NSP14) compromise the fitness of betacoronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2, implicating NSP14 ExoN inhibition as an antiviral strategy. However, there are no advanced…
View details →Ye S, Wu M, Yao C et al. · 2024 · eNeuro
Visual working memory (VWM) requires precise feature binding. Previous studies have revealed a close relationship between the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and feature binding during VWM; this study further examined their causal…
View details →Yao Q, Yao Y, Liao Z et al. · 2026 · Clinical and applied thrombosis/hemostasis : official journal of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis
BackgroundSepsis and its complications pose a major global health burden. Mendelian randomization (MR) provides a genetic approach to assess causality.MethodsWe conducted a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study using data from…
View details →Allard A, Clavien C · 2023 · PloS one
The recent replicability crisis in social and biomedical sciences has highlighted the need for improvement in the honest transmission of scientific content. We present the results of two studies investigating whether nudges and soft social…
View details →Weilnhammer V · 2024 · Neuroscience of consciousness
The neurobiology of conscious experience is one of the fundamental mysteries in science. New evidence suggests that transcranial magnetic stimulation of the parietal cortex does not modulate bistable perception. What does this mean for the…
View details →Ramaswamy A, Yamamori Y, Vivekananda U et al. · 2026 · Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.)
Anhedonia, a transdiagnostic symptom marked by diminished reward sensitivity, is often linked to impairments in reinforcement learning (RL). Standard tasks (e.g., the 4-arm bandit) can place substantial demands on participants and may blur…
View details →Burkard T, Holmberg D, Thorell A et al. · 2022 · Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery
Background Obesity is considered a risk factor for cataracts. The association between weight loss and a cataract among patients with obesity has not been assessed to date. Objectives To assess the association between weight loss following…
View details →Cassar A, Hobbs A, Anttila-Hughes J et al. · 2026 · PNAS nexus
A consistent finding regarding human societies is that higher temperatures lead to antisocial behavior, including more crime, violence, aggression, and civil conflict. A large body of research documents this relationship at the societal…
View details →Li ZL, Zou YW, Jia PW et al. · 2026 · Food science & nutrition
Growing research implicates the diet-microbiota-joint axis plays a key role in joint health. The Dietary Index for Gut Microbiota (DI-GM) is a novel metric evaluating dietary effects on microbial communities, yet its potential link to…
View details →Wu J, Hang R, Xin P et al. · 2026 · Brain sciences
Background: Proficient second language (L2) reading relies on complex neurocognitive processes. Neuroimaging studies have identified key brain regions recruited during L2 reading, including the left inferior parietal lobule (LIPL) and the…
View details →Rajaraman R, Kassaye I, Sharma SS et al. · 2026 · Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
The aim of this study was to determine the antiamoebic efficacy of povidone-iodine when used as an adjunct to topical biguanide therapy for Acanthamoeba keratitis. Patients with smear- or culture-positive Acanthamoeba keratitis received…
View details →Makin AD, Rahman A, Bertamini M · 2020 · Preprint
Previous work has shown that symmetrical or regular stimuli are judged as lasting longer than asymmetrical or irregular ones, even when actual duration is matched. This effect has been replicated with different methods and stimuli types,…
View details →Pinto R, Ferreira R, Alves P et al. · 2025 · Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
Background : Healthcare-associated infection drives morbidity and unplanned hospital use in haemodialysis. We aimed to determine whether an adapted British Renal Society Infection Risk Screening Tool, applied during a nurse-led vascular…
View details →Andrade G, Gamboa L, Campo-Redondo M · 2026 · Frontiers in psychology
Background Beliefs about free will are central to philosophical and scientific conceptions of agency, and experimental work suggests that weakening such beliefs can reduce honesty, self-control, and helping. Yet little is known about how…
View details →Chen C, Zhang W, Chu C et al. · 2026 · Gland surgery
Background Thyroid malignancies pose a significant global health burden, especially in women. Sex hormones are crucial for thyroid function, but their relationship with thyroid malignancy remains unclear. This study investigates the causal…
View details →Hamilton F, Mitchell RE, Constantinescu A et al. · 2023 · International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
Objectives Severe malaria remains a deadly disease for many young children in low- and middle-income countries. Levels of interleukin (IL)-6 have been shown to identify cases of severe malaria and associate with severity, but it is unknown…
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