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Hornsey MJ, Spence JL, Chapman CM · 2026 · Nature communications
Effective altruists argue that charitable giving is over-influenced by empathic responses and should instead be guided by cost-benefit analyses about the effectiveness of giving. To provide insight into the extent to which empathy and…
View details →Pott J, Mason A, Salo V et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Background Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) is well known for its causal effects on the lipid metabolism. A recent study identified an association between rs562556 within PCSK9 and breast cancer survival (BCS). It was…
View details →Wilcockson TDW, Roy S, Crawford TJ · 2025 · Perception
Functional Cognitive Disorder ("FCD") is a type of Functional Neurological Disorder characterised by subjective cognitive complaints not fully attributable to brain injury, disease, or other neuropathological or psychiatric conditions. FCD…
View details →Bokern M, Tazare J, Rentsch CT et al. · 2025 · Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
Background In pharmacoepidemiologic studies of COVID-19, there were concerns about bias from residual confounding. We investigated the effects of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) on COVID-19 outcomes, applying high-dimensional propensity…
View details →Férat V, Deiber MP, Hasler R et al. · 2025 · Brain topography
Neurofeedback (NFB) therapy based on spectral neuromarkers of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has faced challenges regarding its efficacy and replicability. In this study, we investigate whether a microstate-based EEG…
View details →Wang Z, Wang B, Wang L · 2026 · PeerJ
Introduction While acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and rhabdomyolysis (RML) have been reported to co-occur, their clinical relationship and associated outcomes remain poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate the clinical…
View details →Pedale T, Karampela O, Eriksson J · 2025 · eNeuro
A key process for successful working memory is to prioritize task-relevant information over distraction, i.e., to control attentional deployment. Here we investigate to what extent attentional control during a delayed match-to-sample task…
View details →Lorente-Piera J, Blanco M, Manrique-Huarte R et al. · 2025 · Audiology research
Background/Objectives : Skull vibration-induced nystagmus (SVIN) is a rapid bedside test that reveals vestibular asymmetry. Its clinical utility in Ménière's disease (MD) remains controversial, particularly regarding its association with…
View details →Gómez-Restrepo C, Roldan MC, Ariza-Salazar K et al. · 2024 · BMC research notes
Objective Adolescents frequently experience mental distress. However, there is little research on community activities that help adolescents recover from depression and anxiety. This study investigated the outcomes and experiences of music…
View details →Diarra NH, Dicko Y, Roschnik N et al. · 2025 · Maternal & child nutrition
A cluster-randomised controlled trial was conducted in 60 communities in southern Mali to evaluate the impact of micronutrient powders (MNP) combined with seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) on anaemia (primary endpoint), Plasmodium…
View details →Mitchell AP, Dusetzina SB, Mishra Meza A et al. · 2025 · BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Objective To estimate the association between the billing (profit) margin and clinical benefit of cancer treatments and use by oncologists. Design Retrospective population based cohort study SETTING: Population based sample using…
View details →Bierut L, Biroli P, Galama TJ et al. · 2023 · Journal Of Economic Psychology
Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable disease and death in the U.S., and it is strongly influenced both by genetic predisposition and childhood adversity. Using polygenic indices (PGIs) of predisposition to smoking, we…
View details →Sumner P, Powell G, Price A et al. · 2026 · Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)
Many people experience aversive hypersensitivity (discomfort/visual stress) to stimuli such as bright lights, striped patterns, strobing, motion, or complex visual scenes such as supermarkets. Such sensory hypersensitivity is often…
View details →Stevens VL, Priest J, Wilkerson J et al. · 2026 · American journal of epidemiology
Weight cycling, when weight is repeatedly lost intentionally and then regained, may perturb biological processes that could influence cancer development. However, results from epidemiologic studies of weight cycling are mixed and provide…
View details →Gershengorn HB, Anesi GL, Liu VX et al. · 2025 · Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Rationale: The association of interprofessional team member workload with intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes is understudied. Objectives: To evaluate the association of patient-to-intensivist ratio (PIR), patient-to-respiratory therapist…
View details →Gobrial S, Lui PP · 2024 · Preprint
Psychological distress that stems from racial discrimination experiences may depend on how strongly individuals identify with their race. Existing findings across survey research and a small body of experimental research are equivocal on…
View details →Jaraki D, Dorn A, Eckert T et al. · 2025 · Cureus
Background Intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) is a leading cause of ischemic stroke worldwide, with endovascular interventions such as angioplasty and stenting facing scrutiny due to variable safety outcomes in prior studies.…
View details →Zhu R, Huo Z, Li Y et al. · 2026 · Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
Background : Doctors have made increasing use of artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support systems in recent years in eastern China, but far less so in poorer western China, where hospitals with less access to specialized…
View details →Bai Y, Cao P, Kim C et al. · 2025 · The International journal on drug policy
Background In October 2018, Canada legalized recreational cannabis, with Ontario distributing retailer licenses through a lottery system in 2019. This study investigates the impact of recreational cannabis retailer allocation on emergency…
View details →Aikawa T, Mori Y, Kuno T et al. · 2026 · JACC. Advances
Background In April 2020, the facility criteria for using rotational atherectomy (RA) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were updated in Japan. Board-certified PCI operators are now permitted to perform RA during PCI in…
View details →Lupien SJ, Roy DC, Raymond C et al. · 2020 · Development and psychopathology
Stress associated with caring for a mentally ill spouse can adversely affect the health status of caregivers and their children. Adding to the stress of caregiving is the stigma often placed against spouses and children of people with…
View details →Rostgaard K, Kristjánsson R, Davidsson O et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in epidemiology
Background The probability of presenting with infectious mononucleosis (IM) upon primary Epstein-Barr virus infection increases dramatically at the start of puberty. Aiming to understand why that is, we assessed whether the number of…
View details →Jackson E, Riley T, Overton PG · 2026 · PloS one
Background Although several effective therapies exist for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), current pharmaceutical treatment carries a high risk of misuse and high levels of discontinuation, evidencing a need for…
View details →Kim SJ, Shin SH, Byun SW et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
This study assessed whether resting-state quantitative EEG (qEEG) can differentiate tinnitus laterality under rigorous multiple-comparison control and nested, cross-validated machine learning (ML). We analyzed 210 pre-specified qEEG…
View details →Walasek L, Mullett TL, Stewart N · 2021 · Journal of experimental psychology. General
Walasek and Stewart (2015) demonstrated that loss aversion estimated from fitting accept-reject choice data from a set of 50-50 gambles can be made to disappear or even reverse by manipulating the range of gains and losses experienced in…
View details →Benedetti MH, Lu B, Zhu M · 2024 · Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift
A concern surrounding marijuana legalization is that driving after marijuana use may become more prevalent. Survey data are valuable for estimating policy effects, however their observational nature and unequal sampling probabilities…
View details →Jin T, Gebre ST, Miller CJ et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Chemical Society
Molecular polaritons, formed by coupling molecular electronic or vibrational transitions to photonic modes in microcavities, have gained interest for their potential to influence chemical dynamics. Here, we investigate the effects of…
View details →Oosthuizen MK, Pillay N · 2026 · Developmental psychobiology
Weaning is a stressful stage in the lives of young mammals. Early weaning, in particular, can lead to long-lasting physiological and psychological changes. We investigated the effects of precocial weaning on anxiety, social behavior,…
View details →Kristi Agust, Fekie Adila, Imam Rahmatullah et al. · 2023 · Journal Physical Health Recreation
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengembangkan model evaluasi teknik The Most Significant Change Technique paling progresif dalam pembelajaran PJOK di Sekolah Menengah Atas. Metodologi yang digunakan adalah Researeh & Development dengan…
View details →Asaad Hasan Noaman, Oday Al- Salihi · 2019 · Al-Kufa University Journal for Biology
Systemic hypertension is common disease that affect many organs specially the cardiovascular system. Left ventricle hypertrophy is the main cardiac structural remodeling that occur in response to hypertension, furthermore. The role of LVM…
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