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Kardouh MS, Van Wagoner C, Coleman J et al. · 2026 · Cureus
Objectives Whiplash injuries are among the most common cervical spine injuries in the pediatric population. Limited literature demonstrates a potential link between cervical spine trauma and demyelinating disease, such as multiple…
View details →Liu J, Long Y, Yang Z · 2026 · Nutrients
Background Growing evidence suggests that vitamin D plays a role in the pathophysiology of childhood asthma. However, its effectiveness in reducing asthma exacerbations and improving asthma-related outcomes remains controversial. Methods…
View details →Møller P, Roursgaard M · 2024 · Mutation research. Reviews in mutation research
Humans ingest particles and fibers on daily basis. Non-digestible carbohydrates are beneficial to health and food additives are considered safe. However, titanium dioxide (E171) has been banned in the European Union because the European…
View details →Jin Q, Liu Y, Tong Q et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in nutrition
Objective To examine whether a concise, clinic-feasible Patient Inflammatory Diet Score (PIDS) relates to prevalent pancreatic cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a hospital population, and to explore associations with systemic…
View details →Davidenko N, Day J · 2025 · Memory & cognition
Humans' ability to draw faces accurately from memory is extremely rare. One source of difficulty is the drawing process itself, which requires converting a complex, three-dimensional mental representation to a two-dimensional drawing. To…
View details →Gaskins AJ, Newman AJ, Kawwass JF et al. · 2026 · Environmental research
Background While extreme ambient heat has been associated with several adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes little is known regarding the link between extreme ambient temperatures and human fertility. Objective To evaluate the associations…
View details →van Bree S, Mackenzie AS, Wimber M · 2024 · Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)
The application of multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to electroencephalography (EEG) data allows neuroscientists to track neural representations at temporally fine-grained scales. This approach has been leveraged to study the locus and…
View details →Sato K, Inoue K, Yamaguchi T et al. · 2025 · JAMA network open
Importance Excess salt intake is a major modifiable risk factor for hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Personalized interventions using genetic information and digital tools, such as smartphone applications, may enhance sodium…
View details →Liu P, Zeng Q · 2025 · Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
Background The causal relationship between HIV infection and insulin resistance, as well as diabetes mellitus, remains uncertain. This study explores these associations using genome-wide association study data and Mendelian randomization…
View details →Shaaban M, Ryan JT, Adediran E et al. · 2026 · F&S reports
Objective To study whether incident endometriosis diagnosis, staging, and typology are associated with concurrent elevated serum inflammatory markers interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF- α ).…
View details →Levy H, Naples A, Collett S et al. · 2023 · Preprint
Individuals with hoarding disorder (HD) have difficulty parting with personal possessions, which leads to the accumulation of excessive clutter. According to a proposed biphasic neurobiological model, HD is characterized by blunted central…
View details →Zebarjadi N, Kluge A, Adler E et al. · 2024 · eNeuro
The study of ideological asymmetries in empathy has consistently yielded inconclusive findings. Yet, until recently these inconsistencies relied exclusively on self-reports, which are known to be prone to biases and inaccuracies when…
View details →Anettová L, Šipková A, Cibulka P et al. · 2025 · Parasitology research
This study summarizes the findings of a comprehensive field investigation into the presence of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a zoonotic nematode responsible for meningitis, in selected regions of the eastern Mediterranean. Samples were…
View details →Vengurlekar IN, Thudi KR · 2025 · Psychological reports
Video gaming has become a popular method of entertainment for college students. Previous work indicates mixed results regarding the link between video gaming and mental health outcomes. However, little research has addressed how different…
View details →Chatlaong MA, Stanford DM, Miller WM et al. · 2024 · Clinical hemorheology and microcirculation
Background Post-occlusive reactive hyperemia (PORH) typically requires caffeine abstinence. For habitual users, it is unknown if abstinence affects PORH. Objective Compare PORH after habitual users consume or abstain from caffeine. Methods…
View details →Kaplan-Kahn EA, Russell M, Kellen D et al. · 2023 · Preprint
In spoken language, the prosodic contours of a speaker’s voice, including the volume, duration, and intonation of each syllable, influence the moment-to-moment processing of the utterance’s meaning. A robust body of literature supports the…
View details →Gupta A, Dashti HS · 2025 · Current sleep medicine reports
Purpose of review Daytime napping, a brief sleep episode during the day, has mixed health effects. This review explores the relationship between daytime napping frequency and health outcomes by synthesizing results from published Mendelian…
View details →Ashy C, Few WE, Rivas GA et al. · 2026 · HCA healthcare journal of medicine
Introduction Concerns are rising regarding the quality, validity, and reliability of clinical research findings in medical literature. This investigation sought to identify the most cited orthopedic clinical studies and assess the…
View details →López-Padilla MF, Seoane-Miraz D, Guiñón-Fort D et al. · 2026 · Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)
Polyphenols represent the largest and most diverse class of dietary antioxidants. Epidemiological evidence linking specific (poly)phenol classes, such as flavonoids and lignans, to breast cancer (BC) risk remains limited and largely…
View details →Lazarevic LB, Wagge JR, Balci BB et al. · 2023 · Preprint
The present study presents results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al.’s (2010) findings from Experiment 1 conducted by 24 student groups from six countries (N = 3,774) investigating if pro-environmental…
View details →Ensinck ENF, Lakens D · 2023 · Preprint
We quantified how many studies registered on the Open Science Framework (OSF) up to November 2017 are performed but not shared after at least 4 years. Examining a sample of 169 registered research studies we found that 104 (61.5%) were…
View details →Zhang X, Machlin L, McLaughlin K et al. · 2025 · Developmental psychology
This study tests Frankenhuis and Panchanathan's (2011) evolutionary commitment hypothesis by examining individual differences in susceptibility to the effects of parenting during early and late childhood. Drawing from the Future of…
View details →O'Connell SR, Wilson GE, Berkowitz DH et al. · 2026 · Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)
Groove is the pleasurable urge to move to the beat of music, a universally experienced human phenomenon. Because listeners are often inspired to move to music with groove, we asked whether high-groove music would promote greater motor…
View details →Colbeth HL, Riddell CA, Thomas M et al. · 2024 · Journal of epidemiology and community health
Background Structural racism's influence on workforce policies and practices presents possible upstream targets for assessing and reducing racial health disparities. This study is the first to examine workforce racial diversity in…
View details →Miller AL, Zhao Y · 2023 · Physical review letters
Over 10 years ago, Fermi observed an excess of GeV gamma rays from the Galactic Center whose origin is still under debate. One explanation for this excess involves annihilating dark matter, another requires an unresolved population of…
View details →King M, Bruinsma S, Ivry RB · 2024 · Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.)
Cerebellar involvement in language processing has received considerable attention in the neuroimaging and neuropsychology literatures. Building off the motor control literature, one account of this involvement centers on the idea of…
View details →Obara-Gołębiowska M · 2026 · Eating and weight disorders : EWD
Purpose To identify person-centered psychological profiles of eating-related risk based on early maladaptive schemas (EMS), emotion regulation difficulties, and eating behaviors, and to examine their external validation using…
View details →Bjørkheim SB, Hystad SW, Sætrevik B · 2026 · PeerJ
The way people perceive health risks is often assumed to influence how they adopt precautionary measures. However, people's assessment of a given phenomenon's risk may vary over time, and the relationship between perceived risk and…
View details →Kracht CL, Falkenhain K, Flanagan EW et al. · 2026 · JMIR mental health
Background Household chaos is an emerging risk factor for childhood obesity development, especially in families with lower socioeconomic status (SES). It is unclear if changes in household chaos, especially in pregnancy, may mediate the…
View details →Neelam P, Sowndarya K, Anupama H et al. · 2025 · Advanced biomedical research
Background Homocysteine (Hcy) and dyslipidemia are established risk parameters of atherosclerosis. Considerable research has been conducted using ratios of lymphocytes to other cellular components of the peripheral white blood cell count…
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