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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…
View details →Serimaa O, Keltikangas-Järvinen L, Lyytikäinen LP et al. · 2025 · Psychological medicine
Background Previous evidence has reported associations of a polygenic risk score for schizophrenia (PRS SCZ ) with negative developmental outcomes, such as psychiatric symptoms, adverse health behaviors, and reduced everyday functioning.…
View details →Trotter D, Pariz A, Hutt A et al. · 2023 · Preprint
Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques are widely used for manipulating the behaviour of neuronal circuits and the excitability of the neurons therein. While the usage of these techniques is widely studied at the meso- and macroscopic…
View details →Cheema S, Augustin C, Göttlich M et al. · 2024 · eNeuro
The growing field of social neuroscience is reliant on the development of robust, ecologically valid paradigms for simulating social interaction and measuring social cognition in highly controlled laboratory settings. Perspective taking is…
View details →Fertig A, Hartman A, Iyer L et al. · 2026 · The journal of politics
Can financial incentives lead households to register land in women's names, thereby providing them with formal property rights? Can formal property ownership improve women's economic outcomes and change decision-making dynamics within the…
View details →Paulich KN, Place C, Giordano G et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in psychology
Introduction Cannabis, which contains cannabinoids delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), has become the third-most-commonly used psychoactive substance in the United States. The legal market has grown alongside the…
View details →Rock A, Neth MR, Newgard CD et al. · 2026 · Resuscitation plus
Study objective Our objective was to determine the association between anterior-posterior (AP) and anterior-lateral (AL) pad placement and outcomes for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with an initial non-shockable…
View details →Picerni E, Piras F, Laricchiuta D et al. · 2026 · Brain sciences
Background: Hypnotizability is a psychophysiological trait measured by standardized scales whose scores indicate the proneness to modify perception, memory, and behavior according to specific suggestions, and to experience the hypnotic…
View details →Haskaraca FN, Proft M, Liszkowski U et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in psychology
It has been long assumed that meta-representational theory of mind (ToM) -our ability to ascribe mental states to ourselves and other people- emerges around age four as indicated in performance on explicit verbal false belief tasks. In…
View details →Wang J, Moriguchi Y · 2023 · Heliyon
Media exposure, such as viewing fantastical content, can have negative, immediate, and long-term effects on children's executive function. A recent study showed that watching fantastical content on a tablet can impair children's inhibitory…
View details →Sidhu DM, Pexman PM · 2022 · Preprint
Sound symbolism is the phenomenon by which certain kinds of phonemes are associated with perceptual and/or semantic properties. In this paper we explored size sound symbolism (i.e., the mil/mal effect) in which high-front vowels (e.g.,…
View details →Quddus DY, Aydin S, Waheed AA et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in nutrition
Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects 69 million individuals annually and represents a major global health burden. Ketogenic interventions have emerged as a potential therapy to address deficits following TBI. This scoping review…
View details →Liu F, Wang Q, Han S et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine
Introduction Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is associated with substantial functional limitation and recurrent hospitalization, while effective pharmacological options remain limited. Exercise-based cardiac…
View details →Mizuho T, Narumi T, Kuzuoka H · 2023 · IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Advances in virtual reality technology have enabled the creation of virtual environments (VEs) with significantly high visual fidelity when compared to real environments (REs). In this study, we use a high-fidelity VE to examine two…
View details →Torkan A, Zoghi M, Foroughimehr N et al. · 2025 · Brain sciences
Background Research on the impact of 5G mobile phone electromagnetic exposure on corticospinal excitability and intracortical mechanisms is still poorly understood. Objective This randomized controlled pilot study explored the effects of…
View details →Galang CM, Obhi SS · 2023 · Experimental brain research
Previous research has shown that empathic pain observation can lead to motor facilitation in the form of faster reaction times. However, it is unclear whether participants are focusing on the others' pain or simply focusing on their own…
View details →Rosenheck R, Kurtz SG, Anand ST et al. · 2023 · Psychiatry research
Multi-site randomized effectiveness trials evaluate treatments under real-world conditions. Whether results change practice is under-studied. A 6-month 26-site Veterans Health Administration (VHA) cooperative study published in 2011…
View details →Das S, Freedland SJ · 2023 · Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Statins are widely prescribed medications that inhibit 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG CoA) reductase and therefore reduce cholesterol synthesis. Given the key role of cholesterol in cancer, statins may therefore have…
View details →Costa CL, Araujo-Menendez CEE, Lawrence A et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in aging neuroscience
Background High blood pressure (BP) is a known risk factor for dementia, but the relationships between BP and gross brain volumes are mixed and are understudied in groups who are at particularly high risk for dementia, such as…
View details →Chang MJ, Liu MT, Chen MR et al. · 2023 · Journal of medical virology
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) characterized by immune dysfunction is possibly more vulnerable to herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. The infection has been intensively considered a common onset and exacerbation of SLE. This study is…
View details →Rafiee Y, Jones BC, Shiramizu V · 2022 · Preprint
Objective: The Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis proposes that women will show increased pathogen disgust at points in the menstrual cycle when progesterone is high, compensating for the immunosuppressive effects of progesterone.…
View details →Cotter KN, Crone D, Rodriguez-Boerwinkle R et al. · 2022 · Preprint
Visiting art museums has been associated with a range of flourishing outcomes. But there have been recent shifts towards increasing digital engagement with art, leading to a radical change in how people experience visual art. Given the now…
View details →Enouy S, Desrochers J, Bossom I et al. · 2022 · Preprint
Objective: A recent meta-review of attentional bias research in eating disorders suggests that meta-analyses and systematic reviews include many low-quality and underpowered studies (Stott et al., 2021). As such, we examined whether…
View details →Martineau AR · 2023 · The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
This review summarises evidence relating to a potential role for vitamin D supplementation in the prevention or treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Laboratory studies show that the active vitamin D metabolite…
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