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Tammurello C, Coelho LA, Amadeo M et al. · 2026 · Scientific reports
In the Somatic Rubber Hand Illusion (SRHI), synchronous brushing of a participant’s hidden hand and a dummy hand induces proprioceptive drift, a shift in perceived position of the hand towards the dummy hand, along with the sensation of…
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Sasidharan S, Philips CA, Philips CA et al. · 2026 · Hepatology communications
Background Fatigue affects 60%-80% of patients with cirrhosis, yet no universally effective pharmacologic therapy exists. Taurine, an amino sulfonic acid with antioxidant and membrane-stabilizing properties, may address metabolic…
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MacAllister S, Miller M, Swanson S · 2025 · Injury epidemiology
Background Recent publications on Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws suggest substantial protective effects on adolescent firearm suicide. However, these studies have also found comparable protective effect estimates on adolescent…
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Ren F, Liu W · 2026 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
Emotions play an important role in shaping aggressive behavior, and understanding their underlying psychological mechanisms is particularly relevant among college students. However, existing research has predominantly focused on reactive…
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Kuehl LK, de Punder K, Deuter CE et al. · 2022 · Psychoneuroendocrinology
Major depressive disorder (MDD) and adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are associated with poor physical and mental health in adulthood. One underlying mechanism might be accelerated cellular aging. For example, both conditions, MDD and…
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Liu Y, Lin H, Yu D et al. · 2026 · Ecology and evolution
Serotiny, a key fire-adaptive trait, enables certain plants to retain seeds in closed cones until triggered by fire, thus facilitating post-fire regeneration. Although serotiny has been observed in many species, the physiological and…
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McManus F, Pranata A, Simpson JA et al. · 2025 · International journal of sports physical therapy
Background/purpose Chronic low back pain affects how individuals bend. Whether pain self-efficacy, a term describing one's confidence in their ability to perform activities despite experiencing pain, affects how much people with chronic…
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Headrick KC, Pellegrini BA, Santiago EM et al. · 2026 · AoB PLANTS
Herbivory is particularly threatening to young plants that lack the resources needed to survive an attack. Seeds and seedlings should thus benefit greatly from using pre-attack cues to induce defence before damage. Locomotion mucus from…
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Schiff KJ, Schiff DS, Moy BJ et al. · 2025 · PNAS nexus
Does the implementation of external oversight in policing improve public perceptions of police legitimacy? Civilian review boards (CRBs) are frequently promoted as mechanisms to enhance the legitimacy of police agencies by providing…
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Li J, Jin T, Chi Y et al. · 2025 · Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Purpose Reducing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)'s cognitive burden without compromising efficacy is critical. Although magnetic seizure therapy (MST) shows comparable symptom remission in schizophrenia, its neuroanatomical…
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Lee P, Li J, Rafiee Y et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Facial attractiveness influences important social outcomes and most studies investigating possible predictors of facial attractiveness have tested for effects of shape symmetry, averageness (i.e., the converse of distinctiveness), and…
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Zhang J, Lyu Z, Huang J et al. · 2021 · Physical review letters
Light axion fields, if they exist, can be sourced by neutron stars due to their coupling to nuclear matter, and play a role in binary neutron star mergers. We report on a search for such axions by analyzing the gravitational waves from the…
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Torres-Banduc MA, Thapa RK, Pérez MA et al. · 2025 · Shoulder & elbow
Background The isokinetic shoulder profile is commonly used to assess injury risk in overhead sports. CrossFit athletes are vulnerable to shoulder injuries due to high-load, high-repetition demands. This exploratory study aimed to evaluate…
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Li J, Lee P, Rafiee Y et al. · 2025 · Adaptive human behavior and physiology
Purpose People can judge others' ages from face images somewhat accurately and tend to rateyounger adults' faces as more attractive than older adults' faces. However, individual diff erences inthe strength of this preference for younger…
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Potter CE, Lew-Williams C · 2025 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)
It is a widely held belief that bilingual infants benefit from hearing each of their languages spoken by different people, as speakers could serve as a cue for separating the two languages. However, it is not yet known whether infants…
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Vilotijević A, Mathôt S · 2024 · Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
In brightness, the pupil constricts, while in darkness, the pupil dilates; this is known as the pupillary light response (PLR). The PLR is driven by all photoreceptors: rods and cones, which contribute to image-forming vision, and…
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Tang H, Shen L · 2025 · Frontiers in psychology
Objective As university libraries transform into "Learning Commons," peer collaborative learning has become increasingly common. However, the complexity of its effectiveness and its underlying mechanisms remain underexplored. This study…
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Berks JW, Williams MN · 2026 · Europe's journal of psychology
According to creative writing experts, adding conflict to dialogue improves story quality and audience reaction to that story. This idea draws from the widely held theory that conflict is vital for dramatic stories. Yet despite conflict's…
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Hu G, Woodman GF · 2024 · Visual cognition
Previous research suggests that applying anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) to the medial-frontal cortex can improve how quickly subjects learn to make simple discriminations (i.e., red from blue). Here, we tested the…
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Yi K, Zhan Y, Wei A et al. · 2026 · Drug design, development and therapy
Background The optimal analgesia regimen for patients undergoing laparoscopic gastrectomy is still unclear. This study evaluated the efficacy of ultrasound-guided rectus sheath block (RSB) with liposomal bupivacaine in providing sustained…
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Radovich E, Karki S, Das S et al. · 2024 · Preprint
Background Understanding implementation fidelity, or adherence to the intervention-as-intended, is essential to interpreting the results of evaluations. In this paper, we propose a longitudinal, explanatory approach to implementation…
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Nilsen K, Kivi R, Laine M et al. · 2024 · Scientific reports
Although evidence of recovery in Antarctic stratospheric ozone has been found, evidence of recovery in Arctic ozone is still elusive, even though 25 years have passed since the peak in ozone depleting substances. Here we have used a…
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Lee SY, Shin SJ, Lee J et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Patients with open-angle glaucoma (OAG), a chronic visual impairment, are at elevated risk of developing depression. Physical activity (PA) has been associated with benefits for mental health, but evidence is limited regarding its impact…
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Perez-Arce F, Knapp D, Lobo R et al. · 2026 · Social science & medicine (1982)
Background A growing literature suggests that education positively influences cognitive function in later life. However, the magnitude and consistency of this effect across study designs and populations remain open questions. Methods This…
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Rodenhurst N, Messenger K · 2026 · Developmental science
Previous research into children's comprehension of syntactic structures has investigated early awareness of transitive and intransitive structures amongst monolingual children but research into bilingual children's understanding of the…
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Robins PL, Gilbert JR, Luber B et al. · 2026 · Human brain mapping
A core function of episodic memory is to distinguish between overlapping experiences by converting similar inputs into distinct, non-overlapping representations, a process termed pattern separation. While anatomical models emphasize the…
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Dong Y · 2026 · Brain and language
Drawing on interpreting research and intervention studies, this article proposes that the interplay between attentional control (AC) and language task schemas (TSs) effectively explains how language experience may enhance AC, and…
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Hussey I · 2026 · Preprint
The evidential link between Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a matter of on-going debate. Foody et al. (2013) is frequently cited as evidence for ACT’s concept of Self-as-Context and as evidence…
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Okilov S, Ulugbek K · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract We identify a fundamental limitation in current state-based stability metrics for dynamical systems: they measure absolute state preservation rather than structural invariance, leading to systematic failure in describing moving…
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Sönmez E · 2026 · Preprint
Intuitive judgments feature high subjective confidence despite inability to articulate evidential basis—a dissociation between confidence and accessible justification that challenges existing accounts of rapid decision-making (19,33,39).…
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