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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 →DOI: 10.3390/audiolres15050125 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
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 →DOI: 10.1186/s13104-024-07007-z Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Wang A, Bao X, Wang C et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in neuroscience
Objective To investigate the changes in the global attributes of structural connectivity (SC) and functional connectivity (FC) graph theory, as well as the coupling topological structure of the whole brain SC-FC in patients with…
View details →DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1661096 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Soh CH, Nerlekar N, Whitmore K et al. · 2026 · American journal of preventive cardiology
Background Multiple cardiovascular (CV) risk assessment scores can predict CV events. The current trend towards assessing atheroma has led to these scores being used to identify patients who might benefit from coronary plaque imaging.…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpc.2026.101423 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Zeng YF, Wei XY, Wang QG et al. · 2025 · BMJ open
Objective The causal relationship between sleep characteristics and aortic aneurysm and dissection (AAD) is little known. Methods In this two-sample Mendelian randomisation (MR) study, we selected seven sleep-related traits (sleep…
View details →DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095098 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Nguyen HM, Le DHH, Ho TTH et al. · 2026 · The application of clinical genetics
Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) poses a significant health burden in Vietnam. The TNF-α rs1800629 (-308G/A) polymorphism is an influential factor in disease pathogenesis. However, its association is inconsistent…
View details →DOI: 10.2147/tacg.s586977 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Hrnčíř V, Sheehan O, Claessens S et al. · 2026 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Humans have been using psychoactive substances for millennia, despite their potential negative health and social consequences. According to some scholars, our craving for mind-altering drugs is an evolutionary mistake-a hijacking of our…
View details →DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2521658123 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Ling W, Li H, Liu L et al. · 2025 · Open heart
Objective To evaluate the association between β-blocker use and all-cause mortality in a real-world cohort of patients with myocardial infarction (MI). Methods This study included 2308 patients with MI from the National Health and…
View details →DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2025-003757 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Yoshikawa N, Masaki H · 2021 · Frontiers in psychology
Previous studies have shown that viewing cute pictures leads to performance improvement in a subsequent fine motor task. We examined the beneficial effects of viewing cute pictures in a more complex sporting skill (i.e., basketball free…
View details →DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.610817 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Orr SL, Hershey AD, Kurowski BG et al. · 2026 · Neurology. Genetics
Background and objectives To examine the association between genetic risk of migraine and post-traumatic headache (PTH) in children. Methods This is a secondary analysis of a cohort study that recruited children aged 8-17 years within 48…
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Lohmann A · 2020 · Phonetica
The present article describes an extended replication of a reading study by Sereno and Jongman (1995) that reported acoustic differences between noun and verb pronunciations of English disyllabic, non-stress-shifting homophone pairs, for…
View details →DOI: 10.1159/000506138 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Cheng T, Zhang HY, Wang TR et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
This study uses Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the potential causal relationships between viral infections, including Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), SARS-CoV-2, cytomegalovirus (CMV), human…
View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-08361-z Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
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 →DOI: 10.1111/mcn.70033 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
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 →DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2025-084729 Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine
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 →DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2023.102636 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
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 →DOI: 10.1162/imag.a.1136 Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine
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 →DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaf191 Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine
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 →DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.202501-045oc Negative / Null Result Report
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 →DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/pr2n7 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
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 →DOI: 10.7759/cureus.91254 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
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…
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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 →DOI: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104708 Replication FailureOpen accessMedicine
Grischott T, Rachamin Y, Senn O et al. · 2023 · Journal of general internal medicine
Background Medication safety in patients with polypharmacy at transitions of care is a focus of the current Third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge. Medication review and communication between health care professionals are key targets to…
View details →DOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-07728-6 Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine
Wehrman J · 2020 · Attention, perception & psychophysics
The oddball duration illusion describes how a rare or nonrepeated stimulus is perceived as lasting longer than a common or repeated stimulus. It has been argued that the oddball duration illusion could emerge because of an earlier…
View details →DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01866-6 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access
Garfield V, Fatih N, Rentsch CT et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Previous research suggests that HbA 1c and diabetes are unlikely to be causally related to brain health and dementia outcomes. With the availability of better genetic instruments for additional glycaemic-related markers (i.e., insulin…
View details →DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.10.25321985 Replication FailureOpen accessMedicine
Guo G, Yan W, Zhou R et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in nutrition
Background Early-life nutritional factors play a crucial role in child health, but their association with palatine tonsil grading is not well understood. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between early-life nutrition and…
View details →DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2026.1789543 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Wołoszyn K, Hohol M, Winkielman P · 2026 · Scientific reports
The embodied simulation approach predicts that restricting facial movements disrupts emotion recognition. Such effects have been reported for facial and whole-body emotional expressions, but findings remain inconsistent, and it is unclear…
View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-43390-2 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Brown CRH · 2026 · Psychological research
When stimuli are retained in visual working memory (VWM) external stimuli which overlap with this representation capture attention when performing a visual task. It has not been determined, however, whether this mechanism can partly…
View details →DOI: 10.1007/s00426-025-02227-9 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Palgi S, Bester-Arest T, Faivre N et al. · 2025 · Neuroscience of consciousness
The scope of unconscious integration is widely debated. Here, we examined this question, focusing specifically on deciphering the relations between two associatively related objects, in a set of five behavioral and electrophysiological…
View details →DOI: 10.1093/nc/niaf010 Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine
Song Z, Ding M, Zang Q et al. · 2025 · BMC cancer
Background Reproductive factors significantly impact the incidence of breast cancer (BC), a concerning trend. This study aims to reassess this association and provide recommendations for fertility policies to delay the onset of BC. Methods…
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