Oct 22, 2020

Medical students are vulnerable to experience stress, as they are routinely confronted with stressors. Acute stress can reduce students' performance on examinations, and chronic stress can contribute ...

Oct 22, 2020

Functional connectivity (FC) is believed to be abnormal in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Most studies have focused on frontostriatal systems, and the role of the thalamic network in...

Oct 22, 2020

There is a growing body of research on the impact of stimulant medication on sleep in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Negative sleep side effects are a common reason for...

Oct 22, 2020

 This study aimed to determine if hypothyroidism prior to, or during, pregnancy increases the risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the child and how the association may be modi...

Oct 22, 2020

Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are predictors of the genetic susceptibility to diseases, calculated for individuals as weighted counts of thousands of risk variants in which the risk variants and their w...

Oct 22, 2020

Codeine is one of the most commonly used opioid analgesics. Significant codeine-related morbidity and mortality prompted regulatory responses, with the up-scheduling of codeine combination analgesics ...

Oct 22, 2020

Surgeons have hesitated to use steroids in patients undergoing posterior spinal fusion because of the risk of wound complications. The literature has supported the use of postoperative steroids in oth...

Oct 22, 2020

Conditioned pain modulation (CPM) protocols index magnitude of descending pain inhibition. This study evaluated whether degree of CPM, controlling for CPM expectancy confounds, was associated with ana...

Oct 15, 2020

Bisphenol A (BPA), a compound used in the manufacturing of plastics and epoxy resins, is an endocrine disruptor with significant adverse impact on the human's health. Here, we review the animal models...

Oct 15, 2020

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease and represents the most common disease of this type, after Alzheimer's dementia. It is characterized by motor and nonmotor ...

Oct 15, 2020

 While the efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat various neurological disorders is undisputed, the surgical methods differ widely and the importance of intraoperative microelectrode reco...

Oct 15, 2020

The emotional perception test is considered an effective tool in differentiating between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. We hypothesized that schizophrenic patients would show decreased emotional ...

Oct 15, 2020

Evaluate morbidity during long-term follow-up with clinical treatment of affective and schizoaffective disorder subjects followed from hospitalization for first major psychotic episodes.We followed ad...

Oct 15, 2020

Bipolar disorder is one of the most frequent psychiatric disorders among suicidal patients. A large part of patients with bipolar disorder (30-50%) will attempt suicide. Suicidal ideation being a majo...

Oct 15, 2020

The primary goal of subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease (PD) is to improve motor function. Dispositional optimism has been associated with better physical ou...

Oct 15, 2020

Opioid use disorders are chronic and relapse is common. Both negative affect and craving have been suggested antecedents of relapse and have been shown to demonstrate within- and between-person variab...

Oct 15, 2020

An epidemic of opioid overdose has spread across North America, with illicit drug-related overdose emerging as a leading cause of death in recent years. Estimates of opioid use disorder (OUD) prevalen...

Oct 15, 2020

This mixed-methods study compared drug use histories between individuals who had a reported non-fatal overdose to individuals who did not and described the overdose risk-management strategies as they ...

Oct 15, 2020

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of 8-week inspiratory muscle training on activity in the ankle muscles of athletes with chronic low-back pain. A randomized controlled trial involving ...

Oct 15, 2020

Television (TV) viewing remain a popular forms of screen time for adolescents. Greater TV viewing is associated with a number of negative consequences for adolescent health. In a changing media landsc...