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Spousal Resemblance for Alcohol Use Disorder

Aug 24, 2020

Several studies suggest that spouses significantly resemble each other in their risk of alcohol use disorder (AUD); however, the exact cause of this association is not known. This study aims to examin...

Effect of the exercise programme on the quality of life of prostate cancer survivors: A randomized controlled trial.

Aug 24, 2020

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the exercise programme on the quality of life of prostate cancer (PCa) survivors.A randomized controlled, parallel trial was conducted from April...

Anxiolytic effect of an extract of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen) in mice.

Aug 24, 2020

Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge (Danshen), a traditional Chinese medicine, has demonstrated in modern studies for its pharmacological activities in treatments of CNS disorders like insomnia, dysphoria. Howe...

A novel phosphorylation site on orexin receptor 1 regulating orexinA-induced GRK2-biased signaling.

Aug 24, 2020

Drug discovery efforts targeting G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have succeeded in developing multiple medications for treating various human diseases including cancer, metabolic disorders, and in...

The metabolic effects of antipsychotics in the early stage of treatment in first-episode patients with schizophrenia: A real-world study in a naturalistic setting.

Aug 24, 2020

This study aims to better characterize the metabolic effects of antipsychotics in the early stage of treatment in first-episode patients with schizophrenia.We performed a retrospective real-world stud...

Application of electroencephalographic (EEG) biofeedback therapy in the rehabilitation of patients with chronic diseases.

Aug 24, 2020

Schizophrenia is one of the chronic mental disorders characterized by disturbances in thought, emotion, language, perception, and behavior. There is no cure for this disease, and most of the current t...

Effects of interaction of NOS1AP gene polymorphisms and childhood abuse on paranoid personality disorder features among male violent offenders in China.

Aug 24, 2020

Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) results from a complex synergy between genetic and environmental factors. Childhood abuse is one of risk factors. Nitric Oxide Synthase 1 Adaptor Protein (NOS1AP) i...

Engagement under difficult conditions: Caring for patients with acute abdominal pain across the acute-care chain: A qualitative study.

Aug 24, 2020

Studies report that patients with acute abdominal pain do not always receive optimal care and can experience poor pain management, safety failures, and emotional harm. Deeper understanding of how heal...

Low-intensity repetitive paired associative stimulation targeting the motor hand area at theta frequency causes a lasting reduction in corticospinal excitability.

Aug 24, 2020

Sub-motor threshold 5 Hz repetitive paired associative stimulation (5 Hz-rPAS) produces a long-lasting increase in corticospinal excitability. Assuming a spike-timing dependent plasticity-like (STDP...

Functional connectivity of major depression disorder using ongoing EEG during music perception.

Aug 24, 2020

The functional connectivity (FC) of major depression disorder (MDD) has not been well studied under naturalistic and continuous stimuli conditions. In this study, we investigated the frequency-specifi...

Family and couple integrated cognitive-behavioural therapy for adults with OCD: A meta-analysis.

Aug 24, 2020

Integrating family into the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is standard in pediatric populations; however, in adult populations, patients are typically treated independent of their fa...

Social losses predict a faster onset and greater severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Aug 24, 2020

While stressful life events increase the risk of developing a range of psychiatric disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), their ability to precipitate specific obsessive-compulsive ...

Longitudinal proneuroactive and neuroactive steroid profiles in medication-free women with, without and at-risk for perinatal depression: A liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis.

Aug 24, 2020

Neuroactive steroids (NAS) are derivatives of cholesterol or steroidal precursors made in the gonads, adrenal gland, placenta and brain. We characterized longitudinal plasma proneuroactive and NAS in ...

Emerging regulatory roles of opioid peptides, endogenous morphine, and opioid receptor subtypes in immunomodulatory processes: Metabolic, behavioral, and evolutionary perspectives.

Aug 24, 2020

Integrated behavioral paradigms such as nociceptive processing coupled to anti-nociceptive responsiveness include systemically-mediated states of alertness, vigilance, motivation, and avoidance. Withi...

Psychological factors associated with substance use initiation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aug 24, 2020

The 2019 outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has had a devastating impact. Given the on-going nature of the outbreak, the deleterious toll on mental health, including substance use, is unknow...

Increases of iASPP-Keap1 interaction mediated by syringin enhance synaptic plasticity and rescue cognitive impairments via stabilizing Nrf2 in Alzheimer's models.

Aug 24, 2020

Oxidative stress is an important pathogenic manifestation of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that contributes to synaptic dysfunction, which precedes Aβ accumulation and neurofibrillary tangle formation. Ho...

Cortical thinning pattern according to differential nigrosome involvement in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Aug 24, 2020

The pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta, where the dopaminergic neurons form five clusters c...

VEPAD - Predicting the effect of variants associated with Alzheimer's disease using machine learning.

Aug 24, 2020

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex and heterogeneous disease that affects neuronal cells over time and it is prevalent among all neurodegenerative diseases. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniq...

β-cantenin is potentially involved in the regulation of c-Jun signaling following bovine herpesvirus 1 infection.

Aug 24, 2020

C-Jun, activated by various extracellular signals, is important for cell differentiation, proliferation, apoptosis, and inflammatory responses. We have previously reported that bovine herpesvirus 1 (B...

Detection of Ovis aries papillomavirus type 2 DNA sequences in a sarcoid-like mass in the mouth of a pig.

Aug 24, 2020

An oral mass was surgically excised from the gingiva of a pig. As the mass had a similar histological appearance to an equine sarcoid, DNA was extracted and consensus PCR primers used to amplify papil...

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