Authors: Wiśniewska K, Malm M, Brodowicz-Król M, Zaucha-Prażmo A
Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which an individual is unable to speak in specific situations where speech is expected (e.g. to teachers in class) despite being able to speak in other...
Authors: Takahashi R, Nashimoto M, Ozaki A, Murakami M, Kaneda Y, Yamamoto C, Ito N, Saito H, Sawano T, Hori A, Ajitomi A, Gonda K, Wada M, Tachibana K, Ohtake T, Tsubokura M, Ohira H
JMA journal
In 2020, bladder cancer was predicted to account for 213,000 fatalities and 573,000 new cases, making it the tenth most common cancer globally (). Due to its high recurrence rate and the need for life...
Authors: Morakkabi AS, Hassanpour S, Hosseini R
IBRO neuroscience reports
The college period represents a transitional stage from late adolescence to early adulthood, during which individuals gradually achieve physiological maturation, psychological independence, and the fo...
Authors: Funa AA
Dialogues in health
High-quality multiple-choice questions (MCQs) remain a cornerstone of written assessment in medical education. When well-constructed, single-best-answer MCQs can sample the curriculum broadly, be admi...
Authors: Prescott SL, Logan AC, Robinson JM
Sustainable microbiology
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the most common cause of sporadic viral encephalitis in immunocompetent adults, with an incidence of 2–4 cases per 1 million persons annually. While HSV-1 classically cau...
Authors: Ito H, Okaya S, Watanabe T, Zheng YF, Shimojo N, Kawano S, Tabuchi T
JMA journal
Episodic memory is the ability to encode, store, and retrieve associations among multiple elements of past experiences and critically depends on the hippocampus (; ). fMRI studies demonstrate that pat...
Authors: Olanbiwoninu A, Awotundun T, Olayiwola J, Somorin Y
Sustainable microbiology
Patient safety incident reporting systems support learning only when reports contain enough structured, interpretable information to guide investigation and improvement [-]. The World Health Organizat...
Authors: Ramos JL, de Lorenzo V, López P
Sustainable microbiology
The challenges of aging populations and noncommunicable diseases across society have led to increased demands and stress on health care systems. Digital health technologies are seen as an enabler to s...
Authors: Clark KD, White RA, Jackson SS, Skalkidou A, Frisell T, Papadopoulos FC
EClinicalMedicine
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common, preventable, and treatable yet noncurable heterogeneous lung disease characterized by persistent dysfunction of the airways, alveoli, and pulm...
Authors: O'Doherty KC, Beijbom M, Allen-Vercoe E, Choudoir MJ, Silva DS, Bonilla C, Debelius J, Elton S, Hauptmann AL, Heyland A, Morar N, Skillings D, Sun Z, Wolf PG, Beiko RG, Ishaq SL
Sustainable microbiology
Understanding changes in neural activity across the lifespan is necessary for distinguishing between healthy and pathological aging. Since its development over 100 years ago, electroencephalography (E...
Authors: Onyeaka H, Akinsemolu A, Muhammad AI, Ejiohuo O
Sustainable microbiology
Advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART) over the past 25 years have made it possible for people living with HIV (PLHIV) to live a near-normal life expectancy. PLHIV must be consistently engaged in ca...
Authors: Westwood N, Tanner J, Brierley-Jones L, Cheng A, Rochon M, Vaja R, Dearling J, Wilson K, Murphy GJ, Rogers LJ
Research involvement and engagement
Developmental disorders (DDs) include conditions such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), intellectual disability (ID), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and learning disorders [, ]. DDs...
Authors: Qing G, Zhao Y, Yang J, Wang G
Infectious diseases of poverty
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by motor symptoms such as bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor, and postural instability. Among these symptoms, gait disturbances are particularly debilitating, as...
Authors: Scheuvens L, Girbig M, Schubert M, Görres C, Schirmer A, Sykut A, Drössler S, Weihofen V, Hübner L, Kämpf D, Pietzsch C, Schladitz K, Welzel F, Baer NR, Riedel-Heller S, Schenk L, Löbner M, Seidler A
Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England)
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) remain a dominant global health burden, with the World Health Organization (WHO) reporting at least 43 million deaths from NCDs in 2021, representing a large majority o...
Authors: Bohnert K, Herrler A, De Bock F, Araújo-Soares V, Eichinger M
BMC health services research
With an estimated global prevalence of 30%, the metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) has already become the most concerning chronic liver diseases worldwide []. Generally,...