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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38534238/real-time-classification-of-anxiety-in-virtual-reality-therapy-using-biosensors-and-a-convolutional-neural-network
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Deniz Mevlevioğlu, Sabin Tabirca, David Murphy
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy is a method of cognitive behavioural therapy that aids in the treatment of anxiety disorders by making therapy practical and cost-efficient. It also allows for the seamless tailoring of the therapy by using objective, continuous feedback. This feedback can be obtained using biosensors to collect physiological information such as heart rate, electrodermal activity and frontal brain activity. As part of developing our objective feedback framework, we developed a Virtual Reality adaptation of the well-established emotional Stroop Colour-Word Task...
March 3, 2024: Biosensors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38532639/automating-sedation-state-assessments-using-natural-language-processing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aaron Conway, Jack Li, Mohammad Goudarzi Rad, Sebastian Mafeld, Babak Taati
INTRODUCTION: Common goals for procedural sedation are to control pain and ensure the patient is not moving to an extent that is impeding safe progress or completion of the procedure. Clinicians perform regular assessments of the adequacy of procedural sedation in accordance with these goals to inform their decision-making around sedation titration and also for documentation of the care provided. Natural language processing could be applied to real-time transcriptions of audio recordings made during procedures in order to classify sedation states that involve movement and pain, which could then be integrated into clinical documentation systems...
March 26, 2024: Journal of Nursing Scholarship
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38528352/does-texting-while-walking-affect-gait-s-plantar-pressure-parameters
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
A Elvan, M T Ozer
BACKGROUND: This study aims to examine the possible effects of mobile phone use on plantar pressure and spatiotemporal parameters during walking. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty volunteers (18 males and 12 females) participated in the study. A 10-m walking path was prepared, and a messaging connection was established. They were asked to write three posts without word or character mistakes and participants walked on the path walk as much as they wanted on the trail to make sure they were walking at their own pace...
March 1, 2024: Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38527798/on-the-art-of-audio-description-naomi-kawase-s-radiance
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aleksandra Glos, Felipe Toro Franco
Audio description improves access to visual culture for people who are unable to fully participate in it due to visual impairments. Because of this direct benefit to disabled people, it is usually defined as an accommodation or inclusion service. Rather than adopting this view, we see disability as a creative force, arguing that it can engender a new dimension of art: audio description as a form of cinematic ekphrasis. This claim is made by drawing on the 2017 movie Radiance , by Japanese director Naomi Kawase...
March 25, 2024: Medical Humanities
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38520875/towards-a-better-understanding-of-our-patients-a-qualitative-study-about-how-patients-and-their-physiotherapists-perceive-the-recovery-of-shoulder-problems
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Sijmen Hacquebord, Henri Kiers, Philip van der Wees, Thomas J Hoogeboom
OBJECTIVE: To investigate how people with shoulder problems and their physiotherapists perceive the recovery of shoulder problems. METHOD: We performed a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with patients and their physiotherapists. Nine pairs of patients and physiotherapists (n = 18) were recruited. The transcribed interviews were analyzed in a consecutive multistep iterative process using a conventional content analysis. RESULTS: Analysis of the interviews resulted in three major themes: 'What do I expect from my recovery?', 'Am I recovering?' and 'When do I consider myself recovered?' The patients and physiotherapists talked similarly about the importance of and interdependency between these themes...
March 12, 2024: Musculoskeletal Science & Practice
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38517757/how-does-chatgpt-use-source-information-compared-with-google-a-text-network-analysis-of-online-health-information
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Oscar Y Shen, Jayanth S Pratap, Xiang Li, Neal C Chen, Abhiram R Bhashyam
BACKGROUND: The lay public is increasingly using ChatGPT (a large language model) as a source of medical information. Traditional search engines such as Google provide several distinct responses to each search query and indicate the source for each response, but ChatGPT provides responses in paragraph form in prose without providing the sources used, which makes it difficult or impossible to ascertain whether those sources are reliable. One practical method to infer the sources used by ChatGPT is text network analysis...
April 1, 2024: Clinical Orthopaedics and related Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38508407/-it-s-different-than-a-doctor-saying-you-re-making-the-right-choice-a-qualitative-study-of-chaplains-experience-caring-for-patients-undergoing-abortion-in-washington-dc-maryland-and-virginia
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Blake Zwerling, Caitlin Hendricks, Mary Peeler, Bruce Feldstein, Anne E Burke, Carolyn B Sufrin
OBJECTIVES: Healthcare chaplains are faith providers with theological education, pastoral experience, and clinical training who provide spiritual care to patients, their families, and medical staff. This study sought to characterize chaplains' experiences providing spiritual care for patients experiencing abortion and pregnancy loss, and to explore how chaplains gain competency and comfort in providing pastoral care for this patient population. STUDY DESIGN: Researchers conducted in-depth, semi-structured, qualitative interviews with currently-practicing chaplains recruited via convenience sampling in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia region...
March 18, 2024: Contraception
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38497258/a-new-lexicon-in-the-age-of-microbiome-research
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Thomas C G Bosch, Martin J Blaser, Edward Ruby, Margaret McFall-Ngai
At a rapid pace, biologists are learning the many ways in which resident microbes influence, and sometimes even control, their hosts to shape both health and disease. Understanding the biochemistry behind these interactions promises to reveal completely novel and targeted ways of counteracting disease processes. However, in our protocols and publications, we continue to describe these new results using a language that originated in a completely different context. This language developed when microbial interactions with hosts were perceived to be primarily pathogenic, as threats that had to be vanquished...
May 6, 2024: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38496811/cbct-vs-panoramic-radiography-in-assessment-of-impacted-upper-canine-and-root-resorption-of-the-adjacent-teeth-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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Mariela Peralta-Mamani, Cássia-Maria-Fischer Rubira, José López-López, Heitor-Marques Honório, Izabel-Regina-Fischer Rubira-Bullen
BACKGROUND: The IC may cause reabsorption of adjacent teeth; therefore detailed assessment of its position would enhance decision-making in the clinical workflow. The objective was to compare cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and panoramic radiography (PR) in assessing the position of the impacted upper canine (IC) and root resorption of adjacent teeth. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Pubmed, EMBASE, Science Direct, Web of Science, and SCOPUS databases were searched for studies published before August 2023...
February 2024: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38490308/guidance-for-healthcare-providers-on-newest-guidelines-for-over-the-counter-drug-treatment-of-mild-symptoms-of-covid-19-word-count-18-limit-20
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Gage Collamore, Mark J DiCorcia, Yash Nagpal, Lawrence Fiedler, Michael A Garone, David L DeMets, Dennis G Maki, Charles H Hennekens
On January 18, 2024, the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) + issued their most recent guidelines for over-the-counter drugs for COVID-19. Specifically the CDC stated that "Most people with COVID-19 have mild illness and can recover at home. You can treat symptoms with over-the-counter medicines, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil), to help you feel better." In this Review we consider the contributions of different types of evidence and conclude that healthcare providers should make individual clinical judgments for each of his or her patients in the selection of over-the-counter drugs to treat symptoms of COVID-19...
March 13, 2024: American Journal of Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38482288/living-will-todays-thoughts-and-actions
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REVIEW
Bhairavi Kale, Priyanka Jaiswal, Deepika Masurkar
INTRODUCTION: The word "Euthanasia" relates to two different words from the Greek language "Eu which indicates good and Thanatosis which indicates death", suggesting a "satisfactory Death" or "easy and painless Death" The phrase "mercy killing" has become associated with this meaning. It comprises inflicting painless death on a person suffering from an incurable and dreadful illness. It's the practice of terminating a person's life by administering a lethal injection or ceasing medical treatment...
January 2024: Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38478742/lexical-alignment-is-pervasive-across-contexts-in-non-weird-adult-child-interactions
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Adriana Chee Jing Chieng, Camille J Wynn, Tze Peng Wong, Tyson S Barrett, Stephanie A Borrie
Lexical alignment, a communication phenomenon where conversational partners adapt their word choices to become more similar, plays an important role in the development of language and social communication skills. While this has been studied extensively in the conversations of preschool-aged children and their parents in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) communities, research in other pediatric populations is sparse. This study makes significant expansions on the existing literature by focusing on alignment in naturalistic conversations of school-aged children from a non-WEIRD population across multiple conversational tasks and with different types of adult partners...
March 2024: Cognitive Science
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38460267/urban-rural-differences-in-the-prevalence-and-associated-factors-of-sarcopenia-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis
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Xiaoyan Li, Rongyun Wang, Zhuoer Hou, Qiuhua Sun
BACKGROUND: Loss of muscle mass, muscle strength, and/or physical performance due to aging is known as sarcopenia. Regardless of how serious this illness is, no single diagnostic criteria have been established. Much research conducted recently has demonstrated differences between built environment characteristics (i.e., urban and rural) and the occurrence of sarcopenia; however, variations in sarcopenia prevalence in urban-rural areas around the world have been reported by fewer studies...
March 3, 2024: Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38458417/effects-of-anxiety-state-on-n400-event-related-brain-potential-response-to-unexpected-semantic-stimuli
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jennifer R Lepock, Todd Girard, Justice Cupid, Michael Kiang
Emotional states can influence how people use meaningful context to make predictions about what comes next. To measure whether state anxiety influences such prediction, we used the N400 event-related brain potential (ERP) response to semantic stimuli, whose amplitude is smaller (less negative) when the stimulus is more predicted based on preceding context. Participants (n = 28) were randomized to one of two groups, who underwent either an "anxious-uncertainty" procedure previously shown to increase anxiety, or a control procedure...
March 6, 2024: Neuroscience Letters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38456732/discrimination-and-sensorimotor-adaptation-of-self-produced-vowels-in-cochlear-implant-users
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Agudemu Borjigin, Sarah Bakst, Katla Anderson, Ruth Y Litovsky, Caroline A Niziolek
Humans rely on auditory feedback to monitor and adjust their speech for clarity. Cochlear implants (CIs) have helped over a million people restore access to auditory feedback, which significantly improves speech production. However, there is substantial variability in outcomes. This study investigates the extent to which CI users can use their auditory feedback to detect self-produced sensory errors and make adjustments to their speech, given the coarse spectral resolution provided by their implants. First, we used an auditory discrimination task to assess the sensitivity of CI users to small differences in formant frequencies of their self-produced vowels...
March 1, 2024: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38455697/stercoral-colitis-induced-ischemia-mimicking-acute-mesenteric-ischemia-a-case-report-and-literature-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mohammad N Kloub, Ahmad Haddad, Mohammad Abushanab, Qusai Al-Maharmeh, Muhammad Hussain, Abdullah Al Qazakzeh, Atheer Anwar
UNLABELLED: Stercoral colitis is a rare but serious condition characterized by inflammation of the colonic mucosa due to impacted and hardened faecal material. The word "stercoral" means "related to faeces". This condition usually develops due to the accumulation of hard stool masses in the colon, which cause localized inflammation and irritation. These faecalomas can exert persistent pressure on the colonic wall, causing damage and inflammation. Stercoral colitis presenting symptoms that mimic acute mesenteric ischemia is a diagnostic challenge for clinicians due to the overlap in clinical manifestations...
2024: European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38447413/conflict-monitoring-and-emotional-processing-in-3-4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-mdma-and-methamphetamine-users-a-comparative-neurophysiological-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Antje Opitz, Josua Zimmermann, David M Cole, Rebecca C Coray, Anna Zachäi, Markus R Baumgartner, Andrea E Steuer, Maximilian Pilhatsch, Boris B Quednow, Christian Beste, Ann-Kathrin Stock
In stimulant use and addiction, conflict control processes are crucial for regulating substance use and sustaining abstinence, which can be particularly challenging in social-affective situations. Users of methamphetamine (METH, "Ice") and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "Ecstasy") both experience impulse control deficits, but display different social-affective and addictive profiles. We thus aimed to compare the effects of chronic use of the substituted amphetamines METH and MDMA on conflict control processes in different social-affective contexts (i...
February 15, 2024: NeuroImage: Clinical
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38442588/weighting-of-cues-to-categorization-of-song-versus-speech-in-tone-language-and-non-tone-language-speakers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Magdalena Kachlicka, Aniruddh D Patel, Fang Liu, Adam Tierney
One of the most important auditory categorization tasks a listener faces is determining a sound's domain, a process which is a prerequisite for successful within-domain categorization tasks such as recognizing different speech sounds or musical tones. Speech and song are universal in human cultures: how do listeners categorize a sequence of words as belonging to one or the other of these domains? There is growing interest in the acoustic cues that distinguish speech and song, but it remains unclear whether there are cross-cultural differences in the evidence upon which listeners rely when making this fundamental perceptual categorization...
March 4, 2024: Cognition
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38442567/can-face-recognition-be-selectively-preserved-in-some-cases-of-amnesia-a-cautionary-tale
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
James R B Wingrove, Jeremy J Tree
Evidence suggests that some patients with isolated hippocampal damage appear to present with selective preservation of unfamiliar face recognition relative to other kinds of visual test stimuli (e.g., words). Bird and Burgess (2008) formulated a review and secondary analysis of a group of 10 cases all tested on a clinical assessment of word and face recognition memory (RMT, Warrington, 1984), which confirmed the key memory dissociation at the group level. The current work provides an updated secondary analysis of such cases with a larger published sample (N = 52)...
February 10, 2024: Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38442171/diverging-neural-dynamics-for-syntactic-structure-building-in-naturalistic-speaking-and-listening
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Laura Giglio, Markus Ostarek, Daniel Sharoh, Peter Hagoort
The neural correlates of sentence production are typically studied using task paradigms that differ considerably from the experience of speaking outside of an experimental setting. In this fMRI study, we aimed to gain a better understanding of syntactic processing in spontaneous production versus naturalistic comprehension in three regions of interest (BA44, BA45, and left posterior middle temporal gyrus). A group of participants (n = 16) was asked to speak about the events of an episode of a TV series in the scanner...
March 12, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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