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Cortical Brain Activity Reflecting Attentional Biasing Toward Reward-Predicting Cues Covaries with Economic Decision-Making Performance.
(Cereb Cortex, 2016-01)
Adaptive choice behavior depends critically on identifying and learning from outcome-predicting
cues. We hypothesized that attention may be preferentially directed toward certain
outcome-predicting cues. We studied this ...
Substance use and mental diagnoses among adults with and without type 2 diabetes: Results from electronic health records data.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2015-11)
BACKGROUND:Comorbid diabetes and substance use diagnoses (SUD) represent a hazardous
combination, both in terms of healthcare cost and morbidity. To date, there is limited
information about the association of SUD and related ...
Are component positioning and prosthesis size associated with hip resurfacing failure?
(BMC Musculoskelet Disord, 2010-10-02)
BACKGROUND: Recent studies suggest that there is a learning curve for metal-on-metal
hip resurfacing. The purpose of this study was to assess whether implant positioning
changed with surgeon experience and whether positioning ...
Schistosome-induced cholangiocyte proliferation and osteopontin secretion correlate with fibrosis and portal hypertension in human and murine schistosomiasis mansoni.
(Clin Sci (Lond), 2015-11)
Schistosomiasis is a major cause of portal hypertension worldwide. It associates with
portal fibrosis that develops during chronic infection. The mechanisms by which the
pathogen evokes these host responses remain unclear. ...
Association between a rare novel TP53 variant (rs78378222) and melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck and lung cancer susceptibility in non-Hispanic Whites.
(Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2013-07)
Recently, several studies have investigated the association between a newly reported
rare functional single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in TP53 (rs78378222) and cancer
risk, but generated inconsistent findings. The present ...
Long-term dynamics of death rates of emphysema, asthma, and pneumonia and improving air quality.
(Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis, 2014)
BACKGROUND: The respiratory tract is a major target of exposure to air pollutants,
and respiratory diseases are associated with both short- and long-term exposures.
We hypothesized that improved air quality in North Carolina ...
Mental Health and Substance Use Among Patients in a North Carolina HIV Clinic.
(N C Med J, 2015-07)
BACKGROUND: The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a significant public health concern in North
Carolina, and previous research has pointed to elevated mental health distress and
substance use among HIV-infected populations, which may ...
Improvement in visual search with practice: mapping learning-related changes in neurocognitive stages of processing.
(J Neurosci, 2015-04-01)
Practice can improve performance on visual search tasks; the neural mechanisms underlying
such improvements, however, are not clear. Response time typically shortens with practice,
but which components of the stimulus-response ...
Hospital distance, socioeconomic status, and timely treatment of ischemic stroke.
(Neurology, 2019-08)
OBJECTIVE:To determine whether lower socioeconomic status (SES) and longer home to
hospital driving time are associated with reductions in tissue plasminogen activator
(tPA) administration and timeliness of the treatment. ...
Genetic variants in fanconi anemia pathway genes BRCA2 and FANCA predict melanoma survival.
(The Journal of investigative dermatology, 2015-02)
Cutaneous melanoma (CM) is the most lethal skin cancer. The Fanconi anemia (FA) pathway
involved in DNA crosslink repair may affect CM susceptibility and prognosis. Using
data derived from published genome-wide association ...