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Accuracy of proactive case finding for mental disorders by community informants in Nepal.
(Br J Psychiatry, 2015-12)
BACKGROUND: Accurate detection of persons in need of mental healthcare is crucial
to reduce the treatment gap between psychiatric burden and service use in low- and
middle-income (LAMI) countries. AIMS: To evaluate the accuracy ...
Traditional medicine practices among community members with chronic kidney disease in northern Tanzania: an ethnomedical survey.
(BMC Nephrol, 2015-10-23)
BACKGROUND: In sub-Saharan Africa, chronic kidney disease (CKD) is being recognized
as a non-communicable disease (NCD) with high morbidity and mortality. In countries
like Tanzania, people access many sources, including ...
Mortality among heroin users and users of other internationally regulated drugs: A 27-year follow-up of users in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program household samples.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2015-11)
In contrast to research on more restricted samples of drug users, epidemiological
studies open up a view of death rates and survivorship of those who have tried heroin
a few times, with no acceleration toward sustained use ...
Intergenerational effects of parental substance-related convictions and adult drug treatment court participation on children's school performance.
(Am J Orthopsychiatry, 2015-09)
This study examined the intergenerational effects of parental conviction of a substance-related
charge on children's academic performance and, conditional on a conviction, whether
completion of an adult drug treatment court ...
TNF rs1799964 as a Predictive Factor of Acute Toxicities in Chinese Rectal Cancer Patients Treated With Chemoradiotherapy.
(Medicine, 2015-11)
Acute toxicity is the main dose-limiting factor in the chemoradiotherapy of rectal
cancer patients and depends on several pro-inflammatory factors, including interleukin-1
(IL-1), IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). ...
Tumor necrosis factor-α induced protein 8 polymorphism and risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in a Chinese population: a case-control study.
(PloS one, 2012-01)
BACKGROUND: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) has been reported to be associated with autoimmune
and pro-inflammatory response, and genetic polymorphisms of candidate genes involved
in autoimmune and pro-inflammatory response ...
On the interplay of telomeres, nevi and the risk of melanoma.
(PloS one, 2012-01)
The relationship between telomeres, nevi and melanoma is complex. Shorter telomeres
have been found to be associated with many cancers and with number of nevi, a known
risk factor for melanoma. However, shorter telomeres ...
Twins dispute memory ownership: a new false memory phenomenon.
(Mem Cognit, 2001-09)
In three experiments, we examined a new memory phenomenon: disputed memories, in which
people dispute ownership of a memory. For example, in one disputed memory each of
two twins recollected being sent home from school for ...
Co-activation of the amygdala, hippocampus and inferior frontal gyrus during autobiographical memory retrieval.
(Neuropsychologia, 2005)
Functional MRI was used to investigate the role of medial temporal lobe and inferior
frontal lobe regions in autobiographical recall. Prior to scanning, participants generated
cue words for 50 autobiographical memories and ...
Experimental manipulations of the phenomenology of memory.
(Mem Cognit, 2003-09)
We investigated the effects of visual input at encoding and retrieval on the phenomenology
of memory. In Experiment 1, participants took part in events with and without wearing
blindfolds, and later were shown a video of ...