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Perspectives from Patients and Healthcare Providers on the Practice of Maternal Placentophagy.
(Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2017-01)
Placentophagy (maternal consumption of the placenta) has become increasingly prevalent
in the past decade among women seeking to promote health and healing during the postpartum
period. The purpose of this study was to assess ...
A putatively functional polymorphism in the HTR2C gene is associated with depressive symptoms in white females reporting significant life stress.
(PloS one, 2014-01)
Psychosocial stress is well known to be positively associated with subsequent depressive
symptoms. Cortisol response to stress may be one of a number of biological mechanisms
that links psychological stress to depressive ...
Personal DNA testing in college classrooms: perspectives of students and professors.
(Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers, 2013-06)
Discourse on the integration of personal genetics and genomics into classrooms is
increasing; however, limited data have been collected on the perspectives of students
and professors. We conducted a cross-sectional survey ...
Psychometric properties of the osteoporosis assessment questionnaire (OPAQ) 2.0: results from the multiple outcomes of raloxifene evaluation (MORE) study.
(BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2014-01)
BACKGROUND: We explored psychometric properties of the Osteoporosis Assessment Questionnaire
2.0 in terms of reliability, validity, and responsiveness with generic, clinical,
demographic, and preference-based data collected ...
Learning from 2523 trauma deaths in India- opportunities to prevent in-hospital deaths.
(BMC health services research, 2017-02-16)
A systematic analysis of trauma deaths is a step towards trauma quality improvement
in Indian hospitals. This study estimates the magnitude of preventable trauma deaths
in five Indian hospitals, and uses a peer-review process ...
Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization.
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018-09)
There is mounting concern that social media sites contribute to political polarization
by creating "echo chambers" that insulate people from opposing views about current
events. We surveyed a large sample of Democrats and ...
Quantification of the position and depth of the flexor hallucis longus groove in euarchontans, with implications for the evolution of primate positional behavior.
(American journal of physical anthropology, 2017-06)
On the talus, the position and depth of the groove for the flexor hallucis longus
tendon have been used to infer phylogenetic affinities and positional behaviors of
fossil primates. This study quantifies aspects of the flexor ...
Morphometric panel regression equations for predicting body mass in immature humans.
(American journal of physical anthropology, 2018-05)
OBJECTIVES:Predicting body mass is a frequent objective of several anthropological
subdisciplines, but there are few published methods for predicting body mass in immature
humans. Because most reference samples are composed ...
Counterfactual Plausibility and Comparative Similarity.
(Cognitive science, 2017-05)
Counterfactual thinking involves imagining hypothetical alternatives to reality. Philosopher
David Lewis (1973, 1979) argued that people estimate the subjective plausibility that
a counterfactual event might have occurred ...
Strategic allocation of attention reduces temporally predictable stimulus conflict.
(J Cogn Neurosci, 2012-09)
Humans are able to continuously monitor environmental situations and adjust their
behavioral strategies to optimize performance. Here we investigate the behavioral
and brain adjustments that occur when conflicting stimulus ...