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New and interesting research in health and medicine is never-ending. Keep up and tune in daily to Science Says to hear the abstracts of groundbreaking research in different topics of health and medicine. Science Says a daily dose of this podcast will make you smarter.
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SARS to novel coronavirus – old lessons and new lessons
The response to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China suggests that many of the lessons from the 2003 SARS epidemic have been implemented and the re...
Where to look for the morals in markets?
There is a heated debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. However, it is a challenging task to identify and measure...
Enabling Delay of Gratification Behavior in Those Not So Predisposed: The Moderating Role of Social Support.
The presence of delay of gratification (DG) in childhood is correlated with success later in a person's life. Is there any way of helping adults with...
Testing anxiety in undergraduate medical students and its correlation with different learning approaches.
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Approaches to studying predict academic performance in undergraduate occupational therapy students: a cross-cultural study
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Physical Activity and Brain Health
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Habit and Identity: Behavioral, Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Facets of an Integrated Self
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Self-Reflection and the Inner Voice: Activation of the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus During Perceptual and Conceptual Self-Referential Thinking
Inner speech involvement in self-reflection was examined by reviewing 130 studies assessing brain activation during self-referential processing in key...
A neural link between generosity and happiness
Generous behaviour is known to increase happiness, which could thereby motivate generosity. In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imagin...
A mindfulness-based intervention to increase resilience to stress in university students (the Mindful Student Study): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
Background: The rising number of young people going to university has led to concerns about an increasing demand for student mental health services. W...
Left-handedness is associated with greater fighting success in humans
Left-handedness is a costly, sexually dimorphic trait found at low frequencies in all human populations. How the handedness polymorphism is maintained...
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To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question: A randomized trial of Twitter effects in medical education
Introduction: Many medical education journals use Twitter to garner attention for their articles. The purpose of this study was to test the effects of...
The impact of artificial intelligence in medicine on the future role of the physician
The practice of medicine is changing with the development of new Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods of machine learning. Coupled with rapid improvem...
The relationships between bilingual learning, willingness to study abroad and convergent creativity
Convergent creativity is a form of creative thinking that uses existing knowledge or traditional methods to analyze available information and generate...
Applications of Machine Learning Approaches in Emergency Medicine; a Review Article
Using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in different medical fields, especially emergency medicine is rapidly growing. In this p...
Can a Like Save the Planet? Comparing Antecedents of and Correlations Between Environmental Liking on Social Media, Money Donation, and Volunteering
Due to the societal dissemination of digital technology, people are increasingly experiencing environmental topics through digital media channels such...
Social Influence in Adolescent Decision-Making: A Formal Framework
Adolescence is a period of life during which peers play a pivotal role in decision-making. The narrative of social influence during adolescence often...
Happy Children: A Modern Emotional Commitment
American parents greatly value children’s happiness, citing it well above other possible priorities. This commitment to happiness, shared with parents...
Keeping up with the times: how national public health and governmental organizations communicate about cannabis on Twitter
Background: Public health and governmental organizations are expected to provide guidance to the public on emerging health issues in accessible format...
Mood States and Everyday Creativity: Employing an Experience Sampling Method and a Day Reconstruction Method
Investigating the mood-creativity relationship in everyday life is important for innovation promotion in organizational management. This study explore...
Selling health and happiness how influencers communicate on Instagram about dieting and exercise: mixed methods research
Background: Eating disorders among adolescents are an ongoing public health concern. Sustainable health promotion programmes require a thorough unders...
The effects of screen light filtering software on cognitive performance and sleep among night workers
Background: Previous studies have reported impaired performance, sleepiness and sleep deprivation among night workers. The purpose of this study was t...
The Verbal Interaction Social Threat Task: A New Paradigm Investigating the Effects of Social Rejection in Men and Women.
In recent years, digital communication and social media have taken an indispensable role in human society. Social interactions are no longer bound to...
Sepsis information-seeking behaviors via Wikipedia between 2015 and 2018: A mixed methods retrospective observational study
Raising public awareness of sepsis, a potentially life-threatening dysregulated host response to infection, to hasten its recognition has become a maj...
Dietetics Program Directors in the United States Support Teaching Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition and Half Connect Vegetarian and Vegan Diets to Environmental Impact
Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) are clinicians trained in the application of food, nutrition, and dietetics. Vegetarians and vegans have a l...
Neurobiological links between stress and anxiety
Stress and anxiety have intertwined behavioral and neural underpinnings. These commonalities are critical for understanding each state, as well as the...
MoodJumper: An Exploration of Game Interface Preferences in Users With/Out Mood Disorder
Mental health conditions pose a major challenge to healthcare providers and society at large. The World Health Organization predicts that by 2030 ment...
The effect of hormone replacement therapy on cognitive function in postmenopausal women: An RCT
Background: During the reproductive age, the human brain becomes a target for gonadal steroid hormones. Estrogens influence neural function through ef...
Personalized Health Systems—Past, Present, and Future of Research Development and Implementation in Real-Life Environment
Personal health systems (PHS) are designed to provide the individual with tailored care while enabling the healthcare system to deliver high-quality c...
The relationship between nursing home quality and costs: Evidence from the VA
Ensuring quality of care in nursing homes is a public health priority, yet how nursing home quality relates to cost is not well understood. This paper...
Science–graphic art partnerships to increase research impact
Graphics are becoming increasingly important for scientists to effectively communicate their findings to broad audiences, but most researchers lack ex...
Random plasma glucose predicts the diagnosis of diabetes
Aims/Hypothesis: Early recognition of those at high risk for diabetes as well as diabetes itself can permit preventive management, but many Americans...
Unlocking stress and forecasting its consequences with digital technology
Chronic stress is a major underlying origin of the top leading causes of death, globally. Yet, the mechanistic explanation of the association between...
Expert quotes and exaggeration in health news: a retrospective quantitative content analysis
Background: This research is an investigation into the role of expert quotes in health news, specifically whether news articles containing a quote fro...
If you catch my drift...: ability to infer implied meaning is distinct from vocabulary and grammar skills
Background: Some individuals with autism find it challenging to use and understand language in conversation, despite having good abilities in core asp...
Impact of the Physical Activity on Bullying
Relationship problems among school children can lead to bullying situations. In this regard, it should be noted that, among healthy lifestyle habits,...
Use of Pharmacogenetic Drugs by the Dutch Population
Introduction: The Dutch Pharmacogenetics Working Group (DPWG) indicated a list of actionable genotypes that affect patients’ response to more 50 drugs...
A randomized, controlled pilot study of the effects of vitamin D supplementation on balance in Parkinson's disease: Does age matter?
Objectives: To explore if short term, high dose vitamin D supplementation is safe and improves balance in persons with Parkinson's disease (PD).
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The effectiveness of public health advertisements to promote health: a randomized-controlled trial on 794,000 participants
As public health advertisements move online, it becomes possible to run inexpensive randomized-controlled trials (RCTs) thereof. Here we report the re...
Longitudinal change in the diet's monetary value is associated with its change in quality and micronutrient adequacy among urban adults
Background: Reducing diet costs may lead to the selection of energy-dense foods, such as refined grains or foods high in added sugars and/or fats, whi...