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Internet Use and Self-Rated Health Among Older People: A National Survey

2009

Background Older people are among the segments of the population for which the digital divide is most persistent and are considered to be at risk of losing out on the potential benefits that the information society can provide to their quality of life. Little attention has been paid, however, to relationships between Internet use and actual indicators of health among older people. Objective The aim of this study was to examine the association between Internet use and self-rated health among older people and determine whether this association holds independently of socioeconomic position. Methods Data were from a survey about the digital divide and quality of life among older people in Spain…

MaleGerontologyHealth StatusPopulationHealth Informaticslcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsSocial classsocioeconomic statusQuality of life (healthcare)computersHumansMedicineeducationDigital divideSocioeconomic statusAgedDemographySelf-rated healthInternetOriginal Papereducation.field_of_studyMarital Statusbusiness.industrylcsh:Public aspects of medicinehealthlcsh:RA1-1270Middle AgedHealth SurveysUnited StatesSocial ClassSocioeconomic FactorsQuality of Lifelcsh:R858-859.7Marital statusFemaleThe InternetbusinessJournal of Medical Internet Research
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Yersinia pestis DNA from Skeletal Remains from the 6th Century AD Reveals Insights into Justinianic Plague

2013

Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of the disease plague, has been implicated in three historical pandemics. These include the third pandemic of the 19th and 20th centuries, during which plague was spread around the world, and the second pandemic of the 14th–17th centuries, which included the infamous epidemic known as the Black Death. Previous studies have confirmed that Y. pestis caused these two more recent pandemics. However, a highly spirited debate still continues as to whether Y. pestis caused the so-called Justinianic Plague of the 6th–8th centuries AD. By analyzing ancient DNA in two independent ancient DNA laboratories, we confirmed unambiguously the presence of Y. pestis DNA in…

MaleHistoryYersinia pestis590Social and Behavioral SciencesPandemicBiology (General)16th CenturyPhylogenyHistory 15th CenturybiologyBacterialHistory 19th Century20th CenturyBiological AnthropologyHistory 16th Century17th CenturyFemaleBase Sequence; Bone and Bones; DNA Bacterial; Female; Genotype; History 15th Century; History 16th Century; History 17th Century; History 19th Century; History 20th Century; History Medieval; Humans; Male; Molecular Sequence Data; Pandemics; Yersinia pestis; Phylogeny; PlagueMedievalResearch ArticleDNA BacterialGenotypeQH301-705.5ImmunologyMolecular Sequence DataPlague (disease)MicrobiologyBone and BonesNOHistory 17th CenturyVirologyGeneticsHumansBase sequenceMolecular BiologyPandemicsBiologyPlague bacillus19th CenturyPlagueBase SequenceDNARC581-607History 20th Centurybiology.organism_classificationVirologyHistory Medieval15th CenturyAncient DNAYersinia pestisAnthropologyYersinia pestis DNAParasitologyImmunologic diseases. Allergy
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Parent–offspring conflict and the genetic trade-offs shaping parental investment

2015

The genetic conflict between parents and their offspring is a cornerstone of kin selection theory and the gene-centred view of evolution, but whether it actually occurs in natural systems remains an open question. Conflict operates only if parenting is driven by genetic trade-offs between offspring performance and the parent's ability to raise additional offspring, and its expression critically depends on the shape of these trade-offs. Here we investigate the occurrence and nature of genetic conflict in an insect with maternal care, the earwig Forficula auricularia. Specifically, we test for a direct response to experimental selection on female future reproduction and correlated responses i…

MaleInsectaBehavior AnimalReproduction[SDV.BA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]590 Tiere (Zoologie)ArticleEvolution Molecular[SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology590 Zoological sciencesAnimalsFemaleSelection GeneticMaternal BehaviorComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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Health-related quality of life in adolescents with persistent pain and the mediating role of self-efficacy: a cross-sectional study

2020

Abstract Background Persistent pain has a high prevalence among adolescents. Pain has been shown to reduce all aspects of the adolescent’s health-related quality of life (HRQOL). In adult patients with pain, self-efficacy has been shown to mediate the relationship between pain intensity, disability and depression. However, little is known about whether self-efficacy acts as a mediating variable in the relationship between persistent pain and HRQOL sub-scale scores in a school-based population of adolescents. Objectives To describe the experience of pain, HRQOL and self-efficacy, and to explore the association between pain intensity, general self-efficacy and HRQOL in adolescents with persis…

MaleMediation (statistics)AdolescentVisual analogue scaleCross-sectional studyHealth-related quality of lifePopulationPsychological interventionAdolescentslcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsSeverity of Illness IndexHealth-related life quality03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineQuality of lifeSurveys and QuestionnairesPersistent painHumansMedicine030212 general & internal medicineeducationPain MeasurementSelf-efficacyeducation.field_of_studyDepressionNorwaybusiness.industryResearchMediationPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthGeneral MedicineSelf EfficacyCross-Sectional StudiesMoodVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800Quality of Lifelcsh:R858-859.7FemaleChronic PainSelf-efficacybusinessPersistent pains030217 neurology & neurosurgeryClinical psychologyHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes
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Dysfunction of attention switching networks in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

2019

Objective To localise and characterise changes in cognitive networks in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) using source analysis of mismatch negativity (MMN) waveforms. Rationale The MMN waveform has an increased average delay in ALS. MMN has been attributed to change detection and involuntary attention switching. This therefore indicates pathological impairment of the neural network components which generate these functions. Source localisation can mitigate the poor spatial resolution of sensor-level EEG analysis by associating the sensor-level signals to the contributing brain sources. The functional activity in each generating source can therefore be individually measured and investigat…

MaleMismatch negativitySource localisationEEG ElectroencephalographyMismatch negativityNetworkElectroencephalographylcsh:RC346-429PET Positron emission tomographyCognition0302 clinical medicineC9orf72AttentionEEGAUROC Area under receiver operating characteristic curveAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisAged 80 and overmedicine.diagnostic_test05 social sciencesCognitive flexibilityBrainRegular ArticleElectroencephalographyCognitionMiddle AgedSTG Superior temporal gyrusNeurologyMTG Mid temporal gyrusDLPFC Dorsolateral prefrontal cortexlcsh:R858-859.7FemaleLCMV Linearly constrained minimum varianceIFG Inferior frontal gyrusAdultCognitive Neurosciencelcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics050105 experimental psychologyCWIT Colour-word interference test03 medical and health sciencesfMRI Functional magnetic resonance imagingMEG MagnetoencephalographymedicineMMN Mismatch negativityHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingLS Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAAL Automated Anatomical Labellinglcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous systemAEP Auditory evoked potentialAgedbusiness.industryAmyotrophic Lateral SclerosisIQR Interquartile rangeNeurophysiologyqEEG Quantitative EEGmedicine.diseaseNeurology (clinical)Nerve NetFunctional magnetic resonance imagingbusinessNeuroscience030217 neurology & neurosurgeryeLORETA Exact low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomographyNeuroImage: Clinical
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Functional networks of motor inhibition in conversion disorder patients and feigning subjects

2016

The neural correlates of motor inhibition leading to paresis in conversion disorder are not well known. The key question is whether they are different of those of normal subjects feigning the symptoms. Thirteen conversion disorder patients with hemiparesis and twelve healthy controls were investigated using functional magnetic resonance tomography under conditions of passive motor stimulation of the paretic/feigned paretic and the non-paretic hand. Healthy controls were also investigated in a non-feigning condition. During passive movement of the affected right hand conversion disorder patients exhibited activations in the bilateral triangular part of the inferior frontal gyri (IFG), with a…

MaleMotor DisordersAudiologylcsh:RC346-4290302 clinical medicineddc:150Neural PathwaysImage Processing Computer-AssistedYoung adultPrefrontal cortexFeigningParesismedicine.diagnostic_test05 social sciencesfMRIRegular ArticleMiddle AgedMagnetic Resonance ImagingInhibition PsychologicalTreatment OutcomeNeurologyMotor inhibitionlcsh:R858-859.7Femalemedicine.symptomPsychologyAdultmedicine.medical_specialtyImagery PsychotherapyCognitive Neurosciencelcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics050105 experimental psychologyFunctional networks03 medical and health sciencesYoung AdultmedicineHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingIn patientConversion disorderlcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous systemMagnetic resonance imagingmedicine.diseaseOxygenHemiparesisConversion disorderMotor paresisNeurology (clinical)NeuroscienceConversion disorder ; Motor inhibition ; Feigning ; fMRI ; Motor paresis030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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The WHAAM Application: a Tool to Support the Evidence-Based Practice in the Functional Behaviour Assessment

2018

BackgroundThe most recent computing technologies can promote the application of evidence-based practice (EBP) in the field of applied behaviour analysis (ABA).ObjectiveThe study describes how the use of technology can simplify the application of EBPs in ABA.MethodsThe Web Health Application for ADHD Monitoring (WHAAM) application demonstrates this in the following two case studies. We are monitoring dysfunctional behaviours, collecting behavioural data, performing systematic direct observations, creating both visual baseline and intervention charts and evaluating the planned interventions using the TAU-U statistical index.ResultsSignificant positive changes of children’s problem behaviours …

MaleParents050103 clinical psychologyEvidence-based practiceAdolescentmedicine.medical_treatmenteffect sizeApplied psychologyPsychological interventionHealth InformaticsDysfunctional familylcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsinformation processingeHealth systemHealth Information Managementbehavioural interventionIntervention (counseling)Surveys and QuestionnairesmedicineHumansADHD0501 psychology and cognitive sciences050102 behavioral science & comparative psychologyDuration (project management)Applied behavior analysisBaseline (configuration management)ChildProblem Behaviorbehavioural assessmentInternetCommunication05 social sciencesInformation processingTelemedicineComputer Science ApplicationsAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityEvidence-Based Practicelcsh:R858-859.7behavioural interventionsPsychologySettore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia SocialeMedical Informatics
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Increased cortical curvature reflects white matter atrophy in individual patients with early multiple sclerosis

2014

Objective White matter atrophy occurs independently of lesions in multiple sclerosis. In contrast to lesion detection, the quantitative assessment of white matter atrophy in individual patients has been regarded as a major challenge. We therefore tested the hypothesis that white matter atrophy (WMA) is present at the very beginning of multiple sclerosis (MS) and in virtually each individual patient. To find a new sensitive and robust marker for WMA we investigated the relationship between cortical surface area, white matter volume (WMV), and whole-brain-surface-averaged rectified cortical extrinsic curvature. Based on geometrical considerations we hypothesized that cortical curvature increa…

MalePathologyROI region of interestFOV field of viewlcsh:RC346-429ImagingGRAPPA generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisitionCortex (anatomy)Image Processing Computer-AssistedFA fractional anisotropyWMV white matter volumeTE echo timeCerebral Cortexmedicine.diagnostic_testEVAL Münster Neuroimaging Evaluation SystemMiddle AgedMagnetic Resonance ImagingWhite MatterTR repetition timemedicine.anatomical_structureNeurologyGMV gray matter volumeCerebral cortexCortexlcsh:R858-859.7FemaleAlzheimer's diseasePsychologyCIS clinically isolated syndromeMRITSE turbo spin-echoAdultmedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentCognitive NeuroscienceCortical curvatureICV intracranial volumelcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsCurvatureArticleEDSS Expanded Disability Status ScaleMultiple sclerosisWhite matterYoung AdultAtrophyAlzheimer DiseasemedicineHumansRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingWM white matterlcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous systemAgedMultiple sclerosis3D three-dimensionaleWMV estimated white matter volumeMagnetic resonance imagingmedicine.diseaseΔWMV WMV − eWMVCI confidence intervalCase-Control StudiesGM gray matterAnisotropyDTI diffusion tensor imagingNeurology (clinical)AtrophySD standard deviationDemyelinating DiseasesNeuroImage: Clinical
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Mathematical models for the diffusion magnetic resonance signal abnormality in patients with prion diseases

2014

In clinical practice signal hyperintensity in the cortex and/or in the striatum on magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion-weighted images (DWIs) is a marker of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (sCJD). MR diagnostic accuracy is greater than 90%, but the biophysical mechanisms underpinning the signal abnormality are unknown. The aim of this prospective study is to combine an advanced DWI protocol with new mathematical models of the microstructural changes occurring in prion disease patients to investigate the cause of MR signal alterations. This underpins the later development of more sensitive and specific image-based biomarkers. DWI data with a wide a range of echo times and diffusion weightin…

MalePathologysCJD sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob diseaseROI region of interestPrion diseasePrPSc prion protein scrapieElectroencephalographyFOV field of viewlcsh:RC346-429Prion DiseasesADC apparent diffusion coefficientTI inversion timeRPE rapidly progressive encephalopathyAged 80 and overTE echo timeBrain Mappingmedicine.diagnostic_testBrainRegular ArticleMiddle AgedBIC Bayesian information criterionTR repetition timemedicine.anatomical_structureNeurologylcsh:R858-859.7FemaleMPRAGE magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition gradient-echoAbnormalitySS-SE single shot spin-echoAdultmedicine.medical_specialtyCognitive NeuroscienceCreutzfeldt–Jakob diseaseCNR contrast to noise ratioEPI echo-planar imagingNeuropathologyPrPC prion protein cellularGrey matterSpongiform degenerationlcsh:Computer applications to medicine. Medical informaticsEEG electroencephalogramDiffusion MRINeuroimagingImage Interpretation Computer-AssistedmedicineHumansRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imaginglcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous systemAgedCJD Creutzfeldt–Jakob diseaseGSS Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndromebusiness.industryDWI diffusion weighted imagingDiffusion MRI; Biophysical models; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Prion disease; Spongiform degenerationMagnetic resonance imagingModels TheoreticalHyperintensityCreutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingNeurology (clinical)businessBiophysical modelsDiffusion MRINeuroImage: Clinical
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Trends in the prevalence of asthma and allergic rhinitis in Italy between 1991 and 2010

2012

The prevalence of asthma increased worldwide until the 1990s, but since then there has been no clear temporal pattern. The present study aimed to assess time trends in the prevalence of current asthma, asthma-like symptoms and allergic rhinitis in Italian adults from 1990 to 2010. The same screening questionnaire was administered by mail or phone to random samples of the general population (age 20-44 yrs) in Italy, in the frame of three multicentre studies: the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) (1991-1993; n=6,031); the Italian Study on Asthma in Young Adults (ISAYA) (1998-2000; n=18,873); and the Gene Environment Interactions in Respiratory Diseases (GEIRD) study (2007-2…

MalePediatricsCross-sectional study95% CI 1.19-1.59) from 1998-2000 to 2007-2010but since then there has been no clear temporal pattern. The present study aimed to assess time trends in the prevalence of current asthmaAbstract The prevalence of asthma increased worldwide until the 1990stemporal trendsSurveys and QuestionnairesEpidemiologySurveys and QuestionnaireMedicineasthma-like symptoms and allergic rhinitis in Italian adults from 1990 to 2010. The same screening questionnaire was administered by mail or phone to random samples of the general population (age 20-44 yrs) in ItalyYoung adultrespectively. The prevalence of current asthma was stable during the 1990s and increased (relative risk 1.38from 10.1% to 13.9% and from 16.8% to 25.8%education.field_of_studyAllergic rhinitis; Asthma; Epidemiology; Prevalence; Temporal trends; Wheezing;medicine.diagnostic_testSmokingthe median prevalence of current asthmaallergic rhinitis asthma epidemiology prevalence temporal trends wheezingItalyAbstract The prevalence of asthma increased worldwide until the 1990s but since then there has been no clear temporal pattern. The present study aimed to assess time trends in the prevalence of current asthma asthma-like symptoms and allergic rhinitis in Italian adults from 1990 to 2010. The same screening questionnaire was administered by mail or phone to random samples of the general population (age 20-44 yrs) in Italy in the frame of three multicentre studies: the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) (1991-1993; n=6031); the Italian Study on Asthma in Young Adults (ISAYA) (1998-2000; n=18873); and the Gene Environment Interactions in Respiratory Diseases (GEIRD) study (2007-2010; n=10494). Time trends in prevalence were estimated using Poisson regression models in the centres that repeated the survey at different points in time. From 1991 to 2010 the median prevalence of current asthma wheezing and allergic rhinitis increased from 4.1% to 6.6% from 10.1% to 13.9% and from 16.8% to 25.8% respectively. The prevalence of current asthma was stable during the 1990s and increased (relative risk 1.38 95% CI 1.19-1.59) from 1998-2000 to 2007-2010 mainly in subjects who did not report allergic rhinitis. The prevalence of allergic rhinitis has increased continuously since 1991. The asthma epidemic is not over in Italy. During the past 20 yrs asthma prevalence has increased by 38% in parallel with a similar increase in asthma-like symptoms and allergic rhinitis.mainly in subjects who did not report allergic rhinitis. The prevalence of allergic rhinitis has increased continuously since 1991. The asthma epidemic is not over in Italy. During the past 20 yrssymbolsasthma prevalence has increased by 38%FemaleepidemiologyHumanPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineAdult494). Time trends in prevalence were estimated using Poisson regression models in the centres that repeated the survey at different points in time. From 1991 to 2010in parallel with a similar increase in asthma-like symptoms and allergic rhinitismedicine.medical_specialtyRhinitis Allergic PerennialPopulationprevalencethe Italian Study on Asthma in Young Adults (ISAYA) (1998-2000Settore MED/10 - Malattie Dell'Apparato Respiratorio031)and the Gene Environment Interactions in Respiratory Diseases (GEIRD) study (2007-2010Settore MED/01 - Statistica Medicasymbols.namesakeYoung AdultAllergic rhinitiHumansRespiratory soundsPoisson regressioneducationAsthmaRespiratory SoundsCross-Sectional Studieallergic rhinitisbusiness.industrywheezingwheezing and allergic rhinitis increased from 4.1% to 6.6%Rhinitis Allergic Seasonalasthmain the frame of three multicentre studies: the European Community Respiratory Health Survey (ECRHS) (1991-1993medicine.disease873)Cross-Sectional Studiesn=10Relative riskTemporal trendRespiratory Soundn=6n=18business
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