Getting a Good Night's Sleep: Associations Between Sleep Duration and Parent-Reported Sleep Quality on Default Mode Network Connectivity in Youth.

Purpose: Sleep plays an important role in healthy neurocognitive development, and poor sleep is linked to cognitive and emotional dysfunction. Studies in adults suggest that shorter sleep duration and poor sleep quality may disrupt core neurocognitive networks, particularly the default mode network (DMN)-a network implicated in internal cognitive processing and rumination. Here, we examine the relationships between sleep and within- and between-network resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) of the DMN in youth.

Meditation reduces brain activity in the default mode network in children with active cancer and survivors.

Background: Mounting evidence demonstrates that meditation can lower pain and emotional distress in adults, and more recently, in children. Children may benefit from meditation given its accessibility across a variety of settings (e.g.

Transcriptome Analysis in a Primary Human Muscle Cell Differentiation Model for Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1.

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by CTG-repeat expansions leading to a complex pathology with a multisystemic phenotype that primarily affects the muscles and brain. Despite a multitude of information, especially on the alternative splicing of several genes involved in the pathology, information about additional factors contributing to the disease development is still lacking. We performed RNAseq and gene expression analyses on proliferating primary human myoblasts and differentiated myotubes.

Implementing Oral Care as a Nursing Intervention to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Across the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.

Hospital-acquired pneumonia is a preventable complication. The primary source of pneumonia among hospitalized and long-term care residents is aspiration of bacteria present in the oral biofilm. Reducing the bacterial burden in the mouth through consistent oral care is associated with a reduction in the incidence of hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Big Data in the Veterans Health Administration: A Nursing Informatics Perspective.

Purpose: This article reviews the missions of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the evolution of its electronic health record (EHR), the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA).