Publications by authors named "A Turnbull"

Clinical Manifestations.

Alzheimers Dement

December 2024

Promoting emotional well-being (EWB) in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's Disease (AD), for example those with mild behavioral impairment (MBI), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or subjective cognitive decline (SCD), is important both to improve quality of life and slow the progress of cognitive decline. Understanding how the early accumulation of AD pathology affects EWB and developing interventions to improve EWB both require the precise measurement of affective experience that plays a key role in EWB. Day to day affective experiences, both positive and negative, contribute significantly to EWB, but how affective experience maps onto EWB is complex.

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In 2024, there have been increases in laboratory confirmed infections of Mycoplasma Pneumoniae infection worldwide. This case series highlights increasing frequency of Mycoplasma pneumoniae positive PCR specimens and an increased number of hospital admissions with Mycoplasma pneumoniae clinical syndromes. Within this case series, we observed, a change in the epidemiology and clinical burden of childhood Mycoplasma pneumonia disease in the post COVID-19 era.

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Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of an early, targeted, individualized, intensive rehabilitation program called Rehab2Home, designed to transition surgical patients directly from acute care to home.

Design: The Rehab2Home program was implemented using a quality improvement (QI) approach between March 2023 and June 2023. The outcomes of the program were compared with a historical cohort of similar patients.

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Autistic people may be distinguishable from non-autistic individuals in the content and modality of their thoughts. Such differences potentially underlie both psychological vulnerability and strengths, motivating the need to better understand autistic thought patterns. In non-clinical undergraduates, a recent study found that autistic traits were associated with thinking more in words than images.

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