Publications by authors named "B P Dwyer"

Background: Early treatment is critical to improve eating disorder prognosis. Single session interventions have been proposed as a strategy to provide short term support to people on waitlists for eating disorder treatment, however, it is not always possible to access this early intervention. Conversational artificial intelligence agents or "chatbots" reflect a unique opportunity to attempt to fill this gap in service provision.

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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive brain disease linked to repetitive head impacts (RHI), often incurred from contact sports, and can lead to dementia. Here, we investigated the association between RHI and white matter/vascular neuropathologies and their relative contribution to dementia status in deceased men 50 + years old with and without exposure to RHI from various types of contact and collision sports. Our sample included two RHI groups from the UNITE brain bank: (1) American Football players (RHI-AF, n = 79), and (2) non-AF contact and collision sport athletes (e.

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This Letter presents a search for highly ionizing magnetic monopoles in 262  μb^{-1} of ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collision data at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.36  TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. A new methodology that exploits the properties of clusters of hits reconstructed in the innermost silicon detector layers is introduced to study highly ionizing particles in heavy-ion data.

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BACKGROUNDHIV-1-specific broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (bNAbs) have emerged as promising interventions with the potential to effectively treat and prevent HIV-1 infections. We conducted a phase I clinical trial evaluating the potent CD4-binding site-specific (CD4bs-specific) bNAbs VRC01LS and VRC07-523LS in people with HIV-1 (PWH) not receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART).METHODSParticipants received a single intravenous 40 mg/kg dose of either VRC01LS (n = 7) or VRC07-523LS (n = 9) and did not initiate ART for a minimum of 14 days.

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Proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) represent powerful tools to modulate the activity of classically "undruggable" proteins, but their application has been limited to known ligands and a few select protein classes. Herein, we present our chemoproteomic strategy for simultaneous discovery of novel degraders and ligands for challenging and previously "undruggable" targets. Using comparative PROTAC versus ligand global proteomics analyses, we rapidly identify proteins selectively downregulated by several "untargeted" PROTACs containing a VHL E3 ligase recruiter and various covalent and noncovalent ligands.

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