Awareness of air pollution and the associated environmental and health risks is growing worldwide. In order to answer the socio-environmental challenges posed by climate change, natural resource degradation and industrialization, scientists are advocating more holistic research linking environmental quality and public health. However, few studies have managed to integrate local communities' concerns and knowledge with easy-to-use biomonitoring systems to produce science that contextualises their environment risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Early palliative care interventions in oncology, as recommended by international oncology societies, promote patient understanding and support decision-making. At the same time, shared decision-making models are being developed to enhance patient participation as part of a new model of patient-physician relationship. For patients with palliative needs, this participation is essential and helps to avoid futile and aggressive treatments at the end of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn oncology, the place of patients has a natural and strong legitimacy. Cancer is a common disease, with many singularities but also common features between pathologies, with issues ranging from prevention to possible palliative phases or post-cancer, and conducive to both individual and collective decision-making processes. Patient engagement is now essential at all levels of the healthcare system, from simple information to real involvement (co-construction).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOptogenetics opened the door to a new era of neuroscience. New optical developments are under way to enable high-resolution neuronal activity imaging and selective photostimulation of neuronal ensembles in freely moving animals. These advancements could allow researchers to interrogate, with cellular precision, functionally relevant neuronal circuits in the framework of naturalistic brain activity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFETHICAL ISSUES. Shared decision-making is a decision-making model and a model of interaction between healthcare professionals and healthcare users. Putting together medical-scientific data, experience, values and preferences of the caregiver on the one hand, and knowledge, needs, expectations, values andpreferences of the patient on the other, leads, if both parties wish so, to a discussion followed by a decision based on a common agreement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Shared-decision making (SDM) combines clinical expertise of the healthcare professional with patient's knowledge, values and preferences. This survey explores from a patient perspective, the implementation, facilitators and barriers of SDM in oncology in France in 2021.
Patients And Methods: From August to October 2021, the digital platform Cancer contribution conducted an online survey relayed by 11 patient associations.
Purpose: Collegial support meetings (CSM) have been set up in the Gustave Roussy Cancer Center for inpatients whose complex care requires a multi-professional approach involving many participants: oncologists but also health-caregivers, a member of the palliative care team, an intensivist, and a psychologist. This study is aimed at describing the role of this newly multidisciplinary meeting implemented in a French Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Methods: Each week, the health-caregivers decide which situations should be examined, depending on the difficulty of a case.
Two-photon, single-cell resolution optogenetics based on holographic light-targeting approaches enables the generation of precise spatiotemporal neuronal activity patterns and thus a broad range of experimental applications, such as high throughput connectivity mapping and probing neural codes for perception. Yet, current holographic approaches limit the resolution for tuning the relative spiking time of distinct cells to a few milliseconds, and the achievable number of targets to 100-200, depending on the working depth. To overcome these limitations and expand the capabilities of single-cell optogenetics, we introduce an ultra-fast sequential light targeting (FLiT) optical configuration based on the rapid switching of a temporally focused beam between holograms at kHz rates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In France, advance directives (AD) remain unknown and underused by healthcare users and professionals. This is particularly true in oncology. This work was carried out with patients and caregivers of a Comprehensive Cancer Center to improve their appropriation and information.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: Enteroendocrine cells (EECs) and their hormones are essential regulators of whole-body energy homeostasis. EECs sense luminal nutrients and microbial metabolites and subsequently secrete various hormones acting locally or at a distance. Impaired development of EECs during embryogenesis is life-threatening in newborn mice and humans due to compromised nutrient absorption.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Since 2016, France is the only country in the World where continuous deep sedation until death (CDSUD) is regulated by law. CDSUD serves as a response to refractory suffering in palliative situations where the patients' death is expected to occur in the following hours or days. Little is known on the psychological adjustment surrounding a CDSUD procedure for healthcare providers (HCPs) and relatives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe developed a flexible two-photon microendoscope (2P-FENDO) capable of all-optical brain investigation at near cellular resolution in freely moving mice. The system performs fast two-photon (2P) functional imaging and 2P holographic photostimulation of single and multiple cells using axially confined extended spots. Proof-of-principle experiments were performed in freely moving mice co-expressing jGCaMP7s and the opsin ChRmine in the visual or barrel cortex.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZ Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes
June 2022
We present the evolution of patient-centered care (PCC) and shared decision-making (SDM) in France since 2017, highlighting advantages and drawbacks of their implementation at the macro level. We then focus on several key policy and legislative milestones that are aimed to develop PCC and SDM. These milestones underline the importance of patient movements to support and fund the development of research and practice in the field.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: For cancer patients, life-threatening complications may be difficult to anticipate, which can lead to complex medical decision-making processes. Since 2015, the Gustave Roussy Cancer Center has used a Decision-Aid Form (DAF), which contains an estimated gradation of care in cases where patients' conditions worsen. In this study, we assessed the acceptability of the DAF and the predictive value of the proposed stratification of care with regard to care delivered and patient's outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
September 2021
Axonal plasticity allows neurons to control their output, which critically determines the flow of information in the brain. Axon diameter can be regulated by activity, yet how morphological changes in an axon impact its function remains poorly understood. Axonal swellings have been found on Purkinje cell axons in the cerebellum both in healthy development and in neurodegenerative diseases, and computational models predicts that axonal swellings impair axonal function.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Anxiety results from the anticipation of a threat and might be associated with poor outcome in the critically ill. This study aims at showing that anxiety at admission in critically ill patients is associated with new organ failure over the first 7 days of ICU hospitalization independently of baseline organ failure at admission.
Design: Prospective multicenter cohort study.