Simulating left atrial arrhythmias with an interactive N-body model.

Background: Heart disease and strokes are leading global killers. While atrial arrhythmias are not deadly by themselves, they can disrupt blood flow in the heart, causing blood clots. These clots can travel to the brain, causing strokes, or to the coronary arteries, causing heart attacks.

Comparing the PHQ-9 to the Multidimensional Behavioral Health Screen in Predicting Depression-Related Symptomatology in a Primary Medical Care Sample.

Depression is the most common form of psychopathology affecting people in the US. It is commonly diagnosed and treated in primary medical care settings, creating a need for a reliable, quick self-report tool used for the assessment of depression in this context. There is an emerging shift in the way psychopathology is conceptualized, as the field begins to transition from a categorical, syndrome-based model to a dimensional model.