Publications by authors named "C Gerrity"
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- * Data was gathered from 582 women, including a diverse group with 20% identifying as racial minorities and 54.5% as Hispanic, who completed assessments on fatigue, pain, depression, and overall quality of life (QOL).
- * Results showed no significant differences in PRO severity based on race or language, but indicated that poorer quality of life was linked to high symptoms of anxiety and physical functioning, with current smokers also reporting worse physical performance.
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- The rise of dollar stores in the U.S. as food retailers raises significant issues concerning diet, nutrition, and community well-being, prompting an interdisciplinary workshop in Boston in 2022 to explore these topics.
- Experts identified nine key research areas related to dollar stores, including their local community impacts, health aspects, systemic issues like racism and food access, and comparisons to other food sources.
- The findings highlight a critical gap in research regarding the effects of dollar stores on public health and equity, emphasizing the need for collaboration among various fields to address these emerging challenges.
In dynamic environments with volatile rewards the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is believed to determine whether a visual object is relevant and should be chosen. The ACC may achieve this by integrating reward information over time to estimate which objects are worth to explore and which objects should be avoided. Such a higher-order meta-awareness about which objects should be explored predicts that the ACC causally contributes to choices when the reward values of objects are unknown and must be inferred from ongoing exploration.
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- Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) rarely shows up during diagnosis but can be found in ovaries during autopsy.
- A case is presented of a 20-year-old woman with a large ovarian mass and elevated tumor markers, initially thought to be a dysgerminoma.
- After surgery, the final diagnosis was Ann Arbor stage IVE Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, and she is currently undergoing chemotherapy with R-CHOP treatment.
Parents and clinicians caring for infants with neurologic disease often make high-stakes decisions about infant care. To characterize how these decisions occur, we enrolled infants with neurologic conditions, their parents, and their clinicians in a longitudinal mixed methods study of decision making. We audio recorded family conferences as they occurred and analyzed conferences using a directed content analysis approach.
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