White Matter, Cognition, and Electrophysiological Variables in Bipolar Disorder: Using Multimodal Integration of Biomarker Variables Associated With Bipolar Disorder to Elucidate Deficits.

Aim: This study aimed to evaluate associations in bipolar disorder (BD) across multimodal measures of white matter microstructure (using diffusion tensor imaging; DTI), cognitive, behavioral, and brain electrophysiological measures (using electroencephalography; EEG).

Methods: Subjects were recruited through the Psychosis and Affective Research Domains and Intermediate Phenotypes Consortium (n = 45 bipolar with psychosis, n = 40 bipolar without psychosis, n = 66 healthy subjects). DTI data were used to quantify the white matter variables, fractional anisotropy (FA) and radial diffusivity (RD).

Dynamics of X chromosome hyper-expression and inactivation in male tissues during stick insect development.

Differentiated sex chromosomes are frequently associated with major transcriptional changes: the evolution of dosage compensation (DC) to equalize gene expression between the sexes and the establishment of meiotic sex chromosome inactivation (MSCI). Our study investigates the mechanisms and developmental dynamics of dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in the stick insect species T. poppense.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on invasive pneumococcal disease in American Indian communities in the Southwest US.

American Indian (AI) communities in the Southwest have a high burden of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and COVID-19. Through laboratory-based surveillance, the impact of the pandemic on IPD incidence and serotype distribution was evaluated in two AI communities. IPD rates were lower during the pandemic (21.

Parallelized Tools for the Preparation and Curation of Large Libraries for Virtual Screening.

We introduce a software package, ParaLig, that provides solutions for several workflows occurring repeatedly in computational drug discovery: parameterization of small molecules with partial charges and free energies of solvation, generation of conformers, virtual chemical reactions, creating combinatorial libraries, and molecule editing tasks. Throughout, we emphasize the maintenance/creation of 3D coordinates and better interoperability. The latter is achieved by stable embedding of meta-information into output files and by improving the mutual compatibility of molecular representations (e.

Bariatric surgery significantly reduces progression from prediabetes to diabetes compared with the general population: 15-year single-institution data.

Background: There is a paucity of literature on the impact for bariatric surgery on the progression from prediabetes (PDM) to type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Objectives: To evaluate the progression from PDM to T2DM in bariatric surgery compared with a nonsurgical cohort.

Setting: Single academic institution, Center of Bariatric Excellence.