Publications by authors named "E C Drake Coffey"
Misophonia is a disorder in which specific common sounds such as another person breathing or chewing, or the ticking of a clock, cause an atypical negative emotional response. Affected individuals may experience anger, irritability, annoyance, disgust, and anxiety, as well as physiological autonomic responses, and may find everyday environments and contexts to be unbearable in which their 'misophonic stimuli' (often called 'trigger sounds') are present. Misophonia is gradually being recognized as a genuine problem that causes significant distress and has negative consequences for individuals and their families.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify and synthesise existing literature about the use of mobile educational applications (apps) designed to enhance the learning experience of nurses and midwives.
Design: A narrative review using a systematic, structured and comprehensive search of the literature.
Data Sources: Medline Complete (EBSCO), CINAHL (EBSCO), ERIC (EBSCO) and Embase (OVID) electronic databases.
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- - The SingWell Project aims to investigate whether group singing can improve speech-in-noise perception and overall mental health in older adults experiencing unaddressed hearing loss, addressing gaps in previous studies.
- - The study will involve 210 participants aged 60 and above, who will be randomly assigned to either a group singing program or an audiobook club for 12 weeks, with various assessments conducted throughout.
- - Researchers anticipate that engaging in group singing will significantly enhance both communication abilities in noisy environments and participants' psychosocial wellbeing.
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- - Sleep spindles are brain oscillations that occur during sleep, and while they play a known role in memory consolidation, their effect on sleep continuity and memory protection is still being studied.
- - One theory suggests that spindles act as a gate, preventing external sensory information from reaching the brain's cortex, while another theory claims that spindles don't suppress sound-related responses, even though they can occur in response to sounds.
- - Research using EEG and MEG shows that auditory processing continues to some extent during sleep spindles and the brief refractory periods that follow them, providing new insights into how our brains manage sounds while we sleep.
Molecular Spherical Nucleic Acids (MSNAs) are atomically uniform dendritic nanostructures and potential delivery vehicles for oligonucleotides. The radial formulation combined with covalent conjugation may hide the oligonucleotide content and simultaneously enhance the role of appropriate conjugate groups on the outer sphere. The conjugate halo may be modulated to affect the delivery properties of the MSNAs.
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