Publications by authors named "E D Franke"

Objectives: It has been reported that health professionals currently lack the required empathy, understanding, and knowledge about the deliberate restriction and/or omission of insulin to influence weight and/or shape, which may impact the quality of care provided. We sought to synthesize existing qualitative research pertaining to health professionals' experiences supporting individuals within this unique population.

Methods: We conducted a meta-synthesis using a meta-aggregative approach.

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Problem: Evidence-informed, best-practice recommendations concerning bereavement photography following stillbirth have yet to be proposed.

Background: Previous research has highlighted the general importance of memory-making following pregnancy loss; however, scarce studies have specifically examined bereavement photography experiences.

Aim: To examine parents', healthcare professionals' and photographers' perspectives and experiences of stillbirth bereavement photography.

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Tau-mediated neurodegeneration is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. Primary tauopathies are characterized by pathological tau accumulation and neuronal and synaptic loss. Apolipoprotein E (ApoE)-mediated neuroinflammation is involved in the progression of tau-mediated neurodegeneration, and emerging evidence suggests that the gut microbiota regulates neuroinflammation in an APOE genotype-dependent manner.

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Spontaneous fluctuations of resting-state functional connectivity have been studied in many ways, but grasping the complexity of brain activity has been difficult. Dimensional complexity measures, which are based on Eigenvalue (EV) spectrum analyses (e.g.

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