Experiences of living with overweight/obesity and early type 2 diabetes in Singapore-a qualitative interview study.

Objectives: To understand the lived experience of adults with overweight/obesity and early type 2 diabetes in a modern urban environment, and the interrelations among the various aspects of these experiences and participants' attitudes to weight management.

Design: Qualitative inductive approach to analysing data thematically from semistructured interviews and interpreted from a socioecological perspective.

Setting: Primary care clinics located in northern and central Singapore.

Cross-country variations in the caregiver role: evidence from the ENTWINE-iCohort study.

Background: Globally, economically developed countries face similar ageing demographics and the challenge of a 'care gap', yet they vary due to different care and formal support systems, and different cultural and societal norms around illness and care. The aim of this exploratory study was to examine cross-country variations in caregiver motivations, willingness, values, meaning in life, illness beliefs, and experiences of wellbeing, gain, health-related quality of life, burden and depression, across 6 European countries and Israel. Cross-country differences in the above-mentioned informal caregiver experiences are rarely described.

Neuromyths: Misconceptions about neurodevelopment by Italian teachers.

Background: Neuromyths are commonly held misconceptions about the brain, often generated by a misunderstanding of scientifically established facts. To date, limited research has explored the pervalence of neuromyths about neurodevelopmental disorders in the teacher population.

Method: The current study investigated the prevalence of teachers' general and neurodevelopmental neuromyths among 820 Italian teachers.

Cohort profile: The ENTWINE iCohort study, a multinational longitudinal web-based study of informal care.

Informal care is a key pillar of long-term care provision across Europe and will likely play an even greater role in the future. Thus, research that enhances our understanding of caregiving experiences becomes increasingly relevant. The ENTWINE iCohort Study examines the personal, psychological, social, economic, and geographic factors that shape caregiving experiences.

Design of a Multi-Feature Classification Scheme for Infant Epileptic Seizures.

Neonatal epileptic seizures take place in the early childhood years, accounting for a severe condition with several deaths and neurological problems in newborn neonates. Despite the early advancements on the diagnosis and/or treatment of this condition, as a major difficulty accounts the inability of the physicians to identify and characterize a seizure, as one a small percentage gets detected in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). An important step towards any kind of seizure classification is the detection and reduction of non-cerebral activity.