Publications by authors named "Emery L"

Individuals can sway legal, medical, employment, or other decisions by dishonestly self-reporting on psychological tests. Accordingly, the Comprehensive Assessment of Traits relevant to Personality Disorder (CAT-PD) and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) include validity scales to detect overreporting and underreporting. Although many studies have empirically tested the validity scales of the MMPI-2 and the MMPI-2-RF, fewer have done so with the updated MMPI-3, and none with the CAT-PD.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • People with higher attachment avoidance often perceive self-change in relationships as a loss, which can lead to lower commitment in those relationships.
  • Research found that this perceived loss of self does not align with external indicators, such as behaviors or third-party assessments.
  • Four studies confirmed that avoidantly attached individuals experience a greater sense of self-loss but fail to have that loss reflected in objective measures, highlighting a disconnect between subjective experiences and external observations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: PDA and ASD are common intracardiac shunts noted in prematurely born infants. While there is evidence of persistent PDA and ASD associated with a higher risk for developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia (ICS-BPD) and pulmonary hypertension (ICS-BPD-PH), the underlying pathogenesis is poorly understood and hence challenging to identify at-risk infants. Our study goal was to evaluate transcriptomic expression and associated pathways in tracheal aspirates (TAs) of low-birth-weight infants with hemodynamically significant cardiac shunt (ICS) that develop bronchopulmonary dysplasia (ICS-BPD) and pulmonary hypertension (ICS-BPD-PH).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Despite the widespread use of humor in social interactions and the considerable literature on humor in multiple fields of study, the use of humor in parenting has received very little formal study. The purpose of this pilot study was to gather preliminary data on the use of humor in the raising of children.

Materials And Methods: We developed and administered a 10-item survey to measure people's experiences being raised with humor and their views regarding humor as a parenting tool.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is linked to heart disease and assessed through a genome-wide association study (GWAS) involving 22,400 participants from various backgrounds.
  • The study confirmed connections with four known genetic loci and discovered two new loci related to CAC, with supportive replication findings for both.
  • Functional tests suggest that ARSE promotes calcification in vascular smooth muscle cells and its variants may influence CAC levels, identifying ARSE as a key target for potential treatments in vascular calcific diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: UK general practice training requires trainees to evidence clinical competencies through reflective writing entries in online portfolios. Trainees who complete their medical degree in the UK experience reflection as an undergraduate, whereas 80% of international medical graduates (IMGs) have no previous experience of reflection.

Aim: To explore IMGs' perspectives on the positive and negative aspects of reflection in the context of postgraduate GP training.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objective: To describe staff and family members' opinions about closed-circuit television (CCTV) in communal and private areas of residential aged care facilities (RACF), and to investigate how this relates to perceptions of care quality.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was developed to capture perceptions of CCTV's influence on care quality, and acceptable locations for CCTV placement. Data were recorded as ordinal-scale and open responses.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to evaluate how a gentle vibratory stimulus affects brain responses to painful skin punctures in infants and whether certain behavioral signs could predict these responses.* -
  • Conducted in a neonatal ICU, 134 infants were randomly assigned to receive either the vibratory stimulus or no stimulus before a heel stick, measuring brain activity via EEG to assess pain response.* -
  • Results showed that the vibratory stimulus significantly reduced brain responses to pain, but behavioral signs (like facial expressions) were not reliable indicators of pain levels in the brain.*
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a complex disease influenced by various genetic factors and molecular mechanisms that vary by cell type and ancestry.
  • In a large study involving over 2.5 million individuals, researchers identified 1,289 significant genetic associations linked to T2D, including 145 new loci not previously reported.
  • The study categorized T2D signals into eight distinct clusters based on their connections to cardiometabolic traits and showed that these genetic profiles are linked to vascular complications, emphasizing the role of obesity-related processes across different ancestry groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Cholinergic receptor nicotinic epsilon (CHRNE) subunit mutations cause postsynaptic type of congenital myasthenic syndrome either as a primary acetylcholine-receptor deficiency or abnormal channel kinetics in the receptor. We report a novel homozygous variant (c.322C > T, p.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background/objective: The Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) within the DSM-5 includes separable components representing general personality dysfunction (Criterion A) and maladaptive personality traits (Criterion B). Some critique Criterion A for accounting for little incremental variance in PD beyond Criterion B. However, Morey et al.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Infants with critical congenital heart defects (CCHD) are at high risk for feeding challenges and neurodevelopmental delays; however, few interventions promoting the neurodevelopmental progression of feeding have been studied with this population. Contingent mother's voice has been successfully used as positive reinforcement for non-nutritive suck (NNS) in studies with preterm infants, leading to improved weight gain and more rapid cessation of tube feedings; however, this type of intervention has not been studied in infants with CCHD. This study aimed to determine whether an NNS-training protocol using the mother's voice as positive reinforcement and validated in preterm infants could improve oral feeding outcomes in hospitalized infants with CCHD undergoing cardiac surgical procedures.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Interactions among single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of surfactant protein (SP) are associated with acute respiratory failure (ARF) and its short-term outcome, pulmonary dysfunction at discharge (PDAD) in children. However, genetic association studies using individual SNPs have not been conducted before. We hypothesize that SP genetic variants are associated with pediatric ARF and its short-term complications by themselves.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a heterogeneous disease that develops through diverse pathophysiological processes. To characterise the genetic contribution to these processes across ancestry groups, we aggregate genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from 2,535,601 individuals (39.7% non-European ancestry), including 428,452 T2D cases.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Social and personality psychologists aim to "understand individuals in their social contexts for the benefit of all people" (Society for Personality and Social Psychology, n.d.).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Personality pathology is increasingly conceptualized within hierarchical, dimensional trait models. The Comprehensive Assessment of Traits Relevant to Personality Disorders (CAT-PD) is a pathological-trait measure with potential to improve on currently prevailing instruments because it has wider content coverage; however, its domain-level structure, which is of scientific and clinical interest, is not established. In this study, we investigated the structure and construct validity of the CAT-PD's domain level to facilitate wider use of the measure.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: A validated risk model with inputs of pretreatment sodium and albumin can identify patients at risk for hospitalization during cancer treatment. We evaluated how the model compares with risk estimates from treating oncologists.

Methods: We evaluated the 30-day risk of hospitalization or death in patients starting palliative-intent systemic therapy for solid tumor malignancy.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: The availability of whole-genome sequencing data in large studies has enabled the assessment of coding and noncoding variants across the allele frequency spectrum for their associations with blood pressure.

Methods: We conducted a multiancestry whole-genome sequencing analysis of blood pressure among 51 456 Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine and Centers for Common Disease Genomics program participants (stage-1). Stage-2 analyses leveraged array data from UK Biobank (N=383 145), Million Veteran Program (N=318 891), and Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (N=10 643) participants, along with whole-exome sequencing data from UK Biobank (N=199 631) participants.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

We assembled an ancestrally diverse collection of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in 180,834 affected individuals and 1,159,055 controls (48.9% non-European descent) through the Diabetes Meta-Analysis of Trans-Ethnic association studies (DIAMANTE) Consortium. Multi-ancestry GWAS meta-analysis identified 237 loci attaining stringent genome-wide significance (P < 5 × 10), which were delineated to 338 distinct association signals.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: MicroRNAs (miRNA) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression playing a key role in organogenesis. MiRNAs are studied in tracheal aspirates (TA) of preterm infants. However; this is difficult to obtain in infants who are not intubated.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • - Human genetic studies show that shorter leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is linked to a higher risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), while the relationship between LTL and various cancers is less clear.
  • - Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), which involves the growth of blood cells with certain mutations, increases the risk for both blood cancers and CAD, with telomerase reverse transcriptase being a key genetic factor in CHIP.
  • - Research from the TOPMed program and UK Biobank reveals that longer genetically predicted LTL increases the likelihood of developing CHIP, which then leads to a decrease in measured LTL, providing insights into how these factors might contribute to CAD prevention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The third industrial revolution has radically impacted the transformation of hospitals. Through the adoption of key digital technologies, hospitals have become more accessible, flexible, organised, responsive and able to deliver more personalised care. The digitalisation of patient health records, one of the most remarkable achievements to date in healthcare management, has enabled new opportunities, including the idea of hospitals evolving to become artificially intelligent.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF