Publications by authors named "F L Beaudoin"
During the transition period, the incidence of diseases increases due to a negative energy balance that affects metabolic and immune status. Limiting milk production at the beginning of lactation by milking once a day or by incompletely milking twice a day improves the metabolic and immune status of cows. Previous studies have shown that milk production is highly responsive to additional MP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chronic pain following traumatic stress exposure (TSE) is common. Increasing evidence suggests inflammatory/immune mechanisms are induced by TSE, play a key role in the recovery process versus development of post-TSE chronic pain, and are sex specific. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with chronic pain after TSE in a sex-specific manner.
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- Emergency department visits present a key opportunity for delivering prevention services to individuals at high risk of opioid overdose, particularly by assessing their "recovery capital."
- This study analyzed data from 543 patients enrolled in a randomized controlled trial in Rhode Island, focusing on the relationship between recovery capital (measured by the BARC-10) and subsequent treatment engagement and overdose risk.
- The results indicated that the majority of patients had low recovery capital (BARC-10 score <47), and there was no significant association found between recovery capital and either 30-day treatment engagement or the risk of non-fatal or fatal overdoses within 18 months.
Social Buffering of PTSD: Longitudinal Effects and Neural Mediators.
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
November 2024
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- This study investigates how early social support after trauma affects PTSD symptoms over time and explores specific brain regions involved in this process, such as the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
- Using data from 315 participants in the AURORA study, researchers measured PTSD symptoms and perceived emotional support at multiple time points, while also conducting neuroimaging two weeks post-trauma.
- The results show that early emotional support is linked to changes in white matter connectivity between key brain areas, but it also highlighted unexpected increased threat reactivity in the default mode network, suggesting complex neural pathways in response to social threats.
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- - The study explored the use of wrist-wearable devices to track heart rate variability (HRV) as potential biomarkers for recovery from adverse neuropsychiatric effects following traumatic events, specifically in a socioeconomically disadvantaged group.
- - Researchers monitored participants within 72 hours of a traumatic event and over a course of 6 months, validating HRV characteristics linked to various posttraumatic symptoms, such as pain, re-experiencing, and anxiety.
- - The findings indicate that changes in HRV could effectively predict improvements or worsening in symptoms, suggesting that these wearable technologies could serve as useful screening tools for identifying posttraumatic stress in high-risk populations.