Validation of a transdiagnostic psychopathology ecological momentary assessment protocol in a university student sample.

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) collects real-time data in daily life, enhancing ecological validity and reducing recall bias. An EMA questionnaire that measures symptoms and transdiagnostic factors was recently developed with network modeling purposes. This study examines this EMA protocol's (a) subjective experience (e.

A rare case of spinal involvement in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.

Introduction: Here, we describe a rare case of a spinal arteriovenous fistula in a patient with known hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and spontaneous intraspinal hemorrhage. Furthermore, we provide a brief review of the literature on the formation of spinal arteriovenous malformations (AVM) in relation to this disease.

Case Presentation: The case involves a 54-year-old male with known HHT.

Cryoneurolysis versus radiofrequency ablation outcome on pain experience in chronic low back pain (COPE): a single-blinded randomised controlled trial.

Objective: A comparison of cryoneurolysis or radio frequency (RF) with placebo in patients with facetogenic chronic low back pain (LBP) for patient global impression of change (PGIC), pain intensity, function and quality of life, with 1-year follow-up.

Design: Single-centre, single-blinded placebo-controlled randomised controlled trial.

Setting: Single-centre study.

Combined achondroplasia and short stature homeobox-containing (SHOX) gene deletion in a Danish infant.

Short stature or shortening of the limbs can be the result of a variety of genetic variants. Achondroplasia is the most common cause of disproportionate short stature and is caused by pathogenic variants in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 gene (FGFR3). Short stature homeobox (SHOX) deficiency is caused by loss or defects of the SHOX gene or its enhancer region.

Allocating operating room capacity to non-elective neurosurgical patients improves access and safety for elective patients at Aarhus University Hospital.

Introduction: This study addresses surgical scheduling within the Department of Neurosurgery at Aarhus University Hospital (AUH). The department provides neurosurgical care to a population of 1.3 million in central Denmark, and has treatment obligations for specific neurosurgical diseases for the entire country, which has a population of 5.

Teachers' online preparedness in times of crises: trends from Norway and US.

The closing of schools world-wide in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a rapid and unexpected shift from predominantly in-person teaching to online teaching practices. As teacher educators in the field of educational technology, we wondered about the preparedness of teachers for making the transition to fully online environments. Through an internationally distributed survey consisting of predominantly open-ended questions, we captured teachers' perceptions of this transition.

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Intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) allows for a perioperative evaluation of the functional integrity of the spinal cord and nerve roots during intradural neurosurgery. This review examines established techniques as somatosensory evoked potentials and motor evoked potentials, as well as electromyography which all provide real-time feedback for the surgical team. IONM represents a valuable tool which can identify emerging neurological complications, and thus can be utilised to reduce the incidence of postoperative neurological deficits by timely interventions.

Outcome and negative events in thoracic disc herniation surgery: a Danish registry study.

Background: Thoracic disc herniation (TDH) is a surgically demanding entity. Various surgical approaches have been developed and advanced in an attempt to achieve sufficient outcomes and reduce consecutive complication rates. Still, controversy exists regarding selecting the best surgical approach.

The incidence and effect of tethered cord release for tethered cord syndrome in patients with myelomeningocele: a population-based study.

Objective: The goal of this study was to establish an incidence and assess the effect of tethered cord release for tethered cord syndrome in patients with myelomeningocele.

Methods: The study population was based on the Western Denmark Myelomeningocele Database, which contains all patients born with myelomeningocele in western Denmark since 1970. The study population was cross-referenced in 2015 with a database for surgical procedures containing all surgical procedures performed in the central Denmark region since 1996.

Rhesus D alloimmunization in pregnancy from 1996 to 2015 in Iceland: a nation-wide population study prior to routine antenatal anti-D prophylaxis.

Background: Rhesus D (RhD) incompatibility is still the most important cause of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) worldwide. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence, causes, and consequences of anti-D alloimmunizations in pregnancy in Iceland, prior to implementation of targeted routine antenatal anti-D prophylaxis (RAADP) in 2018.

Study Design And Methods: This was a nation-wide cohort study of 130 pregnancies affected by RhD alloimmunization in Iceland in the period from 1996 through 2015.

Characteristics and outcomes in patients with primary intraspinal tumours.

Introduction: We report a retrospective cohort study aimed at presenting data on incidence, patient char-ac-teristics, tumour type, level of pathology, clinical status before and after surgery and complications in patients with surgically treated primary intraspinal tumours (PIST) in Western Denmark.

Methods: Population-based data were retrieved from hospital files from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2015.

Results: In total, 78 males and 88 females with PIST were included in the study.

Novel variant causes a severe form of metatropic dysplasia.

We present a girl born with a frontal bossing, short neck, bell-shaped thorax, short limbs with prominent joints, and a tail-like coccygeal appendage. Genetic screening of identified a novel de novo heterozygous missense variant. We believe the variant causes the severe form of metatropic dysplasia in this patient.

Repair of myelomeningocele using autologous amnion graft and local flaps. A report of two cases.

We describe two cases where autologous amnion grafts were used to cover the neurosurgical repair of myelomeningocele (MMC) and the reconstructive flaps used for the skin defects. MMC is a severe fetal defect that evolves during embryonic development as a result of the neural tubes failure to close. In postnatal MMC closure, early timing of surgical repair is essential.

Dural repair using porcine ADM: two cases and a literature review.

The use of acellular dermal matrices (ADM) for dural repair is very scantily described in the literature. We report two cases of dural repair using porcine ADM and a literature review. ADM and especially Strattice pliable may be a useful alternative to other dural substitutes.

The effect of a short educational intervention on the use of urinary catheters: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of implementation of evidence-based recommendations to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs).

Design: Prospective cohort study, conducted in 2010-12, with a before and after design.

Setting: A major referral university hospital.

Electroencephalography as a clinical tool for diagnosing and monitoring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to develop and test, for the first time, a multivariate diagnostic classifier of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) based on EEG coherence measures and chronological age.

Setting: The participants were recruited in two specialised centres and three schools in Reykjavik.

Participants: The data are from a large cross-sectional cohort of 310 patients with ADHD and 351 controls, covering an age range from 5.

Managing school atmosphere through large groups: a five-session trial.

Unlabelled: This paper describes an attempt to influence school atmosphere through a large group in an elementary school. Another goal was to increase the students' feeling of responsibility for the school environment through training in democratic processes. A third goal was to explore how applicable the group dynamics of the large group are for 1st to 6th graders.

Children's sequential information search is sensitive to environmental probabilities.

We investigated 4th-grade children's search strategies on sequential search tasks in which the goal is to identify an unknown target object by asking yes-no questions about its features. We used exhaustive search to identify the most efficient question strategies and evaluated the usefulness of children's questions accordingly. Results show that children have good intuitions regarding questions' usefulness and search adaptively, relative to the statistical structure of the task environment.

Psychological distress and professional help-seeking: a prospective national study.

The study focuses on use of different healthcare providers in connection with elevated levels of psychological distress. The study used a prospective design based on two waves of a national health survey. Participants were Icelandic citizens, age 18-75, randomly drawn from the National Register (N = 1592).

Family members of cancer patients: Needs, quality of life and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Background: Family members of cancer patient's have multiple needs, many of which are not adequately met. Unmet needs may affect psychological distress and quality of life (QOL). The purpose of this study was to assess needs and unmet needs, QOL, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and the relationship between those variables in a large sample of family members of cancer patients in different phases of illness.

Common variants near CAV1 and CAV2 are associated with primary open-angle glaucoma.

We conducted a genome-wide association study for primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in 1,263 affected individuals (cases) and 34,877 controls from Iceland. We identified a common sequence variant at 7q31 (rs4236601[A], odds ratio (OR) = 1.36, P = 5.

Group differences in outpatient help-seeking for psychological distress: results from a national prospective study of Icelanders.

Aims: This study focused on group differences in health care use for psychological distress. Specifically, the study examined if some subgroups and kinds of distress predicted use of particular providers.

Methods: The study uses data from a repeated national postal health survey of a random sample of Icelanders aged 18-75.