Publications by authors named "HYMAN S"

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  • The study investigates the link between residential greenspace and the impact of COVID-19 on health, focusing on Danish adults 50 and older during the pandemic.* -
  • Researchers found that increased greenspace was associated with lower rates of COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality, especially among vulnerable groups like the elderly and those with chronic illnesses.* -
  • Health impact assessments suggested that enhancing local greenspace could have potentially prevented 8-14% of COVID-19 cases in the population studied, indicating benefits of greening initiatives.*
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Background: The supraspinatus is most frequently involved in rotator cuff tears, a common orthopaedic condition. However, the architecture of this muscle has been described only for the superficial, anterior, and posterior regions.

Purpose: To determine the muscle architecture of the deep supraspinatus.

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  • A 24-week trial tested a new approach called MAYAC for young autistic children, focusing on flexible hours and parental input compared to traditional comprehensive behavioral intervention (CBI, TAU).
  • The study involved 56 autistic children aged 18-60 months, measuring outcomes with tools like the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and others.
  • Results showed significant improvements for both MAYAC and CBI, with MAYAC being potentially as effective as CBI, while parents reported high satisfaction with both interventions.
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  • Current mental disorder classifications are based on convention and symptom clusters rather than biological mechanisms, leading to significant overlap and variability in diagnoses.
  • There is a need for a new diagnostic framework that incorporates neurobiology to enhance treatment options and help patients better understand their illnesses.
  • The ECNP New Frontiers Meeting 2024 aims to establish a roadmap for improved precision diagnostics by focusing on innovative technologies, the biology of mental illness, and translating this knowledge into effective treatment strategies.*
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Background: Few cohort studies have examined the associations of natural surroundings (green and blue space) with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and show mixed findings. We aimed to investigate the associations between long-term exposure to green and blue space and incidence of CVD in the Danish Nurse Cohort.

Methods: We followed 19,070 female nurses living in Denmark from 1993/1999 to 2018.

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Youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities typically have higher rates of tics and stereotypies compared to children with otherwise typical development. Differentiating between these two pediatric movement disorders can be challenging due to overlapping clinical features, but is relevant due to distinct treatment modalities. The current study evaluated sensitivity and specificity of a tic screening measure, the Motor or Vocal Inventory of Tics (MOVeIT) in a pediatric sample enriched for stereotypy and tics.

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Background: Visual symptoms are common after concussion. Rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks are simple performance measures that demonstrate worse time scores in the setting of acute or more remote injury.

Methods: We evaluated the capacity for the Mobile Universal Lexicon Evaluation System (MULES) and Staggered Uneven Number (SUN) testing to be feasibly administered during preseason testing in a cohort of youth ice hockey athletes using a novel computerized app, the Mobile Integrated Cognitive Kit (MICK).

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Background: Greenspaces contribute positively to mental and physical well-being, promote social cohesion, and alleviate environmental stressors, such as air pollution. Ecological studies suggest that greenspace may affect incidence and severity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Objective: This study examines the association between residential greenspace and COVID-19 related hospitalization and death.

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Background: Neuro-ophthalmology frequently requires a complex and multi-faceted clinical assessment supported by sophisticated imaging techniques in order to assess disease status. The current approach to diagnosis requires substantial expertise and time. The emergence of AI has brought forth innovative solutions to streamline and enhance this diagnostic process, which is especially valuable given the shortage of neuro-ophthalmologists.

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  • Objective markers are crucial for developing treatments for mental disorders like schizophrenia, helping to distinguish between patients and track disease progress objectively.
  • Previous studies on neurophysiological differences in schizophrenia, primarily conducted in Europe and America, have limitations such as small sample sizes and lack of diversity, making their findings less applicable to broader populations.
  • The Global Research Initiative on the Neurophysiology of Schizophrenia (GRINS) aims to fill these gaps with a large study focusing on East Asian populations, collecting comprehensive data through various research sessions to improve the understanding of neurophysiological markers across psychiatric conditions.
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Continuity of operations for government is an evolving philosophy, much like exercises and after-action reports. Continuity continues to identify areas for growth and improvement as more people become involved in the conversation. This paper briefly describes the evolution of continuity in the USA and its application in the State of Texas.

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Clinical trials for central nervous system disorders often enroll patients with unrecognized heterogeneous diseases, leading to costly trials that have high failure rates. Here, we discuss the potential of emerging technologies and datasets to elucidate disease mechanisms and identify biomarkers to improve patient stratification and monitoring of disease progression in clinical trials for neuropsychiatric disorders. Greater efforts must be centered on rigorously standardizing data collection and sharing of methods, datasets, and analytical tools across sectors.

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Several long-period radio transients have recently been discovered, with strongly polarized coherent radio pulses appearing on timescales between tens to thousands of seconds. In some cases, the radio pulses have been interpreted as coming from rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields, known as magnetars; the origin of other, occasionally periodic and less-well-sampled radio transients is still debated. Coherent periodic radio emission is usually explained by rotating dipolar magnetic fields and pair-production mechanisms, but such models do not easily predict radio emission from such slowly rotating neutron stars and maintain it for extended times.

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Purpose: SUPER-Finland is a large Finnish collection of psychosis cases. This cohort also represents the Finnish contribution to the Stanley Global Neuropsychiatric Genetics Initiative, which seeks to diversify genetic sample collection to include Asian, Latin American and African populations in addition to known population isolates, such as Finland.

Participants: 10 474 individuals aged 18 years or older were recruited throughout the country.

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Importance: Associations between prenatal SARS-CoV-2 exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes have substantial public health relevance. A previous study found no association between prenatal SARS-CoV-2 infection and parent-reported infant neurodevelopmental outcomes, but standardized observational assessments are needed to confirm this finding.

Objective: To assess whether mild or asymptomatic maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection vs no infection during pregnancy is associated with infant neurodevelopmental differences at ages 5 to 11 months.

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Exposure to outdoor air pollution may affect incidence and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this retrospective cohort based on patient records from the Greater Manchester Care Records, all first COVID-19 cases diagnosed between March 1, 2020 and May 31, 2022 were followed until COVID-19 related hospitalization or death within 28 days. Long-term exposure was estimated using mean annual concentrations of particulate matter with diameter ≤2.

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It is unclear how the 22q11.2 deletion predisposes to psychiatric disease. To study this, we generated induced pluripotent stem cells from deletion carriers and controls and utilized CRISPR/Cas9 to introduce the heterozygous deletion into a control cell line.

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Background: Though germline TP53 pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV) are associated with Li-Fraumeni syndrome, many detected by multigene panels represent aberrant clonal expansion (ACE), most due to clonal hematopoiesis (CH). Discerning ACE/CH from germline variants and postzygotic mosaicism (PZM) is critically needed for risk assessment and management.

Methods: Participants in the Li-Fraumeni & TP53 Understanding & Progress (LiFT UP) study with a TP53 PV were eligible.

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The Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP) has emerged out of the quantitative approach to psychiatric nosology. This approach identifies psychopathology constructs based on patterns of co-variation among signs and symptoms. The initial HiTOP model, which was published in 2017, is based on a large literature that spans decades of research.

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Background: Studies have shown that infant temperament varies with maternal psychosocial factors, in utero illness, and environmental stressors. We predicted that the pandemic would shape infant temperament through maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy and/or maternal postnatal stress. To test this, we examined associations among infant temperament, maternal prenatal SARS-CoV-2 infection, maternal postnatal stress, and postnatal COVID-related life disruptions.

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Background And Objectives: Selecting applications for college admission is critical for university operation and development. This paper leverages machine learning techniques to support enrollment management teams through data-informed decision-making in this otherwise laborious admissions processing.

Research Design And Measures: Two aspects of university admissions are considered.

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  • * Researchers discovered 287 genomic regions associated with schizophrenia, emphasizing genes specifically active in excitatory and inhibitory neurons, and identified 120 key genes potentially responsible for these associations.
  • * The findings highlight important biological processes related to neuronal function, suggesting overlaps between common and rare genetic variants in both schizophrenia and neurodevelopmental disorders, ultimately aiding future research on these conditions.
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