Publications by authors named "J C Badcock"
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- * From 2018 to 2021, ticks were collected and analyzed for the presence of B. odocoilei, revealing a 12% overall prevalence in I. scapularis across central and eastern Canada, with higher rates in specific years.
- * The study highlights the stable establishment of B. odocoilei in tick populations and emphasizes the need for ongoing surveillance to better understand and manage disease transmission.
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- Ticks are key vectors for Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases in Canada, and analyzing tick surveillance data helps identify areas at risk and guide public health efforts.
- The study utilized both passive and active surveillance data from various health authorities and eTick for 2020 to examine seasonal and geographical trends in tick populations and the pathogens they carry.
- Results showed significant tick submissions across provinces, with multiple pathogens identified, providing valuable information to assess the exposure risk to these diseases nationwide.
Introduction: Anomalous perceptions are characterised by the subjective experience of a range of distorted and/or hallucinatory percepts. Whilst considerable attention has been paid to the neurocognitive processes contributing to anomalous perceptions amongst older adults, less is known about the social factors (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Childhood disturbances in social, emotional, language, motor and cognitive functioning, and schizotypy have each been implicated as precursors of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. We investigated whether relationships between early childhood developmental vulnerabilities and childhood schizotypy are mediated by educational underachievement in middle childhood.
Methods: Participants were members of a large Australian (n = 19,216) population cohort followed longitudinally.
Age differences in the prevalence of loneliness have been a key focus among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. However, the degree to which those reflect genuine differences in the experience of loneliness or the way individuals understand and respond to loneliness measures is yet to be examined. The current study explored the age measurement invariance of the 20-item Revised University of California Los Angeles, Loneliness Scale (UCLA-LSR) and its shorter forms in a U.
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