A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Treatments for Depression in Rural and Remote Residents.

Rural and remote populations have a high burden of depression and poorer access to mental healthcare services than their urban counterparts. This systematic review aimed to assess the effectiveness of psychological and pharmacological treatments on reducing depression specifically in rural and remote residents. Cochrane Library, Medline, PsycInfo, Embase and Scopus, and two clinical trial registries were searched.

Barriers and Facilitators Influencing Parents' Willingness to Follow Healthcare Provider Guidance for Addressing Behaviors Linked to Early Childhood Obesity Risk: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Introduction: This study aims to assess parents' willingness to modify behaviors associated with obesity risk upon a provider's recommendation in the first six months of life among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic families.

Method: Twenty parents completed a survey about their current infant feeding, sleep, and nutritional behaviors that guided a tailored semistructured interview.

Results: Barriers to parents' willingness to modify behaviors associated with obesity risk in infancy included prioritizing perception of infant hunger and relying on parental intuition.

Systematic Review of Pediatric Photoprotection in Children of Color.

Background: Early childhood sun exposure contributes to lifetime risk of skin cancer. Many individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds believe their skin tone confers immunity to sun damage; however, evidence of negative outcomes exists. Best practice in photoprotection for children of color is unclear.

Neurons exploit stochastic growth to rapidly and economically build dense radially oriented dendritic arbors.

Dendrites grow by stochastic branching, elongation, and retraction. A key question is whether such a mechanism is sufficient to form highly branched dendritic morphologies. Alternatively, are signals from other cells or is the topological hierarchy of the growing network necessary for dendrite geometry? To answer these questions, we developed a mean-field model in which branch dynamics is isotropic and homogenous (i.