Stakeholder Perspectives on Advancing Understanding of Prenatal Opioid Exposure and Brain Development From the iOPEN Consortium of the Healthy Brain and Child Development Study.

There is a dire need for research regarding the implications of opioid use during pregnancy on fetal and childhood development to better inform both medical practice and policy. The Healthy Brain and Child Development Study will examine brain and behavioral development from birth through the first decade of life. Due to large scope and anticipated complexity of this initiative, an 18-month planning phase was implemented across 28 sites across the nation.

Recommendations for integrating peer mentors in hospital-based addiction care.

Legislators and health systems have recently begun to explore the use of peer mentors as part of hospital-based addiction teams. Integrating peers into hospitals is a complex undertaking still in its infancy. Peers' lived experience of addiction and its consequences, combined with their distance from medical culture and hierarchy, is at the core of their power - and creates inherent challenges in integrating peers into hospital settings.

Soft on crime: Patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex damage allocate reduced third-party punishment to violent criminals.

The human impulse to punish those who have unjustly harmed others (i.e., third-party punishment) is critical for stable, cooperative societies.

Longitudinal evaluation of ventricular volume changes associated with mild traumatic brain injury in military service members.

Primary Objective: To investigate differences in longitudinal trajectories of ventricle-brain ratio (VBR), a general measure of brain atrophy, between Veterans with and without history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).

Research Design: Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to calculate VBR in 70 Veterans with a history of mTBI and 34 Veterans without such history at two time points approximately 3 and 8 years after a combat deployment.

Main Outcomes And Results: Both groups demonstrated a quadratic relationship between VBR and age that is consistent with normal developmental trajectories.

The effects of orthotic intervention and 9 holes of simulated golf on gait in experienced golfers.

Background: This investigation evaluated the effects of orthotic intervention on gait patterns and fatigue associated with 9 holes of simulated golf among a group of experienced golfers.

Setting: Northwestern Health Sciences University, Bloomington, Minn.

Participants: Twelve experienced golfers.