Publications by authors named "J K Merrill"

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  • Young adults who drink heavily often face both positive and regretted romantic or sexual experiences, with gender and past sexual assault possibly influencing these experiences.
  • The study involved 201 young adults who reported high drinking habits, tracking their alcohol and cannabis use alongside their romantic encounters over 29 days.
  • Results showed that drinking more increased both positive and regretted experiences, with simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use generally not affecting positive experiences; however, it decreased the likelihood of regretted experiences for women, suggesting a protective effect that was not seen for men.
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Unlabelled: The need for improve medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment outcomes can be limited by co-occurring polysubstance use, mental health, and chronic pain conditions. Interoceptive training may facilitate well-being and support medication treatment for MOUD.

Objectives: While effective, medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) treatment outcomes can be limited by co-occurring polysubstance use, mental health, and chronic pain conditions.

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Emotion regulation (ER), or the ability to modulate the experience and expression of emotion, is critical to adaptive functioning and is a key feature of mood disorders. At the same time, normal aging is associated with changes in ER, though the interaction of aging with the presence of a mood disorder are unclear. Here, we review what is known about ER and its underlying neural mechanisms in late life mood disorders, specifically late life depression and bipolar disorder.

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We present a Bayesian inference-based nonlinear least-squares fitting approach developed to reliably fit challenging, noisy data in an automated and robust manner. The advantages of using Bayesian inference for nonlinear fitting are demonstrated by applying this approach to a set of temperature-dependent film thickness () data collected by ellipsometry for thin films of polystyrene (PS) and poly(2-vinylpyridine) (P2VP). The glass transition experimentally presents as a continuous transition in thickness characterized by a change in slope that in thin films with broadened transitions can become particularly subtle and challenging to fit.

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