Publications by authors named "J N Stephen"

The pituitary gland (PG) plays a central role in the production and secretion of pubertal hormones, with documented links to the increase in mental health symptoms during adolescence. Although literature has largely focused on examining whole PG volume, recent findings have demonstrated associations among pubertal hormone levels, including dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), PG subregions, and mental health symptoms during adolescence. Despite the anterior PG's role in DHEA production, studies have not yet examined potential links with transdiagnostic symptomology (i.

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An enriched environment (EE) constitutes a proficient strategy that instigates social, cognitive, and motor faculties, fostering healing and heightening learning and memory function after ischemia, while fucoidan derived from brown seaweed encompasses a diverse array of bioactivities and is known to possess neuroprotective properties. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of combining fucoidan and EE in a rat model of vascular dementia to overcome cognitive challenges. The rats were randomly assigned as Sham, Lesion - 4-vessel occlusion (4VO) i.

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In practice, collecting auxiliary labeled data with same feature space from multiple domains is difficult. Thus, we focus on the heterogeneous transfer learning to address the problem of insufficient sample sizes in neuroimaging. Viewing subjects, time, and features as dimensions, brain activation and dynamic functional connectivity data can be treated as high-order heterogeneous data with heterogeneity arising from distinct feature space.

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  • Facial expressions play a crucial role in social interactions and can influence behavior by conveying emotions, but how this ability varies between genders and is affected by anxiety is not well understood.
  • A study using fMRI involved 191 youth (ages 6 to 15) to assess how sex and anxiety impact brain responses to emotional faces, focusing on angry, happy, and neutral expressions.
  • Results showed that anxiety levels interacted with sex, where anxious girls exhibited weaker brain activation in response to happy faces, whereas anxious boys showed stronger activation, highlighting the complexity of emotional processing influenced by gender and anxiety.
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Background: Healthcare systems data (HCSD) could improve the efficiency of clinical trials, but their accuracy and validity are uncertain. Our objective was to assess the accuracy of HCSD as the sole method of outcome detection in the REstart or STop Antithrombotics Randomised Trial (RESTART; ISRCTN71907627) compared with adjudicated questionnaire follow-up and compare estimates of treatment effect.

Methods: RESTART was a prospective, open, assessor-blind, parallel-group randomised controlled trial (RCT) of antiplatelet therapy after intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) in the UK.

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