Publications by authors named "Joyce Guo"

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  • Elevated levels of extracellular free water (FW) in gray matter can predict clinical improvement in individuals experiencing their first episode of psychosis, suggesting a possible link to neuroinflammatory processes.
  • A study involving 47 participants identified two groups: "Improvers," who showed significant reduction in psychiatric symptoms after 12 months, and non-improvers, using diffusion imaging to assess FW and fractional anisotropy in brain tissue.
  • Findings indicated that Improvers exhibited higher FW in temporal regions and greater fractional anisotropy in specific white matter tracts, highlighting distinct neurobiological markers associated with better clinical outcomes in early psychosis.
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Background: Supracondylar humeral fractures (SCHF) are a common cause of orthopedic morbidity in pediatric populations across the world. The treatment of this fracture is likely one of the first procedures involving x-ray-guided wire insertion that trainee orthopedic surgeons will encounter in their career. Traditional surgical training methods of "see one, do one, teach one" are reliant on the presence of real-world cases and must be conducted within an operative environment.

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Current knowledge about functional connectivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is based on small-scale studies, limiting the generalizability of results. Moreover, the majority of studies have focused only on predefined regions or functional networks rather than connectivity throughout the entire brain. Here, we investigated differences in resting-state functional connectivity between OCD patients and healthy controls (HC) using mega-analysis of data from 1024 OCD patients and 1028 HC from 28 independent samples of the ENIGMA-OCD consortium.

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Low back pain (LBP) is frequently reported following rear impact collisions. Knowledge of how the facet joint capsule (FJC) mechanically behaves before and after rear impact collisions may help explain LBP development despite negative radiographic evidence of gross tissue failure. This study quantified the Green strain tensor in the facet joint capsule during rotation and translation range-of-motion tests completed before and following an in vitro simulation of a rear impact collision.

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Objectives: The aims of this study were to describe the following: (1) the time to change of therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes who had initiated metformin monotherapy as first-line treatment and (2) the sequence in which subsequent therapeutic regimens were introduced.

Design: Cohort study.

Setting: National study based on linked data from the New Zealand Ministry of Health's National Collections of health and pharmaceutical dispensing data.

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Background: Identifying risk factors of individuals in a clinical-high-risk state for psychosis are vital to prevention and early intervention efforts. Among prodromal abnormalities, cognitive functioning has shown intermediate levels of impairment in CHR relative to first-episode psychosis and healthy controls, highlighting a potential role as a risk factor for transition to psychosis and other negative clinical outcomes. The current study used the AX-CPT, a brief 15-min computerized task, to determine whether cognitive control impairments in CHR at baseline could predict clinical status at 12-month follow-up.

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Background: Progressive brain volume loss in schizophrenia has been reported in previous studies but its cause and regional distribution remains unclear. We investigated progressive regional brain reductions in schizophrenia and correlations with potential mediators.

Method: Participants were drawn from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966.

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Studies show evidence of longitudinal brain volume decreases in schizophrenia. We studied brain volume changes and their relation to symptom severity, level of function, cognition, and antipsychotic medication in participants with schizophrenia and control participants from a general population based birth cohort sample in a relatively long follow-up period of almost a decade. All members of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 with any psychotic disorder and a random sample not having psychosis were invited for a MRI brain scan, and clinical and cognitive assessment during 1999-2001 at the age of 33-35 years.

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