Self-Harm Before and Six Months After Obesity Surgery.

Purpose: Previous research on obesity surgery (OS) showed that patients do not only experience weight loss but also improvements in certain mental health outcomes (e.g., depression) after OS.

A multi-lab study of bilingual infants: Exploring the preference for infant-directed speech.

From the earliest months of life, infants prefer listening to and learn better from infant-directed speech (IDS) than adult-directed speech (ADS). Yet, IDS differs within communities, across languages, and across cultures, both in form and in prevalence. This large-scale, multi-site study used the diversity of bilingual infant experiences to explore the impact of different types of linguistic experience on infants' IDS preference.

Two Siblings With Valproate-Related Hyperammonemia and Novel Mutations in Glutamine Synthetase Treated With Carglumic Acid.

This case report describes 2 siblings with myoclonic epilepsy who had novel mutations in the glutamine synthetase () gene: c.316C>T, p.(Arg106*) and c.

FASStR: a framework for ensuring high-quality operational metrics in health care.

Objectives: Poorly defined measurement impairs interinstitutional comparison, interpretation of results, and process improvement in health care operations. We sought to develop a unifying framework that could be used by administrators, practitioners, and investigators to help define and document operational performance measures that are comparable and reproducible.

Study Design: Retrospective analysis.

A social marketing perspective of young adults' concepts of eating for health: is it a question of morality?

Background: Poor dietary choices are a risk factor for non-communicable diseases. Young adults have low levels of engagement towards their health and may not see the importance in the adoption of healthy eating behaviours at this stage in their lives. Here we utilise social marketing principles, digital ethnography and online conversations to gain insights into young adults' attitudes and sentiments towards healthy eating.