Determining associations between Big Five personality traits and executive function in an undergraduate student sample.

Objective: The present study sought to determine the associations between executive functioning and Big Five personality traits in an undergraduate sample.

Method: Participants included 200 undergraduates (73% women), with a mean age of approximately 21 years. Participants completed the Big Five Inventory-44 and a psychological assessment battery, which included the Trail Making Test and the Semantic Fluency Test.

Relationship between central autonomic effective connectivity and heart rate variability: A Resting-state fMRI dynamic causal modeling study.

The central autonomic network (CAN) serves as a regulatory hub with top-down regulatory control and integration of bottom-up physiological feedback via the autonomic nervous system. Heart rate variability (HRV)-the time variance of the heart's beat-to-beat intervals-is an index of the CAN's affective and behavioral regulatory capacity. Although neural functional connectivities that are associated with HRV and CAN have been well studied, no published report to date has studied effective (directional) connectivities (EC) that are associated with HRV and CAN.

CWTCH in the community: Improving education to reduce adverse outcomes for patients who fall in nursing homes.

Falls in nursing homes (NH) are common and cause significant morbidity and mortality. We proposed that by improving staff education, the volume of emergency calls, hospital conveyance and adverse patient outcomes could be reduced. An analysis of the volume of emergency calls coded as Falls from January 2020 to February 2022, with 4907 calls in total, 866 were falls (17.