Publications by authors named "L T Dyck"

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic caused substantial disruptions in geriatric psychiatry education. In response, the AAGP created the "AAGP COVID-19 Online Trainee Curriculum" (Curriculum) a free online resource consisting of 33 recorded lectures. This study examined the uptake and impact of the Curriculum.

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Purpose Of Review: This paper summarizes the prevalence, impact, and presentation of ageism across multiple mental health care settings including inpatient, outpatient, long-term care, and criminal justice. Strategies for combating ageism are described.

Recent Findings: Ageism is a common form of bias that has deleterious medical and psychosocial consequences for older adults.

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Importance: Supplementing potassium in an effort to maintain high-normal serum concentrations is a widespread strategy used to prevent atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery (AFACS), but is not evidence-based, carries risks, and is costly.

Objective: To determine whether a lower serum potassium concentration trigger for supplementation is noninferior to a high-normal trigger.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This open-label, noninferiority, randomized clinical trial was conducted at 23 cardiac surgical centers in the United Kingdom and Germany.

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  • * Researchers used a combination of advanced techniques, including CRISPR and phosphoproteomics, to study how neuroligin-3 localizes to different types of synapses in mouse and human brains.
  • * Findings revealed that neuroligin-3 is region-specific, mainly found in excitatory synapses in the cortex and inhibitory synapses in subcortical areas, with its localization regulated by phosphorylation, affecting its interactions with other synaptic proteins.
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