Personalized fMRI tasks for grief severity in bereaved individuals: Emotional counting Stroop and grief elicitation protocols.

Approximately 7-10% of people experiencing bereavement following a death develop prolonged grief disorder, a psychiatric disorder included in the DSM-5-TR. Prolonged grief disorder encompasses core symptoms of intense yearning/longing for and preoccupation with thoughts or memories of the deceased person experienced to a clinically significant degree for at least the last month, other key associated symptoms (e.g.

Feelings of Empowerment Scale for Family Caregivers: Development, Exploratory, and Confirmative Analysis.

Objectives: This study aimed to validate a measure of feelings of empowerment among family caregivers of persons with life limiting illnesses.

Methods: Family caregivers ( = 295) completed a survey on their feelings of empowerment and psychosocial constructs.

Results: Utilizing exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, the study validated the Empowerment in the Context of Caregiving scale, revealing a two-factor structure related to influencing the care recipient and controlling personal outcomes, with high reliability and validity.

Investigating the Relationship Between Marital Status and Ethnicity on Neurocognitive Functioning in a Rural Older Population: A Project FRONTIER Study.

Objectives: Research indicates being married is related to better physical and psychological health. Little is known regarding the relationship between marital status and neurocognitive functioning and whether it differs based on ethnicity (Hispanic vs non-Hispanic). This is the first study to examine this relationship in a sample of aging adults in rural Texas.

A Stroke Rehabilitation Educational Program for Occupational Therapy Students and Practitioners: Usability Study.

Background: There are gaps in knowledge translation (KT) of current evidence-based practices regarding stroke assessment and rehabilitation delivered through teletherapy. A lack of this knowledge can prevent occupational therapy (OT) students and practitioners from implementing current research findings.

Objective: The aim of this pilot study was to create an educational program to translate knowledge into practice regarding the remote delivery of stroke assessment and rehabilitation to OT students and practitioners.

Use of Breath Analysis for Diagnosing COVID-19: Opportunities, Challenges, and Considerations for Future Pandemic Responses.

Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there is currently a need for accurate, rapid, and easy-to-administer diagnostic tools to help communities manage local outbreaks and assess the spread of disease. The use of artificial intelligence within the domain of breath analysis techniques has shown to have potential in diagnosing a variety of diseases, such as cancer and lung disease, by analyzing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath. This combined with their rapid, easy-to-use, and noninvasive nature makes them a good candidate for use in diagnosing COVID-19 in large scale public health operations.

The BNT-15 provides an accurate measure of English proficiency in cognitively intact bilinguals - a study in cross-cultural assessment.

This study was designed to replicate earlier reports of the utility of the Boston Naming Test - Short Form (BNT-15) as an index of limited English proficiency (LEP). Twenty-eight English-Arabic bilingual student volunteers were administered the BNT-15 as part of a brief battery of cognitive tests. The majority (23) were women, and half had LEP.

Potent antiviral agents fail to elicit genetically-stable resistance mutations in either enterovirus 71 or Coxsackievirus A16.

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) and Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16) are the two major causative agents of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), for which there are currently no licenced treatments. Here, the acquisition of resistance towards two novel capsid-binding compounds, NLD and ALD, was studied and compared to the analogous compound GPP3. During serial passage, EV71 rapidly became resistant to each compound and mutations at residues I113 and V123 in VP1 were identified.

Spironolactone and topical retinoids in adult female cyclical acne.

Purpose: To access the efficacy of spironolactone and topical retinoids in the treatment of female cyclical acne.

Methods: A retrospective chart review on 41 female patients age 19-57 years old with cyclical acne was performed. Patients were examined over the course of 2 to 102 months while taking 50 to 200 mg of spironolactone and topical tretinoin 0.

Hyaluronic acid filler for steroid atrophy.

The use of hyaluronic acid for atrophy has not been documented in the literature. In this manuscript we present a case of a patient treated with the aforementioned filler with enthusiastic results. This case shows yet another potential application for these novel products.

Quality assurance in human molecular genetics testing: status and recommendations.

Objective: The role of genetic testing has expanded with rapidly developing technology and completion of the International Human Genome Project. Development of universally acceptable quality control methods and quality assurance standards trails technology. The principle that high-quality genetic testing is important for public health motivated the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to formulate ways for improving quality assurance of human molecular genetics testing.