Publications by authors named "M C Poirier"

Social networks play an important role in the daily lives of adolescents, even when they are hospitalized in a child psychiatric ward. While they enable them to establish and maintain relationships, and can ease emotional tensions, they can also increase their sense of malaise. Many hospitalized young people report digital harassment, revenge porn or exposure to harmful or even dangerous content.

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Background: Shared decision-making is an imperative in chronic pain care. However, we know little about the decision-making process, especially in primary care where most chronic pain care is provided. We sought to understand decisional needs of people living with chronic pain in Canada.

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Transcription initiation involves the coordination of multiple events, starting with activators binding specific DNA target sequences, which recruit transcription coactivators to open chromatin and enable binding of general transcription factors and RNA polymerase II to promoters. Two key human transcriptional coactivator complexes, ATAC (ADA-two-A-containing) and SAGA (Spt-Ada-Gcn5 acetyltransferase), containing histone acetyltransferase (HAT) activity, target genomic loci to increase promoter accessibility. To better understand the function of ATAC and SAGA HAT complexes, we used in vitro biochemical and biophysical assays to characterize human ATAC and SAGA HAT module interactions with nucleosomes and how a transcription factor (TF) coordinates these interactions.

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Introduction: In 2011, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research launched a Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (POR) for healthcare and academic institutions to increase patient participation in health research. POR considers patients and caregivers as partners with scientific investigators, healthcare professionals and administrative decision-makers. As POR becomes a standard worldwide, the how-to, practical aspects of POR integration in healthcare institutions remain uncharted territory.

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Article Synopsis
  • Adolescents with a history of conduct problems (CP) are more likely to use medical and psychiatric services, and this increase is linked to experiences of peer victimization and internalizing issues like anxiety and depression.
  • The study analyzed data from 744 participants, assessing their CP history, service use, and related behaviors through questionnaires completed by themselves, their parents, and teachers.
  • Results showed that peer victimization and internalizing problems play significant roles in the connection between CP and increased service use, and this impact is consistent across genders.
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