Publications by authors named "M N Thurston"
Purpose: A settings-based approach to health promotion emphasizes everyday environments in shaping health. Prisons are, therefore, potentially important arenas for health promotion. However, the inherent restriction of prisoner agency presents a fundamental challenge in this regard.
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- Children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) show less selective and simplified muscle activation while walking due to brain injury and associated muscle changes.
- A study using high-density surface electromyography (HDsEMG) compared muscle activity in adolescents with CP and typically developed (TD) adolescents during treadmill walking, revealing more uniform muscle activation in CP individuals.
- Findings indicate that the less structured muscle activation in CP is linked to stronger ankle co-contraction and spasticity, providing insights into motor control deficits and potential improvements from interventions.
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- Radiology is leading the way in using artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, which is important for improving how patients are cared for.
- To help with this, three workshops are being organized for experts and industry leaders to share ideas and tackle challenges.
- The first workshop focused on using everyday data to evaluate AI, discussing ethics, data management, sharing methods, and the importance of considering patients' perspectives.
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- - Oxytocin is known to influence behaviors related to social and monetary rewards, but its specific effects on neural responses to these incentives are not well understood.
- - The study involved 28 healthy adults who received either oxytocin or a placebo before performing tasks related to social and monetary rewards while undergoing brain imaging.
- - Results showed that oxytocin affected brain activation differently depending on the type of incentive: it increased activity in certain areas (VTA/SN) during social rewards and decreased activity in others (NAc), highlighting its complex role in reward processing and decision-making.
Previous studies have identified high rates of burnout among health care workers and health professions faculty. Despite interventions being showcased at national meetings in both posters and platform presentations, there is minimal peer-reviewed published research focusing on professional well-being interventions and their assessments specific to pharmacy faculty. This commentary serves as a call to action to design and publish research related to work-system interventions to decrease burnout and promote professional well-being among all academic pharmacy faculty, and particularly subgroups who may be most at risk, such as women and assistant-level faculty.
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