Publications by authors named "Matthew J Garner"

Rationale: Drug users often report using drugs to enhance social situations, and empirical studies support the idea that drugs increase both social behavior and the value of social interactions. One way that drugs may affect social behavior is by altering social processing, for example by decreasing perceptions of negative emotion in others.

Objectives: We examined effects of d-amphetamine on processing of emotional facial expressions and on the social behavior of talking.

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Objective: To identify how psychiatric co-morbidity was identified and assessed, in studies of attentional bias in clinical samples of patients with alcohol use disorders (AUDs).

Design: Systematic review methodology was used to identify studies and abstract data on alcohol-related attentional biases and measurement of psychiatric co-morbidity.

Results: Seventeen papers were identified that met the criteria for inclusion.

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Two studies tested the hypothesis that Rejection Sensitivity (RS) increases vulnerability to disruption of attention by social threat cues, as would be consistent with prior evidence that it motivates individuals to prioritize detecting and managing potential rejection at a cost to other personal and interpersonal goals. In Study 1, RS predicted disruption of ongoing goal-directed attention by social threat but not negative words in an Emotional Stroop task. In Study 2, RS predicted attentional avoidance of threatening but not pleasant faces in a Visual Probe task.

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A ubiquitous early step in infection of man and animals by enteric bacterial pathogens like Salmonella, Shigella and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is the translocation of virulence effector proteins into mammalian cells via specialized type III secretion systems (TTSSs). Translocated effectors subvert the host cytoskeleton and stimulate signalling to promote bacterial internalization or survival. Target cell plasma membrane cholesterol is central to pathogen-host cross-talk, but the precise nature of its critical contribution remains unknown.

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The bacterial pathogen Salmonella triggers its own uptake into non-phagocytic mammalian cells. Entry is induced by the delivery of bacterial effector pro-teins that subvert signalling and promote cytoskeletal rearrangement, although the molecular mechanisms that co-ordinate initial pathogen-host cell recognition remain poorly characterized. Here we show that cholesterol is essential for Salmonella uptake.

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