Publications by authors named "N M Carroll"
Background: This study addresses the intricate landscape of racial disparities in healthcare delivery, with a specific focus on surgical procedures. The concern was accentuated by the challenges posed during the COVID-19 pandemic when resources became scarce. Recognizing the potential impact of provider bias in medical decision-making, the American College of Surgeons introduced the Medically Necessary and Time-Sensitive (MeNTS) scoring system.
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- - Psychotic disorders following traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often overlooked but have significant long-term effects, as seen in a case of a 63-year-old male who developed schizophrenia after a gunshot-related TBI.
- - The interplay between TBI and psychosis involves neuroplasticity and can increase the vulnerability to chronic psychotic disorders, particularly in individuals with genetic predispositions.
- - Understanding the differences between post-TBI psychosis and primary schizophrenia is essential for effective treatment, and there are challenges in proving a direct causal relationship between TBI and the development of schizophrenia.
Enantiornithines were the most diverse group of birds during the Cretaceous, comprising over half of all known species from this period. The fossil record and subsequently our knowledge of this clade is heavily skewed by the wealth of material from Lower Cretaceous deposits in China. In contrast, specimens from Upper Cretaceous deposits are rare and typically fragmentary, yet critical for understanding the extinction of this clade across the K-Pg boundary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRelationship education has shown promising effects for low-income couples on outcomes such as promoting positive communication, improving global relationship satisfaction, parenting, and individual psychological distress. Studies also indicate that couples' baseline distress (e.g.
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