Bolstering family therapy: Assimilating EMDR into ABFT in youth residential treatment.

The psychotherapy field has a long history of integration to improve treatment effectiveness. One type, assimilative integration, offers innovative opportunities to family therapy to incorporate the clinical and research contributions of different approaches. This paper contributes to the literature on integration by exploring how Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be assimilated into Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) for youth in residential psychiatric treatment.

The myotubular and centronuclear myopathy patient registry: a multifunctional tool for translational research.

The Myotubular and Centronuclear Myopathy Registry is an international research database containing key longitudinal data on a diverse and growing cohort of individuals affected by this group of rare and ultra-rare neuromuscular conditions. It can inform and support all areas of translational research including epidemiological and natural history studies, clinical trial feasibility planning, recruitment for clinical trials or other research studies, stand-alone clinical studies, standards of care development, and provision of real-world evidence data. For ten years, it has also served as a valuable communications tool and provided a link between the scientific and patient communities.

A Novel Use for Pelvic MRI Scans to Estimate Lean Body Mass and Screen for Sarcopenia in Patients With Rectal Cancer.

Background: Sarcopenia, the combination of low lean body mass and decreased muscle strength, is associated with significant morbidity and mortality among patients with colorectal cancer. Standard methods for assessing lean body mass and muscle strength, such as bioelectric impedance analysis and handgrip dynamometry, are rarely obtained clinically. Per National Cancer Center Network recommendations, pelvic MRI is routinely collected for staging and surveillance among patients with rectal cancer.

Muscarinic and NMDA Receptors in the Substantia Nigra Play a Role in Reward-Related Learning.

Background: Reward-related learning, where animals form associations between rewards and stimuli (i.e., conditioned stimuli [CS]) that predict or accompany those rewards, is an essential adaptive function for survival.