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.

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.

Predictors of opioid-free discharge after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Background: Post-discharge opioid requirement after laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is minimal, yet postoperative opioid prescriptions vary and opioid-free discharges are rare.

Study Design: Adult patients who underwent LC from 01/2019-12/2019 were reviewed. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression analyses were performed to identify predictors of opioid-free discharge.

Intrathecal Morphine and Effect on Opioid Consumption and Functional Recovery after Pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Background: Single-shot intrathecal morphine (ITM) is an effective strategy for postoperative analgesia, but there are limited data on its safety, efficacy, and relationship with functional recovery among patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Study Design: This was a retrospective review of patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy from 2014 to 2020 as identified by the institutional NSQIP Hepato-pancreato-biliary database. Patients were categorized by having received no spinal analgesia, ITM, or ITM with transversus abdominus plane block (ITM+TAP).

Evaluating Age as a Predictor of Postoperative Opioid Use and Prescribing Habits in Older Adults With Cancer.

Objective: To assess the narcotic use of older patients after oncologic resection.

Design: Retrospective review.

Setting And Participants: Adults with neoplasms undergoing resection at a tertiary academic medical center.

Immune Dysfunction, Cytokine Disruption, and Stromal Changes in Myelodysplastic Syndrome: A Review.

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are myeloid neoplasms characterized by bone marrow dysfunction and increased risk of transformation to leukemia. MDS represent complex and diverse diseases that evolve from malignant hematopoietic stem cells and involve not only the proliferation of malignant cells but also the dysfunction of normal bone marrow. Specifically, the marrow microenvironment-both hematopoietic and stromal components-is disrupted in MDS.