Publications by authors named "S Bekker"
Treatment efficacy for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) with poor insight is low. Insight refers to a patient's ability to recognize that their obsessions are irrational and that their compulsions are futile attempts to reduce anxiety. This case study presents the first application of virtual reality-assisted avatar therapy for OCD (VRT-OCD) in a patient with contamination OCD and ambivalent insight.
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- High rates of ACL injuries in girls' and women's sports are a growing concern, prompting attention from researchers and organizations.
- The use of athlete-exposures (AEs) as a measure to estimate these injury rates has limitations, particularly in gender comparisons due to differences in training-to-match ratios and team sizes between men and women.
- The authors urge researchers to collect more detailed data, considering factors like individual-level AEs and contextualizing the findings, to accurately assess gender/sex disparities in ACL injuries.
Background: Studying illicit drug circulation and its effects on population health is complicated due to the criminalization of trade and consumption. Illicit drug markets have evolved with IT, moving digital to the "darknet." Previous research has analyzed darknet market listings and customer reviews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFType 2 Diabetes (T2D) is a condition that is often associated with obesity and defined by reduced sensitivity of PI3K signaling to insulin (insulin resistance), hyperinsulinemia and hyperglycemia. Molecular causes and early signaling events underlying insulin resistance are not well understood. Insulin activation of PI3K signaling causes mTOR dependent induction of PTEN translation, a negative regulator of PI3K signaling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To explore the association of socioeconomic deprivation and racialised outcomes in competitive athletes with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in the USA.
Methods: SCA cases from the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research (July 2014 to June 2021) were included. We matched Area Deprivation Index (ADI) scores (17 metrics to grade socioeconomic conditions) to the 9-digit zip codes for each athlete's home address.