Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners experiencing therapeutic alliance while using tele-mental health: A phenomenological study.

Background: Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners have rapidly adopted and implemented tele-mental health in their practice; however it is unclear how this modality of care affects the experiential quality of therapeutic alliance, simply defined as the interpersonal working bond between provider and patient.

Objective: This study is the first to explore how psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners experience therapeutic alliance while using tele-mental health.

Design: Husserlian phenomenological qualitative study.

A Theoretical Framework for Conducting Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Virtual Care & Research.

Despite rapid adoption and implementation, theoretical research considerations for virtual care (VC), defined simply as healthcare delivered using technology, are lacking across psychiatric mental health nursing (PMHN) scholarship. By adapting Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Relations Theory (IRT) and Media Richness Theory (MRT) using an intermodern and emancipatory knowing approach, a new framework was created for guiding modern PMHN VC research. Using this theoretical framework, readers can gain awareness of how the art and science of PMHN practice can be applied to VC scholarly endeavors in the modern healthcare space.

Corneal endothelial cell density in patients receiving chemotherapy.

Purpose: This study aimed to determine if the corneal endothelium was affected by chemotherapy.

Methods: Chemotherapy patients were recruited to undergo specular microscopy before treatment and again at 1- and 2-year follow-up visits. One eye per patient, per follow-up, was selected for comparison to baseline.

Antidepressant adherence in United States active duty Army Soldiers: A small descriptive study.

While much is known about depression and antidepressant adherence associations with illness perceptions, medication beliefs, social support, and stigma in the general population, there is a dearth of knowledge among United States active duty Army Soldiers. The study objective was to explore antidepressant adherence and correlations between antidepressant adherence and illness perceptions, medication beliefs, social support, stigma and select demographic variables among Army Soldiers with depression. Results indicated age and gender were significantly correlated with and predictive of adherence.

Recognition Without Words: Using Taste to Explore Survival Processing.

Many educational demonstrations of memory and recall employ word lists and number strings; items that lend themselves to semantic organization and "chunking." By applying taste recall to the adaptive memory paradigm, which evaluates memory from a survival-based evolutionary perspective, we have developed a simple, inexpensive exercise that defies mnemonic strategies. Most adaptive memory studies have evaluated recall of words encountered while imagining survival and non-survival scenarios.

An Instructor's Guide to (Some of) the Most Amazing Papers in Neuroscience.

Although textbooks are still assigned in many undergraduate science courses, it is now not uncommon, even in some of the earliest courses in the curriculum, to supplement texts with primary source readings from the scientific literature. Not only does reading these articles help students develop an understanding of specific course content, it also helps foster an ability to engage with the discipline the way its practitioners do. One challenge with this approach, however, is that it can be difficult for instructors to select appropriate readings on topics outside of their areas of expertise as would be required in a survey course, for example.

Responses of the teleostean nucleus isthmi to looming objects and other moving stimuli.

Visually evoked extracellular neural activity was recorded from the nucleus isthmi (NI) of goldfish and bluegill sunfish. When moving anywhere within the right eye's visual field, three-dimensional checkered balls or patterns on a computer screen evoked bursts of spikes in the left NI. Object motion parallel to the longitudinal body axis gave responses that habituated markedly upon repetition, but movement into recently unstimulated regions of the visual field gave vigorous responses.

Functional relationship between nucleus isthmi and tectum in teleosts: synchrony but no topography.

Neural activity in the optic tectum was compared with activity in the nucleus isthmi (NI) of both goldfish and sunfish with the aim of understanding how the two brain structures interact to process visual information. The two species yielded very similar results. Superficial tectum responds reliably to visual stimulation with topographically organized receptive fields; deep tectum and NI respond to stimulation throughout the field of the contralateral eye and habituate rapidly.