Publications by authors named "Shima Shakory"

Background: High meat consumption negatively impacts human and planetary health. Meatless Monday (MM) is a widely known public health initiative that promotes healthy and sustainable diets by encouraging people to eliminate meat for one day each week.

Objectives: This study investigated whether exposure to MM, through practicing MM and receiving the MM e-newsletter, is associated with reduced meat intake on days other than Mondays.

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Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented global public health crisis. Mass vaccination is the safest and fastest pandemic exit strategy. Mass vaccination clinics are a particularly important tool in quickly achieving herd immunity.

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Alterations in glutamate neurotransmission have been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, as well as in symptom severity and cognitive deficits. The hippocampus, in particular, is a site of key functional and structural abnormalities in schizophrenia. Yet few studies have investigated hippocampal glutamate in antipsychotic-naïve first episode psychosis patients or in individuals at clinical high risk (CHR) of developing psychosis.

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