Publications by authors named "Silas Monje"
Animals exhibit sex-specific behaviors that are governed by sexually dimorphic circuits. One such behavior in male , courtship, is regulated by various sensory modalities, including olfaction. Here, we reveal how sexually dimorphic olfactory pathways in male flies converge at the third-order, onto lateral horn output neurons, to regulate courtship.
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- The study investigates how social determinants of health (SDoH) like race, insurance, and income affect access to and outcomes of spine tumor surgeries, revealing disparities compared to intracranial tumor cases.
- Data from over 6 million spine tumor admissions from 2002 to 2019 were analyzed, focusing on how these SDoH correlate with surgical outcomes such as mortality, complications, and length of stay.
- Findings suggest non-White patients and those with nonprivate insurance faced lower chances of receiving surgery, worse presenting conditions, and poorer discharge outcomes, indicating significant health inequities in spine tumor treatment.
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- The study investigates how neighborhood-level resource disadvantage, measured by the Area Deprivation Index (ADI), affects long-term outcomes after spine tumor surgery.
- Researchers analyzed data from 237 patients treated between 2015 and 2022, categorizing them into advantaged and disadvantaged based on their ADI scores.
- Results revealed that disadvantaged patients had worse functional status, higher ambulation deficits, and more frequent non-elective surgeries compared to their advantaged counterparts.
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- Giant pituitary adenomas (GPAs) represent a small but significant portion of pituitary tumors, and the endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal (EET) approach has become the preferred surgical method, surpassing older techniques due to improvements in surgical outcomes since 2012.
- A systematic review analyzed various studies to compare EET with microsurgical transsphenoidal (MT) and transcranial (TC) approaches, evaluating factors like gross total resection rates, visual improvement, and complications.
- Results showed that EET had higher gross total resection rates (42%) and better visual outcomes (85%) compared to MT (33% and 73%) and TC (8% and 56
Objective: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based text generators such as Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) have come into the forefront of modern medicine. Given the similarity between AI-generated and human-composed text, tools need to be developed to quickly differentiate the two. Previous work has shown that simple grammatical analysis can reliably differentiate AI-generated text from human-written text.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalysis of Google search data related to the development of birth plans.
Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM
November 2023
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of transcarotid arterial revascularization (TCAR) as a viable intervention in the treatment of symptomatic carotid artery stenosis.
Methods: The authors performed a retrospective review of prospectively collected data of the first 62 consecutive patients treated at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, who underwent a TCAR for symptomatic carotid artery stenosis between November 11, 2020, and March 31, 2022. Relevant demographic, comorbidity, and perioperative data were extracted through retrospective chart review.