Prevalence and Factors Associated With Depression and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese Older Persons: An Integrative Review.

China is the country with the largest population of older persons. Depression is the most common mental health issue among older adults, a trend expected to increase as societies continue to age. With the global increase in depression and depressive symptoms among this demographic, the resulting disease burden poses a significant challenge to health and social care systems in China.

Unifying Subicular Function: A Predictive Map Approach.

The successor representation has emerged as a powerful model for understanding mammalian navigation and memory; explaining the spatial coding properties of hippocampal place cells and entorhinal grid cells. However, the diverse spatial responses of subicular neurons, the primary output of the hippocampus, have eluded a unified account. Here, we demonstrate that incorporating rodent behavioural biases into the successor representation successfully reproduces the heterogeneous activity patterns of subicular neurons.

BNST CRF receptor type 1 modulates mechanical hypersensitivity induced by adolescent alcohol exposure in adult female mice.

Rationale: Alcohol exposure during adolescence has been linked to long-lasting behavioral consequences, contributing to the development of alcohol use disorder. Negative affect and chronic pain during alcohol withdrawal are critical factors influencing problematic alcohol use and relapse. Our previous research demonstrated that adolescent intermittent ethanol (AIE) vapor exposure elicits sex-specific negative affect-like behavior in adult mice following stress exposure.

Current perspective on e-cigarette use and respiratory outcomes: mechanisms and messaging.

Introduction: There has been an increasing amount of research on the consequences of e-cigarette use for respiratory outcomes, which is significant for public health and respiratory medicine. We discuss recent findings and lay out implications for prevention and treatment.

Areas Covered: Based on literature searches using several databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar) for keywords, including synonyms, 'e-cigarettes,' with 'pulmonary function,' 'oxidative stress,' and 'inflammation,' we review studies on acute effects of e-cigarette use for measures of pulmonary function and discuss selected laboratory studies on mechanisms of effect, focusing on processes with known relation to respiratory disease; oxidative stress and inflammation.