Item response theory-based continuous test norming.

In norm-referenced psychological testing, an individual's performance is expressed in relation to a reference population using a standardized score, like an intelligence quotient score. The reference population can depend on a continuous variable, like age. Current continuous norming methods transform the raw score into an age-dependent standardized score.

[Appropriate periodontal care: a historical case in light of minimally invasive care].

A 39-year-old woman with severe periodontal inflammation was referred to a periodontist in 2013. Intraoral examination and additional diagnostics revealed generalized periodontitis, stage IV, grade C, with the presence of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans in the subgingival plaque, according to current classification. Treatment and treatment outcomes are described, followed by consideration of the treatment decisions in light of minimally invasive care and current treatment guidelines.

Essential oils mouthwash with or without alcohol in relation to effect on parameters of plaque and gingivitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: The primary aim was to systematically assess the available literature on the effect of an essential oils mouthwash without alcohol (EOalc-) compared to an essential oils mouthwash with alcohol (EOalc+) on plaque scores and parameters of gingival health. The secondary aim was to evaluate user appreciation.

Materials And Methods: The MEDLINE-PubMed and Cochrane-CENTRAL databases were searched to identify eligible studies published up to and including March 2024.

The Hemianopia Reading Questionnaire (HRQ): Development and Psychometric Qualities in a Large Community Sample.

The ability to read is important for daily life functioning. Individuals with homonymous visual field defects (iwHs) after brain injury experience frequent reading difficulties. The current study presents a novel self-report questionnaire aimed at measuring the wide variety of reading difficulties iwHs can experience: the Hemianopia Reading Questionnaire (HRQ).

User perception of fluoride mouthwashes for daily use: A randomized clinical trial.

Aim: To assess user perceptions of different commercially available fluoride mouthwashes (FL-MWs).

Methods: A single-blind, randomized clinical trial was conducted. Participants were randomly assigned to a sequence of six different FL-MWs, one of which contained alcohol.

Successful Liver Transplant From a Donor With Sickle Cell Disease.

Sickle cell disease patients have routinely been excluded from liver transplant donation due to patients historically manifesting liver disease themselves. Marginal donors have become increasingly more welcome given organ shortage. Our institution performed a liver transplant in a recipient with cholangiocarcinoma using a sickle cell disease donor liver.

Protocol for the MS-CEBA study: an observational, prospective cohort study identifying Cognitive, Energetic, Behavioural and Affective (CEBA) profiles in Multiple Sclerosis to guide neuropsychological treatment choice.

Background: Neuropsychological symptoms in the Cognitive, Energetic, Behavioural, and Affective (CEBA) domains are common in people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) and can negatively affect societal participation. The current study aims to investigate whether there are combinations of symptoms in the different CEBA domains that consistently occur together, that is, if there are CEBA profiles that can be identified. If so, this study aims to develop a screening instrument identifying CEBA profiles in PwMS to select the most suitable neuropsychological rehabilitation treatment for a given CEBA profile and consequently improve the societal participation of PwMS.

Association between malnutrition and post-acute COVID-19 sequelae: A retrospective cohort study.

Background: Long coronavirus disease consists of health problems people experience after being infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). These can be severe and include respiratory, neurological, and gastrointestinal symptoms, with resulting detrimental impacts on quality of life. Although malnutrition has been shown to increase risk of severe disease and death during acute infection, less is known about its influence on post-acute COVID-19 outcomes.

Clusters of resilience and vulnerability: executive functioning, coping and mental distress in patients with diffuse low-grade glioma.

Purpose: Diffuse low-grade gliomas (dLGG) often have a frontal location, which may negatively affect patients' executive functions (EF). Being diagnosed with dLGG and having to undergo intensive treatment can be emotionally stressful. The ability to cope with this stress in an adaptive, active and flexible way may be hampered by impaired EF.

Differential constellations of dissociative symptoms and their association with childhood trauma - a latent profile analysis.

While several studies documented a positive correlation between childhood maltreatment severity and dissociation severity, it is currently unknown whether specific dissociative symptoms cluster together among individuals with childhood trauma histories ranging from none to severe. We aimed to explore symptom constellations across the whole spectrum of dissociative processing from patients with severe dissociative disorders to healthy controls and relate these to maltreatment severity and sociodemographic characteristics. We employed latent profile analysis to explore symptom profiles based on five subscales, measuring absorption, depersonalization, derealization, somatoform and identity alteration, based on the 20 items of the German short version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale-II (20) in a large aggregate sample ( = 3,128) overrepresenting patients with trauma-related disorders.

Moving across disorders: A cross-sectional study of cognition in early onset ataxia and dystonia.

Background: Early onset ataxia (EOA) and Early Onset Dystonia (EOD) are movement disorders developing in young people (age <25 per definition). These disorders result from dysfunctional networks involving the cerebellum and basal ganglia. As these structures are also important for cognition, cognitive deficits can be expected in EOA and EOD.

MAIP: An Open-Source Tool to Enrich High-Throughput Screening Output and Identify Novel, Druglike Molecules with Antimalarial Activity.

Efforts to tackle malaria must continue for a disease that threatens half of the global population. Parasite resistance to current therapies requires new chemotypes that are able to demonstrate effectiveness and safety. Previously, we developed a machine-learning-based approach to predict compound antimalarial activity, which was trained on the compound collections of several organizations.

Fluoride, pH Value, and Titratable Acidity of Commercially Available Mouthwashes.

Aim: The primary objective of this work was to assess total soluble fluoride (TSF), pH values, and titratable acidity (TA) of various mouthwashes "in vitro," and the second was to compare fluoride content on labels with measured TSF.

Methods: Commercial mouthwashes were collected and analysed. Company, type, manufacturer data, and active ingredients (essential oils [EO], cetylpyridinium chloride [CPC], chlorhexidine [CHX], and fluoride) were described.

New treatment opportunities for older patients with acute myeloid leukemia and the increasing importance of frailty assessment - An oncogeriatric perspective.

With the introduction of targeted chemotherapy drugs, a new age of treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has begun. The promotion of the azacitidine+venetoclax combination regimen to first line of treatment in patients deemed ineligible for intensive chemotherapy marks the first of many novel combination regimens becoming part of national treatment guidelines. We review recent phase II and III clinical trials and conclude that these novel regimens offer significant increases in response rates, remission rates, and overall survival.

Mixture multilevel vector-autoregressive modeling.

With the rising popularity of intensive longitudinal research, the modeling techniques for such data are increasingly focused on individual differences. Here we present mixture multilevel vector-autoregressive modeling, which extends multilevel vector-autoregressive modeling by including a mixture, to identify individuals with similar traits and dynamic processes. This exploratory model identifies mixture components, where each component refers to individuals with similarities in means (expressing traits), autoregressions, and cross-regressions (expressing dynamics), while allowing for some interindividual differences in these attributes.

A comprehensive model framework for between-individual differences in longitudinal data.

Across different fields of research, the similarities and differences between various longitudinal models are not always eminently clear due to differences in data structure, application area, and terminology. Here we propose a comprehensive model framework that will allow simple comparisons between longitudinal models, to ease their empirical application and interpretation. At the within-individual level, our model framework accounts for various attributes of longitudinal data, such as growth and decline, cyclical trends, and the dynamic interplay between variables over time.

Changes in Dietary Inflammatory Index Score over Time and Cancer Development in Rural Post-Menopausal Women.

Inflammation plays a key role in cancer development. As an important modulator of inflammation, the role of diet should be explored. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between diets with a higher inflammatory potential, as measured by the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII), and cancer development in a cohort of rural post-menopausal women.

Trajectories of Emotion Recognition Training in Virtual Reality and Predictors of Improvement for People with a Psychotic Disorder.

Meta-analyses have found that social cognition training (SCT) has large effects on the emotion recognition ability of people with a psychotic disorder. Virtual reality (VR) could be a promising tool for delivering SCT. Presently, it is unknown how improvements in emotion recognition develop during (VR-)SCT, which factors impact improvement, and how improvements in VR relate to improvement outside VR.

Prosthesis preferences for those with upper limb loss: Discrete choice study of PULLTY® for use in regulatory decisions.

Introduction: The patient's voice in shared decision-making has progressed from physician's office to regulatory decision-making for medical devices with FDA's Patient Preference Initiative. A discrete-choice preference measure for upper limb prosthetic devices was developed to investigate patient's risk/benefit preference choices for regulatory decision making.

Methods: Rapid ethnographic procedures were used to design a discrete-choice measure describing risk and benefits of osseointegration with myoelectric control and test in a pilot preference study in adults with upper limb loss.

Does a three-dimensional Impact Message Inventory-Circumplex (IMI-C) enclose an indirect measure of reactance?

Clinicians can rely on the Impact Message Inventory-Circumplex (IMI-C) to map their emotional reactions to their patients' communication style in octant and main dimension scores on the two-dimensional interpersonal circle, based on affiliation (AFF) and control (CON) as the underlying main dimensions. However, modern emotion theories distinguish three, rather than two, robust dimensions of emotional experience and the perception of interpersonal behaviours: (1) positive versus negative evaluation (related to AFF), (2) strong versus weak (related to CON) and (3) active versus passive (arousal). In a large Dutch patient sample (N = 1,001), we first tested whether the two-dimensional circumplex structure of the IMI-C could be replicated using Browne's circumplex model.

Investigating Recovery After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage With the Imaging, Cognition and Outcome of Neuropsychological Functioning After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (ICONS) Study: Protocol for a Longitudinal, Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: A subarachnoid hemorrhage is a hemorrhage in the subarachnoid space that is often caused by the rupture of an aneurysm. Patients who survive a subarachnoid hemorrhage have a high risk of complications and a negative long-term outcome.

Objective: The aim of the Imaging, Cognition and Outcome of Neuropsychological functioning after Subarachnoid hemorrhage (ICONS) study is to investigate whether and to what extent deficits exist in multiple domains after subarachnoid hemorrhage, including cognition, emotion and behavior, and to investigate whether brain damage can be detected in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage.

The reward and punishment responsivity and motivation questionnaire (RPRM-Q): A stimulus-independent self-report measure of reward and punishment sensitivity that differentiates between responsivity and motivation.

Reward and punishment sensitivity seem important traits in understanding behavior in general and psychopathology in particular. Though the definitions used for reward and punishment sensitivity differentiate between responsivity and motivation, the measures thus far used to assess these constructs do not. Further, specificity of the type of reward (e.