The impact of a fairytale-like story on the food choices of preschool children.

The ongoing obesity epidemic is an indicator that traditional efforts towards diet change are insufficient, and interventions focusing mainly on restrictions of unhealthy food are of limited success. Therefore, approaches targeting food preferences should be integral in counteracting the current epidemic. However, food preferences are affected by a multitude of factors and are usually resistant to changes later in life.

Assessing the influence of latency variability on EEG classifiers - a case study of face repetition priming.

Unlabelled: Data-driven strategies have been widely used to distinguish experimental effects on single-trial EEG signals. However, how latency variability, such as within-condition jitter or latency shifts between conditions, affects the performance of EEG classifiers has not been well investigated. Without explicitly considering and disentangling such attributes of single trials, neural network-based classifiers have limitations in measuring their contributions.

AAV library screening identifies novel vector for efficient transduction of human aorta.

Targeted gene delivery to vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) could prevent or improve a variety of diseases affecting the vasculature and particularly the aorta. Thus, we aimed to develop a delivery vector that efficiently targets VSMCs. We selected engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids from a random AAV capsid library and tested the top enriched motifs in parallel screening through individual barcoding.

Parenthood status and plasma oxytocin levels predict specific emotion perception abilities.

Superior recognition of positive emotional facial expressions compared to negative expressions is well established. However, it is unclear whether this superiority effect differs between non-parents and parents, for whom emotion perception (EP) is an indispensable skill. Although EP has been shown to be modulated by the neuropeptide oxytocin, a central factor in the development of parental care, very little research has addressed the relationship between EP skills, the transition to parenthood, and plasma oxytocin levels.

Reliability and validity of the Game Addiction Scale in Malaysian Adolescents.

Objectives: Problematic gaming behavior has been an issue in many countries, raising the need for assessment tools. The Game Addiction Scale for Adolescents (GASA) by Lemmens et al. is widely used for assessing game addiction and has been adopted for use in various countries.