Publications by authors named "Z Williams"

Introduction: The social characteristics of others can powerfully influence our decisions. They can also be broadly impacted by the social context in which these choices are made, making the effects of these characteristics on decision-making especially challenging to understand.

Methods: Here, we developed a Generative Narrative Survey that provided participants with naturalistic scenarios that richly varied in social context and theme but that also systematically varied the characteristics of the social agents involved, followed by a question.

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Large airway collapse on expiration is an increasingly recognized cause of airway centric symptoms. The 2 primary conditions are tracheobronchomalacia and excessive dynamic airway collapse, the latter a common comorbidity in those with underlying lung disease. The exertional dyspnea associated with these conditions is complex and exercise intolerance is a key clinical feature, despite the fact that the precise relationship is not fully understood.

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Purpose: Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a complex neurological disease characterized by symptoms of raised intracranial pressure of unclear etiology. Although optic nerve sheath dilation is a common MR neuroimaging feature of IIH, how and why it occurs remains poorly understood. The purpose of the presented analysis was to investigate if optic nerve sheath dilation might be associated with neuroimaging correlates of cerebrospinal and interstitial fluid homeostasis.

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