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BMC Palliat Care
January 2025
Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, Sturt Rd, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia, 5042, Australia.
Background: Clinicians are frequently asked 'how long' questions at end-of-life by patients and those important to them, yet predicting timeframes to death remains uncertain, even in the last weeks and days of life. Patients and families wish to know so they can ask questions, plan, make decisions, have time to visit and say their goodbyes, and have holistic care needs met. Consequently, this necessitates a more accurate assessment of empirical data to better inform prognostication and reduce uncertainty around time until death.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychon Bull Rev
January 2025
Department of Psychology, McGill University, 2001 Av. McGill College, Montréal, QC, H3A 1G1, Canada.
A growing body of evidence across psychology suggests that (cognitive) effort exertion increases in proximity to a goal state. For instance, previous work has shown that participants respond more quickly, but not less accurately, when they near a goal-as indicated by a filling progress bar. Yet it remains unclear when over the course of a cognitively demanding task do people monitor progress information: Do they continuously monitor their goal progress over the course of a task, or attend more frequently to it as they near their goal? To answer this question, we used eye-tracking to examine trial-by-trial changes in progress monitoring as participants completed blocks of an attentionally demanding oddball task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCureus
December 2024
Pharmacology, Maharaja's Institute of Medical Sciences, Vizianagaram, IND.
Background Self-medication is commonly practiced, especially among medical students, administrative staff, and faculty from preclinical and paraclinical departments, driven by accessibility, familiarity with medications, and perceived convenience. This study explored the incidence, patterns, and factors influencing self-medication within the Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba, with a primary focus on medical students and administrative staff. The faculty included in the study were from preclinical and paraclinical departments such as anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, forensic medicine, microbiology, and community medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAIMS Public Health
October 2024
Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, SS554 Bivio Per Sestu, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy.
Background: The COVID-19 outbreak played a significant psychological impact on nurses, as they coped with intense emotional and cognitive demands, in a context in which the Health System was not prepared to face the emergency. Literature showed that pandemics influenced the nurses' stress and psychosocial health due to poor rest, high work overloads, a lack of control over the patient flows, and a frequent isolation from family. Under these circumstances, nurses experienced severe psychological and mental stressors that generated mental health problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGenes Brain Behav
February 2025
Université Paris Cité, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris (IPNP), Paris, France.
Schizophrenia is a frequent and disabling disease. The persistence of the disorder despite its harmful consequences represents an evolutionary paradox. Based on recent discoveries in genetics, scientists have formulated the "price-to-pay" hypothesis: schizophrenia would be intimately related to human evolution, particularly to brain development and human-specific higher cognitive functions.
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