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Neurology
April 2023
From the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center (S.O., J.Y., L.Y., D.B., W.B., S.T., F.G., Y.W., J.A.S., D.A.B.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago; Departments of Neurological Sciences (S.O., J.Y., L.Y., S.T., J.A.S., D.A.B.) and Internal Medicine (F.G.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Department of Epidemiology (J.Z.), University of Florida, Gainesville; Center for Translational & Computational Neuroimmunology (P.L.D.J.), Department of Neurology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York; Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain (P.L.D.J.), Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York; and Department of Pathology (J.A.S.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
Background And Objectives: Lifetime risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia is twofold higher in women compared with men, and low estrogen levels in postmenopause have been suggested as a possible contributor. We examined 3 (, , and ) variants in association with AD traits as an indirect method to test the association between estrogen and AD in women. Although the study focus was on women, in a comparison, we separately examined molecular variants in men.
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February 2023
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Department of Paediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Objective: Ambient extreme temperatures have been associated with mental and behavior disorders (MBDs). However, few studies have assesed whether vulnerability factors such as ambient air pollution, pre-existing mental health conditions and residential environmental factors increase susceptibility. This study aims to evaluate the associations between short-term variations in outdoor ambient extreme temperatures and MBD-related emergency department (ED) visits and how these associations are modified by vulnerability factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Happiness Stud
November 2022
Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Unlabelled: The start and end of a romantic relationship are associated with substantial changes in life satisfaction. Yet, whether Big Five personality traits moderate these relationship transition effects is hardly known. Such knowledge helps to understand individual variation in relationship transition effects and provides the possibility to further test the stress and social support explanations of these effects.
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February 2023
Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; VA CT Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut. Electronic address:
Background: The presentation, etiology, and relative risk of psychiatric disorders are strongly influenced by biological sex. Neuroticism is a transdiagnostic feature of psychiatric disorders displaying prominent sex differences. We performed genome-wide association studies of neuroticism separately in males and females to identify sex-specific genetic and transcriptomic profiles.
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