Shared mechanisms of enhanced plasmid maintenance and antibiotic tolerance mediated by the VapBC toxin:antitoxin system by Sarah Hollingshead, Gareth McVicker, Maria R. Nielsen, YuGeng Zhang, Giulia Pilla, Rebekah A. Jones, Jonathan C. Thomas, Sarah E. H. Johansen, Rachel M. Exley, Ditlev E. Brodersen, Christoph M. Tang

“…ABSTRACT Toxin:antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread in bacteria and were first identified as plasmid addiction systems that kill bacteria lacking a TA-encoding plasmid following cell division. …”
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Smartphone video games for cognitive functions and negative symptoms in male with chronic schizophrenia: A randomized controlled trial by Wenhui Wang, Mengting Ye, Yongjie Zhong, Miaomiao Zhang, Yue Wang, Chuanchuan Chen, Yitan Yao, Ziqiao Feng, Xiaoping Yuan, Shenya Shi, Xiaoqin Zhou, Kai Zhang

“…While there was a significant difference in PMGQ scores between the two groups, neither group reached the threshold for game addiction. Conclusions: In this study, we emphasize the improvements of cognitive functions, psychiatric symptoms and overall functioning that brought by smartphone video games in male with chronic schizophrenia. …”
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Coupling Bio-Resonance Neurotechnology (BRNT) and Dual Hemispheric Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Reduces Comorbid Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Generali... by Sunder K, Makale MT, Makale M, Bodhanapati J, Murphy KT, Dennen CA, Baron D, Thanos PK, Hanna C, Ashford Jnr JW, Lewandrowski KU, Blum K

“…., Del Mar, CA, USA; 7Department of Family Medicine, Jefferson Health Northeast, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 8Division of Addiction Research & Education, Center for Sports, Exercise and Mental Health, Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA; 9Behavioral Neuropharmacology and Neuroimaging Laboratory On Addictions (BNNLA), Research Institute On Addictions, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA; 10Department of Molecular Biology, Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel; 11Stanford University, Psychiatric /Public Mental Health & Population Sciences Palo Alto, Stanford, CA, USA; 12Department of Orthopaedics, Fundación Universitaria Sanitas, Bogotá D.C., Colombia*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Kenneth Blum, Email drd2gene@gmail.comAbstract: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) are prevalent comorbidities related to a greater likelihood of poor treatment outcomes and prolonged treatment for Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) behaviors. …”
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Trial protocol of an open-label pilot study of oral naltrexone–bupropion combination pharmacotherapy for the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder (the NABU trial) by Jonathan Brett, Paul S Haber, Nicholas Lintzeris, Didier Jutras-Aswad, Nadine Ezard, Brendan Clifford, Krista J Siefried, Adrian John Dunlop, Liam Acheson, Carl Moller, Michael Christmass, Kirsten Morley, Steven Shoptaw, Madhukar H Trivedi

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Evaluation of parent and youth experiences in advisory groups as part of a mental healthcare clinical trial: protocol for a mixed-method study by Maria-Jose Santana, Gina Dimitropoulos, Suneeta Monga, Isabelle J Gagnon, Bruce Wright, Jananee Rasiah, Katrina Hurley, Antonia Stang, Amanda Newton, Stephen Freedman, Jennifer Thull-Freedman, Kassi Prisnie, Yazid N Al Hamarneh, Ellen Louise Lipman, Yaron Finkelstein, Robert Porter, Mohamed Eltorki, Lee Macdonald, Gareth Hopkin, Matthew Prebeg, Margaret Steele, Ahmed Mater, Laurence Katz, Brian Greenfield, Laurie Plotnick

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High prevalence of overweight/obesity and central obesity among women in a rural district of Nepal in 2012–2013: a population-based study by Chandra Yogal, Chandra Yogal, Astrid Kamilla Stunes, Astrid Kamilla Stunes, Sunila Shakya, Biraj Karmarcharya, Rajendra Koju, Mats P. Mosti, Mats P. Mosti, Miriam K. Gustafsson, Miriam K. Gustafsson, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Bjørn Olav Åsvold, Berit Schei, Unni Syversen, Unni Syversen

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Serious Bacterial Infections and Hepatitis C Virus Among People Who Inject Drugs: A Syndemic or Intertwined Epidemics? by Thomas J. Stopka, Robin M. Nance, L. Sarah Mixson, Hunter Spencer, Judith I. Tsui, Judith M. Leahy, Mai T. Pho, Jean DeJace, Judith Feinberg, April M. Young, Wei-Teng Yang, Amelia Baltes, Eric Romo, Randall T. Brown, Kerry Nolte, William C. Miller, William A. Zule, Wiley D. Jenkins, Joseph A. Delaney, Peter D. Friedmann

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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to sexual and reproductive health services for women and gender-diverse people with disabilities in Canada: a qualitative study by Meredith Evans, Alexandra Rego, Nkem Ogbonna, Kate Welsh, Sidrah K. Zafar, Lucy C. Barker, Anne Berndl, Janice Du Mont, Yona Lunsky, Amy McPherson, Lesley A. Tarasoff, Ashley Vandermorris, Hilary K. Brown

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Urban-Suburban Differences in Public Perspectives on Digitalizing Pediatric Research: Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Heping Fang, Ruoling Xian, Juan Li, Yingcun Li, Enmei Liu, Yan Zhao, Yan Hu

“…The main concerns regarding the use of software in pediatric research were privacy issues (n=3273, 77.4%) and potential addiction (n=2457, 58.1%). Public accounts of research institutions (n=3400, 80.4%) were the most favored for online recruitment. …”
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Low-dose trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for the treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (LOW-TMP): protocol for a phase III randomised, placebo-controlled, dose-comparison tri... by Andrea Benedetti, Cecilia T Costiniuk, Kosar Khwaja, Andrew Johnson, Barret Rush, Darrell Tan, Ranjani Somayaji, Salman Qureshi, Michaeline McGuinty, Nicole Ezer, Sara Belga, Emily G. McDonald, Zahra N. Sohani, Guillaume Butler-Laporte, Andrew Aw, Alex Carignan, Matthew P. Cheng, Bryan Coburn, Dan Gregson, Alexander Lawandi, Victor Leung, Sylvain Lother, Derek MacFadden, Leighanne Parkes, Valerie Roy, Ilan Schwartz, Miranda So, Emilie Trinh, Todd C. Lee

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Assessing alcohol industry penetration and government safeguards: the International Alcohol Control Study by Sarah Callinan, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Shiwei Liu, Sally Casswell, Thomas Karlsson, Jintana Jankhotkaew, Surasak Chaiyasong, Pranil Man Singh Pradhan, Gillian Shorter, Timothy Naimi, Ingeborg Rossow, Keitseope Nthomang, June Yue Yan Leung, Mindaugas Štelemėkas, Mom Kong, Khem Karki, Steve Randerson, Lathika Athauda, Arvind Banavaram, Orfhlaith Campbell, Song Dearak, Emeka W Dumbili, Laura Romero-García, Romtawan Kalapat, Norman Danilo Maldonado Vargas, Juan Felipe Gonzalez-Mejía, Opeyemi Oladunni, Kwame Owino, Juan Camilo Herrera Palacio, Phasith Phatchana, Vanlounny Sibounheuang, Dao The Son, Kate Vallance, Wim van Dalen, Ashley Wettlaufer, Arianne Zamora

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The risk of repeated self-harm and suicide after emergency department presentation with self-harm in mental health presenters: a retrospective cohort study with data linkage in Que... by Richard A.F. Pellatt, David R. Painter, Jesse T. Young, Kairi Kõlves, Gerben Keijzers, Stuart A. Kinner, Ed Heffernan, Julia Crilly, Marc Broadbent, Amy Johnston, Melinda Martin-Khan, Paul Scuffham, Marianne Wallis, Ping Zhang

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“Holding on to Hope”: follow up qualitative findings of a tobacco treatment intervention for people experiencing mental health conditions by Tessa-May Zirnsak, Kristen McCarter, Melissa L. McKinlay, Ashleigh Guillaumier, Nadine Cocks, Catherine Brasier, Laura Hayes, Amanda L. Baker, Donita E. Baird, Billie Bonevski, Ron Borland, Ron Borland, David Castle, Erin Forbes, Peter J. Kelly, Catherine Segan, Catherine Segan, Rohan Sweeney, Alyna Turner, Alyna Turner, Jill M. Williams, Lisa Brophy, Lisa Brophy

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Spike frequency adaptation in primate lateral prefrontal cortex neurons results from interplay between intrinsic properties and circuit dynamics by Nils A. Koch, Benjamin W. Corrigan, Michael Feyerabend, Roberto A. Gulli, Michelle S. Jimenez-Sosa, Mohamad Abbass, Julia K. Sunstrum, Sara Matovic, Megan Roussy, Rogelio Luna, Samuel A. Mestern, Borna Mahmoudian, Susheel Vijayraghavan, Hiroyuki Igarashi, Kartik S. Pradeepan, William J. Assis, J. Andrew Pruszynski, Shreejoy Tripathy, Jochen F. Staiger, Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, Andreas Neef, Stefan Treue, Stefan Everling, Wataru Inoue, Anmar Khadra, Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

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Talking with pregnant women exposed to cannabis use after cannabis legalization: Experiences of professionals working in Québec's social and healthcare system by Karen A. Dominguez-Cancino, Rose Chabot, Yolaine Frossard de Saugy, Kristelle Alunni-Menichini, Lysiane Robidoux-Léonard, Genève Guilbert-Gauthier, Karine Bertrand, Christophe Huỳnh, Pablo Martínez, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis, Nadia L'Espérance, Victoria Massamba, Julie Loslier, José Ignacio Nazif-Munoz

“…Strengthening educational initiatives and expanding addiction expertise could enhance support and intervention practices, bridging gaps left by current evidence and regulatory frameworks.…”
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Mental health disorder symptom changes among public safety personnel after emotional resilience skills training by R.N. Carleton, S. Sauer-Zavala, T.A. Teckchandani, K.Q. Maguire, L. Jamshidi, R.E. Shields, T.O. Afifi, J. Nisbet, K.L. Andrews, S.H. Stewart, A.J. Fletcher, R. Martin, R.S. MacPhee, J.C. MacDermid, T.M. Keane, A. Brunet, M. McCarron, L.M. Lix, N.A. Jones, G.P. Krätzig, J.P. Neary, G. Anderson, R. Ricciardelli, H. Cramm, J. Sareen, G.J.G. Asmundson

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Chemical and Immunological Characteristics of Aluminum-Based, Oil-Water Emulsion, and Bacterial-Origin Adjuvants by Susana Martiñón, Angel Cisneros, Sergio Villicaña, Ricardo Hernández-Miramontes, Edgar Mixcoha, Psyché Calderón-Vargas

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Young adults’ cigarillo risk perceptions, attention to warning labels and perceptions of proposed pictorial warnings: a focus group study by Michelle Jeong, Olivia A Wackowski, Stefanie K Gratale, Andrew A Strasser, Cristine D Delnevo, Zeinab Safi, Anupreet Sidhu

“…We sought to explore young adult users’ understanding of cigarillo risks and addictiveness, as well as their perceptions of current (voluntary) and proposed cigar warning labels.Design In December 2020–January 2021, we conducted eight focus groups with young adult cigarillo smokers. …”
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Esquisser un avenir sans drogue en détention préventive (Genève, 1970-1980)  by Mirjana Farkas, Cristina Ferreira

“…The practice of introspective writing, which they encouraged among drug-addicted prisoners, was one of the means of understanding, knowing and acting. …”
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Prevalence of psychoactive substance use among acutely hospitalised patients in Oslo and Moscow: a cross-sectional, observational study by Stig Tore Bogstrand, Thomas Berg, Anners Lerdal, Danil Gamboa, Benedicte Jørgenrud, Evgeny A Bryun, Vigdis Vindenes, Evgenya A Koshkina, Aleksei V Nadezhdin, Saranda Kabashi, Elena J Tetenova, Anna Armika Tussilago Nyman, Alexey J Kolgashkin, Aleksei E Petukhov, Sergey N Perekhodov, Elena N Davydova, Gudmund Nordby

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