The time has come for revising the rules of clozapine blood monitoring in Europe. A joint expert statement from the European Clozapine Task Force by Hélène Verdoux, Robert A. Bittner, Alkomiet Hasan, Mishal Qubad, Elias Wagner, Alexis Lepetit, Manuel Arrojo-Romero, Christian Bachmann, Marieke Beex-Oosterhuis, Jan Bogers, Andreja Celofiga, Dan Cohen, Domenico de Berardis, Marc de Hert, Carlos de Las Cuevas, Bjørn H. Ebdrup, Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, Daniel Guinart, Dolores Keating, Miloslav Kopeček, John Lally, Judit Lazáry, Jurjen J. Luykx, Olalla Maronas Amigo, Espen Molden, Jimmi Nielsen, Brian O’Donoghue, Pierre Oswald, Flavian S. Radulescu, Christopher Rohde, Marina Sagud, Emilio J. Sanz, Ivona Šimunović Filipčić, Iris E. Sommer, Heidi Taipale, Jari Tiihonen, Heli Tuppurainen, Selene Veerman, Alina Wilkowska, Edoardo Spina, Peter Schulte

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International norms for adult handgrip strength: A systematic review of data on 2.4 million adults aged 20 to 100+ years from 69 countries and regions by Grant R. Tomkinson, Justin J. Lang, Lukáš Rubín, Ryan McGrath, Bethany Gower, Terry Boyle, Marilyn G. Klug, Alexandra J. Mayhew, Henry T. Blake, Francisco B. Ortega, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez, Costan G. Magnussen, Brooklyn J. Fraser, Tetsuhiro Kidokoro, Yang Liu, Kaare Christensen, Darryl P. Leong, Mette Aadahl, Edimansyah Abdin, Julian Alcazar, Aqeel Alenazi, Bader Alqahtani, Cledir De A. Amaral, Thatiana L.M. Amaral, Alex Andrade Fernandes, Peter Axelsson, Jennifer N. Baldwin, Karin Bammann, Aline R. Barbosa, Ameline Bardo, Inosha Bimali, Peter Bjerregaard, Martin Bobak, Colin A. Boreham, Klaus Bös, João Carlos Bouzas Marins, Joshua Burns, Nadezda Capkova, Lilia Castillo-Martínez, Liang-Kung Chen, Siu Ming Choi, Rebecca K.J. Choong, Susana C. Confortin, Cyrus Cooper, Jorge E. Correa-Bautista, Amandine Cournil, Grace Cruz, Eling D. de Bruin, José Antonio De Paz, Bruno De Souza Moreira, Luiz Antonio Dos Anjos, María Cristina Enríquez Reyna, Eduardo Ferriolli, Gillian Forrester, Elena Frolova, Abadi K. Gebre, Atef M. Ghaleb, Tiffany K. Gill, Yasuyuki Gondo, M. Cristina Gonzalez, Citlali Gonzalez Alvarez, Mary K. Hannah, Nicholas C. Harvey, Jean-Yves Hogrel, Marie-Theres Huemer, Toshiko Iidaka, Lewis A. Ingram, Dmitri A. Jdanov, Victoria L. Keevil, Wolfgang Kemmler, Rose Anne Kenny, Dae-Yeon Kim, Tracy L. Kivell, Ingirid G.H. Kjær, Alexander Kluttig, Rumi Kozakai, Danit Langer, Lisbeth A. Larsen, Wei-Ju Lee, David A. Leon, Eric Lichtenstein, Bertis B. Little, Roberto Alves Lourenço, Rahul Malhotra, Robert M. Malina, Kiyoaki Matsumoto, Tal Mazor-Karsenty, Marnee J. McKay, Sinéad McLoughlin, Abhishek L. Mensegere, Mostafa Mohammadian, Virgilio Garcia Moreira, Hiroshi Murayama, Anne Murray, Anita Liberalesso Neri, Claudia Niessner, Gabriel Núñez Othón, Gabriel Olveira, Suzanne G. Orchard, Andrezj Pajak, Chan Woong Park, Julie A. Pasco, Maria E. Peña Reyes, Leani Souza Máximo Pereira, Annette Peters, Eric Tsz-Chun Poon, Margareth C. Portela, Jedd Pratt, Robinson Ramírez-Vélez, Wendy Rodríguez-García, Joanne Ryan, Mauricio A. San-Martín, Francisco José Sánchez-Torralvo, Mahnaz Saremi, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss, Satoshi Seino, Shamsul Azhar Shah, Marc Sim, Bjørn Heine Strand, Mythily Subramaniam, Charlotte Suetta, Sophia X. Sui, Jonas S. Sundarakumar, Koya Suzuki, Abdonas Tamosiunas, Maw Pin Tan, Yu Taniguchi, Barbara Thorand, Anna Turusheva, Anne Therese Tveter, Jonathan Wagner, Dao Wang, Stuart J. Warden, Julia Wearing, Shiou Liang Wee, Leo D. Westbury, Agnieszka Wiśniowska-Szurlej, Alexander Woll, Noriko Yoshimura, Ruby Yu

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Grand Challenges at the Interface of Engineering and Medicine by Shankar Subramaniam, Metin Akay, Mark A. Anastasio, Vasudev Bailey, David Boas, Paolo Bonato, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Jennifer R. Cochran, Vicki Colvin, Tejal A. Desai, James S. Duncan, Frederick H. Epstein, Stephanie Fraley, Cecilia Giachelli, K. Jane Grande-Allen, Jordan Green, X. Edward Guo, Isaac B. Hilton, Jay D. Humphrey, Chris R Johnson, George Karniadakis, Michael R. King, Robert F. Kirsch, Sanjay Kumar, Cato T. Laurencin, Song Li, Richard L. Lieber, Nigel Lovell, Prashant Mali, Susan S. Margulies, David F. Meaney, Brenda Ogle, Bernhard Palsson, Nicholas A. Peppas, Eric J. Perreault, Rick Rabbitt, Lori A. Setton, Lonnie D. Shea, Sanjeev G. Shroff, Kirk Shung, Andreas S. Tolias, Marjolein C.H. van der Meulen, Shyni Varghese, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, John A. White, Raimond Winslow, Jianyi Zhang, Kun Zhang, Charles Zukoski, Michael I. Miller

“…The themes presented in this paper include: 1) accumedicine through creation of avatars of cells, tissues, organs and whole human; 2) development of smart and responsive devices for human function augmentation; 3) exocortical technologies to understand brain function and treat neuropathologies; 4) the development of approaches to harness the human immune system for health and wellness; and 5) new strategies to engineer genomes and cells.…”
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Selected Abstracts of the 20th International Workshop on Neonatology and Pediatrics; Cagliari (Italy); October 23-26, 2024 by --- Various Authors

“…L1CAM IS SECRETED THROUGH EXOSOMES IN THE DEVELOPING HUMAN BRAIN • F. Cau, F. Coghe, G. Faa (Cagliari, Italy; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) ABS 3. …”
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Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…[iv] Recent advances using gene modification and improved immunosuppression in single-patient attempts to transplant porcine organs into brain-dead human recipients have presented more realistic human-environment models; however, these modified xenografts have still functioned only for very short durations.…”
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A High-Fat, High-Fructose Diet Induces Antioxidant Imbalance and Increases the Risk and Progression of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mice by Kanokwan Jarukamjorn, Nattharat Jearapong, Charinya Pimson, Waranya Chatuphonprasert

“…The levels of mRNA and enzymatic activities of SOD, CAT, and GPx were raised, followed by the increases in malondialdehyde levels in livers and brains of the HFFD mice. The oxidized GSSG content was increased while the total GSH and the reduced GSH were decreased, resulting in the increase in the GSH/GSSG ratio in both livers and brains of the HFFD mice. …”
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Cataract surgery and environmental sustainability: a comparative analysis of single-use versus reusable cassettes in phacoemulsification by Oscar Kallay, Rayane Sadad, Ahmed Zafzafi, Elie Motulsky

“…Objective To compare sustainability, financial implications and surgical efficiency of two phacoemulsification cassette systems for cataract surgery: a machine with single-use cassettes and another with daily, reusable ones.Methods Observational study involving retrospective cataract surgery data collection at the Centre Médical de l’Alliance, Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium, a tertiary eye care centre. …”
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Effect of Centella asiatica Leaf Extract on the Dietary Supplementation in Transgenic Drosophila Model of Parkinson’s Disease by Yasir Hasan Siddique, Falaq Naz, Smita Jyoti, Ambreen Fatima, Saba Khanam, Rahul, Fahad Ali, Syed Faiz Mujtaba, Mohammad Faisal

“…The effect of extract was studied on the climbing ability, activity pattern, lipid peroxidation, protein carbonyl content, glutathione content, and glutathione-S-transferase activity in the brains of transgenic Drosophila. The exposure of extract to PD model flies results in a significant delay in the loss of climbing ability and activity pattern and reduced the oxidative stress (P<0.05) in the brains of PD flies as compared to untreated PD flies. …”
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Œuvrer en neurodidactique de la production d’écrits by Jocelyn REULIER

“…They have been deep inside their brains, they have built up their own metacognitive tools, in order to learn how to regulate themselves and how to regulate one another, while doing their written work. …”
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Thalamic Abscess in a Newly Diagnosed Diabetic Patient by Kenneth A. Swanson, Robert J. Citronberg

“…Brain abscesses are commonly located in the cerebral cortex and cerebellum; however, solitary thalamic lesions are rare. …”
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Assessing molecular changes underlying isopropylated phenyl phosphate (IPP)-induced larval sensorimotor response deficits in zebrafish by Sunil Sharma, Alfredo Rojas, Abhishek Gour, Rosemaria Serradimigni, Connor Leong, Abhisheak Sharma, Subham Dasgupta

“…Finally, we focused on eye and brains as targets. We dissected eyes and brains from IPP-exposed larvae and conducted 5-mC assessments and mRNA-sequencing. …”
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An Unusual Cause of Vertebral Artery Dissection: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy by Fernando D. Testai, Philip B. Gorelick

“…Brain-supplying arterial dissection is considered one of the most common vascular causes of stroke in younger patients. …”
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Characters in hypno teaching and neuroscience: an overview by Achmad Setya Roswendi, Ahmad Khoiri, Denok Sunarsi

“…The results showed that the contribution of Hypno teaching is very important in realizing student character through the cognitive development of children's brains. Student characters are motivation, self-efficacy, empathy, and sympathy for others. the contribution of the research is great hope for the life of the nation in the future in realizing a golden generation of character.…”
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INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS IN NEURONAL FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS by A. L. Proskura, I. A. Malachin, T. A. Zapara, I. I. Turnaev, V. V. Suslov, A. S. Ratuschnyak

“…Dendritic spines are the postsynaptic part of excitatory synapses in higher divisions of mammalian brains. Protein–protein networks of spine microdomains form the functional system of neuronal synapses. …”
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The Impact of Online Learning System on Students Affected with Stroke Disease by Sobia Wassan, Chen Xi, Tian Shen, Kamal Gulati, Kinza Ibraheem, Rana M. Amir Latif Rajpoot

“…Sleep deprivation affects our brains in a variety of ways. The advantages of sleep much justify the risks of not having enough sleep. …”
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Exploring the impact of aging on motor imagery abilities: a systematic review with meta-analysis by José Fierro-Marrero, José Fierro-Marrero, José Fierro-Marrero, Mario González-Iglesias, Alberto Melis-Romeu, Javier Andrés López-Vidal, Alba Paris-Alemany, Alba Paris-Alemany, Alba Paris-Alemany, Roy La Touche, Roy La Touche, Roy La Touche

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Effects of Hook Maneuver on Oxygen Saturation Recovery After −40 m Apnea Dive—A Randomized Crossover Trial by Francisco DeAsís-Fernández, Álvaro Reina-Varona, Evangelos Papotsidakis, Juan Lafuente, José Fierro-Marrero

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The Small Heat Shock Protein HSP25/27 (HspB1) Is Abundant in Cultured Astrocytes and Associated with Astrocytic Pathology in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degener... by Lisa Schwarz, Grit Vollmer, Christiane Richter-Landsberg

“…Microarray and immunoblot analysis revealed that HSP27 is enhanced at the mRNA and protein levels in affected brains, and that it is associated with astrocytic pathology. …”
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ARM-Cortex M3-Based Two-Wheel Robot for Assessing Grid Cell Model of Medial Entorhinal Cortex: Progress towards Building Robots with Biologically Inspired Navigation-Cognitive Maps by J. Cuneo, L. Barboni, N. Blanco, M. del Castillo, J. Quagliotti

“…This article presents the implementation and use of a two-wheel autonomous robot and its effectiveness as a tool for studying the recently discovered use of grid cells as part of mammalian’s brains space-mapping circuitry (specifically the medial entorhinal cortex). …”
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Dopamine Neurons in the Ventral Tegmental Area: An Autopsy Case of Disorganized Type of Schizophrenia by Keiko Ikemoto, Tatsuro Oda, Akiyoshi Nishimura, Katsuji Nishi

“…The mechanisms underlying the morphological characteristics of DA neurons of the brains with schizophrenia should be elucidated epigenetically as well as genetically.…”
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