Respiratory and Rehabilitation Expert Consensus on Full-cycle Rehabilitation Assessment and Treatment for Elderly Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by CHEN Xin, JIA Jie, DING Yipeng, YE Xujun, DONG Anqin, HE Jing, LIAO Weijing, ZHENG Jieqiao, YU Binbin, CHEN Zuobing, FANG Yuan, YAO Liqing, ZHU Yiping, FU Jianghong, WANG Siyuan, ZHANG Yangxian

“…This consensus identifies common functional impairments in elderly COPD patients, including respiratory dysfunction, exercise tolerance impairment, psychological issues, swallowing dysfunction and cognitive impairment. …”
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Prevalence and correlates of severe anxiety among front-line nurses during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a large-scale multi-center study by Shutong Yang, Qingling Hao, Hongyu Sun, Yuan Yang, Jiao Liu, Cui Li, Yunsheng Fu, Cong Yao, Guoshuai Luo

“…Future research should delve into long-term psychological effects and implement effective intervention measures to support nurses’ mental health.…”
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Catastrophizing as a Predictor for Pain Perception and Disability Among Patients Undergoing Spinal Cord Stimulation by Juan Vicente-Mampel, Felipe Hernández-Zaballos, Francisco Javier Falaguera-Vera, David Sánchez-Poveda, Eloy Jaenada-Carrilero, Borja Huertas-Ramírez, Francisco Jose Sánchez-Montero

“…Spinal cord stimulation has proven effective in treating this syndrome, although the role of psychological factors, such as pain catastrophizing and central sensitization, remain unclear. …”
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Effects of intranasal oxytocin on neural reward processing in children and adolescents with reactive attachment disorder: A randomized controlled trial by Shinichiro Takiguchi, Shinichiro Takiguchi, Kai Makita, Takashi X. Fujisawa, Takashi X. Fujisawa, Shota Nishitani, Shota Nishitani, Akemi Tomoda, Akemi Tomoda, Akemi Tomoda

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Canonical correlation analysis of family burden of disease and quality of life in caregivers of people living with schizophrenia: evidence from Schizophrenia-specific cohort in the... by Ximei Wang, Teng Zhang, Mingsong Li, Bo Yang, Liming Wang, Chuanwen Fu, Nishang Zhang, Zhengxu Li, Ce Yang, Zhimin Zhao, Qiong Meng, Yuemei Feng, Jianzhong Yin

“…Results Domain scores for physical, psychological, social relationships, and environment of quality of life were 13.50 ± 2.61, 12.67 ± 2.40, 13.64 ± 2.32, and 12.46 ± 1.76 respectively. …”
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Comparison of brain activity metrics in Chinese and Russian students while perceiving information referencing self or others by Q. Si, J. Tian, V. A. Savostyanov, D. A. Lebedkin, A. V. Bocharov, A. N. Savostyanov

“…We tested the hypothesis that differences in brain activity in functional rest intervals between Chinese and Russian participants depend on their psychological differences in collectivism scores. It was revealed that brain functional activity depends on the subject relevance of the facial video that the participants viewed between resting-state intervals. …”
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Analysis of Optimal Health-Related Quality of Life Measures in Patients Waitlisted for Lung Transplantation by Junko Tokuno, Toyofumi F Chen-Yoshikawa, Toru Oga, Takahiro Oto, Tomoyo Okawa, Yoshinori Okada, Miki Akiba, Masaki Ikeda, Daisuke Nakajima, Masatsugu Hamaji, Hideki Motoyama, Akihiro Aoyama, Maki Isomi, Kazuo Chin, Hiroshi Date

“…We prospectively collected physiological and patient-reported data (HRQL, dyspnea, and psychological status) of 199 patients newly registered in the waiting list of lung transplantation. …”
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Stemness Maintenance Properties in Human Oral Stem Cells after Long-Term Passage by Francesca Diomede, Thangavelu Soundara Rajan, Valentina Gatta, Marco D’Aurora, Ilaria Merciaro, Marco Marchisio, Aurelio Muttini, Sergio Caputi, Placido Bramanti, Emanuela Mazzon, Oriana Trubiani

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Oral health-related quality of life of community-dwellers in the canton of Bern, Switzerland by Roberta Borg-Bartolo, Andrea Roccuzzo, Christian Tennert, Maria Prasinou, Maurus Jäggi, Pedro Molinero-Mourelle, Michael M. Bornstein, Guglielmo Campus

“…Results: The highest prevalence (199/44%, n [total] = 275 participants) of reported problems was observed in the psychological impact domain. Binary logistic regression shows that participants with rheumatoid arthritis (odds ratio [OR] = 4.86, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.70–13.87) and chewing deficiencies (OR 28.43, 95% CI = 2.11–382.68) had higher odds of having functional limitations, while participants with bleeding gums (OR = 1.69, 95% CI = 1.02–2.81) had higher odds of experiencing pain and discomfort. …”
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Integrating competency-based, interprofessional teamwork education for students: guiding principles to support current needs and future directions by Kimberly N. Williams, Elizabeth H. Lazzara, Jessica Hernandez, David Klocko, Neethu Chandran, Shannon L. Paquette, Richard Preble, Mozhdeh Sadighi, Bau Tran, Molly Kilcullen, Robert Rege, Gary Reed, Eduardo Salas, Scott I. Tannenbaum, Philip E. Greilich

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The Australian and New Zealand Fontan Registry Quality of Life Study: Protocol for a population-based assessment of quality of life among people with a Fontan circulation, their pa... by Daniel S J Costa, Kim Dalziel, Yves d’Udekem, David S Winlaw, David S Celermajer, Nadine A Kasparian, Diana Zannino, Rachel Bishop, Kate H Marshall, Susan R Woolfenden, Gary F Sholler

“…For people with Fontan physiology, physical, psychological and neurodevelopmental challenges are common. …”
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The Female Body as a Site of Patriarchal Power Play: by Liton Chakraborty Mithun

“…The victims of sexual attacks undergo psychological trauma during and after the war. In this context, Tarfia Faizullah’s debut collection of poems Seamappears as a feminist investigation into the narrative of rape victims of the Bangladesh Liberation War. …”
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The Author Inside: Celebrity Photography 1840‒1902 by Audrey Doussot

“…Portraits of Charles Dickens or George Bernard Shaw, for instance, testify to the importance of staging and accessories when seeking to construct authors’ images and to depict their universe as a materialization of their character and psychological interiority.…”
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Full-Cycle Rehabilitation Therapy of Coronary Heart Disease in the Elderly by DONG Anqin

“…The emergence of cardiac rehabilitation plays an important role in the transformation of CHD from treatment to prevention, which is conducive to halting the progression of CHD, improving the mental state and psychological pressure of patients, and accelerating the recovery of activities of daily living. …”
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The Role of Mast Cells in Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Kang Nyeong Lee, Oh Young Lee

“…The putative factors of IBS pathophysiology are visceral hypersensitivity and intestinal dysmotility, also including psychological factors, dysregulated gut-brain axis, intestinal microbiota alterations, impaired intestinal permeability, and mucosal immune alterations. …”
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Contrasting Psychotherapeutic Treatments in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: an Exploratory Review by Carlos Enrique Zerpa

“…Future research on psychological interventions in IBD should focus on the use of trial of control and experimental groups, with random assignment of participants and compliance with parameters that guarantee comparison between groups and replicability of studies, including design of a more standardized version of intervention procedures. …”
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Still Here by Kristine Gustavsen Madsø, Inger Hilde Nordhus

“…We aimed to portray a different narrative of dementia to the public, a narrative of resilience and creative capacity—and, in so doing, to knowingly recuperate and communicate the idea of psychological resilience in contradistinction to the neoliberal constructions of this concept. …”
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Kallmann Syndrome. Case presentation by Elodia Rivas Alpízar, Maidelín Garcés Saborit, Caridad Hernández Gutiérrez, Odalis Yanes Izray

“…The presentation of the case was decided due to the importance of making an early diagnosis to start substituting hormonal treatment adequately, improve the pubertal growth spurt and bone mineralization, increase muscular mass, so as to avoid psychological disturbances in adolescents with pubertal delay.…”
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The Debate on the Concept of the Person in Bioethics by Grzegorz Hołub

“…The analysis of these approaches lead to the conclusion that a human person is perceived either as an empirical and psychological entity or as a free subjectivity creating him/herself. …”
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Visualizing the change of “viewpoints” in 3D virtual art exhibition by Kazuki Matsumoto, Takeshi Okada

“…These findings support the theoretical expectation that the “mode” of viewing artworks is influenced by instructions given before viewing, which is further corroborated by the observed differences in the pattern of psychological measurements between conditions. Based on previous research and these experimental results, we discuss the effectiveness and generalizability of our methodology in capturing variations in the art-viewing process as a tool for studying art-viewing behavior not only in virtual but also in real environments.…”
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