Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Study of Motor Effect by Emanuela Inguaggiato, Nadia Bolognini, Simona Fiori, Giovanni Cioni

“…Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging tool to improve upper limb motor functions after stroke acquired in adulthood; however, there is a paucity of reports on its efficacy for upper limb motor rehabilitation in congenital or early-acquired stroke. …”
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Open Surgery for Patellar Tendon Rupture and Tibial Tuberosity Avulsion Fracture in Pre-Existing Osgood Schlatter Lesion: A Case Report by Shianita Limena, Anak Agung Ngurah Ronny Kesuma, I Komang Mahendra Laksana

“…Background: In Osgood Schlatter Disease, despite being a self-limiting disease during adolescence, various complications of Osgood Schlatter Disease could also present in adulthood. An uncommon injury pattern requires surgical treatment. …”
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Prenatal exposure to nitrate alters uterine morphology and gene expression in adult female F1 generation rats by André Gilberto Cassiani, Thiago Pinheiro Arrais Aloia, Érica Kássia Sousa-Vidal, Sérgio Podgaec, Carla de Azevedo Piccinato, Caroline Serrano-Nascimento

“…Conclusion: Our results strongly suggest that prenatal exposure to nitrate programs gene expression and alters the uterine morphology in female F1 rats, potentially increasing their susceptibility to developing uterine diseases during adulthood.…”
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Scoping review of hearing loss attributed to congenital syphilis. by Aleena Amjad Hafeeez, Karina Cavalcanti Bezerra, Zaharadeen Jimoh, Francesca B Seal, Joan L Robinson, Nahla A Gomaa

“…There were 18 case reports/ case series (one of which also reported screening children with hearing loss for CS), reporting that the onset of hearing loss was usually first recognized during adolescence or adulthood. The 7 intervention studies were all uncontrolled and published in 1983 or earlier and reported variable results following treatment with penicillin, prednisone, and/or ACTH.…”
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Look-alike modelling in violence-related research: A missing data approach. by Estela Capelas Barbosa, Niels Blom, Annie Bunce

“…This paper aims to provide proof of concept to create a synthetic dataset by combining data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and administrative data from Rape Crisis England and Wales (RCEW), pertaining to victim-survivors of sexual violence in adulthood. Intuitively, the idea was to impute missing information from one dataset by borrowing the distribution from the other. …”
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Evidence of factors influencing delays in the diagnosis and treatment of bipolar disorder in adolescents and young adults. Protocol for a systematic scoping review. by Kamyar Keramatian, Emma Morton, Alexander Levit, John-Jose Nunez

“…<h4>Background</h4>Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a complex psychiatric condition that typically manifests during late adolescence and early adulthood. Over the past two decades, international studies have reported that BD often goes unrecognized and untreated for several years, which can lead to negative clinical and functional outcomes. …”
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Self-Identified Employment Challenges for Young Adults with a Cleft Lip and Palate: A Qualitative Exploration by Haslina Rani, Hasherah Mohd Ibrahim, Nurshazwanie Amira Mohamed Noor Shafie, Suziyani Mohamed, Azianura Hani Shaari, Murshida Marizan Nor, Tuti Ningseh Mohd-Dom

“…As individuals with a cleft lip and palate (CLP) transition into adulthood, they face unique employment challenges related to income, job stability, and fewer career options. …”
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Where does the panic attack come from... – characteristics and forms of therapy for anxiety disorders by Patrycja Grzech, Weronika Zubrzycka, Joanna Gmyz

“…Summary: Anxiety disorders are the most common group of mental disorders that usually begin just before or in early adulthood. Although anxiety disorders are defined as the presence of extreme fear and anxiety, they encompass a range of different disease entities. …”
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Change in angle of depressed medial tibial plateau following extra-articular mechanical realignment surgery in children with Blount’s disease who presented late for treatment by Zi Hao Phang, Mohammed Albaker, Roshan Gunalan, Adrian Yen Xian Lee, Aik Saw

“…Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine whether any change in degree of medial tibia plateau depression after extra-articular mechanical realignment surgery was observed in children with Blount’s disease who presented late for treatment in their adolescence and young adulthood. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the radiographic parameters of 22 patients (32 lower limbs) with Blount’s disease who underwent gradual correction of deformity using a ring external fixator without surgical elevation of the depressed medial tibial plateau at a mean age of 15 (range 10–37) years. …”
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Positive associations between cannabis and alcohol use polygenic risk scores and phenotypic opioid misuse among African-Americans. by Jill A Rabinowitz, Jin Jin, Sally I-Chun Kuo, Adrian I Campos, Miguel E Rentería, Andrew S Huhn, Johannes Thrul, Beth A Reboussin, Kelly Benke, Benjamin Domingue, Nicholas S Ialongo, Brion S Maher, Darlene Kertes, Vanessa Troiani, George Uhl

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Data were drawn from three cohorts of participants (N = 1,103; 45% male) who were recruited in first grade as part of a series of elementary school-based, universal preventive intervention trials conducted in a Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. In young adulthood, participants provided a DNA sample and reported on whether they had used heroin or misused prescription opioids in their lifetime. …”
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Preventative Effects of Vitamin E on Testicular Damage and Sperm Parameters in the First-Generation Mice Pups due to Pre- and Postnatal Mancozeb Exposure by Esmaeil Saddein, Tahereh Haghpanah, Seyed Noreddin Nematollahi-Mahani, Fatemeh Seyedi, Massood Ezzatabadipour

“…The male pups from each group were maintained until adulthood (8-10 W). The left testes and epididymides were removed following the sacrifice of the pups. …”
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Health among youth and young adults born in the nordic countries to immigrant parents- a scoping review by Naima Said Sheikh, Guido Philipp Emmanuel Biele, Melanie Lindsay Straiton, Marte Karoline Råberg Kjøllesdal

“…Abstract Introduction A considerable number of individuals born in the Nordic countries to immigrant parents are now entering youth and young adulthood, but we have limited knowledge about their health. …”
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Description of body image perception and its relation to nutrient intake in bodybuilders by Sarli Mohd, Riyadi Hadi, Setiawan Budi, Dzulhijjah Rahmi

“…Results: Most bodybuilders were in early adulthood (aged 26-45 years), highly educated, employed in permanent jobs, and had incomes in the high category. …”
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Knowledge-related iron deficiency anemia among undergraduate nursing female students in the University of Baghdad by Massara A. Najm, Ali Hussein Alek Al-Ganmi, Ahmed Fleih Hassan

“…BACKGROUND: Globally, iron deficiency anemia is a problematic nutritional deficiency health-related issue that impacts early-adulthood people such as university students. The aim was to asses female nursing students’ knowledge concerning iron deficiency anemia in the College of Nursing, University of Baghdad. …”
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Asymptomatic Intestinal Malrotation Progressing to Midgut Volvulus in a Decompensated Alcoholic Cirrhotic Adult: A Rare Scenario Requiring Special Considerations by Vatche Melkonian, Pablo Quadri, Chintalapati R. Varma, Mustafa Nazzal, Henry B. Randall, Minh-Tri J. P. Nguyen

“…Rarely, it remains asymptomatic and is discovered incidentally only during adulthood when it seldom causes intestinal complications. …”
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REDUCING EATING DISORDERS THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY: A CASE STUDY OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA by CARANFIL Narcisa Gianina

“…The onset of the most clinical cases occurs in adolescence or young adulthood. Data provided by psychiatric practice reveal that eating disorders occur more frequently in women, compared with men. …”
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The importance of developing healthy personal boundaries of students for building a sustainable work-life balance by Mariya S. Volkova, Anastasiya A. Silivonenko, Liubov V. Fialkina

“…Students are in the age of their personality development, somewhere between childhood and adulthood, and therefore their psychological state is especially contradictory: the foundations laid down by their parents are fading into the background, and everything left unsaid is replenished through personal ambitions and personal study of the world around them. …”
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Vaccines for cancer interception in familial adenomatous polyposis by David E. Johnson, Mary L. Disis

“…FAP is associated with the development of hundreds of adenomas in the small and large intestines of individuals starting in the teenage years with a near 100% risk of developing colorectal cancer by adulthood. Eventually polyps develop throughout the gastrointestinal tract. …”
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Patient education interventions for adolescent and young adult kidney transplant recipients- a scoping review. by Michael Corr, Clare McKeaveney, Fina Wurm, Aisling Courtney, Helen Noble

“…<h4>Background</h4>Adolescence and young adulthood are high risk periods for kidney transplant recipients. …”
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Trends in the prevalence of obesity and estimation of the direct health costs attributable to child and adolescent obesity in Brazil from 2013 to 2022. by Eduardo Augusto Fernandes Nilson, Michele Gonçalves da Costa, Ana Carolina Rocha de Oliveira, Olivia Souza Honorio, Raphael Barreto da Conceição Barbosa

“…The impacts of childhood obesity include higher risk of disease during childhood and of obesity and non-communicable diseases in adulthood and represent an important epidemiological and economic burden to countries. …”
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