Effects of Internet Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia and Internet Sleep Hygiene Education on Sleep Quality and Executive Function Among Medical Students in Malaysia: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Vijandran Mariappan, Firdaus Mukhtar

“…Since poor sleep quality has negative physiological and psychological consequences such as on executive function, there is an opportunity to improve sleep quality and executive functions using non-pharmacological intervention such as cognitive behavioural therapy. …”
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Effects of Multisession High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Resting-State Brain Network Connectivity and Efficiency Under Running-Induced Fatigue by Changxiao Yu, Jianglong Zhan, Bin Shen, Junhong Zhou, Weijie Fu

“…This study aimed to investigate the effects of five-session high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) on resting-state brain network connectivity and efficiency under running-induced fatigue. …”
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Long-lasting effects of lavender exposure on brain resting-state networks in healthy women by Ron Kupers, Ron Kupers, Océane Dousteyssier, Jérôme Delforge, Vanessa Gonnot, Kevin Kantono, Bernard Blerot, Arnaud Pêtre, Laurence Dricot, Armin Heinecke, Armin Heinecke

“…A two-factorial ANOVA revealed significant time-varying interaction effects between the SAL and DMN. During odor exposure, functional connectivity (FC) increased within the SAL, and a negative correlation between the SAL and DMN appeared, which intensified immediately after exposure. …”
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Clinical effectiveness of nutrof total supplement for Dry age-related macular Degeneration by E. N. Eskina, A. V. Belogurova, M. A. Stepanova

“…AMD- patients revealed no positive effects of visual functions. The results of the study thus confirm the efficiency and usefulness of continuous Nutrof Total supplement administration for 3 months by dry AMD patients and all patients over 50 // Russian Ophthalmological Journal, 2016; 2: 90-5. doi: 10.21516/2072-0076-2016-9-2-90-95 .…”
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Pharmacological and resting state fMRI reveal Osteocalcin’s effects on mouse brain regions with high Gpr37 and Gpr158 expression by Natalia K. Freus, Isabel Wank, Maximilian Häfele, Liubov S. Kalinichenko, Christian P. Müller, Sandra Strobelt, Andreas Ludwig, Andreas Hess, Silke Kreitz

“…We used multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) including pharmacological MRI and resting state functional MRI, along with gene expression data for Gpr37 and Gpr158 to investigate the physiological effects of intravenously administered OCN on the wild type mouse brain. …”
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Effect of Aerobic Training on Anxiety, Activities of Daily Living and Visual Motor Skills Performance in Children with Autism: A Randomised Controlled Trial by Anju Dhingra, Aarti Gupta, Aditi

“…Aim: To study the effect of aerobic exercise on anxiety, ADLs and visual motor skills performance in children with mild to moderate ASD. …”
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Effects of Different Ecological Floating Bed Plant Assemblages on Water Purification and Phytoplankton Community Structure in Shallow Eutrophic Lakes: A Case Study in Lake Taihu by Yidong Liang, Ting Zhang, Wei Cui, Zhen Kuang, Dongpo Xu

“…Phytoplankton community structure shifted from dominance by eutrophic functional groups (primarily FG M) toward greater diversity. …”
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Therapeutic Effect of Cardiac Exercise Rehabilitation Program Based on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test on Patients with Stable Coronary Heart Disease Complicated with Hypertension by TONG Yiman, GAO Min, WANG Xinyu, CAO Yuhan, CHEN Wei

“…Compared with the control group, SBP_rest, DBP_peak, HR_rest and VE/VCO_{2 slope} in the observation group were significantly lower after treatment, HRR₁-HRR₄, VO_{2 peak}, AT, VO₂/HR_peak, METs_peak, Work_peak, SF-36 scores (physical functioning, role physical, bodily pain, general health, social functioning and mental health) were significantly higher after treatment (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05), PSQI score decreased significantly (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).ConclusionThe cardiac exercise rehabilitation program based on CPET can improve cardiac autonomic function, cardiopulmonary function, exercise ability, sleep and quality of life of patients with stable coronary heart disease complicated with hypertension, which is recommended for clinical application.…”
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Effect of Hot and Cold Chinese Medicine Whirlpool Bath Combined with Motor Control Training on Patients with Shoulder-Hand Syndrome after Stroke by ZHANG Yuming, ZHANG Xiufang, CHEN Jie, LI Ning, ZHANG Xiaolin, ZHANG Ming

“…Compared with the control group, VAS scores and hand swelling value in the observation group were significantly lower after treatment, while FMA-UE, MBI, MAL-AOU and MAL-QOM scores in the observation group were significantly higher, and the differences were statistically significant (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).ConclusionHot and cold Chinese medicine whirlpool bath combined with motor control training can effectively improve the pain, swelling and upper extremity motor function of patients with SHS after stroke, as well as improve the use of affected limb and the ability of activities of daily living.…”
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Acute Effects of Olive Leaf Tea and Olive Leaf Powder Biscuits on Postprandial Glycemia, Lipid Profile and Inflammatory Markers: A Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial in Healthy... by Panagiota Potsaki, Olga I. Papagianni, Kalliopi Almpounioti, Charalampos Soulakellis, Angeliki Voutsa, Olga Katira, Vasiliki Bountziouka, Charalampos Karantonis, Antonios E. Koutelidakis

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Impact of Chess Based Intervention on Psychomotor and Executive Function in Patients Undergoing Chronic Hemodialysis in a Tertiary Care Center-A Pilot Study by Manish Lalwani, Bhavin Modasia, Mohammad Saad

“…However, no overt complications were reported; hence, ICIT was a safe and effective intervention. Conclusions: ICIT was found to be an effective and safe intervention for improving cognitive function in dialysis patients, with a predominant effect on EFs. …”
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Comparative evaluation of oral premedication with clonidine and metoprolol on surgical field conditions and intraoperative hemodynamics during functional endoscopic sinus surgery by Udita Naithani, Priya Verma, Riyaz K. Ahamed, Santosh Choudhary, Vandana Gakkhar, Gayatri Deshpande

“…Background and Aims: Bloodless surgical field during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is an essential part, and research continues to find simple and effective regime for it. …”
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On the Effective Reducibility of a Class of Quasi-Periodic Linear Hamiltonian Systems Close to Constant Coefficients by Nina Xue, Wencai Zhao

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Perspective: Floquet engineering topological states from effective models towards realistic materials by Fangyang Zhan, Rui Chen, Zhen Ning, Da-Shuai Ma, Ziming Wang, Dong-Hui Xu, Rui Wang

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Study on the effect of electric current intensity stimulation combined with biofeedback pelvic floor muscle training on postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction by Y.N. Zhou, Y.C. Teng, G.P. Gan

“…Aim: To explore the effect of different electrical stimulation intensities combined with pelvic floor muscle training on postpartum pelvic floor dysfunction. …”
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Effects of Electrical Stimulation on Activation of Mirror Neuron Network in Healthy Adults during Motor Execution and Imitation: An fNIRS Study by Yao Cui, Fang Cong, Fu-Biao Huang, Ming Zeng, Jun Wang

“…Descriptive analysis of oxy-hemoglobin (HbO) and deoxy-hemoglobin (HbR) were used to show the hemoglobin (Hb) concentration changes after different event onsets in both CG and EG, a linear mixed-effects model (LMM) of HbO data was employed to analyze the effect of ES on the activation of MNN. …”
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Ethanol properties effects on its reaction with Mo-doped SnO2 clusters: A gas sensor model by Mudar Ahmed Abdulsattar, Rashid Hashim Jabbar, Mohammed A. Al-Seady

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Effectiveness of Structured Exercise Intervention in Cancer-Related Fatigue among Oral Cavity Cancer Patients: Randomized Controlled Trial by Madhavan Sasidharan Satish, E Vidhubala, Surendran Veeraiah, Srinivasan Vijay, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ganesharajah Selvaluxmy

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Long-term effects of infrapatellar fat pad SVF infiltration in knee osteoarthritis management: A prospective cohort study by Klaus Werner Labarre, Gerald Zimmermann

“…The correlation between the number of injected cells and functional improvements was significant for ADL at 6 months (Spearman's rho = 0.31, p = 0.044). …”
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Effects of interferential current transcutaneous electrical sensory stimulation in patients with severe dementia and dysphagia in long-term care facilities by Yoshiko Hara, Ayako Nakane, Yu Yoshizumi, Kazuharu Nakagawa, Kohei Yamaguchi, Kanako Yoshimi, Haruka Tohara

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