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Longitudinal Study of the Transition From Healthy Aging to Alzheimer Disease
(American Medical Association, 2009-10)BACKGROUND: Detection of the earliest cognitive changes signifying Alzheimer disease is difficult. OBJECTIVE: To model the cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease. DESIGN: Longitudinal archival study comparing ... -
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation in pregnancy differentially modulates arachidonic acid and DHA status across FADS genotypes in pregnancy
(Elsevier, 2015-03)Some FADS alleles are associated with lower DHA and ARA status assessed by the relative amount of arachidonic acid (ARA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in plasma and red blood cell (RBC) phospholipids (PL). We determined ... -
Improving Participation Rates for Women of Color in Health Research: The Role of Group Cohesion
(Springer Verlag, 2012-02)Adherence to physical activity and dietary interventions is a common challenge. Interventions that use group cohesion strategies show promise for increasing adherence, but have not been tested among women of color. The ... -
Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Supplementation in Infancy Reduces Heart Rate and Positively Affects Distribution of Attention
(Nature Publishing Group, 2011-10)A double-blind, randomized, controlled, parallel-group prospective trial was conducted to determine whether a dose-response existed for four different levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation on the cognitive ... -
Insurer and Employer Views on Pediatric Obesity Treatment: a Qualitative Study
(Wiley, 2013-04)OBJECTIVE The effectiveness of group-based comprehensive, multidisciplinary (stage 3) pediatric weight management programs is backed by a growing body of literature, yet insurance coverage of these programs is scarce to ... -
Lower Levels of Glutathione (GSH) in the Brains of Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Patients Measured by 1H Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shift Imaging at 3 T
(SAGE Publications, 2010-10-04)BACKGROUND: Disability levels for patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) often worsen despite a stable MRI T2 lesion burden. The presence of oxidative stress in the absence of measurable inflammation ... -
Linear/Nonlinear Relations of Activity and Fitness with Children’s Academic Achievement
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2014-12)ABSTRACT: A growing research base suggests the benefits of physical activity (PA) and aerobic fitness for children extend beyond overall health/well-being to include academic achievement (AA). The majority of research ... -
Indirect and direct relations between aerobic fitness, physical activity, and academic achievement in elementary school students
(Elsevier, 2013-10)BACKGROUND: There is evidence to suggest that increasing physical activity (PA) improves academic achievement (AA) in children and that aerobic fitness is associated with both cognitive function and AA. However, it is not ... -
The use of TeleMedicine in the Treatment of Pediatric Obesity: Feasibility and Acceptability
(Wiley, 2011-01)OBJECTIVE: To assess the feasibility of conducting empirically supported family based pediatric obesity group treatment via telemedicine. METHODS: Seventeen families were randomly assigned to one of two conditions (physician ... -
Understanding links between punitive parenting and adolescent adjustment: The relevance of context and reciprocal associations
(Wiley, 2011-06)There is considerable debate regarding the extent to which punitive parenting adversely impacts youth well being. Using an ecological-transactional model of human development, we examined reciprocity and contextual variability ... -
The Relationship between Perceived Racism/Discrimination and Health among Black American Women: A Review of the Literature from 2003-2013
(Springer Verlag, 2015-03-01)OBJECTIVES The purpose of this paper was to systematically review the literature investigating the relationship between perceived racism/discrimination and health among black American women. METHODS Searches for empirical ... -
Visual attention and autistic behavior in infants with fragile X syndrome
(Springer Verlag, 2012-06)Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the leading known inherited cause of intellectual disability and the most common known biological cause of autism. Approximately 25% to 50% of males with FXS meet full diagnostic criteria for ... -
Using Multiple Informants to Assess Child Maltreatment: Condordance Between Case File and Youth Self-Report
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-01-01)To understand the psychosocial implications of child maltreatment, methods used to document prevalence must be clear. Yet, rates of maltreatment found in child self-report are generally inconsistent with data found in case ... -
Family Influences on the Long Term Post-Disaster Recovery of Puerto Rican Youth
(Springer Verlag, 2013-01)This study focused on characteristics of the family environment that may mediate the relationship between disaster exposure and the presence of symptoms that met DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for symptom count and duration ... -
Diagnostic Utility of Cerebral White Matter Integrity in Early Alzheimer's Disease
(Taylor & Francis, 2010-08)We compared white matter integrity with brain atrophy in healthy controls and participants with very mild dementia (Clinical Dementia Rating 0 vs. 0.5) from the Brain Aging Project, a longitudinal study of aging and memory ... -
Evaluating Evidence for the Role of Sleep in Fibromyalgia: A Test of the Sleep and Pain Diathesis Model
(Springer Verlag, 2012-12-01)The Sleep and Pain Diathesis (SAPD) Model predicts that sleep quality is related to Fibromylagia (FM) outcomes such as disability and depression and that these relationships are mediated by both pain and impaired emotional ... -
Insights into failed lexical retrieval from network science
(Elsevier, 2014-02)Previous network analyses of the phonological lexicon (Vitevitch, 2008) observed a web-like structure that exhibited assortative mixing by degree: words with dense phonological neighborhoods tend to have as neighbors words ... -
Noninvasive Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Left Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Cognitive Flexibility in Tool Use
(Taylor and Francis, 2013-06-01)Recent neuroscience evidence suggests that some higher-order tasks might benefit from a reduction in sensory filtering associated with low levels of cognitive control. Guided by neuroimaging findings, we hypothesized that ... -
Prevalence and correlates of cognitive impairment in kidney transplant recipients
(BioMed Central, 2017-05-12)BACKGROUND: There is a high prevalence of cognitive impairment in dialysis patients. The prevalence of cognitive impairment after kidney transplantation is unknown. METHODS: Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting and ... -
Children’s Postdisaster Trajectories of PTS Symptoms: Predicting Chronic Distress
(Springer Verlag, 2013-08-01)BACKGROUND: There are no studies of the distinct trajectories of children’s psychological distress over the first year after a destructive natural disaster and the determinants of these trajectories. OBJECTIVE: We examined ...
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