Community perceptions and willingness to donate biospecimen for Alzheimer's disease research in Nairobi, Kenya.

BackgroundBiomarkers play a critical role in understanding disease mechanisms and advancing diagnostic and treatment options for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD). However, in many A…

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Bosire, E. N., Kamau, L. W., Kiio, C., Blackmon, K., Taylor, O. N., Shah, J., Sokhi, D., Mbugua, S., Meier, I., Hooker, J., Narayan, V., Merali, Z., & Udeh-Momoh, C. (2025). Community perceptions and willingness to donate biospecimen for Alzheimer's disease research in Nairobi, Kenya.. J Alzheimers Dis, 108(4), 1537-1548. https://doi.org/10.1177/13872877251389227

Toward precision stroke rehabilitation: an integrated causal machine learning and clinician feedback approach.

OBJECTIVES: To identify causal mechanisms driving variations in the impact of rehabilitation treatments on stroke survivors' independence improvement during rehabilitation inpatient stays.MATERIALS AN…

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Baird, A., Xiao, H., Xia, Y., Sellers, C., Metzger, K., Patterson, K., Nyankori, L., & Anderson, R. (2025). Toward precision stroke rehabilitation: an integrated causal machine learning and clinician feedback approach.. JAMIA Open, 8(6), ooaf146. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamiaopen/ooaf146

What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might.

This essay explores the contributions of psychosocial factors in sustaining wars and other extreme group conflicts. It uses the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF) to better understand will to fight (WTF) a…

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Atran, S. (2025). What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might.. Ann N Y Acad Sci, 1554(1), 66-86. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70113

Design Thinking for Cross-Sector Collaboration in Mental Health: The Brain Spirit Desk Model.

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Wolthusen, R. P. F., Kumado, J. A., & Adomdza, G. K. (2025). Design Thinking for Cross-Sector Collaboration in Mental Health: The Brain Spirit Desk Model.. Psychiatr Serv, 76(12), 1140. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20240522

Air pollution and Alzheimer's disease prevention: The science and a prevention plan.

Today, approximately 7.2 million people have Alzheimer's disease in the United States. That number is expected to double by 2060 if a preventive approach is not undertaken. Globally, those figures are…

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Khalsa, D. S., Lavretsky, H., Reddy, M. Y., Fenn, A., & Walling, C. (2025). Air pollution and Alzheimer's disease prevention: The science and a prevention plan.. J Alzheimers Dis, 108(3), 953-968. https://doi.org/10.1177/13872877251386482

Psychosis induced by invocation presenting as possession state: A case of Kitousei-Seishinbyo still emerging in modern Japan.

BACKGROUND: Kitousei-Seishinbyo, or psychosis induced by invocation, was first described by Morita in 1915 as a culture-bound syndrome characterized by possession-like states and personality transform…

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Miyano, F., Mitsui, N., Fujii, Y., & Kato, T. A. (2025). Psychosis induced by invocation presenting as possession state: A case of Kitousei-Seishinbyo still emerging in modern Japan.. PCN Rep, 4(4), e70227. https://doi.org/10.1002/pcn5.70227

Shame, tonic immobility, and reactions to stressful events as phylogenetically conserved submissive defense mechanisms.

Shame, tonic immobility, and passive reactions to stressful events are phylogenetically conserved, obligatory, submissive defense reactions. Behavior, biology, genetics, evolutionary theories, and the…

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Rubin, D. C., Bell, C. F., Hoyle, R. H., & Berntsen, D. (2025). Shame, tonic immobility, and reactions to stressful events as phylogenetically conserved submissive defense mechanisms.. J Exp Psychol Gen, 154(12), 3331-3350. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001833

"Having a Why to Live Can Bear Almost Any How"-Meaning-focused Interventions on Cancer-related Clinical Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

CONTEXT: According to Dr Viktor Frankl's existential framework, distress in patients' spiritual dimensions could manifest as symptoms in both physical/biological and the psychological dimensions. Mean…

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Wong, K. S. S., Ho, M. H., Hou, T., & Lin, C. C. (2025). "Having a Why to Live Can Bear Almost Any How"-Meaning-focused Interventions on Cancer-related Clinical Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.. J Pain Symptom Manage, 70(6), e419-e454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2025.08.014

Predictors of brain death and barriers to organ donation in north African intensive care units: a multicenter prospective study on severe coma patients.

Organ donation from brain-dead patients is a major advancement in transplantation medicine. However, challenges remain in identifying and managing potential donors. In Tunisia, low donation rates refl…

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Slama, I., Chouchene, I., Ghammam, R., Durin, L., Naija, W., Ziadi, J., & Ben, S. a. a. d. . H. (2025). Predictors of brain death and barriers to organ donation in north African intensive care units: a multicenter prospective study on severe coma patients.. Libyan J Med, 20(1), 2545049. https://doi.org/10.1080/19932820.2025.2545049

Psychosis as the Initial and Main Presentation of Graves' Disease: A Case Report from Saudi Arabia.

Although psychosis is an uncommon manifestation of thyrotoxicosis, it may precede typical somatic features, leading to diagnostic delay. Recognition of its endocrine origin is crucial, as symptoms are…

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Alanazi, A. O., Aljohani, E. M., Alkalefah, R. T., Alhadeedi, F. H., & Alkhuzayem, H. I. (2025). Psychosis as the Initial and Main Presentation of Graves' Disease: A Case Report from Saudi Arabia.. Cureus, 17(12), e100181. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.100181

Ronaldo on the Clapham Omnibus: Complex Recoveries in Complex Psychosis.

Dominant cultural framings of recovery in psychosis describe a process of increasing social connection, community integration, identity reclamation, and hope. Drawing on 6 months of ethnographic field…

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Whittle, H. J. (2025). Ronaldo on the Clapham Omnibus: Complex Recoveries in Complex Psychosis.. Cult Med Psychiatry, 49(4), 947-970. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-025-09931-6

An Exploratory Study of the Associations Between Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies and Forgiveness Among Recipients of Relational Transgressions in the USA.

Forgiveness is an important component of many of the world's religions that also has benefits for individuals' health and relationships. Research on the health benefits of forgiveness is couched predo…

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Crowley, J. P., Denes, A., Richards, A., Whitt, J., & Makos, S. (2025). An Exploratory Study of the Associations Between Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies and Forgiveness Among Recipients of Relational Transgressions in the USA.. J Relig Health, 64(6), 4734-4758. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-024-02184-4