In two pre-registered online studies during the COVID-19 pandemic and early 2020 lockdown (one of which with a UK representative sample) we elicit risk-tolerance for 1,254 residents using four most widely applied risk-taking tasks in behavioral economics psychology. Specifically, participants completed incentive-compatible Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART) Binswanger-Eckel-Grossman (BEG) multiple...

Prior methods used to assess individual differences related to risk have not focused on an important component of risk management: how willing individuals are to pay for or take actions to insure what they already have. It is not clear whether this type of protective risk management taps into the same individual differences as does risk taking propensity measured by existing risk taking tasks. ...

This fMRI study examined the neural correlates of the observed improvement in advantageous risk-taking behavior, as measured by the number of adjusted pumps in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART), following a 60-day course of a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) recipe, specifically designed to regulate impulsiveness in order to modulate risk-taking behavior. The 14 participants recruited for...

Background: The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the location of the balloon placement into either the cervical canal or uterine cavity during sonohysterography can affect the intensity of pain. Materials and Methods: A total of 300 infertile women undergoing sonohysterography were randomized to intracervical or intrauterine balloon placement. The examination was scheduled in the early ...

background: abnormal placental invasion has increased parallel with persistent rise in caesarean delivery. management relies on accurate diagnosis and delivery should be planned at an institution with appropriate expertise and resources for managing this condition.   case: we present a case of a placenta invasion anomaly which is the major risk factors of peripartum deaths. in this case we try ...

BACKGROUND Restenosis is mediated by uncontrolled neointimal growth at the site of coronary angioplasty. Angiopeptin is an octapeptide analogue of somatostatin that has been shown to decrease the experimental intimal hyperplasia associated with vascular injury in rats and rabbits. The study purpose was to determine if angiopeptin inhibits the development of intimal hyperplasia in normolipemic s...

Background Studies on risk preferences have long been of great concern and have examined the neural basis underlying risk-based decision making. However, studies using conventional transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) revealed that bilateral stimulation could change risk propensity with limited evidence of precisely focalized unilateral high-definition transcranial direct current stim...

Patients, methods, and results Over two years 30 patients were referred to this unit for the management of variceal bleeding with a balloon in position. Technical factors that we considered important for controlling bleeding were for the gastric balloon to be positioned close to the gastro-oesophageal junction and for it to be adequately inflated (in excess of 100 ml). Factors that we believed ...