BACKGROUND Longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and blood pressure have been inconsistent. Most studies have examined incident hypertension as an outcome, and few have examined effect modification. METHODS This study examined moderating influences of sex and age on coincident trajectories of depressive symptoms and blood pressure among 2,087 participants from the Baltimore Lo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of microcurrent cranial electrical stimulation (CES) therapy on activity in pain processing brain regions. DESIGN A randomized, controlled, three-group, double-blind pilot study. PARTICIPANTS Persons with physician-diagnosed fibromyalgia. INTERVENTION Active CES device, sham device, and usual care alone. RESULTS Those individuals using the active dev...

Effective noninvasive interventions for insomnia are needed. High-resolution, relational, resonance-based, electroencephalic mirroring (HIRREM™) is a noninvasive, electroencephalography (EEG)-based method to facilitate greater client-unique, autocalibrated improvements of balance and harmony in cortical neural oscillations. This study explores using HIRREM for insomnia. Twenty subjects, with an...

My name is Gary S. Kleppel. I am Principal Investigator and Science Coordinator of the Land Use – Coastal Ecosystem Study (LU-CES). LU-CES is a multi-year, regional investigation of the effects of changing land use patterns and coastal development on the natural and economic resources of the salt marsh estuaries of the southeastern United States. The kinds of changes that we are concerned with ...

1 Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Endoscopist, Chief of the Graduate General Surgery Program at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Member of the Gastrohepatology group at the Universidad de Antioquia and the Instituto de Cancerología Clínica las Américas in Medellín, Colombia [email protected] 2 Radiologist, Internist and Gastroenterologist, Professor at the San Antonio Campus of the Univers...

In every month on the first working Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases its preliminary estimates of the total non-farm business payroll employment and the change in total employment from the prior month. These estimates are produced using the Current Employment Statistics (CES) survey which is an on-going national probability sample survey of all non-farm establishments ...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional study sought to determine patient quality of life and function after prosthetic rehabilitation for maxillary and palate defects following cancer resection. METHODS Sixty-nine patients were identified, 42 participated in the study (61%). The Obturator Functioning Scale (OFS) and 4 general quality of life measures (Mental Health Inventory [MHI], Impact of Events ...

OBJECTIVES The primary aim was to examine the depressive symptom structure of Mainland China adolescents using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). DESIGN Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were simultaneously conducted to determine the structure of the CES-D in a large scale, representative adolescent samples recruited from Main...

BACKGROUND Two core but untested predictions of Positive Clinical Psychology (PCP) are that (1) Many psychiatric problems can be understood as one end of bipolar continua with well-being, and (2) that reducing psychiatric symptoms will provide an equal (near linear) decrease in risk for several other psychiatric variables, irrespective of position on continua. AIMS We test these predictions i...

We examined the motor error hypothesis of visual and auditory interaction in the superior colliculus (SC), first tested by Jay and Sparks in the monkey. We trained cats to direct their eyes to the location of acoustic sources and studied the effects of eye position on both the ability of cats to localize sounds and the auditory responses of SC neurons with the head restrained. Sound localizatio...