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Meta-Analysis of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Pediatric Medulloblastoma, Ependymoma, and Pilocytic Astrocytoma (2021)
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Dury, R. J., Lourdusamy, A., Macarthur, D. C., Peet, A. C., Auer, D. P., Grundy, R. G., & Dineen, R. A. (2022). Meta-Analysis of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Pediatric Medulloblastoma, Ependymoma, and Pilocytic Astrocytoma. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 56(1), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.28007

Background: Medulloblastoma, ependymoma, and pilocytic astrocytoma are common pediatric posterior fossa tumors. These tumors show overlapping characteristics on conventional MRI scans, making diagnosis difficult. Purpose: To investigate whether appar... Read More about Meta-Analysis of Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Pediatric Medulloblastoma, Ependymoma, and Pilocytic Astrocytoma.

Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults (2021)
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Chevalier, N., Hadley, L. V., & Balthrop, K. (2021). Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(8), Article e22216. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22216

Conflict monitoring is central in cognitive control, as detection of conflict serves as a signal for the need to engage control. This study examined whether (1) midfrontal theta oscillations similarly support conflict monitoring in children and adult... Read More about Midfrontal theta oscillations and conflict monitoring in children and adults.

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Fungal Keratitis in the United Kingdom 2011–2020: A 10-Year Study (2021)
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Ting, D. S. J., Galal, M., Kulkarni, B., Elalfy, M. S., Lake, D., Hamada, S., …Dua, H. S. (2021). Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Fungal Keratitis in the United Kingdom 2011–2020: A 10-Year Study. Journal of Fungi, 7(11), Article 966. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7110966

Fungal keratitis (FK) is a serious ocular infection that often poses significant diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. This study aimed to examine the causes, clinical characteristics, out-comes, and prognostic factors of FK in the UK. All culture-pos... Read More about Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Fungal Keratitis in the United Kingdom 2011–2020: A 10-Year Study.

The effect of stimulus duration on preferences for gain adjustments when listening to speech (2021)
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Whitmer, W. M., Caswell-Midwinter, B., & Naylor, G. (2022). The effect of stimulus duration on preferences for gain adjustments when listening to speech. International Journal of Audiology, 61(11), 940-947. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2021.1998676

Objectives: In the personalisation of hearing-aid fittings, gain is often adjusted to suit patient preferences using live speech. When using brief sentences as stimuli, the minimum gain adjustments necessary to elicit consistent preferences (“prefere... Read More about The effect of stimulus duration on preferences for gain adjustments when listening to speech.

Clinical Trials and Outcome Measures in Adults With Hearing Loss (2021)
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Munro, K. J., Whitmer, W. M., & Heinrich, A. (2021). Clinical Trials and Outcome Measures in Adults With Hearing Loss. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 733060. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733060

Clinical trials are designed to evaluate interventions that prevent, diagnose or treat a health condition and provide the evidence base for improving practice in health care. Many health professionals, including those working within or allied to hear... Read More about Clinical Trials and Outcome Measures in Adults With Hearing Loss.

Tinnitus prevalence in Europe: a multi-country cross-sectional population study (2021)
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Biswas, R., Lugo, A., Akeroyd, M., Schlee, W., Gallus, S., & Hall, D. (2022). Tinnitus prevalence in Europe: a multi-country cross-sectional population study. Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 12, Article 100250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100250

Background Tinnitus prevalence studies report large variability across countries that might be due to inconsistent research methods. Our study aimed to report a single Pan-European estimate for tinnitus prevalence and investigate the effect of indiv... Read More about Tinnitus prevalence in Europe: a multi-country cross-sectional population study.

Dysregulated anterior insula reactivity as robust functional biomarker for chronic pain—Meta-analytic evidence from neuroimaging studies (2021)
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Ferraro, S., Klugah-Brown, B., Tench, C. R., Yao, S., Nigri, A., Demichelis, G., …Becker, B. (2022). Dysregulated anterior insula reactivity as robust functional biomarker for chronic pain—Meta-analytic evidence from neuroimaging studies. Human Brain Mapping, 43(3), 998-1010. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25702

Neurobiological pain models propose that chronic pain is accompanied by neurofunctional changes that mediate pain processing dysfunctions. In contrast, meta-analyses of neuroimaging studies in chronic pain conditions have not revealed convergent evid... Read More about Dysregulated anterior insula reactivity as robust functional biomarker for chronic pain—Meta-analytic evidence from neuroimaging studies.

Juxtacellular Labeling of Stellate, Disk and Basket Neurons in the Central Nucleus of the Guinea Pig Inferior Colliculus (2021)
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Wallace, M. N., Shackleton, T. M., Thompson, Z., & Palmer, A. R. (2021). Juxtacellular Labeling of Stellate, Disk and Basket Neurons in the Central Nucleus of the Guinea Pig Inferior Colliculus. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 15, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncir.2021.721015

We reconstructed the intrinsic axons of 32 neurons in the guinea pig inferior colliculus (IC) following juxtacellular labeling. Biocytin was injected into cells in vivo, after first analyzing physiological response properties. Based on axonal morphol... Read More about Juxtacellular Labeling of Stellate, Disk and Basket Neurons in the Central Nucleus of the Guinea Pig Inferior Colliculus.

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in perianal crohn’s disease at 1.5 and 3.0 T: A feasibility study (2021)
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Alyami, A., Hoad, C. L., Tench, C., Bannur, U., Clarke, C., Latief, K., …Moran, G. W. (2021). Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in perianal crohn’s disease at 1.5 and 3.0 T: A feasibility study. Diagnostics, 11(11), Article 2135. https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11112135

Perianal Crohn’s Disease (pCD) is a common manifestation of Crohn’s Disease. Absence of reliable disease measures makes disease monitoring unreliable. Qualitative MRI has been increasingly used for diagnosing and monitoring pCD and has shown potentia... Read More about Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging in perianal crohn’s disease at 1.5 and 3.0 T: A feasibility study.

Associations of Early Systolic Blood Pressure Control and Outcome after Thrombolysis-Eligible Acute Ischemic Stroke: Results from the ENCHANTED Study (2021)
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Wang, X., Minhas, J. S., Moullaali, T. J., Luca Di Tanna, G., Lindley, R. I., Chen, X., …Robinson, T. G. (2022). Associations of Early Systolic Blood Pressure Control and Outcome after Thrombolysis-Eligible Acute Ischemic Stroke: Results from the ENCHANTED Study. Stroke, 53(3), 779-787. https://doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.121.034580

Background and Purpose: In thrombolysis-eligible patients with acute ischemic stroke, there is uncertainty over the most appropriate systolic blood pressure (SBP) lowering profile that provides an optimal balance of potential benefit (functional reco... Read More about Associations of Early Systolic Blood Pressure Control and Outcome after Thrombolysis-Eligible Acute Ischemic Stroke: Results from the ENCHANTED Study.

COVID-19 Vaccine Response in People with Multiple Sclerosis (2021)
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Tallantyre, E. C., Vickaryous, N., Anderson, V., Asardag, A. N., Baker, D., Bestwick, J., …Dobson, R. (2022). COVID-19 Vaccine Response in People with Multiple Sclerosis. Annals of Neurology, 91(1), 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26251

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of disease modifying therapies on immune response to severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: Four hundre... Read More about COVID-19 Vaccine Response in People with Multiple Sclerosis.

Nitric oxide for the prevention and treatment of viral, bacterial, protozoal and fungal infections (2021)
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Bath, P. M., Coleman, C. M., Gordon, A. L., Lim, W. S., & Webb, A. J. (2021). Nitric oxide for the prevention and treatment of viral, bacterial, protozoal and fungal infections. F1000Research, 10, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51270.2

Although the antimicrobial potential of nitric oxide (NO) is widely published, it is little used clinically. NO is a key signalling molecule modulating vascular, neuronal, inflammatory and immune responses. Endogenous antimicrobial activity is largel... Read More about Nitric oxide for the prevention and treatment of viral, bacterial, protozoal and fungal infections.

Memory rehabilitation for people with multiple sclerosis (2021)
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Taylor, L. A., Mhizha-Murira, J. R., Smith, L., Potter, K.-J., Wong, D., Evangelou, N., …das Nair, R. (2021). Memory rehabilitation for people with multiple sclerosis. Cochrane Library, 2021(10), Article CD008754. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd008754.pub4

Background Problems with cognition, particularly memory, are common in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and can affect their ability to complete daily activities and can negatively affect quality of life. Over the last few years, there has been c... Read More about Memory rehabilitation for people with multiple sclerosis.

Statistical reanalysis of vascular event outcomes in primary and secondary vascular prevention trials (2021)
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Woodhouse, L. J., Montgomery, A. A., Mant, J., Davis, B. R., Algra, A., Mas, J.-L., …Bath, P. M. (2021). Statistical reanalysis of vascular event outcomes in primary and secondary vascular prevention trials. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 21, Article 218. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01388-6

Background: Vascular prevention trials typically use dichotomous event outcomes although this may be inefficient statistically and gives no indication of event severity. We assessed whether ordinal outcomes would be more efficient and how to best ana... Read More about Statistical reanalysis of vascular event outcomes in primary and secondary vascular prevention trials.

Intratympanic Administration of OTO-313 Reduces Tinnitus in Patients With Moderate to Severe, Persistent Tinnitus: A Phase 1/2 Study (2021)
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Maxwell, K., Robinson, J. M., Hoffmann, I., Hou, H. J., Searchfield, G., Baguley, D. M., …Anderson, J. J. (2021). Intratympanic Administration of OTO-313 Reduces Tinnitus in Patients With Moderate to Severe, Persistent Tinnitus: A Phase 1/2 Study. Otology and Neurotology, 42(10), e1625-e1633. https://doi.org/10.1097/mao.0000000000003369

Objective: To evaluate the safety and exploratory efficacy of intratympanic administration of OTO-313 in patients with tinnitus. Study Design: Single intratympanic injection of OTO-313 evaluated in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlle... Read More about Intratympanic Administration of OTO-313 Reduces Tinnitus in Patients With Moderate to Severe, Persistent Tinnitus: A Phase 1/2 Study.

User-Operated Audiometry Project (UAud) – Introducing an Automated User-Operated System for Audiometric Testing Into Everyday Clinic Practice (2021)
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Sidiras, C., Sanchez-Lopez, R., Pedersen, E. R., Sørensen, C. B., Nielsen, J., & Schmidt, J. H. (2021). User-Operated Audiometry Project (UAud) – Introducing an Automated User-Operated System for Audiometric Testing Into Everyday Clinic Practice. Frontiers in Digital Health, 3, Article 724748. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.724748

Hearing loss is the third leading cause of years lived with disability. It is estimated that 430 million people worldwide are affected, and the number of cases is expected to increase in the future. There is therefore increased pressure on hearing he... Read More about User-Operated Audiometry Project (UAud) – Introducing an Automated User-Operated System for Audiometric Testing Into Everyday Clinic Practice.

Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study (2021)
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Evans, R. A., McAuley, H., Harrison, E. M., Shikotra, A., Singapuri, A., Sereno, M., …Zongo, O. (2021). Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study. Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 9(11), 1275-1287. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600%2821%2900383-0

Background: The impact of COVID-19 on physical and mental health and employment after hospitalisation with acute disease is not well understood. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of COVID-19-related hospitalisation on health and empl... Read More about Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study.

COVID-19 in Multiple Sclerosis: Clinically reported outcomes from the UK Multiple Sclerosis Register (2021)
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Middleton, R. M., Craig, E. M., Rodgers, W. J., Tuite-Dalton, K., Garjani, A., Evangelou, N., …UK Multiple Sclerosis Register Research Group. (2021). COVID-19 in Multiple Sclerosis: Clinically reported outcomes from the UK Multiple Sclerosis Register. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 56, Article 103317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2021.103317

Background: In March 2020, the United Kingdom Multiple Sclerosis Register (UKMSR) established an electronic case return form, designed collaboratively by MS neurologists, to record data about COVID-19 infections in people with MS (pwMS). Objectives:... Read More about COVID-19 in Multiple Sclerosis: Clinically reported outcomes from the UK Multiple Sclerosis Register.