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Emotional labour, emotional regulation strategies, and secondary traumatic stress: a cross-sectional study of allied mental health professionals in the UK (2021)
Journal Article
Singh, J., & Hassard, J. (2021). Emotional labour, emotional regulation strategies, and secondary traumatic stress: a cross-sectional study of allied mental health professionals in the UK. Social Science Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2021.1979825

The present study investigates relations among emotional labour, emotional regulation strategies, and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in a sample of allied mental health professionals (AMHPs) in the UK. It empirically examines the relationship betwe... Read More about Emotional labour, emotional regulation strategies, and secondary traumatic stress: a cross-sectional study of allied mental health professionals in the UK.

Understanding long-term trends in smoking in England, 1972–2019: an age–period–cohort approach (2021)
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Opazo Breton, M., Gillespie, D., Pryce, R., Bogdanovica, I., Angus, C., Hernandez Alava, M., Brennan, A., & Britton, J. (2022). Understanding long-term trends in smoking in England, 1972–2019: an age–period–cohort approach. Addiction, 117(5), 1392-1403. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15696

Background and aims:

Smoking prevalence has been falling in England for more than 50 years, but remains a prevalent and major public health problem. This study used an age–period–cohort (APC) approach to measure lifecycle, historical and generati... Read More about Understanding long-term trends in smoking in England, 1972–2019: an age–period–cohort approach.

Filtration-Histogram Based Magnetic Resonance Texture Analysis (MRTA) for the Distinction of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma and Glioblastoma (2021)
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MacIver, C. L., Al Busaidi, A., Ganeshan, B., Maynard, J. A., Wastling, S., Hyare, H., Brandner, S., Markus, J. E., Lewis, M. A., Groves, A. M., Cwynarski, K., & Thust, S. C. (2021). Filtration-Histogram Based Magnetic Resonance Texture Analysis (MRTA) for the Distinction of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma and Glioblastoma. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(9), Article 876. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11090876

Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) has variable imaging appearances, which overlap with those of glioblastoma (GBM), thereby necessitating invasive tissue diagnosis. We aimed to investigate whether a rapid filtration histogram analysis o... Read More about Filtration-Histogram Based Magnetic Resonance Texture Analysis (MRTA) for the Distinction of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma and Glioblastoma.

Cardiovascular disease risk communication in NHS Health Checks: a qualitative video-stimulated recall interview study with practitioners (2021)
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Gidlow, C., J Ellis, N., Riley, V., Cowap, L., Crone, D., Cottrell, E., Grogan, S., Chambers, R., Calvert, S., & Clark-Carter, D. (2021). Cardiovascular disease risk communication in NHS Health Checks: a qualitative video-stimulated recall interview study with practitioners. BJGP Open, 5(5), Article 0049. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpo.2021.0049

Background
NHS Health Check (NHSHC) is a national programme to identify and manage cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Practitioners delivering the programme should be competent in discussing CVD risk, but there is evidence of limited understanding... Read More about Cardiovascular disease risk communication in NHS Health Checks: a qualitative video-stimulated recall interview study with practitioners.

Increased Placental Cell Senescence and Oxidative Stress in Women with Pre-Eclampsia and Normotensive Post-Term Pregnancies (2021)
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Scaife, P. J., Simpson, A., Kurlak, L. O., Briggs, L. V., Gardner, D. S., Pipkin, F. B., Jones, C. J. P., & Mistry, H. D. (2021). Increased Placental Cell Senescence and Oxidative Stress in Women with Pre-Eclampsia and Normotensive Post-Term Pregnancies. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(14), Article 7295. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22147295

Up to 11% of pregnancies extend to post-term with adverse obstetric events linked to pregnancies over 42 weeks. Oxidative stress and senescence (cells stop growing and dividing by irreversibly arresting their cell cycle and gradually ageing) can resu... Read More about Increased Placental Cell Senescence and Oxidative Stress in Women with Pre-Eclampsia and Normotensive Post-Term Pregnancies.

Patterns of pain killers and other opioid use in patients admitted to a detoxification and dual diagnosis unit, 2016-2019: A retrospective cohort study (2021)
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Casado-Espada, N. M., Alvarez-Navares, A., Lozano-Lopez, M. T., Gamonal-Limcaoco, R. S., de la Iglesia-Larrad, J., Garzón, M. Á., Dening, T., & Roncero, C. (2021). Patterns of pain killers and other opioid use in patients admitted to a detoxification and dual diagnosis unit, 2016-2019: A retrospective cohort study. Heroin Addiction And Related Clinical Problems, 23(3), 37-44

Background: Increasing opioid consumption in recent years has given rise to compelling significant concerns. Fentanyl, heroin, new psychoactive substances and prescribed opioids have been named as the main substances involved in the ‘opioid epidemic’... Read More about Patterns of pain killers and other opioid use in patients admitted to a detoxification and dual diagnosis unit, 2016-2019: A retrospective cohort study.

Normative misperceptions of unhealthy snacking amongst 11- to 12-year-old secondary school students (2021)
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Calvert, S., C. Dempsey, R., & Povey, R. (2021). Normative misperceptions of unhealthy snacking amongst 11- to 12-year-old secondary school students. Appetite, 166, Article 105462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105462

Younger adolescents are at an age where they have increasing control of their diet, and where peers become an important social reference for acceptable and normative dietary behaviours. These normative perceptions are often inaccurate and can lead to... Read More about Normative misperceptions of unhealthy snacking amongst 11- to 12-year-old secondary school students.

Longitudinal structural and perfusion MRI enhanced by machine learning outperforms standalone modalities and radiological expertise in high-grade glioma surveillance (2021)
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Siakallis, L., Sudre, C. H., Mulholland, P., Fersht, N., Rees, J., Topff, L., Thust, S., Jager, R., Cardoso, M. J., Panovska-Griffiths, J., & Bisdas, S. (2021). Longitudinal structural and perfusion MRI enhanced by machine learning outperforms standalone modalities and radiological expertise in high-grade glioma surveillance. Neuroradiology, 63(12), 2047-2056. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-021-02719-6

Purpose: Surveillance of patients with high-grade glioma (HGG) and identification of disease progression remain a major challenge in neurooncology. This study aimed to develop a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, employing combined longitudinal... Read More about Longitudinal structural and perfusion MRI enhanced by machine learning outperforms standalone modalities and radiological expertise in high-grade glioma surveillance.

Direct mechanical thrombectomy without intravenous thrombolysis versus bridging therapy for acute ischemic stroke: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (2021)
Journal Article
Podlasek, A., Dhillon, P. S., Butt, W., Grunwald, I. O., & England, T. J. (2021). Direct mechanical thrombectomy without intravenous thrombolysis versus bridging therapy for acute ischemic stroke: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. International Journal of Stroke, 16(6), 621-631. https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930211021353

Background: Direct mechanical thrombectomy may result in similar outcomes compared to a bridging approach with intravenous thrombolysis (IVT + MT) in acute ischemic stroke. Recent randomized controlled trials have varied in their design and noninferi... Read More about Direct mechanical thrombectomy without intravenous thrombolysis versus bridging therapy for acute ischemic stroke: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Consensus recommendations for MRI and PET imaging of primary central nervous system lymphoma: guideline statement from the International Primary CNS Lymphoma Collaborative Group (IPCG) (2021)
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Barajas, R. F., Politi, L. S., Anzalone, N., Schöder, H., Fox, C. P., Boxerman, J. L., Kaufmann, T. J., Quarles, C. C., Ellingson, B. M., Auer, D., Andronesi, O. C., Ferreri, A. J. M., Mrugala, M. M., Grommes, C., Neuwelt, E. A., Ambady, P., Rubenstein, J. L., Illerhaus, G., Nagane, M., Batchelor, T. T., & Hu, L. S. (2021). Consensus recommendations for MRI and PET imaging of primary central nervous system lymphoma: guideline statement from the International Primary CNS Lymphoma Collaborative Group (IPCG). Neuro-Oncology, 23(7), 1056-1071. https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/noab020

Advanced molecular and pathophysiologic characterization of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) has revealed insights into promising targeted therapeutic approaches. Medical imaging plays a fundamental role in PCNSL diagnosis, staging, an... Read More about Consensus recommendations for MRI and PET imaging of primary central nervous system lymphoma: guideline statement from the International Primary CNS Lymphoma Collaborative Group (IPCG).

Obesity is associated with reduced cerebral blood flow – modified by physical activity (2021)
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Knight, S. P., Laird, E., Williamson, W., O'Connor, J., Newman, L., Carey, D., De Looze, C., Fagan, A. J., Chappell, M. A., Meaney, J. F., & Kenny, R. A. (2021). Obesity is associated with reduced cerebral blood flow – modified by physical activity. Neurobiology of Aging, 105, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.04.008

This study examined the associations of body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist circumference (WC), and physical activity (PA) with gray matter cerebral blood flow (CBFGM) in older adults. Cross-sectional data was used from the Irish L... Read More about Obesity is associated with reduced cerebral blood flow – modified by physical activity.

Correction to: Optimising medication management in children and young people with ADHD using a computerised test (QbTest): a feasibility randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Williams, L., Hall, C. L., Brown, S., Guo, B., James, M., Franceschini, M., Clarke, J., Selby, K., Vijayan, H., Kulkarni, N., Brown, N., Sayal, K., Hollis, C., & Groom, M. J. (2021). Correction to: Optimising medication management in children and young people with ADHD using a computerised test (QbTest): a feasibility randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7, Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00830-2

The role of the cingulate cortex in the generation of motor tics and the experience of the premonitory urge-to-tic in Tourette syndrome (2021)
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Jackson, S. R., Sigurdsson, H. P., Dyke, K., Condon, M., & Jackson, G. M. (2021). The role of the cingulate cortex in the generation of motor tics and the experience of the premonitory urge-to-tic in Tourette syndrome. Journal of Neuropsychology, 15(3), 340-362. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12242

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder of childhood onset that is characterized by the occurrence of motor and vocal tics. TS is associated with cortical-striatal-thalamic-cortical circuit [CSTC] dysfunction and hyper-excitability of corti... Read More about The role of the cingulate cortex in the generation of motor tics and the experience of the premonitory urge-to-tic in Tourette syndrome.

Auditory beat perception is related to speech output fluency in post-stroke aphasia (2021)
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Stefaniak, J. D., Lambon Ralph, M. A., De Dios Perez, B., Griffiths, T. D., & Grube, M. (2021). Auditory beat perception is related to speech output fluency in post-stroke aphasia. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 3168. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82809-w

Aphasia affects at least one third of stroke survivors, and there is increasing awareness that more fundamental deficits in auditory processing might contribute to impaired language performance in such individuals. We performed a comprehensive batter... Read More about Auditory beat perception is related to speech output fluency in post-stroke aphasia.

An Investigation of the Feasibility of Smartphone App-Based Non-Contact Ecological Momentary Assessment with Experienced and Naïve Older Participants (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Burke, L., & Naylor, G. (in press). An Investigation of the Feasibility of Smartphone App-Based Non-Contact Ecological Momentary Assessment with Experienced and Naïve Older Participants

Background:
Smartphone app-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) without face-to-face contact between researcher and participant (‘non-contact EMA’) has enjoyed increasing application in recent years, and provides a valuable data collection to... Read More about An Investigation of the Feasibility of Smartphone App-Based Non-Contact Ecological Momentary Assessment with Experienced and Naïve Older Participants .

From research to clinical practice: a European neuroradiological survey on quantitative advanced MRI implementation (2021)
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Manfrini, E., Smits, M., Thust, S., Geiger, S., Bendella, Z., Petr, J., Solymosi, L., & Keil, V. C. (2021). From research to clinical practice: a European neuroradiological survey on quantitative advanced MRI implementation. European Radiology, 31(8), 6334-6341. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-07582-2

Objective:

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) methods provide versatile neuroradiological applications and are a hot topic in research. The degree of their clinical implementation is however barely known. This survey was created to illuminate which and how... Read More about From research to clinical practice: a European neuroradiological survey on quantitative advanced MRI implementation.

Psychometric Properties of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire in Moderate-to-Severe, Persistent Depression (2021)
Journal Article
Sweeney, T., Morriss, R., Nixon, E., Guo, B., & Callaghan, P. (2021). Psychometric Properties of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire in Moderate-to-Severe, Persistent Depression. Mindfulness, 12, 1009–1021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-020-01573-6

Objectives
Mindfulness has been increasingly incorporated into modern psychotherapies and healthcare services. The importance of psychometrically quantifying the construct of mindfulness has become paramount. One of the most reliable and valid instr... Read More about Psychometric Properties of the Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire in Moderate-to-Severe, Persistent Depression.

Droplet digital PCR-based detection of circulating tumor DNA from pediatric high grade and diffuse midline glioma patients (2021)
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Izquierdo, E., Proszek, P., Pericoli, G., Temelso, S., Clarke, M., Carvalho, D. M., Mackay, A., Marshall, L. V., Carceller, F., Hargrave, D., Lannering, B., Pavelka, Z., Bailey, S., Entz-Werle, N., Grill, J., Vassal, G., Rodriguez, D., Morgan, P. S., Jaspan, T., Mastronuzzi, A., …Jones, C. (2021). Droplet digital PCR-based detection of circulating tumor DNA from pediatric high grade and diffuse midline glioma patients. Neuro-Oncology Advances, 3(1), Article vdab013. https://doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdab013

Background
The use of liquid biopsy is of potential high importance for children with high grade (HGG) and diffuse midline gliomas (DMG), particularly where surgical procedures are limited, and invasive biopsy sampling not without risk. To date, how... Read More about Droplet digital PCR-based detection of circulating tumor DNA from pediatric high grade and diffuse midline glioma patients.

Imaging characteristics of H3 K27M histone-mutant diffuse midline glioma in teenagers and adults (2021)
Journal Article
Thust, S., Micallef, C., Okuchi, S., Brandner, S., Kumar, A., Mankad, K., Wastling, S., Mancini, L., Jäger, H. R., & Shankar, A. (2021). Imaging characteristics of H3 K27M histone-mutant diffuse midline glioma in teenagers and adults. Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery, 11(1), 43-56. https://doi.org/10.21037/QIMS-19-954

Background:

To assess anatomical and quantitative diffusion-weighted MR imaging features in a recently classified lethal neoplasm, H3 K27M histone-mutant diffuse midline glioma [World Health Organization (WHO) IV].

Methods:

Fifteen untrea... Read More about Imaging characteristics of H3 K27M histone-mutant diffuse midline glioma in teenagers and adults.