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Investigating Cortical Responses to Noise-Vocoded Speech in Children with Normal Hearing Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) (2021)
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Mushtaq, F., Wiggins, I. M., Kitterick, P. T., Anderson, C. A., & Hartley, D. E. (2021). Investigating Cortical Responses to Noise-Vocoded Speech in Children with Normal Hearing Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 22(6), 703-717. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10162-021-00817-z

Whilst functional neuroimaging has been used to investigate cortical processing of degraded speech in adults, much less is known about how these signals are processed in children. An enhanced understanding of cortical correlates of poor speech percep... Read More about Investigating Cortical Responses to Noise-Vocoded Speech in Children with Normal Hearing Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS).

Test@work: evaluation of workplace HIV testing for construction workers using the RE-AIM framework (2021)
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Jones, W., Somerset, S., Evans, C., Whittingham, K., Middleton, M., & Blake, H. (2021). Test@work: evaluation of workplace HIV testing for construction workers using the RE-AIM framework. BMC Public Health, 21, Article 1737. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11739-z

Background: Community testing for HIV can reach previously untested populations but is rarely offered in workplaces. Targeting the construction sector could reach workers from high risk populations. Methods: The RE-AIM framework was used to evaluate... Read More about Test@work: evaluation of workplace HIV testing for construction workers using the RE-AIM framework.

Clinical Considerations for Routine Auditory and Vestibular Monitoring in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis (2021)
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Garinis, A. C., Poling, G. L., Rubenstein, R. C., Konrad-Martin, D., Hullar, T. E., Baguley, D. M., …Brewer, C. C. (2021). Clinical Considerations for Routine Auditory and Vestibular Monitoring in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis. American Journal of Audiology, 30(3S), 800-809. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_aja-21-00031

Purpose Specific classes of antibiotics, such as aminoglycosides, have well-established adverse events producing permanent hearing loss, tinnitus, and balance and/or vestibular problems (i.e., ototoxicity). Although these antibiotics are frequently u... Read More about Clinical Considerations for Routine Auditory and Vestibular Monitoring in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis.

Managing post-stroke fatigue: A qualitative study to explore multifaceted clinical perspectives (2021)
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Drummond, A., Nouri, F., Ablewhite, J., Condon, L., Das Nair, R., Jones, A., …Thomas, S. (2022). Managing post-stroke fatigue: A qualitative study to explore multifaceted clinical perspectives. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 85(7), 505-512. https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226211042269

Introduction: Post-stroke fatigue (PSF) is common and debilitating. However, while its effective management is a priority for clinicians and stroke survivors, there remains little evidence to provide guidance or underpin practice. Our aim, therefore,... Read More about Managing post-stroke fatigue: A qualitative study to explore multifaceted clinical perspectives.

Hybrid derivative of cathelicidin and human beta defensin-2 against Gram-positive bacteria: A novel approach for the treatment of bacterial keratitis (2021)
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Ting, D. S. J., Leng, E. T., Mayandi, V., Busoy, J. M. F., Aung, T. T., Periayah, M. H., …Dua, H. S. (2021). Hybrid derivative of cathelicidin and human beta defensin-2 against Gram-positive bacteria: A novel approach for the treatment of bacterial keratitis. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 18304. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97821-3

Bacterial keratitis (BK) is a major cause of corneal blindness globally. This study aimed to develop a novel class of antimicrobial therapy, based on human-derived hybrid host defense peptides (HyHDPs), for treating BK. HyHDPs were rationally designe... Read More about Hybrid derivative of cathelicidin and human beta defensin-2 against Gram-positive bacteria: A novel approach for the treatment of bacterial keratitis.

Case-finding and genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care (2021)
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Qureshi, N., Akyea, R. K., Dutton, B., Leonardi-Bee, J., Humphries, S. E., Weng, S., & Kai, J. (2021). Case-finding and genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care. Heart, 107(24), 1956-1961. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2021-319742

Objective: Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common inherited disorder causing premature heart disease and death. We have developed novel case-finding algorithms (FAMCAT version 1 & 2) for application in primary care, to improve detection of... Read More about Case-finding and genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care.

Neural fields with rebound currents: Novel routes to patterning (2021)
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Modhara, S., Lai, Y. M., Thul, R., & Coombes, S. (2021). Neural fields with rebound currents: Novel routes to patterning. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 20(3), 1596-1620. https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1364710

The understanding of how spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity may arise in the cortex of the brain has advanced with the development and analysis of neural field models. Replicating this success for subcortical tissues, such as the thalamus, r... Read More about Neural fields with rebound currents: Novel routes to patterning.

The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective (2021)
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Elam, J. S., Glasser, M. F., Harms, M. P., Sotiropoulos, S. N., Andersson, J. L., Burgess, G. C., …Van Essen, D. C. (2021). The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective. NeuroImage, 244, Article 118543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118543

The Human Connectome Project (HCP) was launched in 2010 as an ambitious effort to accelerate advances in human neuroimaging, particularly for measures of brain connectivity; apply these advances to study a large number of healthy young adults; and fr... Read More about The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective.

Surrounded by sound: The impact of tinnitus on musicians (2021)
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Burns-O’Connell, G., Stockdale, D., Cassidy, O., Knowles, V., & Hoare, D. J. (2021). Surrounded by sound: The impact of tinnitus on musicians. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(17), Article 9036. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179036

AIM: To investigate the impact of tinnitus on professional musicians in the UK. BACKGROUND: Tinnitus is the experience of sound when an external source is absent, primarily associated with the ageing process, hearing loss, and noise exposure. Amongst... Read More about Surrounded by sound: The impact of tinnitus on musicians.

Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset? (2021)
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Schilling, K. G., Rheault, F., Petit, L., Hansen, C. B., Nath, V., Yeh, F. C., …Descoteaux, M. (2021). Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?. NeuroImage, 243, Article 118502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118502

White matter bundle segmentation using diffusion MRI fiber tractography has become the method of choice to identify white matter fiber pathways in vivo in human brains. However, like other analyses of complex data, there is considerable variability i... Read More about Tractography dissection variability: What happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?.

Causal Relationship between the Right Auditory Cortex and Speech-Evoked Envelope-Following Response: Evidence from Combined Transcranial Stimulation and Electroencephalography (2021)
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Mai, G., & Howell, P. (2022). Causal Relationship between the Right Auditory Cortex and Speech-Evoked Envelope-Following Response: Evidence from Combined Transcranial Stimulation and Electroencephalography. Cerebral Cortex, 32(7), 1437-1454. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab298

Speech-evoked envelope-following response (EFR) reflects brain encoding of speech periodicity that serves as a biomarker for pitch and speech perception and various auditory and language disorders. Although EFR is thought to originate from the subcor... Read More about Causal Relationship between the Right Auditory Cortex and Speech-Evoked Envelope-Following Response: Evidence from Combined Transcranial Stimulation and Electroencephalography.

Redesigning a Web-Based Stakeholder Consensus Meeting About Core Outcomes for Clinical Trials: Formative Feedback Study (2021)
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Katiri, R., Hall, D. A., Hoare, D. J., Fackrell, K., Horobin, A., Buggy, N., …Core Rehabilitation Outcome Set For Single-Sided Deafness (CROSSSD) Initiative. (2021). Redesigning a Web-Based Stakeholder Consensus Meeting About Core Outcomes for Clinical Trials: Formative Feedback Study. JMIR Formative Research, 5(8), Article e28878

Background: Clinical trials that assess the benefits and harms of an intervention do so by measuring and reporting outcomes. Inconsistent selection and diversity in the choice of outcomes makes it challenging to directly compare interventions. To ach... Read More about Redesigning a Web-Based Stakeholder Consensus Meeting About Core Outcomes for Clinical Trials: Formative Feedback Study.

The impact of chemotherapy-induced inner ear damage on quality of life in cancer survivors: a qualitative study (2021)
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Pearson, S. E., Caimino, C., Shabbir, M., & Baguley, D. M. (2022). The impact of chemotherapy-induced inner ear damage on quality of life in cancer survivors: a qualitative study. Journal of Cancer Survivorship, 16, 976-987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-021-01089-5

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the burden of inner ear damage (ototoxicity) on adults living with and beyond cancer treated with chemotherapy and the impact on their quality of life (QoL). Furthermore, this study aimed to explore patient awaren... Read More about The impact of chemotherapy-induced inner ear damage on quality of life in cancer survivors: a qualitative study.

Therapeutic hypothermia augments the restorative effects of PKC-β and Nox2 inhibition on an in vitro model of human blood–brain barrier (2021)
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Kadir, R. R. A., Alwjwaj, M., McCarthy, Z., & Bayraktutan, U. (2021). Therapeutic hypothermia augments the restorative effects of PKC-β and Nox2 inhibition on an in vitro model of human blood–brain barrier. Metabolic Brain Disease, 36(7), 1817-1832. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11011-021-00810-8

To investigate whether therapeutic hypothermia augments the restorative impact of protein kinase C-β (PKC-β) and Nox2 inhibition on an in vitro model of human blood–brain barrier (BBB). Cells cultured in normoglycaemic (5.5mM) or hyperglycaemic (25mM... Read More about Therapeutic hypothermia augments the restorative effects of PKC-β and Nox2 inhibition on an in vitro model of human blood–brain barrier.

Validation of the estimation of the macrovascular contribution in multi‐timepoint arterial spin labeling MRI using a 2‐component kinetic model (2021)
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Plas, M. C. E., Craig, M., Schmid, S., Chappell, M. A., & Osch, M. J. P. (2022). Validation of the estimation of the macrovascular contribution in multi‐timepoint arterial spin labeling MRI using a 2‐component kinetic model. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 87(1), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.28960

Purpose In this paper, the ability to quantify cerebral blood flow by arterial spin labeling (ASL) was studied by investigating the separation of the macrovascular and tissue component using a 2-component model. Underlying assumptions of this model,... Read More about Validation of the estimation of the macrovascular contribution in multi‐timepoint arterial spin labeling MRI using a 2‐component kinetic model.

Risk Factors, Clinical Outcomes, and Prognostic Factors of Bacterial Keratitis: The Nottingham Infectious Keratitis Study (2021)
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Ting, D. S. J., Cairns, J., Gopal, B. P., Shan Ho, C. S., Krstic, L., Elsahn, A., …Dua, H. S. (2021). Risk Factors, Clinical Outcomes, and Prognostic Factors of Bacterial Keratitis: The Nottingham Infectious Keratitis Study. Frontiers in Medicine, 8, Article 715118. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.715118

Background/Aim: To examine the risk factors, clinical characteristics, outcomes, and prognostic factors of bacterial keratitis (BK) in Nottingham, UK. Methods: This was a retrospective study of patients who presented to the Queen's Medical Centre, No... Read More about Risk Factors, Clinical Outcomes, and Prognostic Factors of Bacterial Keratitis: The Nottingham Infectious Keratitis Study.

Ratlas-LH: An MRI template of the Lister hooded rat brain with stereotaxic coordinates for neurosurgical implantations (2021)
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Prior, M. J., Bast, T., McGarrity, S., Goldschmidt, J., Vincenz, D., Seaton, A., …Pitiot, A. (2021). Ratlas-LH: An MRI template of the Lister hooded rat brain with stereotaxic coordinates for neurosurgical implantations. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 5,

There is currently no brain atlas available to specifically determine stereotaxic coordinates for neurosurgery in Lister hooded rats despite the popularity of this strain for behavioural neuroscience studies in the UK and elsewhere. We have created a... Read More about Ratlas-LH: An MRI template of the Lister hooded rat brain with stereotaxic coordinates for neurosurgical implantations.

Changes in Orientation Behavior due to Extended High-Frequency (5 to 10 kHz) Spatial Cues (2021)
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Whitmer, W. M., McShefferty, D., Levy, S. C., Naylor, G., & Edwards, B. (2022). Changes in Orientation Behavior due to Extended High-Frequency (5 to 10 kHz) Spatial Cues. Ear and Hearing, 43(2), 545-553. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001113

Objectives: Current hearing aids have a limited bandwidth, which limits the intelligibility and quality of their output, and inhibits their uptake. Recent advances in signal processing, as well as novel methods of transduction, allow for a greater... Read More about Changes in Orientation Behavior due to Extended High-Frequency (5 to 10 kHz) Spatial Cues.

Development and Critical Evaluation of a Condition-Specific Preference-Based Measure Sensitive to Binaural Hearing in Adults: The York Binaural Hearing–Related Quality-of-Life System (2021)
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Quentin Summerfield, A., Kitterick, P. T., & Goman, A. M. (2022). Development and Critical Evaluation of a Condition-Specific Preference-Based Measure Sensitive to Binaural Hearing in Adults: The York Binaural Hearing–Related Quality-of-Life System. Ear and Hearing, 43(2), 379-397. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001101

Objectives: The widely-used generic preference-based measures of health-related quality of life - the EuroQol Descriptive System (EQ-5D) and the Health Utilities Index (HUI3) - are limited in their response to technologies that improve hearing. The E... Read More about Development and Critical Evaluation of a Condition-Specific Preference-Based Measure Sensitive to Binaural Hearing in Adults: The York Binaural Hearing–Related Quality-of-Life System.

Improved survival outcomes despite older age at diagnosis: an era‐by‐era analysis of patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma treated at a single referral centre in the United Kingdom (2021)
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Kaji, F. A., Martinez‐Calle, N., Bishton, M. J., Figueroa, R., Adlington, J., O’Donoghue, M., …Fox, C. P. (2021). Improved survival outcomes despite older age at diagnosis: an era‐by‐era analysis of patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma treated at a single referral centre in the United Kingdom. British Journal of Haematology, 195(4), 561-570. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.17747

Observational studies with long-term follow-up of patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) are scarce. Patient data over a period of four decades were retrospectively analysed from databases at Not-tingham University Hospitals Tr... Read More about Improved survival outcomes despite older age at diagnosis: an era‐by‐era analysis of patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma treated at a single referral centre in the United Kingdom.