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Henrique, Maiara Garcia; de Paula Couto, Maria Clara P.; Araya, Ricardo; Mendes, Ana Vilela; Nakamura, Carina Akemi; Hollingworth, William; van de Ven, Pepijn; Peters, Tim J.; Scazufca, Marcia
(BMC, 2021)
Background: Depression is a common condition in older adults, being often detected and treated initially in primary
care. Collaborative care models including, for example, task-shifting and stepped-care approaches have ...
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Grabrucker, Stefanie; Pagano, Jessica; Schweizer, Johanna; Urrutia-Ruiz, Carolina; Schon, Michael; Thome, Kevin; Ehret, Gunter; Grabrucker, Andreas M.; Zhang, Rong; Hengerer, Bastian; Bockmann, Juergen; Verpelli, Chiara; Sala, Carlo; Boeckers, Tobias M.
(EMBO Press, 2021)
Impairments in social relationships and awareness are features
observed in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). However, the under lying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Shank2 is a high-confi dence ASD candidate gene ...
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Buffey, Aidan John; Herring, Matthew P.; Langley, Christina K.; Donnelly, Alan Edward; Carson, Brian P.
(Springer, 2022)
Background Increasing evidence highlights that accumulating sitting time in prolonged bouts is detrimental to cardiometabolic health. Objectives This systematic review aimed to compare the effects of fractionating prolonged ...
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Gelius, Peter; Messing, Sven; Forberger, Sarah; Lakerveld, Jeroen; Mansergh, Fiona C.; Wendel‑Vos, Wanda; Zukowska, Joanna; Woods, Catherine B.; on behalf of the PEN Consortium
(BMC, 2021)
Background: Public policy is increasingly recognized as an important component of physical activity promotion. This paper reports on the current status of physical activity policy development and implementation in four ...
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González, Janneth; Pinzón, Andrés; Angarita-Rodríguez, Andrea; Aristizaba, Andrés Felipe; Barreto, George E.; Martín-Jiménez, Cynthia
(Frontiers Media, 2020)
The growing importance of astrocytes in the field of neuroscience has led to a greater
number of computational models devoted to the study of astrocytic functions and their
metabolic interactions with neurons. The ...
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Collins, John D.; O'Sullivan, Leonard
(BioMed Central, 2018)
Background: Injury prevalence data commonly indicate trends of higher rates of work-related musculoskeletal
disorders in older workers over their younger counterparts, and for females more than males. The purpose of ...
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Gallagher, Stephen; Summer, Rachel C.; Creaven, Ann-Marie; O'Súilleabháin, Páraic S.; Howard, Siobhán
(Elsevier, 2021)
Background
During the COVID-19 pandemic increased risk of poor mental health has been evident across different cultures and contexts. This study aims to examine whether allostatic load (AL) prior to the pandemic was ...
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Sauer, Ann Katrin; Bockmann, Juergen; Steinestel, Konrad; Boeckers, Tobias M.; Grabrucker, Andreas M.
(MDPI, 2019)
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders
characterized by deficits in social interaction and communication, and repetitive behaviors. In addition, co-morbidities such as gastro-intestinal ...
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Moran, Donal; Fleming, Mary; Daly, Eimear; Gaughan, Natasha; Zabetakis, Ioannis; Traas, Con; Tsoupras, Alexandros
(MDPI, 2021)
Alcoholic beverages like apple cider are considered functional beverages with several health benefits, when consumed in moderation, which are mainly attributed to their microbiota and the plethora of their bioactive ...
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McCool, Aoibhin; Lukas, Kurt; Hayes, Peter; Kelly, Dervla
(Springer, 2021)
Background/aims The aim of this study was to identify the trends in antidepressant (AD) medication use in two Irish general
practices over a 5-year period, 2016 to 2020. The rationale for this study is attributed to the ...
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Belton, Sarahjane; Connolly, Sinéad Á.; Peers, Cameron; Goss, Hannah; Murphy, Marie H.; Murtagh, Elaine M.; Kavanagh, Jennifer; Corr, Méabh; Ferguson, Kyle; O'Brien, Wesley
(BMC, 2022)
Background: Developing physical literacy at population levels provides a transformative appeal for those working
in sport, health, education, recreation and physical activity settings. Interdisciplinary approaches to ...
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O'Reilly, Pauline; Lee, Siew Hwa; O'Sullivan, Madeleine; Cullen, Walter; Kennedy, Catriona; MacFarlane, Anne E.
(2017)
Interdisciplinary team working is of paramount importance in the reform of primary care in
order to provide cost-effective and comprehensive care. However, international research
shows that it is not routine practice in ...
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Leahy, Joy; Walsh, Cathal Dominic
(Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2019)
if IPD is available for some or all trials in an NMA, then incorporating this IPD into an NMA is routinely considered to be preferable. However, the situation often arises where a researcher has IPD for trials concerning ...
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Huysamen, Kirsten; de Looze, Michiel P.; Bosch, Tim; Ortiz, Jesús; Toxiri, Stefano; O'Sullivan, Leonard
(Elsevier, 2018)
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an industrial exoskeleton on muscle activity, perceived musculoskeletal effort, measured and perceived contact pressure at the trunk, thighs and shoulders, and subjective ...
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Linnane, Barry; O'Connell, Nuala H.; Obande, E.; Dunne, Suzanne S.; Clancy, C.; Kiernan, Miranda G.; McGrath, D.; O'Sullivan, Kevin Jeremiah; O'Sullivan, Leonard; Dunne, Colum P.
(Elsevier, 2021)
Background: Positive expiratory pressure (PEP) devices are an important element of the
management of cystic fibrosis, and of other respiratory diseases. Whereas there have been
reports in the literature of contamination ...
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Fitton Davies, Katie; Sacko, Ryan S.; Lyons, Mark; Duncan, Michael J.
(MDPI, 2922)
This study systematically reviews the literature examining the relationship between Funda mental Movement Screen (FMS©) scores and athletic performance in youth. We searched English language papers on PubMed/MEDLINE, ...
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Griffin, Alan; Kenny, Ian C.; Comyns, Thomas M.; Lyons, Mark
(Springer, 2019)
There has been a recent increase in research examining training load as a method of mitigating injury risk due to its known detrimental effects on player welfare and team performance. The acute:chronic workload ratio (ACWR) ...
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O'Neill, Aoife; Gallagher, Stephen; Hannigan, Ailish; Robinson, Katie
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
Background: Care is regularly provided on an informal basis by family and friends and it is well established that caregivers experience high rates of depression. The majority of research on caregivers tends to focus on ...
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Elsayed, Mohamed E.; Ferguson, John P.; Stack, Austin G.
(Dove Medical Press, 2016)
The association of adult height withmortality has been extensively investigated in the general population,
but little is known about this relationship among dialysis patients. We explored the relationship between
height ...
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McDowell, Cillian P.; Herring, Matthew P.; Lansing, Jeni E.; Brower, Cassandra S.; Meyer, Jacob D.
(Frontiers Media, 2021)
Objectives: To examine associations of changing employment conditions, specifically
switching to working from home (WFH) or job loss, with mental health, using data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Data ...