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Frogs, filters, and faraway lands: honoring the inimitable neuroethology of Peter Narins

This Special Issue of the Journal of Comparative Physiology A continues the journal’s tradition of recognizing pioneering neuroethologists by honoring Peter M. Narins. A former Associate Editor of the Journal and an influential colleague to researchers worldwide, Peter has profou...

Learning Nonlinear Responses in PET Bottle Buckling With a Hybrid DeepONet–Transolver Framework

ABSTRACT Neural surrogates and operator networks for solving partial differential equation (PDE) problems have attracted significant research interest in recent years. However, most existing approaches are limited in their ability to generalize solutions across varying nonparamet...

International Society of Urological Pathology Multidisciplinary Expert Consultation Conference on Evaluation of Treatment Effects in Prostate and Bladder Cancer

Treatment effects in the urinary bladder are variable and range from localized post-transurethral resection changes to widespread systemic therapy effects. The International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) organized a consensus meeting in Vienna, Austria, in September 2025...

Biological Embedding of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Neurobiological and Immune Mechanisms Linking Early-Life Stress to Addiction Vulnerability.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with elevated risk for substance use disorders (SUDs), yet prevailing accounts often emphasize psychosocial pathways and reward-circuit recalibration without fully articulating immunobiological mechanisms that may converge on th...

Implementing Mental Health and Substance Use Screening at a Sexual Health Clinic.

PURPOSE: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals experience heightened mental health problems and substance misuse. Improved approaches to screening for behavioral health in this population are needed. We evaluated the implementation of a digital intake platform incorporatin...

Assessing Public Health and Preventative Health Needs of Underserved Communities in Rhode Island.

BACKGROUND: In the United States, significant disparities exist in preventative health among underserved communities, including African American/Black (AA/B), Hispanic/Latino (H/L) and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/ queer (LGBTQ+) individuals. We explored the influence of soci...

Triple Vulnerability: Suicidal Ideation, Elevated Anxiety, and Alcohol Consumption and Treatment Engagement in a Partial Hospital Setting.

OBJECTIVE: Partial hospitalization programs (PHP) are acute psychiatric settings that commonly treat patients with active suicidal ideation (SI), anxiety, and alcohol use. Alcohol use is common among patients with SI and anxiety, and this triple vulnerability may negatively impac...

The Storm After the Calm: A Case of Medetomidine Withdrawal.

We report a case of a 30-year-old woman with a history of intravenous drug use, who presented to the emergency department with nausea, vomiting, agitation, and delirium. In order to protect her airway and to facilitate further evaluation, she received endotracheal intubation, but...

Disclosure of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatients: Differences by Sexual and Gender Minority Status.

Rates of adolescent suicide have risen over the last 10 years, creating a public health crisis. Disclosure of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) is one help-seeking strategy available to adolescents. Estimates from prior studies on the frequency of youth STB disclosure vary c...

Association Between Perceived Interpersonal Support and Quality of Life Among Adult Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy at an Integrated Academic Cancer Institute.

PURPOSE: Increased interpersonal support may improve the quality of life of patients with a cancer diagnosis. We seek to determine the relationship between perceived interpersonal support (PIS) and quality of life (QOL) among adult patients receiving chemotherapy infusions at an...

Synthesis Across Disciplines: Creating Integrated Clinical Vignettes for Pre-clerkship Medical Training.

INTRODUCTION: Case-based learning strategies have been shown to enhance student engagement, promote active learning, and improve problem-solving ability by simulating clinical scenarios. However, few interventions focus specifically on integration within basic science domains, an...

Affect labeling down-regulates amygdala only in a dominant native language

A successful strategy to down-regulate emotions is to simply label them (e.g., saying “I’m sad” when feeling sad). It however remains unresolved which mechanism is responsible for the efficacy of this approach known as affect labeling. Here, we constrain the proposed mechanisms o...

The impact of cessation aids on sustained quitting and weight gain among adults with a quit attempt in the PATH study

Abstract Introduction This study aimed to compare cessation and weight gain among US adults in Wave 6 of the PATH Study. Methods Participants reporting a past year quit attempt (n = 2454) were grouped by cessation aid used: (1) medication (Rx), (2) nicotine replacement therapy (N...

Screen time is differentially related to visual selective attention and visual feature processing across middle childhood

Abstract Increased screen time has been linked to attention difficulties in early childhood, raising concerns among parents and professionals. However, it remains unclear how screen use influences the development of visual attention and visual processing across childhood. In this...

Balancing privacy and performance: the impact of facial defacing on AI in medical imaging

Background Recent NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy updates and NIH controlled-access data security requirements have increased attention to facial anonymization and controlled-access handling of shared head imaging data. This is particularly relevant for datasets subm...

Barriers & coverage outcomes of inactivated polio vaccine & oral polio vaccine in humanitarian settings: a scoping review

Polio is targeted for global eradication by 2029. Immunization campaigns face significant challenges in humanitarian emergencies due to instability, population displacement, and health infrastructure collapse. The two primary vaccines used, Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) and Ora...

Functional Quantum Field Theory in Phase Space

The formulation of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in phase space offers a unique alternative to operator and path-integral paradigms, providing distinct conceptual advantages for semiclassical expansions. In this work, we present a systematic and self-consistent functional framework...

Transient gamma events delineate somatosensory modality in S1

Gamma band activity localized to the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) in humans and animals is implicated in the higher order neural processing of painful and tactile stimuli. However, it is unclear if gamma band activity differs between these distinct somatosensory modalities....

Investigating regional electricity consumption across Europe: a spatial analysis

Electricity is increasingly central to Europe's energy transition, but evidence on regional consumption remains limited by the lack of harmonised sub-national data. We address this gap by constructing a regional electricity consumption dataset covering all EU Member States and se...

Stacks, Monodromy and Symmetric Cubic Surfaces

ABSTRACT We investigate monodromy groups arising in enumerative geometry, with a particular focus on how these groups are influenced by prescribed symmetries. To study these phenomena effectively, we work in the framework of moduli stacks rather than moduli spaces. This perspecti...