Hologic (Germany)

From Concept to Multicentre Trial: The Central Role of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in Developing and Testing SELF-BREATHE, a Digital Intervention for Chronic Breathlessness

Extract Chronic breathlessness is a debilitating symptom experienced by people with advanced respiratory disease. Despite its high prevalence, access to specialist-led structured breathlessness support across the UK and internationally remains inconsistent [1, 2], due to geograph...

Factors associated with variability in recovery after mild traumatic brain injury among adults referred to outpatient concussion clinics

BACKGROUND: To understand factors associated with symptom and disability recovery trajectories among adults referred to outpatient clinics after mild traumatic brain injury. METHODS: Adults (n = 110; mean age 39 years, 36% men), were assessed at clinic intake (baseline mean 6.5 w...

Bilinguals automatically access both languages based on “irrelevant” acoustic detail: Evidence from lexical tone

Bilinguals simultaneously activate words from both languages that are consistent with the input, even in contexts/tasks which emphasise only one language. However, it is unknown whether/how the speech perception system integrates or ignores “irrelevant” acoustic cues which might...

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 perils of omitting omissions when modeling evidence accumulation

Response deadlines are commonly imposed in decision-making research to incentivize speedy decisions and sustained attention. This procedure frequently leads to a proportion of trials in which no response is made, and these omissions are often simply removed from the data during a...