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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 11

2018 November - 11 articles

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Articles (11)

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,503 Views
15 Pages

21 November 2018

Background. The Minorities’ Diminished Return theory suggests that education attainment and other socioeconomic resources have smaller effects on the health and well-being of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities compared to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,486 Views
18 Pages

21 November 2018

With recent advances in technology, there has been growing interest in use of eye-tracking and pupillometry to assess the visual pathway in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Within emerging literature, an atypical pupillary light reflex (PLR) has been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,795 Views
19 Pages

Title IX Mandated Reporting: The Views of University Employees and Students

  • Amie R. Newins,
  • Emily Bernstein,
  • Roselyn Peterson,
  • Jonathan C. Waldron and
  • Susan W. White

20 November 2018

Per Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments of 1972, many university employees are mandated reporters of sexual assault. University employees (N = 174) and students (N = 783) completed an online survey assessing knowledge and opinions of this rep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,837 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2018

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system through which patients can suffer from sensory, motor, cerebellar, emotional, and cognitive symptoms. Although cognitive and behavioral dysf...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
22,293 Views
5 Pages

Isolated Mammillary Bodies Damage—An Atypical Presentation of Wernicke Syndrome

  • Samar A. Abbas,
  • Halim Abboud,
  • Moussa A. Chalah,
  • Chadi Sabbagh and
  • Samar S. Ayache

12 November 2018

We report atypical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) lesions in a case of Wernicke encephalopathy. The patient presented with isolated anterograde amnesia following a partial colectomy complicated by peritonitis. Fluid-attenuated inversion recovery an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,935 Views
13 Pages

11 November 2018

This study used data from wave four of the United Kingdom (U.K.) Millennium Cohort Study to examine whether there is an individual (i.e., maternal education) and area-level social disadvantage (i.e., neighborhood deprivation) gradient to difficulties...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,152 Views
7 Pages

Elevated Levels of Serum IL-17A in Community-Dwelling Women with Higher Depressive Symptoms

  • Hirohito Tsuboi,
  • Hiroyuki Sakakibara,
  • Yuuki Minamida,
  • Hiromasa Tsujiguchi,
  • Masahiro Matsunaga,
  • Akinori Hara and
  • Hiroyuki Nakamura

4 November 2018

Recent studies indicate that patients with depression have increased concentrations of serum pro-inflammatory cytokines. However, studies of IL-17 and studies on community-dwellers are few. The purpose of this study was to investigate serum cytokine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,014 Views
15 Pages

Sex Differences in Salivary Oxytocin and Cortisol Concentration Changes during Cooking in a Small Group

  • Teruko Yuhi,
  • Kosuke Ise,
  • Kei Iwashina,
  • Naoya Terao,
  • Satoshi Yoshioka,
  • Keijiro Shomura,
  • Toshikatsu Maehara,
  • Akari Yazaki,
  • Kana Koichi and
  • Haruhiro Higashida
  • + 9 authors

3 November 2018

Background: Oxytocin (OT), a neuropeptide, has positive effects on social and emotional processes during group activities. Because cooking is an integrated process in the cognitive, physical, and socio-emotional areas, cooking in a group is reported...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,869 Views
14 Pages

28 October 2018

This paper examines visitors’ movement patterns at the Broad Museum designed by Zaha Hadid. Characterized with free, open, and generally unbound spaces, visitors explore a curated exhibition at their own pace, route, and agenda. Unlike most oth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,242 Views
12 Pages

Health Behaviors of Student Community Research Partners When Designing and Implementing a Healthy Lifestyle Intervention on College Campuses

  • Makenzie L. Barr,
  • Sarah E. Colby,
  • Kristin Riggsbee,
  • Krista Leischner,
  • Anne E. Mathews,
  • Melissa J. Vilaro,
  • Kendra K. Kattelmann and
  • Melissa D. Olfert

26 October 2018

Few studies work with college students as equal partners in all aspects of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and even less evaluate behaviors of those college partners. The current study aimed to examine health behaviors of students by de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
611 Citations
46,187 Views
7 Pages

Factors Related to Physician Burnout and Its Consequences: A Review

  • Rikinkumar S. Patel,
  • Ramya Bachu,
  • Archana Adikey,
  • Meryem Malik and
  • Mansi Shah

25 October 2018

Physician burnout is a universal dilemma that is seen in healthcare professionals, particularly physicians, and is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a feeling of low personal accomplishment. In this review, we discuss the...

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