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Anxiety, mood disorders and injection risk behaviors among cocaine users: results from the COSMO study
(Wiley, 2015-10)
Background and Objectives: Despite being common among cocaine users, mental health problems and their relationship with HIV and hepatitis C high risk injection behaviors are poorly documented. This study was undertaken to ...
Genetic markers of Restless Legs Syndrome in Parkinson disease
(Elsevier, 2015-06)
INTRODUCTION:
Several studies proposed that Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) and Parkinson disease (PD) may be clinically and/or etiologically related. To examine this hypothesis, we aimed to determine whether the known RLS ...
Hepatitis C Virus seroconversion among persons who inject drugs in relation to primary care physician visiting: The potential role of primary healthcare in a combined approach to Hepatitis C prevention
(Elsevier, 2015-10)
Background: Meaningful reductions in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) transmission rates among persons who inject drugs (PWID) require a comprehensive prevention approach, including access to harm reduction measures and to ...
Short-term heart rate variability in a population-based sample of 10-year-old children
(Springer Verlag, 2015)
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a non-invasive quantitative marker of cardiac autonomic function derived from continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings. Normative HRV values and development factors have not been ...
An in-depth analysis of ethics teaching in Canadian Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy programs
(2015-02-23)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine current approaches and challenges to teaching ethics in entry-level Canadian physiotherapy (PT) and occupational therapy (OT) programs. Methods: Educators responsible for ...
Modeling left and right atrial contributions to the ECG : a dipole-current source approach
(Elsevier, 2015)
This paper presents the mathematical formulation, the numerical validation and several illustrations of a forward-modeling approach based on dipole-current sources to compute the contribution of a part of the heart to the ...
Cannabis use in early adolescence: evidence of amygdala hypersensitivity to signals of threat
(Elsevier, 2015-12)
Cannabis use in adolescence may be characterized by differences in the neural basis of affective processing. In this study, we used an fMRI affective face processing task to compare a large group (n = 70) of 14-year olds ...
Sleep deprivation reveals altered brain perfusion patterns in somnambulism
(Public Library of Science, 2015)
BACKGROUND:
Despite its high prevalence, relatively little is known about the pathophysiology of somnambulism. Increasing evidence indicates that somnambulism is associated with functional abnormalities during wakefulness ...
Quality of Physiotherapy Services for Injured Workers Compensated by Workers' Compensation in Quebec: A Focus Group Study of Physiotherapy Professionals
(2015-02)
Musculoskeletal disorders are among the leading causes of work-related physical disability in the province of Quebec in Canada. The authors conducted a focus group study with physiotherapists and physical rehabilitation ...
Functional characterization of CaVα2δ mutations associated with sudden cardiac death
(Elsevier, 2015-01-30)
L-type Ca(2+) channels play a critical role in cardiac rhythmicity. These ion channels are oligomeric complexes formed by the pore-forming CaVα1 with the auxiliary CaVβ and CaVα2δ subunits. CaVα2δ increases the peak current ...