Mapping current trends and hotspots in myasthenia gravis from 2003 to 2022: a bibliometric analysis
ConclusionThis bibliometric analysis shows the framework of research over the past 20 years by mapping the scholarly contributions of various countries or regions, institutions, journals, and authors in MG. The analysis also explores future trends and prospective directions, emphasizing individualized treatment based on subtypes, novel immunotherapeutic approaches, and thymectomy. (Source: Frontiers in Neurology)
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - December 28, 2023 Category: Neurology Source Type: research
NRA donations spike in counties that have experienced school shootings
School shootings are tragically familiar in the United States. But a new analysis shows they have a startling consequence. In the very counties where they occur, the National Rifle Association (NRA)
sees a surge in donation amounts and in new donors
that lasts several years after shootings, according to an analysis of 131 school shootings with at least one fatality between 2000 and 2022.
The finding, published today in
Science Advances
, echoes well-documented surges in gun purchases and donations to NRA, the leading U.S. gun rights lobbyist, after mass shootings. But the hyperlocal effect is new ...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - December 20, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Supramolecular Membrane Chemistry in the Langton Group
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2023 Dec 20:e202317994. doi: 10.1002/anie.202317994. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis invited Team Profile was created by the Langton group in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford (UK). They recently published an article on a synthetic supramolecular signaling system, in which light is used to initiate the release of diffusible chemical signals from one population of vesicles to another. This triggers transmembrane cation transport in the receiver vesicles and amplifies the signal, in a manner reminiscent of signaling mechanisms in biology. "Inter-Vesicle Signal Transduction Using a P...
Source: Angewandte Chemie - December 20, 2023 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Supramolecular Membrane Chemistry in the Langton Group
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2023 Dec 20:e202317994. doi: 10.1002/anie.202317994. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis invited Team Profile was created by the Langton group in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford (UK). They recently published an article on a synthetic supramolecular signaling system, in which light is used to initiate the release of diffusible chemical signals from one population of vesicles to another. This triggers transmembrane cation transport in the receiver vesicles and amplifies the signal, in a manner reminiscent of signaling mechanisms in biology. "Inter-Vesicle Signal Transduction Using a P...
Source: Angewandte Chemie - December 20, 2023 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research
Pangolin-poaching hot spots revealed by DNA tests
Using DNA tests, researchers have exposed smuggling routes and traced the remains of African pangolins back to specific forest populations. Since 2012,
poaching of these endangered animals has shifted eastward from Sierra Leone to Cameroon
, they report today in
Science
. The tests could help law enforcement agents more quickly identify the source of untold numbers of hunted pangolins, possibly millions of which are illegally shipped around the world each year.
“Identifying pangolin poaching hot spots is crucial to curbing their decline and this paper has made a giant effort in addressing this g...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - December 14, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Patagonian people were riding horses long before Europeans arrived
The first Europeans to visit the southernmost tip of South America marveled at the people they met there. They were so tall, one version of the story goes, that Ferdinand Magellan’s 16th century crew dubbed them “Patagones,” from the Spanish for “big foot.” The name came to describe Patagonia, the southern tip of South America as well.
Two hundred years after Magellan’s visit, a British sailor stranded in the region recorded a very different picture. The locals, probably Indigenous Tehuelche people, were no longer notable just for their size. They were now thundering across the Patagonian plains on horses...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - December 8, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Patagonian people were riding horses long before Europeans arrived in the region
The first Europeans to visit the southernmost tip of South America marveled at the people they met there. They were so tall, one version of the story goes, that Ferdinand Magellan’s 16th century crew dubbed them “Patagones,” from the Spanish for “big foot.” The name came to describe Patagonia, the southern tip of South America as well.
Two hundred years after Magellan’s visit, a British sailor stranded in the region recorded a very different picture. The locals, probably Indigenous Tehuelche people, were no longer notable just for their size. They were now thundering across the Patagonian plains on horses...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - December 8, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The culture trap: Ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for Black youthBy Derron Wallace, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 296. £74.00. ISBN: 9780197531464
(Source: Children and Society)
Source: Children and Society - December 7, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Garth Stahl Tags: BOOK REVIEW Source Type: research
Feasibility and acceptability of using the Alarm Distress BaBy (ADBB) scale within universal health visiting practice in England: a mixed-methods study protocol
This study will explore the acceptability and feasibility of the use of the full ADBB scale and a modified ADBB (m-ADBB) scale as part of routine health visiting visits in England.
Methods and analysis
A mixed methods sequential exploratory design will be used. Five health visitors will be trained in using the ADBB scale and 20 in the m-ADBB scale, from two National Health Service sites in England. Qualitative semi-structured interviews will be carried out with health visitors after they receive the training and again 2 months after using the scales in routine family health visits. Quantitative data will also be collected...
Source: BMJ Open - November 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Baldwin, S., Insan, N., Beauchamp, H., Gilroy, V., Morton, A., Barlow, J. Tags: Open access, Public health Source Type: research
Book Review: Political corruption: the internal enemy of public institutions, by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, Oxford University Press (2021)
(Source: Crime, Law and Social Change)
Source: Crime, Law and Social Change - November 23, 2023 Category: Criminology Source Type: research
Perspectives of healthcare professionals and people living with HIV in dialogue: on information sharing to improve communication at the consultation
. (Source: AIDS Care)
Source: AIDS Care - November 21, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Caroline ClaisseBakita KasadhaAbigail C. Durranta School of Computing, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UKb Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Source Type: research
1 Can we prevent dementia?
Dr Mukadam completed her Medical Sciences undergraduate degree at Cambridge University with an intercalated BA in Experimental Psychology. She then studied Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford and trained in general medicine and surgery at Oxford and Newcastle.
She completed her psychiatric training on the Royal Free Psychiatric Training rotation and obtained her CCT in Old Age Psychiatry in 2013. Dr Mukadam obtained a doctoral research training fellowship from the NIHR to design and test an intervention to encourage South Asian people to seek help earlier for dementia.
During her PhD, Dr Mukadam has collaborated ...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - November 15, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Mukadam, N. Tags: BNPA Medal Lecture Source Type: research
Placebo, suggestion and FND - interactions and clues to pathophysiology
Devin Terhune. I joined the Department of Psychology at KCL in 2022 as a Reader in Experimental Psychology. I completed my BA in Philosophy and Psychology at Concordia University (Canada), my MSc in Psychology (with distinction) at the University of Liverpool, and my PhD in Psychology at Lund University (Sweden). After completing my PhD, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford. More recently, before joining KCL, I lectured in statistics and coding in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Mark Edwards is a Professor of Neurolog...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - November 15, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Terhune, D., Edwards, M. Tags: BNPA Lifetime Achievement Award Source Type: research
The Scottish wildcat has been wiped out by breeding with domestic cats
Though it lies in ruins on the northeast coast of England, Kilton Castle was once an imposing stone fortress, home to several noble families, and—it appears—at least eight cats. Archaeological excavations in the 1960s uncovered a well, at the bottom of which lay the bones of several felines dating back to the 14th century. The animals were an odd mix: Some were domestic cats, but other, larger specimens appeared to be European wildcats, a fierce, burly species that has inhabited the continent for hundreds of thousands of years.
The two species’ closeness in death was deceptive. A study published today in
C...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - November 6, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
