Veterans Disability & Rehabilitation Research

PLOS ONE Drug related problems in older adults living with dementia

September 10, 2020 Sirasa Ruangritchankul, Nancye M. Peel, Leila Shafiee Hanjani, Leonard C. Gray

PLOS Medicine Disparities in United States hospitalizations for serious infections in patients with and without opioid use disorder: A nationwide observational study

September 10, 2020 June-Ho Kim, Danielle R. Fine, Lily Li, Simeon D. Kimmel, Long H. Ngo, Joji Suzuki, Christin N. Price, Matthew V. Ronan, Shoshana J. Herzig

PLOS ONE Accuracy of consumer-based activity trackers as measuring tool and coaching device in patients with COPD and healthy controls

September 10, 2020 Astrid Blondeel, Heleen Demeyer, Wim Janssens, Thierry Troosters

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Current patterns of primary care provider practices for the treatment of post-traumatic headache in active duty military settings

September 10, 2020 Rosemay A. Remigio-Baker, Seth Kiser, Hamid Ferdosi, Emma Gregory, Scot Engel, Sean Sebesta, Daniel Beauchamp, Saafan Malik, Ann I. Scher, Sidney R. Hinds II

PLOS ONE Adaptation of balancing behaviour during continuous perturbations of stance. Supra-postural visual tasks and platform translation frequency modulate adaptation rate

September 10, 2020 Stefania Sozzi, Antonio Nardone, Marco Schieppati

PLOS ONE Potentially inappropriate prescriptions according to explicit and implicit criteria in patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. MULTIPAP: A cross-sectional study

September 10, 2020 Juan A. Lopez-Rodriguez, Mercedes Aza-Pascual-Salcedo, Fernando Lopez-Verde, Victoria Pico-Soler, Francisca Leiva-Fernandez, J. Daniel Prados-Torres, Alexandra Prados-Torres, Isabel Cura-González, MULTIPAP group , Eloísa Rogero-Blanco

PLOS ONE Automated EHR score to predict COVID-19 outcomes at US Department of Veterans Affairs

August 10, 2020 Thomas F. Osborne, Zachary P. Veigulis, David M. Arreola, Eliane Röösli, Catherine M. Curtin

PLOS ONE Effect of virtual reality-simulated exercise on sympathovagal balance

August 10, 2020 Sheaza Ahmed, Maryam Safdar, Courtney Morton, Nicolette Soave, Riya Patel, Kenia Castillo, Sophie Lalande, Linda Jimenez, Jason H. Mateika, Robert Wessells

PLOS ONE User-relevant factors determining prosthesis choice in persons with major unilateral upper limb defects: A meta-synthesis of qualitative literature and focus group results

August 10, 2020 Nienke Kerver, Sacha van Twillert, Bart Maas, Corry K. van der Sluis

PLOS ONE Health and wellness coaching positively impacts individuals with chronic pain and pain-related interference

August 10, 2020 Zachary D. Rethorn, Robert W. Pettitt, Emily Dykstra, Cherie D. Pettitt

PLOS Medicine EDITOR’S PICK: Association of smoking with abdominal adipose deposition and muscle composition in Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) participants at mid-life: A population-based cohort study

August 10, 2020 James G. Terry, Katherine G. Hartley, Lyn M. Steffen, Sangeeta Nair, Amy C. Alman, Melissa F. Wellons, David R. Jacobs Jr., Hilary A. Tindle, John Jeffrey Carr

PLOS Medicine Consistent sleep onset and maintenance of body weight after weight loss: An analysis of data from the NoHoW trial

August 10, 2020 Sofus C. Larsen, Graham Horgan, Marie-Louise K. Mikkelsen, Antonio L. Palmeira, Sarah Scott, Cristiana Duarte, Inês Santos, Jorge Encantado, Ruairi O'Driscoll, Jake Turicchi, Joanna Michalowska, R. James Stubbs, Berit L. Heitmann

PLOS Medicine The potential impact of COVID-19 in refugee camps in Bangladesh and beyond: A modeling study

July 22, 2020 Shaun Truelove, Orit Abrahim, Chiara Altare, Stephen A. Lauer, Krya H. Grantz, Andrew S. Azman, Paul Spiegel

PLOS ONE Using mechanical testing to assess texturing of prosthetic sockets to improve suspension in the transverse plane and reduce rotation

July 22, 2020 Julia Quinlan, Vasanth Subramanian, Jessica Yohay, Brad Poziembo, Stefania Fatone

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Confronting challenges to opioid risk mitigation in the U.S. health system: Recommendations from a panel of national experts

July 22, 2020 Erin P. Finley, Suyen Schneegans, Megan E. Curtis, Vikhyat S. Bebarta, Joseph K. Maddry, Lauren Penney, Don McGeary, Jennifer Sharpe Potter

PLOS ONE Effect of transcranial direct-current stimulation on cognitive function in stroke patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

July 22, 2020 Ru-bing Yan, Xiao-li Zhang, Yong-hong Li, Jing-ming Hou, Han Chen, Hong-liang Liu

PLOS Biology Is an artificial limb embodied as a hand? Brain decoding in prosthetic limb users

July 22, 2020 Roni O. Maimon-Mor, Tamar R. Makin

PLOS ONE Do acupuncture trials have lower risk of bias over the last five decades? A methodological study of 4 715 randomized controlled trials

July 22, 2020 Youlin Long, Rui Chen, Qiong Guo, Shanxia Luo, Jin Huang, Liang Du

PLOS ONE Economic and epidemiological impact of youth suicide in countries with the highest human development index

June 15, 2020 Christopher M. Doran, Irina Kinchin

PLOS ONE Effectiveness of electrical stimulation on nerve regeneration after crush injury: Comparison between invasive and non-invasive stimulation

June 15, 2020 Chanyang Ju, Eunkyoung Park, Taewoo Kim, Taekyung Kim, Minhee Kang, Kyu-Sung Lee, Sung-Min Park

PLOS ONE Human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells for acute and sub-acute TBI

May 26, 2020 Katherine A. Ruppert, Karthik S. Prabhakara, Naama E. Toledano-Furman, Sanjna Udtha, Austin Q. Arceneaux, Hyeonggeun Park, An Dao, Charles S. Cox, Scott D. Olson

PLOS ONE High pre- and postoperative symptom burden in non-responders to total knee arthroplasty

June 15, 2020 Maren Falch Lindberg, Turid Undebakke Schweitz, Arild Aamodt, Caryl Gay, Anners Lerdal

PLOS ONE Mental health, physical health, and health-related behaviors of U.S. Army Special Forces

June 15, 2020 Adam D. Cooper, Steven G. Warner, Anna C. Rivera, Rudolph P. Rull, Amy B. Adler, Dennis J. Faix, Rob Neff, Edwin A. Deagle, Ryan J. Caserta, Cynthia A. LeardMann, for the Millennium Cohort Study Team

PLOS ONE Adaptive robot mediated upper limb training using electromyogram-based muscle fatigue indicators

June 15, 2020 Azeemsha Thacham Poyil, Volker Steuber, Farshid Amirabdollahian

PLOS ONE Novel methodology for assessing total recovery time in response to unexpected perturbations while walking

June 3, 2020 Uri Rosenblum, Lotem Kribus-Shmiel, Gabi Zeilig, Yotam Bahat, Shani Kimel-Naor, Itshak Melzer, Meir Plotnik

PLOS ONE Muscle fat infiltration following whiplash: A computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging comparison

June 2, 2020 James M. Elliott, Andrew C. Smith, Mark A. Hoggarth, Stephanie R. Albin, Ken A. Weber II, Mat Haager, Joel Fundaun, Marie Wasielewski, D. Mark Courtney, Todd B. Parrish

PLOS ONE Effect of testing procedures on gait speed measurement: A systematic review

June 1, 2020 Anna K. Stuck, Madeleine Bachmann, Pia Füllemann, Karen R. Josephson, Andreas E. Stuck

PLOS ONE Brain functional connectivity changes by low back extension pain model in low back pain patients

June 1, 2020 Seulgi Eun, Jeungchan Lee, Eun-Mo Song, Alexandra De Rosa, Jun-Hwan Lee, Kyungmo Park

PLOS Computational Biology Modelling the effects of ephaptic coupling on selectivity and response patterns during artificial stimulation of peripheral nerves

June 1, 2020 Miguel Capllonch-Juan, Francisco Sepulveda

PLOS ONE An investigation of the correlation between the S-glutathionylated GAPDH levels in blood and Alzheimer’s disease progression

May 29, 2020 Chen Wei Tsai, Chia Fan Tsai, Kuan Hung Lin, Wei Jung Chen, Muh Shi Lin, Cho Chen Hsieh, Chai Ching Lin

PLOS ONE Visit-to-visit blood pressure variability and risk of chronic kidney disease: A systematic review and meta-analyses

May 29, 2020 Huihui Li, Jing Xue, Wenjie Dai, Yusa Chen, Qiaoling Zhou, Wenhang Chen

PLOS ONE The impact of TMS and PNS frequencies on MEP potentiation in PAS with high-frequency peripheral component

May 29, 2020 Magdolna Mezes, Roope Havu, Aleksandra Tolmacheva, Pantelis Lioumis, Jyrki P. Mäkelä, Anastasia Shulga

PLOS ONE Reliability of temporal summation, thermal and pressure pain thresholds in a healthy cohort and musculoskeletal trauma population

May 29, 2020 Nicola Middlebrook, Nicola R. Heneghan, David W. Evans, Alison Rushton, Deborah Falla

PLOS ONE Effect of cardiac rehabilitation on cognitive function in elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases

May 29, 2020 Kazuhiro Fujiyoshi, Yoshiyasu Minami, Toshiki Kutsuna, Shinichi Obara, Akihiro Aoyama, Junya Ako, Minako Yamaoka-Tojo

PLOS ONE Clinical validity of two different grading systems for lumbar central canal stenosis: Schizas and Lee classification systems

May 27, 2020 Yeon-jee Ko, Joon Woo Lee, Chi Young Park, Jungheum Cho, Yusuhn Kang, Joong Mo Ahn, Eugene Lee

PLOS ONE Functional outcome in home health: Do racial and ethnic minority patients with dementia fare worse?

May 26, 2020 Jinjiao Wang, Fang Yu, Xueya Cai, Thomas V. Caprio, Yue Li

PLOS ONE Opioid prescription patterns among patients who doctor shop; Implications for providers

May 26, 2020 Todd Schneberk, Brian Raffetto, Joseph Friedman, Andrew Wilson, David Kim, David L. Schriger

PLOS ONE Cost-effectiveness of psychological treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in adults

May 26, 2020 Ifigeneia Mavranezouli, Odette Megnin-Viggars, Nick Grey, Gita Bhutani, Jonathan Leach, Caitlin Daly, Sofia Dias, Nicky J. Welton, Cornelius Katona, Sharif El-Leithy, Neil Greenberg, Sarah Stockton, Stephen Pilling

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Prevalence, injury-, and non-injury-related factors associated with anxiety and depression in polytrauma patients – A retrospective 20 year follow-up study

May 26, 2020 Sascha Halvachizadeh, Henrik Teuber, Till Berk, Florin Allemann, Roland von Känel, Boris Zelle, Paolo Cinelli, Hans-Christoph Pape, Roman Pfeifer

PLOS ONE Disproportionate positive feedback facilitates sense of agency and performance for a reaching movement task with a virtual hand

May 20, 2020 Raviraj Nataraj, David Hollinger, Mingxiao Liu, Aniket Shah

PLOS ONE Investigating predictors of community integration in individuals after stroke in a residential setting: A longitutinal study

May 18, 2020 Isabela Matos, Adriana Fernandes, Iara Maso, Jamary Oliveira-Filho, Pedro Antônio de Jesus, Helena Fraga-Maia, Elen Beatriz Pinto

PLOS ONE Standardized on-road tests assessing fitness-to-drive in people with cognitive impairments: A systematic review

May 18, 2020 David Bellagamba, Line Vionnet, Isabel Margot-Cattin, Paul Vaucher

PLOS ONE Financial health as a measurable social determinant of health

May 18, 2020 Emily Brown Weida, Pam Phojanakong, Falguni Patel, Mariana Chilton

PLOS ONE Changing lifestyle for dementia risk reduction: Inductive content analysis of a national UK survey

May 15, 2020 Alessandro Bosco, Katy A. Jones, Claudio Di Lorito, Blossom C. M. Stephan, Martin Orrell, Deborah Oliveira

PLOS Medicine National and regional prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

May 15, 2020 Lauren C. Ng, Anne Stevenson, Sreeja S. Kalapurakkel, Charlotte Hanlon, Soraya Seedat, Boniface Harerimana, Bonginkosi Chiliza, Karestan C. Koenen

PLOS ONE A comparison of three methods in categorizing functional status to predict hospital readmission across post-acute care

May 7, 2020 Chih-Ying Li, Amol Karmarkar, Yong-Fang Kuo, Hemalkumar B. Mehta, Trudy Mallinson, Allen Haas, Amit Kumar, Kenneth J. Ottenbacher

PLOS ONE Trajectories of fatigue among stroke patients from the acute phase to 18 months post-injury: A latent class analysis

May 4, 2020 Anita Kjeverud, Kristin Østlie, Anne-Kristine Schanke, Caryl Gay, Magne Thoresen, Anners Lerdal

PLOS ONE The evaluating prescription opioid changes in veterans (EPOCH) study: Design, survey response, and baseline characteristics

May 4, 2020 Erin E. Krebs, Barbara Clothier, Sean Nugent, Agnes C. Jensen, Brian C. Martinson, Elizabeth S. Goldsmith, Melvin T. Donaldson, Joseph W. Frank, Indulis Rutks, Siamak Noorbaloochi

PLOS ONE Teach-back: A systematic review of implementation and impacts

May 4, 2020 Jason Talevski, Anna Wong Shee, Bodil Rasmussen, Georgie Kemp, Alison Beauchamp

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Sensory focused exercise improves anxiety in Parkinson’s disease: A randomized controlled trial

May 4, 2020 Eric N. Beck, Mary T. Y. Wang, Brittany N. Intzandt, Quincy J. Almeida, Kaylena A. Ehgoetz Martens

PLOS ONE Harnessing digital health to objectively assess cognitive impairment in people undergoing hemodialysis process: The Impact of cognitive impairment on mobility performance measured by wearables

May 4, 2020 He Zhou, Fadwa Al-Ali, Changhong Wang, Abdullah Hamad, Rania Ibrahim, Talal Talal, Bijan Najafi

PLOS ONE The knowledge and self-management educational needs of older adults with knee osteoarthritis: A qualitative study

May 4, 2020 Siti Salwana Kamsan, Maw Pin Tan, Saravana Kumar, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh

PLOS ONE Neurological soft signs (NSS) and brain morphology in patients with chronic schizophrenia and healthy controls

April 22, 2020 Christina J. Herold, Marco Essig, Johannes Schröder

PLOS ONE Pharmacological treatment of depression: A systematic review comparing clinical practice guideline recommendations

April 21, 2020 Franciele Cordeiro Gabriel, Daniela Oliveira de Melo, Renério Fráguas, Nathália Celini Leite-Santos, Rafael Augusto Mantovani da Silva, Eliane Ribeiro

PLOS ONE Influence of back support shape in wheelchairs offering pelvic support on asymmetrical sitting posture and pressure points during reaching tasks in stroke patients

April 21, 2020 Atsuki Ukita, Masayuki Abe, Hirotoshi Kishigami, Tatsuo Hatta

PLOS ONE Autobiographical memory coherence in emotional disorders: The role of rumination, cognitive avoidance, executive functioning, and meaning making

April 20, 2020 Elien Vanderveren, Patricia Bijttebier, Dirk Hermans

PLOS ONE Sex and gender differences in caregiving burden experienced by family caregivers of persons with dementia: A systematic review

April 20, 2020 Chen Xiong, Melissa Biscardi, Arlene Astell, Emily Nalder, Jill I. Cameron, Alex Mihailidis, Angela Colantonio

PLOS ONE Risk and protective factors for post-traumatic stress among New Zealand military personnel: A cross sectional study

April 17, 2020 Amy Richardson, Gagan Gurung, Ari Samaranayaka, Dianne Gardner, Brandon deGraaf, Emma H. Wyeth, Sarah Derrett, Daniel Shepherd, David McBride

PLOS ONE Metabolic profiles among COPD and controls in the CanCOLD population-based cohort

April 10, 2020 Damien Viglino, Mickaël Martin, Marie-Eve Piché, Cynthia Brouillard, Jean-Pierre Després, Natalie Alméras, Wan C. Tan, Valérie Coats, Jean Bourbeau, Jean-Louis Pépin, François Maltais, on behalf of the CanCOLD Collaborative Research Group and the Canadian Respiratory Research Network

PLOS ONE An updated analysis of opioids increasing the risk of fractures

April 9, 2020 Qiaoning Yue, Yue Ma, Yirong Teng, Yun Zhu, Hao Liu, Shuanglan Xu, Jie Liu, Jianping Liu, Xiguang Zhang, Zhaowei Teng

PLOS ONE Validation of algorithms to identify elective percutaneous coronary interventions in administrative databases

April 7, 2020 Catherine G. Derington, Lauren J. Heath, David P. Kao, Thomas Delate

PLOS ONE Effects of photobiomodulation on interleukin-10 and nitrites in individuals with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis – Randomized clinical trial

April 7, 2020 Tamiris Silva, Yara Dadalti Fragoso, Maria Fernanda Setúbal Destro Rodrigues, Andréa Oliver Gomes, Fernanda Cordeiro da Silva, Lucas Andreo, Ariane Viana, Daniela de Fátima Teixeira da Silva, Maria Cristina Chavantes, Anna Carolina Ratto Tempestini Horliana, Kátia De Angelis, Alessandro Melo Deana, Luciana Prats Branco, Kristianne Porta Santos Fernandes, Lara Jansiski Motta, Raquel Agnelli Mesquita-Ferrari, Sandra Kalil Bussadori

PLOS ONE Screening gender minority people for harmful alcohol use

April 7, 2020 Annesa Flentje, Branden T. Barger, Matthew R. Capriotti, Micah E. Lubensky, Matthew Tierney, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Mitchell R. Lunn

PLOS ONE Remote blood pressure monitoring and behavioral intensification for stroke: A randomized controlled feasibility trial

April 6, 2020 Beom Joon Kim, Jong-Moo Park, Tai Hwan Park, Joungsim Kim, JongShill Lee, Keon-Joo Lee, JiSung Lee, Jae Eun Chae, Lehana Thabane, Juneyoung Lee, Hee-Joon Bae

PLOS ONE Acute and long-term costs of 268 peripheral nerve injuries in the upper extremity

April 6, 2020 Konstantin D. Bergmeister, Luisa Große-Hartlage, Simeon C. Daeschler, Patrick Rhodius, Arne Böcker, Marius Beyersdorff, Axel Olaf Kern, Ulrich Kneser, Leila Harhaus

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) blocking agents are associated with lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis

April 6, 2020 Mengshi Zhou, Rong Xu, David C. Kaelber, Mark E. Gurney

PLOS ONE Topics and trends in artificial intelligence assisted human brain research

April 6, 2020 Xieling Chen, Juan Chen, Tao Gong, Gary Cheng

PLOS ONE Difference in fatigue and pain between neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder and multiple sclerosis

April 6, 2020 Hiroki Masuda, Akiyuki Uzawa, Tomohiko Uchida, Ryohei Ohtani, Satoshi Kuwabara, Masahiro Mori

PLOS ONE Analyses of medical coping styles and related factors among female patients undergoing in vitro fertilization and embryonic transfer

April 3, 2020 Liwen Shen, Lanfeng Xing

PLOS ONE Impact of introducing fluorescent microscopy on hospital tuberculosis control: A before-after study at a high caseload medical center in Taiwan

April 3, 2020 Hsin-Yun Sun, Jann-Yuan Wang, Yee-Chun Chen, Po-Ren Hsueh, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Yu-Chung Chuang, Shan-Chwen Chang, Jung-Der Wang, Chi-Tai Fang

PLOS ONE Frailty transitions and associated clinical outcomes in patients with stable COPD: A longitudinal study

April 3, 2020 Roberto Bernabeu-Mora, Silvana Loana Oliveira-Sousa, Mª Piedad Sánchez-Martínez, Jose Antonio García-Vidal, Mariano Gacto-Sánchez, Francesc Medina-Mirapeix

PLOS ONE Mobilization practices in the ICU: A nationwide 1-day point- prevalence study in Brazil

April 2, 2020 Karina T. Timenetsky, Ary Serpa Neto, Murillo S. C. Assunção, Leandro Taniguchi, Raquel A. C. Eid, Thiago D. Corrêa, on behalf of the e-MOTION group

PLOS ONE Exploration of the factors related to self-efficacy among psychiatric nurses

April 2, 2020 Hironori Yada, Hiroshi Abe, Ryo Odachi, Keiichiro Adachi

PLOS ONE Exploring the influence of core-self evaluations, situational factors, and coping on nurse burnout: A cross-sectional survey study

April 2, 2020 Nina Geuens, Helena Verheyen, Peter Vlerick, Peter Van Bogaert, Erik Franck

PLOS ONE Insomnia and caregiver burden in chronic pain patients: A cross-sectional clinical study

April 2, 2020 Masahiro Yamaguchi, Keiko Yamada, Masako Iseki, Yusuke Karasawa, Yasuko Murakami, Tatsuya Enomoto, Nobuko Kikuchi, Satoko Chiba, Atsuko Hara, Keisuke Yamaguchi, Eiichi Inada

PLOS ONE Oral ascorbic acid 2-glucoside prevents coordination disorder induced via laser-induced shock waves in rat brain

April 2, 2020 Takaaki Maekawa, Takahiro Uchida, Yuka Nakata-Horiuchi, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Satoko Kawauchi, Manabu Kinoshita, Daizoh Saitoh, Shunichi Sato

PLOS ONE What would you like to print? Students’ opinions on the use of 3D printing technology in medicine

April 2, 2020 Renata Wilk, Andrzej Hudecki, Marita Syguła, Aleksandra Różycka-Nechoritis, Konstantinos Nechoritis, Wirginia Likus

PLOS ONE Low back pain should be considered a health and research priority in Brazil: Lost productivity and healthcare costs between 2012 to 2016

April 1, 2020 Rodrigo Luiz Carregaro, Caroline Ribeiro Tottoli, Daniela da Silva Rodrigues, Judith E. Bosmans, Everton Nunes da Silva, Maurits van Tulder

PLOS Medicine EDITOR’S PICK: Health screenings administered during the domestic medical examination of refugees and other eligible immigrants in nine US states, 2014–2016: A cross-sectional analysis

March 31, 2020 Clelia Pezzi, Deborah Lee, Gayathri S. Kumar, Breanna Kawasaki, Lori Kennedy, Jenny Aguirre, Melissa Titus, Rebecca Ford, Blain Mamo, Kailey Urban, Stephen Hughes, Colleen Payton, Kevin Scott, Jessica Montour, Emily S. Jentes

PLOS Medicine An Integrative Adapt Therapy for common mental health symptoms and adaptive stress amongst Rohingya, Chin, and Kachin refugees living in Malaysia: A randomized controlled trial

March 31, 2020 Alvin Kuowei Tay, Hau Khat Mung, Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah, Susheela Balasundaram, Peter Ventevogel, Mohammad Badrudduza, Sanjida Khan, Karen Morgan, Susan Rees, Mohammed Mohsin, Derrick Silove

PLOS Medicine Association of suicidal behavior with exposure to suicide and suicide attempt: A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis

March 31, 2020 Nicole T. M. Hill, Jo Robinson, Jane Pirkis, Karl Andriessen, Karolina Krysinska, Amber Payne, Alexandra Boland, Alison Clarke, Allison Milner, Katrina Witt, Stephan Krohn, Amit Lampit

PLOS ONE Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak

April 6, 2020 Cleo Anastassopoulou, Lucia Russo, Athanasios Tsakris, Constantinos Siettos

PLOS ONE Disentangling the dynamics of social assistance: A linked survey—Register data cohort study of long-term social assistance recipients in Norway

March 27, 2020 Kristian Heggebø, Espen Dahl, Kjetil A. van der Wel

PLOS ONE Exacerbation of symptomatic arthritis by cigarette smoke in experimental arthritis

March 27, 2020 Jaewoo Kang, Sang Hoon Jeong, Kijun Lee, Narae Park, Hyerin Jung, Kyuhong Lee, Ji Hyeon Ju

PLOS Biology Combating antiscience: Are we preparing for the 2020s?

March 27, 2020 Peter J. Hotez

PLOS ONE Effect of custom-made and prefabricated foot orthoses on kinematic parameters during an intense prolonged run

March 26, 2020 Marina Gil-Calvo, Jose Ignacio Priego-Quesada, Ángel G. Lucas-Cuevas, Pedro Pérez-Soriano, Irene Jimenez-Perez

PLOS ONE Angioedemas associated with renin-angiotensin system blocking drugs: Comparative analysis of spontaneous adverse drug reaction reports

March 26, 2020 Diana Dubrall, Matthias Schmid, Julia Carolin Stingl, Bernhardt Sachs

PLOS ONE Mapping cannabis potency in medical and recreational programs in the United States

March 26, 2020 Mary Catherine Cash, Katharine Cunnane, Chuyin Fan, E. Alfonso Romero-Sandoval

PLOS ONE Power to the voice hearer — The German version of the voice power differential scale

March 26, 2020 A. Gmeiner, A. Gaglia, S. Habicher, T. Rumpold, S. Süßenbacher, B. Schrank, M. Amering

PLOS ONE Toxicopathological studies on the effects of T-2 mycotoxin and their interaction in juvenile goats

March 26, 2020 Shivasharanappa Nayakwadi, Ramith Ramu, Anil Kumar Sharma, Vivek Kumar Gupta, K. Rajukumar, Vijay Kumar, Prithvi S. Shirahatti, Rashmi L., Kanthesh M. Basalingappa

PLOS ONE Evaluation of single nucleotide polymorphisms in 6 candidate genes and carotid intima-media thickness in community-dwelling residents

March 26, 2020 Fang-Yang Wu, Chia-Ing Li, Li-Na Liao, Chiu-Shong Liu, Wen-Yuan Lin, Chih-Hsueh Lin, Chuan-Wei Yang, Cheng-Chieh Lin, Tsai-Chung Li

PLOS ONE Movement behavior remains stable in stroke survivors within the first two months after returning home

March 26, 2020 Roderick Wondergem, Martijn F. Pisters, Martijn W. Heijmans, Eveline J. M. Wouters, Rob A. de Bie, Cindy Veenhof, Johanna M. A. Visser-Meily

PLOS ONE Diffusion tensor tractography of brainstem fibers and its application in pain

March 25, 2020 Yu Zhang, Andrei A. Vakhtin, Jennifer S. Jennings, Payam Massaband, Max Wintermark, Patricia L. Craig, J. Wesson Ashford, J. David Clark, Ansgar J. Furst

PLOS ONE Timing and correction of stepping movements with a virtual reality avatar

March 25, 2020 Omar Khan, Imran Ahmed, Joshua Cottingham, Musa Rahhal, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Mark T. Elliott

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: A decade of decline: Grant funding for researchers with disabilities 2008 to 2018

March 25, 2020 Bonnielin K. Swenor, Beatriz Munoz, Lisa M. Meeks

PLOS ONE A randomized controlled study incorporating an electromechanical gait machine, the Hybrid Assistive Limb, in gait training of patients with severe limitations in walking in the subacute phase after stroke

March 25, 2020 Anneli Wall, Jörgen Borg, Katarina Vreede, Susanne Palmcrantz

PLOS ONE Clinically significant changes in pain along the Pain Intensity Numerical Rating Scale in patients with chronic low back pain

March 25, 2020 Hidenori Suzuki, Shuichi Aono, Shinsuke Inoue, Yasuaki Imajo, Norihiro Nishida, Masahiro Funaba, Hidenori Harada, Aki Mori, Mishiya Matsumoto, Fumihiro Higuchi, Shin Nakagawa, Shu Tahara, Satoshi Ikeda, Hironori Izumi, Toshihiko Taguchi, Takahiro Ushida, Takashi Sakai

PLOS ONE Social and clinical predictors of short- and long-term readmission after a severe exacerbation of copd

February 27, 2020 Sara Fernández-García, Cristina Represas-Represas, Alberto Ruano-Raviña, Cecilia Mouronte-Roibás, Maribel Botana-Rial, Cristina Ramos-Hernández, Alberto Fernández-Villar

PLOS ONE Intra- and inter-hemispheric processing during binocular rivalry in mild glaucoma

February 25, 2020 Luminita Tarita-Nistor, Saba Samet, Graham E. Trope, Esther G. González

PLOS ONE Proprioceptive accuracy in Immersive Virtual Reality: A developmental perspective

February 24, 2020 Irene Valori, Phoebe E. McKenna-Plumley, Rena Bayramova, Claudio Zandonella Callegher, Gianmarco Altoè, Teresa Farroni

PLOS ONE Pre-treatment EMG can be used to model post-treatment muscle coordination during walking in children with cerebral palsy

February 24, 2020 Lorenzo Pitto, Sam van Rossom, Kaat Desloovere, Guy Molenaers, Catherine Huenaerts, Friedl De Groote, Ilse Jonkers

PLOS ONE Different aspects of impulsivity in chronic alcohol use disorder with and without comorbid problem gambling

February 24, 2020 Ildikó Kovács, Ildikó Demeter, Zoltán Janka, Zsolt Demetrovics, Aniko Maraz, Bálint Andó

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Determinants of dietary behaviour in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury or lower limb amputation: Perspectives of rehabilitation professionals and wheelchair users

February 24, 2020 Jasmijn F. M. Holla, Lizanne E. van den Akker, Tessa Dadema, Sonja de Groot, Michael Tieland, Peter J. M. Weijs, on behalf of the WHEELS-study group , Marije Deutekom

PLOS ONE Acute fatigue affects reaction times and reaction consistency in Mixed Martial Arts fighters

February 24, 2020 Radim Pavelka, Jitka Třebická Fialová, Adam Zdobinský, Klára Coufalová, Jan Havlíček, James J. Tufano, Vít Třebický

PLOS ONE Feasibility of remotely supervised transcranial direct current stimulation and cognitive remediation: A systematic review

February 24, 2020 Nicole Gough, Lea Brkan, Ponnusamy Subramaniam, Lina Chiuccariello, Alessandra De Petrillo, Benoit H. Mulsant, Christopher R. Bowie, Tarek K. Rajji

PLOS ONE Effects of exoskeletal gait assistance on the recovery motion following tripping

February 24, 2020 Yasuhiro Akiyama, Yusuke Fukui, Shogo Okamoto, Yoji Yamada

PLOS ONE Racial/ethnic differences in circulating natriuretic peptide levels: The Diabetes Prevention Program

February 21, 2020 Deepak K. Gupta, Geoffrey A. Walford, Yong Ma, Petr Jarolim, Thomas J. Wang, for the DPP Research Group

PLOS ONE The health status of transgender and gender nonbinary adults in the United States

February 21, 2020 Ethan C. Cicero, Sari L. Reisner, Elizabeth I. Merwin, Janice C. Humphreys, Susan G. Silva

PLOS ONE Prosthetic shape, but not stiffness or height, affects the maximum speed of sprinters with bilateral transtibial amputations

February 20, 2020 Paolo Taboga, Owen N. Beck, Alena M. Grabowski

PLOS ONE Functional connectivity and structural analysis of trial spinal cord stimulation responders in failed back surgery syndrome

February 19, 2020 Peter A. Pahapill, Guangyu Chen, Elsa V. Arocho-Quinones, Andrew S. Nencka, Shi-Jiang Li

PLOS ONE National U.S. time-trends in opioid use disorder hospitalizations and associated healthcare utilization and mortality

February 18, 2020 Jasvinder A. Singh, John D. Cleveland

PLOS Medicine Digitally enabled aged care and neurological rehabilitation to enhance outcomes with Activity and MObility UsiNg Technology (AMOUNT) in Australia: A randomised controlled trial

February 18, 2020 Leanne Hassett, Maayken van den Berg, Richard I. Lindley, Maria Crotty, Annie McCluskey, Hidde P. van der Ploeg, Stuart T. Smith, Karl Schurr, Kirsten Howard, Maree L. Hackett, Maggie Killington, Bert Bongers, Leanne Togher, Daniel Treacy, Simone Dorsch, Siobhan Wong, Katharine Scrivener, Sakina Chagpar, Heather Weber, Marina Pinheiro, Stephane Heritier, Catherine Sherrington

PLOS ONE Geriatric nutritional risk index predicts poor outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke – Automated undernutrition screen tool

February 13, 2020 Min Kyoung Kang, Tae Jung Kim, Yerim Kim, Ki-Woong Nam, Han-Yeong Jeong, Sung Kyung Kim, Ji Sung Lee, Sang-Bae Ko, Byung-Woo Yoon

PLOS ONE Long-term mortality and outcome in hospital survivors of septic shock, sepsis, and severe infections: The importance of aftercare

February 12, 2020 Tim Rahmel, Stefanie Schmitz, Hartmuth Nowak, Kaspar Schepanek, Lars Bergmann, Peter Halberstadt, Stefan Hörter, Jürgen Peters, Michael Adamzik

PLOS ONE A qualitative exploration of Australian eyecare professional perspectives on Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) care

February 11, 2020 Isabelle Jalbert, Dian Rahardjo, Aryati Yashadhana, Gerald Liew, Bamini Gopinath

PLOS ONE Patient-specific factors modulate leukocyte response in dimethyl fumarate treated MS patients

February 11, 2020 Myla D. Goldman, Lauren Dwyer, Rachael Coleman, Min-Woong Sohn, Olaf Stuve

PLOS ONE Risk assessment for hospital admission in patients with COPD; a multi-centre UK prospective observational study

February 10, 2020 Jilles M. Fermont, Charlotte E. Bolton, Marie Fisk, Divya Mohan, William Macnee, John R. Cockcroft, Carmel McEniery, Jonathan Fuld, Joseph Cheriyan, Ruth Tal-Singer, Ian B. Wilkinson, Angela M. Wood, Michael I. Polkey, Hana Müllerova

PLOS ONE Effect of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors on post-stroke cognitive impairment and vascular dementia: A meta-analysis

February 7, 2020 Jin Ok Kim, Soo Joo Lee, Jung-Soo Pyo

PLOS ONE Computational modelling of the long-term effects of brain stimulation on the local and global structural connectivity of epileptic patients

February 6, 2020 Emmanouil Giannakakis, Frances Hutchings, Christoforos A. Papasavvas, Cheol E. Han, Bernd Weber, Chencheng Zhang, Marcus Kaiser

PLOS ONE Association between habitual use of coping strategies and posttraumatic stress symptoms in a non-clinical sample of college students: A Bayesian approach

February 6, 2020 Arthur Viana Machado, Eliane Volchan, Ivan Figueira, Carolina Aguiar, Mariana Xavier, Gabriela G. L. Souza, Ana Paula Sobral, Leticia de Oliveira, Izabela Mocaiber

PLOS ONE Recovery in cognitive motor dissociation after severe brain injury: A cohort study

February 5, 2020 Jane Jöhr, Floriana Halimi, Jérôme Pasquier, Alessandro Pincherle, Nicholas Schiff, Karin Diserens

PLOS ONE The off-prescription use of modafinil: An online survey of perceived risks and benefits

February 5, 2020 Rachel D. Teodorini, Nicola Rycroft, James H. Smith-Spark

PLOS ONE Characteristics, management and medical costs of patients with depressive disorders admitted in primary and specialised care centres in Spain between 2011 and 2016

February 5, 2020 Josep Darbà, Alicia Marsà

PLOS ONE A new process to measure postural sway using a Kinect depth camera during a Sensory Organisation Test

February 5, 2020 Sean Maudsley-Barton, Moi Hoon Yap, Anthony Bukowski, Richard Mills, Jamie McPhee

PLOS ONE Effects of remote limb ischemic conditioning on muscle strength in healthy young adults: A randomized controlled trial

February 4, 2020 Swati M. Surkar, Marghuretta D. Bland, Anna E. Mattlage, Ling Chen, Jeffrey M. Gidday, Jin-Moo Lee, Tamara Hershey, Catherine E. Lang

PLOS ONE Viral etiology of pneumonia among severely malnourished under-five children in an urban hospital, Bangladesh

February 4, 2020 Fahmida Chowdhury, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid, Probir Kumar Ghosh, Mustafizur Rahman, Md. Zakiul Hassan, Zubair Akhtar, S. Mah-E- Muneer, Lubaba Shahrin, Tahmeed Ahmed, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti

PLOS ONE Effects of Vibrant Soundbridge on tinnitus accompanied by sensorineural hearing loss

February 4, 2020 Jeon Mi Lee, Hyun Jin Lee, Jae Young Choi, In Seok Moon

PLOS Computational Biology DeepWAS: Multivariate genotype-phenotype associations by directly integrating regulatory information using deep learning

February 3, 2020 Janine Arloth, Gökcen Eraslan, Till F. M. Andlauer, Jade Martins, Stella Iurato, Brigitte Kühnel, Melanie Waldenberger, Josef Frank, Ralf Gold, Bernhard Hemmer, Felix Luessi, Sandra Nischwitz, Friedemann Paul, Heinz Wiendl, Christian Gieger, Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach, Tim Kacprowski, Matthias Laudes, Thomas Meitinger, Annette Peters, Rajesh Rawal, Konstantin Strauch, Susanne Lucae, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Marcella Rietschel, Fabian J. Theis, Elisabeth B. Binder, Nikola S. Mueller

PLOS ONE Who does what the cardiologist recommends? Psychosocial markers of unhealthy behavior in coronary disease patients

January 31, 2020 Mercedes Arrebola-Moreno, María-José Sánchez, Ricardo Rivera-López, José Antonio Ramírez-Hernández, Dafina Petrova

PLOS ONE Evaluation of the cognitive-motor performance of adults with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in a hand-related task

January 31, 2020 Kostas Nizamis, Wouter Schutte, Jan J. Grutters, Jasper Goseling, Noortje H. M. Rijken, Bart F. J. M. Koopman

PLOS ONE The experience of the self in Canadian youth living with anxiety: A qualitative study

January 31, 2020 Roberta L. Woodgate, Ketan Tailor, Pauline Tennent, Pamela Wener, Gary Altman

PLOS ONE Association between peak inspiratory flow rate and hand grip muscle strength in hospitalized patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

January 31, 2020 Arash Samarghandi, Octavian C. Ioachimescu, Rehan Qayyum

PLOS ONE Insulin BBB pharmacokinetics in young apoE male and female transgenic mice

January 31, 2020 Elizabeth M. Rhea, Eileen Ruth S. Torres, Jacob Raber, William A. Banks

PLOS ONE Job postings in the substance use disorder treatment related sector during the first five years of Medicaid expansion

January 30, 2020 Olga Scrivner, Thuy Nguyen, Kosali Simon, Esmé Middaugh, Bledi Taska, Katy Börner

PLOS ONE The influence of atrial fibrillation on the mortality of incident ESRD patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis

January 30, 2020 Hui-ling Hsieh, Shih-chang Hsu, Ho-shun Cheng, Chun-you Chen, Wen-cheng Huang, Yuh-mou Sue, Feng-yen Lin, Chun-ming Shih, Jaw-wen Chen, Shing-jong Lin, Po-hsun Huang, Chung-te Liu

PLOS ONE Evaluation of current practice of antimicrobial use and clinical outcome of patients with pneumonia at a tertiary care hospital in Ethiopia: A prospective observational study

January 30, 2020 Theodros Fenta, Ephrem Engidawork, Wondwossen Amogne, Alemseged Beyene Berha

PLOS ONE Real-world experiences: Efficacy and tolerability of pirfenidone in clinical practice

January 30, 2020 Chuling Fang, Hui Huang, Jian Guo, Martin Ferianc, Zuojun Xu

PLOS ONE “Sparks that became a little light over time”: A qualitative investigation of musicking as a means of coping in adults with PTSD

January 30, 2020 Iftach Ophir, Rebecca Jacoby

PLOS ONE Kinematic analysis of motor learning in upper limb body-powered bypass prosthesis training

January 24, 2020 Conor Bloomer, Sophie Wang, Kimberly Kontson

PLOS ONE Global reach of ageism on older persons’ health: A systematic review

January 15, 2020 E-Shien Chang, Sneha Kannoth, Samantha Levy, Shi-Yi Wang, John E. Lee, Becca R. Levy

PLOS ONE Fecal transplant prevents gut dysbiosis and anxiety-like behaviour after spinal cord injury in rats

January 15, 2020 Emma K. A. Schmidt, Abel Torres-Espin, Pamela J. F. Raposo, Karen L. Madsen, Kristina A. Kigerl, Phillip G. Popovich, Keith K. Fenrich, Karim Fouad

PLOS ONE Knee joint biomechanics in transtibial amputees in gait, cycling, and elliptical training

January 13, 2020 Greg Orekhov, A. Matt Robinson, Scott J. Hazelwood, Stephen M. Klisch

PLOS ONE Differences in receipt of opioid agonist treatment and time to enter treatment for opioid use disorder among specialty addiction programs in the United States, 2014-17

December 12, 2019 Justin Yang, Andres Roman-Urrestarazu, Carol Brayne

PLOS ONE The effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions on pain and quality of life in adults with persistent post-surgical pain compared to usual care: A systematic review

January 13, 2020 Aleisha Robinson, Jenna McIntosh, Hamish Peberdy, David Wishart, Georgia Brown, Henry Pope, Saravana Kumar

PLOS ONE Effectiveness of integrative medicine group visits in chronic pain and depressive symptoms: A randomized controlled trial

January 13, 2020 Paula Gardiner, Man Luo, Salvatore D’Amico, Katherine Gergen-Barnett, Laura F. White, Robert Saper, Suzanne Mitchell, Jane M. Liebschutz

PLOS ONE Connectivity differences between Gulf War Illness (GWI) phenotypes during a test of attention

January 13, 2020 Tomas Clarke, Jessie D. Jamieson, Patrick Malone, Rakib U. Rayhan, Stuart Washington, John W. VanMeter, James N. Baraniuk

PLOS ONE The impact of mental health recovery narratives on recipients experiencing mental health problems: Qualitative analysis and change model

December 13, 2019 Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Amy Ramsay, Rose McGranahan, Joy Llewellyn-Beardsley, Ada Hui, Kristian Pollock, Julie Repper, Caroline Yeo, Fiona Ng, James Roe, Steve Gillard, Graham Thornicroft, Susie Booth, Mike Slade

PLOS Medicine Homogeneity in the association of body mass index with type 2 diabetes across the UK Biobank: A Mendelian randomization study

January 13, 2020 Michael Wainberg, Anubha Mahajan, Anshul Kundaje, Mark I. McCarthy, Erik Ingelsson, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Manuel A. Rivas

PLOS ONE Central sensitization in knee osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia: Beyond depression and anxiety

January 13, 2020 Marina López-Ruiz, Josep Maria Losilla, Jordi Monfort, Mariona Portell, Teresa Gutiérrez, Violant Poca, Ferran Garcia-Fructuoso, Jone Llorente, Alba Garcia-Fontanals, Joan Deus

PLOS ONE The effects of kinesiology taping on experimentally-induced thermal and mechanical pain in otherwise pain-free healthy humans: A randomised controlled repeated-measures laboratory study

January 13, 2020 Gourav Banerjee, Michelle Briggs, Mark I. Johnson

PLOS ONE A preliminary study of resting brain metabolism in treatment-resistant depression before and after treatment with olanzapine-fluoxetine combination

January 13, 2020 José V. Pardo, Sohail A. Sheikh, Graeme Schwindt, Joel T. Lee, David E. Adson, Barry Rittberg, Faruk S. Abuzzahab Sr.

PLOS ONE Common trust and personal safety issues: A systematic review on the acceptability of health and social interventions for persons with lived experience of homelessness

January 13, 2020 Olivia Magwood, Vanessa Ymele Leki, Victoire Kpade, Ammar Saad, Qasem Alkhateeb, Akalewold Gebremeskel, Asia Rehman, Terry Hannigan, Nicole Pinto, Annie Huiru Sun, Claire Kendall, Nicole Kozloff, Emily J. Tweed, David Ponka, Kevin Pottie

PLOS Medicine The association of depression with subsequent dementia diagnosis: A Swedish nationwide cohort study from 1964 to 2016

January 9, 2020 Sofie Holmquist, Anna Nordström, Peter Nordström

PLOS ONE The Brief Measure of Emotional Preoperative Stress (B-MEPS) as a new predictive tool for postoperative pain: A prospective observational cohort study

January 8, 2020 Anelise Schifino Wolmeister, Carolina Lourenzon Schiavo, Kahio César Kuntz Nazário, Stela Maris de Jezus Castro, Andressa de Souza, Rafael Poli Caetani, Wolnei Caumo, Luciana Cadore Stefani

PLOS ONE Cost-effectiveness analysis of aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular events among patients with type 2 diabetes in China

December 16, 2019 Minghuan Jiang, Pengchao Li, Joyce Hoi-sze You, Xinglong Zheng, Jizhao Deng, Mingyue Zhao, Liuxin Feng, Yu Fang

PLOS ONE Sexuality in male partners of women with fibromyalgia syndrome: A qualitative study

December 16, 2019 Patricia Romero-Alcalá, José Manuel Hernández-Padilla, Cayetano Fernández-Sola, María del Rosario Coín-Pérez-Carrasco, Carmen Ramos-Rodríguez, María Dolores Ruiz-Fernández, José Granero-Molina

PLOS Medicine EDITOR’S PICK: Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response

December 16, 2019 Alexander C. Tsai, Mathew V. Kiang, Michael L. Barnett, Leo Beletsky, Katherine M. Keyes, Emma E. McGinty, Laramie R. Smith, Steffanie A. Strathdee, Sarah E. Wakeman, Atheendar S. Venkataramani

PLOS ONE Effect of pre-season training phase on anthropometric, hormonal and fitness parameters in young soccer players

December 16, 2019 Fabrizio Perroni, Simona Fittipaldi, Lavinia Falcioni, Lucia Ghizzoni, Paolo Borrione, Mario Vetrano, Riccardo Del Vescovo, Silvia Migliaccio, Laura Guidetti, Carlo Baldari

PLOS ONE Left parietal tACS at alpha frequency induces a shift of visuospatial attention

December 16, 2019 Teresa Schuhmann, Selma K. Kemmerer, Felix Duecker, Tom A. de Graaf, Sanne ten Oever, Peter De Weerd, Alexander T. Sack

PLOS ONE Metastasis risk prediction model in osteosarcoma using metabolic imaging phenotypes: A multivariable radiomics model

December 16, 2019 Heesoon Sheen, Wook Kim, Byung Hyun Byun, Chang-Bae Kong, Won Seok Song, Wan Hyeong Cho, Ilhan Lim, Sang Moo Lim, Sang-Keun Woo

PLOS ONE Depression increases the risk of rotator cuff tear and rotator cuff repair surgery: A nationwide population-based study

December 16, 2019 Liang-Tseng Kuo, Hong-Ming Chen, Pei-An Yu, Chi-Lung Chen, Wei-Hsiu Hsu, Yao-Hung Tsai, Ko-Jung Chen, Vincent Chin-Hung Chen

PLOS ONE Walking with head-mounted virtual and augmented reality devices: Effects on position control and gait biomechanics

December 16, 2019 Zoe Y. S. Chan, Aislinn J. C. MacPhail, Ivan P. H. Au, Janet H. Zhang, Ben M. F. Lam, Reed Ferber, Roy T. H. Cheung

PLOS Medicine Opioid agonist treatment scale-up and the initiation of injection drug use: A dynamic modeling analysis

November 26, 2019 Charles Marks, Annick Borquez, Sonia Jain, Xiaoying Sun, Steffanie Strathdee, Richard Garfein, M-J Milloy, Kora DeBeck, Javier Cepeda, Dan Werb, Natasha Martin

PLOS ONE Exposure to household pet cats and dogs in childhood and risk of subsequent diagnosis of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

December 16, 2019 Robert Yolken, Cassie Stallings, Andrea Origoni, Emily Katsafanas, Kevin Sweeney, Amalia Squire, Faith Dickerson

PLOS ONE Intensity of physical activity as a percentage of peak oxygen uptake, heart rate and Borg RPE in motor-complete para- and tetraplegia

December 16, 2019 Tobias Holmlund, Elin Ekblom-Bak, Erika Franzén, Claes Hultling, Kerstin Wahman

PLOS ONE Changes in HbA_1c during the first six years after the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes mellitus predict long-term microvascular outcomes

December 16, 2019 Maarten P. Rozing, Anne Møller, Rune Aabenhus, Volkert Siersma, Katja Rasmussen, Rasmus Køster-Rasmussen

PLOS ONE Persistent post-discharge opioid prescribing after traumatic brain injury requiring intensive care unit admission: A cross-sectional study with longitudinal outcome

November 27, 2019 Lauren K. Dunn, Davis G. Taylor, Samantha J Smith, Alexander J. Skojec, Tony R. Wang, Joyce Chung, Mark F. Hanak, Christopher D. Lacomis, Justin D. Palmer, Caroline Ruminski, Shenghao Fang, Siny Tsang, Sarah N. Spangler, Marcel E. Durieux, Bhiken I. Naik

PLOS ONE Association between metabolic body composition status and risk for impaired renal function: A cross-sectional study

December 16, 2019 Wen-Cheng Li, Jau-Yuan Chen, Yu-Ping Liu, Yi-Yen Lee, Wei-Chung Yeh, Wei Yu, Yu-Chung Tsao

PLOS ONE Clinical outcomes and mortality in old and very old patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy

December 16, 2019 Luiz Eduardo Montenegro Camanho, Eduardo Benchimol Saad, Charles Slater, Luiz Antonio Oliveira Inacio Junior, Gustavo Vignoli, Lucas Carvalho Dias, Pedro Pimenta de Mello Spineti, Ricardo Mourilhe-Rocha

PLOS Medicine Maternal prescribed opioid analgesic use during pregnancy and associations with adverse birth outcomes: A population-based study

December 16, 2019 Ayesha C. Sujan, Patrick D. Quinn, Martin E. Rickert, Kelsey K. Wiggs, Paul Lichtenstein, Henrik Larsson, Catarina Almqvist, A. Sara Öberg, Brian M. D’Onofrio

PLOS ONE Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (t-VNS): A novel effective treatment for temper outbursts in adults with Prader-Willi Syndrome indicated by results from a non-blind study

December 16, 2019 Katherine E. Manning, Jessica A. Beresford-Webb, Lucie C. S. Aman, Howard A. Ring, Peter C. Watson, Stephen W. Porges, Chris Oliver, Sally R. Jennings, Anthony J. Holland

PLOS ONE Perception and control of low cable operation forces in voluntary closing body-powered upper-limb prostheses

December 16, 2019 Mona Hichert, David A. Abbink, Alistair N. Vardy, Corry K. van der Sluis, Wim G. M. Janssen, Michael A. H. Brouwers, Dick H. Plettenburg

PLOS ONE Being there: A scoping review of grief support training in medical education

December 16, 2019 Laura Sikstrom, Riley Saikaly, Genevieve Ferguson, Pamela J. Mosher, Sarah Bonato, Sophie Soklaridis

PLOS ONE Global longitudinal strain can predict heart failure exacerbation in stable outpatients with ischemic left ventricular systolic dysfunction

December 16, 2019 Damian Kaufmann, Małgorzata Szwoch, Joanna Kwiatkowska, Grzegorz Raczak, Ludmiła Daniłowicz-Szymanowicz

PLOS ONE Incidence and characteristics of ventricular tachycardia in patients after percutaneous coronary revascularization of chronic total occlusions

December 16, 2019 Sebastian König, Enno Boudriot, Arash Arya, Julia-Anna Lurz, Marcus Sandri, Sandra Erbs, Holger Thiele, Gerhard Hindricks, Borislav Dinov

PLOS ONE An add-on training program involving breathing exercises, cold exposure, and meditation attenuates inflammation and disease activity in axial spondyloarthritis – A proof of concept trial

December 16, 2019 G. A. Buijze, H. M. Y. De Jong, M. Kox, M. G. van de Sande, D. Van Schaardenburg, R. M. Van Vugt, C. D. Popa, P. Pickkers, D. L. P. Baeten

PLOS ONE Indirect violence exposure and mental health symptoms among an urban public-school population: Prevalence and correlates

December 16, 2019 Erica L. Gollub, Jakevia Green, Lisa Richardson, Ilyssa Kaplan, Denese Shervington

PLOS ONE Association between attitudes of stigma toward mental illness and attitudes toward adoption of evidence-based practice within health care providers in Bahrain

December 16, 2019 Feras Al Saif, Hussain Al Shakhoori, Suad Nooh, Haitham Jahrami

PLOS ONE Experiences of lifestyle change among women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM): A behavioural diagnosis using the COM-B model in a low-income setting

December 16, 2019 Lorrein Shamiso Muhwava, Katherine Murphy, Christina Zarowsky, Naomi Levitt

PLOS Medicine Prescription of benzodiazepines, z-drugs, and gabapentinoids and mortality risk in people receiving opioid agonist treatment: Observational study based on the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink and Office for National Statistics death records

November 26, 2019 John MacLeod, Colin Steer, Kate Tilling, Rosie Cornish, John Marsden, Tim Millar, John Strang, Matthew Hickman

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Veterans with Gulf War Illness exhibit distinct respiratory patterns during maximal cardiopulmonary exercise

December 3, 2019 Jacob B. Lindheimer, Dane B. Cook, Jacquelyn C. Klein-Adams, Wei Qian, Helene Z. Hill, Gudrun Lange, Duncan S. Ndirangu, Glenn R. Wylie, Michael J. Falvo

PLOS ONE The evolution of mental health outcomes across a combat deployment cycle: A longitudinal study of a Guam-based National Guard unit

December 3, 2019 Dale W. Russell, Cristel Antonia Russell

PLOS Medicine Trends in prescription opioid use and dose trajectories before opioid use disorder or overdose in US adults from 2006 to 2016: A cross-sectional study

November 5, 2019 Yu-Jung Jenny Wei, Cheng Chen, Roger Fillingim, Siegfried Schmidt, Almut Winterstein

PLOS ONE A refinement approach in a mouse model of rehabilitation research. Analgesia strategy, reduction approach and infrared thermography in spinal cord injury

November 18, 2019 Veronica Redaelli, Simonetta Papa, Gerardo Marsella, Giuliano Grignaschi, Alice Bosi, Nicola Ludwig, Fabio Luzi, Irma Vismara, Stefano Rimondo, Pietro Veglianese, Svetlana Tepteva, Silvia Mazzola, Pietro Zerbi, Luca Porcu, John V. Roughan, Gianfranco Parati, Laura Calvillo

PLOS ONE The role of hope for health professionals in rehabilitation: A qualitative study on unfavorable prognosis communication

November 18, 2019 Mirjam Amati, Sara Rubinelli, Julia Amann, Claudia Zanini, Nicola Grignoli

PLOS ONE Relationship between self-disclosure to first acquaintances and subjective well-being in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders living in the community

November 4, 2019 Kazuki Yokoyama, Takafumi Morimoto, Satoe Ichihara-Takeda, Junichi Yoshino, Kiyoji Matsuyama, Nozomu Ikeda

PLOS ONE Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: An exploratory analysis of environmental and lifestyle risk factors

November 4, 2019 Maria Pia Amato, Elio Prestipino, Angelo Bellinvia, Claudia Niccolai, Lorenzo Razzolini, Luisa Pastò, Roberto Fratangelo, Laura Tudisco, Mattia Fonderico, Paolo Luca Mattiolo, Benedetta Goretti, Giovanni Bosco Zimatore, Nunzia Alessandra Losignore, Emilio Portaccio, Francesco Lolli

PLOS ONE Illness beliefs and emotional responses in mildly disabled stroke survivors: A qualitative study

November 4, 2019 Claire Della Vecchia, Marie Préau, Camille Carpentier, Marie Viprey, Julie Haesebaert, Anne Termoz, Alexandra L. Dima, Anne-Marie Schott

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Mobile health-based physical activity intervention for individuals with spinal cord injury in the community: A pilot study

November 4, 2019 Shivayogi V. Hiremath, Amir Mohammad Amiri, Binod Thapa-Chhetry, Gretchen Snethen, Mary Schmidt-Read, Marlyn Ramos-Lamboy, Donna L. Coffman, Stephen S. Intille

PLOS ONE The effect of food anticipation on cognitive function: An eye tracking study

November 4, 2019 Michelle S. Segovia, Marco A. Palma, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.

PLOS ONE Self-reported and experimentally induced self-disgust is heightened in Parkinson’s disease: Contribution of behavioural symptoms

November 4, 2019 Marianna Tsatali, Paul G. Overton, Ana B. Vivas

PLOS ONE Telomere length in COPD: Relationships with physical activity, exercise capacity, and acute exacerbations

November 4, 2019 Emily S. Wan, Rebekah L. Goldstein, Vincent S. Fan, Huong Q. Nguyen, Jaime E. Hart, Eric Garshick, Esther H. Orr, Immaculata DeVivo, Marilyn L. Moy

PLOS ONE A novel, wearable, electronic visual aid to assist those with reduced peripheral vision

November 4, 2019 Ffion E. Brown, Janice Sutton, Ho M. Yuen, Dylan Green, Spencer Van Dorn, Terry Braun, Angela J. Cree, Stephen R. Russell, Andrew J. Lotery

PLOS ONE Cognitive impairment and medication adherence post-stroke: A five-year follow-up of the ASPIRE-S cohort

November 4, 2019 Daniela Rohde, Eva Gaynor, Margaret Large, Lisa Mellon, Kathleen Bennett, David J. Williams, Linda Brewer, Patricia Hall, Elizabeth Callaly, Eamon Dolan, Anne Hickey

PLOS ONE Reconsidering the associations between self-reported alcohol use disorder and mental health problems in the light of co-occurring addictions in young Swiss men

September 30, 2019 Simon Marmet, Joseph Studer, Mélissa Lemoine, Véronique S. Grazioli, Nicolas Bertholet, Gerhard Gmel

PLOS ONE Burden of treatment-resistant depression in Medicare: A retrospective claims database analysis

October 21, 2019 Dominic Pilon, Kruti Joshi, John J. Sheehan, Miriam L. Zichlin, Peter Zuckerman, Patrick Lefebvre, Paul E. Greenberg

PLOS ONE Geographic variation in cardiometabolic risk distribution: A cross-sectional study of 256,525 adult residents in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven region of the NSW, Australia

October 21, 2019 Renin Toms, Darren J. Mayne, Xiaoqi Feng, Andrew Bonney

PLOS ONE Experiences, needs, and preferences for follow-up after stroke perceived by people with stroke and healthcare professionals: A focus group study

October 21, 2019 Emma K. Kjörk, Carlsson Gunnel, Åsa Lundgren-Nilsson, Katharina S. Sunnerhagen

PLOS ONE Impact of pericardiectomy on exercise capacity and sleep of patients with chronic constrictive pericarditis

October 21, 2019 Dirceu Thiago Pessoa de Melo, Flavia Baggio Nerbass, Ana Luiza Carrari Sayegh, Francis Ribeiro de Souza, Viviane Tiemi Hotta, Vera Maria Curi Salemi, Félix José Alvarez Ramires, Ricardo Ribeiro Dias, Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho, Charles Mady, Fábio Fernandes

PLOS ONE EDITOR’S PICK: Deployment, suicide, and overdose among comorbidity phenotypes following mild traumatic brain injury: A retrospective cohort study from the Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium

October 21, 2019 Mary Jo Pugh, Alicia A. Swan, Megan E. Amuan, Blessen C. Eapen, Carlos A. Jaramillo, Roxana Delgado, David F. Tate, Kristine Yaffe, Chen-Pin Wang

PLOS ONE Anesthesia during deployment of a military forward surgical unit in low income countries: A register study of 1547 anesthesia cases

October 21, 2019 Quentin Mathais, Ambroise Montcriol, Jean Cotte, Céline Gil, Claire Contargyris, Guillaume Lacroix, Bertrand Prunet, Julien Bordes, Eric Meaudre

PLOS ONE Comorbidity of age-related macular degeneration with Alzheimer’s disease: A histopathologic case-control study

September 30, 2019 Gordon J. Smilnak, John R. Deans, P. Murali Doraiswamy, Sandra Stinnett, Heather E. Whitson, Eleonora M. Lad

PLOS ONE How did that interaction make you feel? The relationship between quality of everyday social experiences and emotion in people with and without schizophrenia

October 21, 2019 Jasmine Mote, David E. Gard, Rachel Gonzalez, Daniel Fulford

PLOS ONE Analysis of drug-induced hearing loss by using a spontaneous reporting system database

October 21, 2019 Mizuki Tanaka, Shiori Hasegawa, Satoshi Nakao, Kazuyo Shimada, Ririka Mukai, Kiyoka Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro Nakamura

PLOS ONE Neuronal network remodeling and Wnt pathway dysregulation in the intra-hippocampal kainate mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy

October 21, 2019 Kunal Gupta, Eric Schnell

PLOS ONE Comparison of long-term outcomes between enteral nutrition via gastrostomy and total parenteral nutrition in older persons with dysphagia: A propensity-matched cohort study

October 21, 2019 Shigenori Masaki, Takashi Kawamoto

PLOS ONE Multi-disciplinary interventions for chronic pain involving education: A systematic review

October 21, 2019 Shirdhya Joypaul, Fiona Kelly, Sara S. McMillan, Michelle A. King

PLOS ONE Botulinum toxin A injection into the entopeduncular nucleus improves dynamic locomotory parameters in hemiparkinsonian rats

October 21, 2019 Adrianna R. Tsang, Nagalingam Rajakumar, Mandar S. Jog

PLOS ONE Effectiveness of physical and cognitive-behavioural intervention programmes for chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

October 21, 2019 Joyce Cheng, Sheung-Tak Cheng

PLOS ONE Trial registration as a safeguard against outcome reporting bias and spin? A case study of randomized controlled trials of acupuncture

October 21, 2019 Jiyoon Won, Seoyeon Kim, Inhu Bae, Hyangsook Lee

PLOS ONE New oral anti-coagulants versus vitamin K antagonists in high thromboembolic risk patients

October 21, 2019 Annachiara Bellin, Patrizia Berto, Sakis Themistoclakis, Aastha Chandak, Pietro Giusti, Giacomo Cavalli, Sumeet Bakshi, Michele Tessarin, Paola Deambrosis, Alessandro Chinellato

PLOS ONE In-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation of patients with cirrhosis: A population-based analysis

October 21, 2019 Lavi Oud

PLOS ONE Educational achievement at age 9.5 years of children born to mothers maintained on methadone during pregnancy

October 10, 2019 Samantha J. Lee, Lianne J. Woodward, Jacqueline M. T. Henderson

PLOS ONE Does task delegation to non-physician health professionals improve quality of diabetes care? Results of a scoping review

October 21, 2019 Sanas Mirhoseiny, Tjarko Geelvink, Stephan Martin, Horst Christian Vollmar, Stephanie Stock, Marcus Redaelli

PLOS ONE Single session high definition transcranial direct current stimulation to the cerebellum does not impact higher cognitive function

October 21, 2019 Ted Maldonado, James R. M. Goen, Michael J. Imburgio, Sydney M. Eakin, Jessica A. Bernard

PLOS ONE Prognosis of severe acquired brain injury: Short and long-term outcome determinants and their potential clinical relevance after rehabilitation. A comprehensive approach to analyze cohort studies

October 21, 2019 Bernardo Lanzillo, Giuseppe Piscosquito, Laura Marcuccio, Anna Lanzillo, Dino Franco Vitale

PLOS ONE Sialochemical analysis in polytraumatized patients in intensive care units

October 21, 2019 Maria Heloisa Madruga Chaves, Amanda Rebeca da Silveira Wolf, Kelly Aline Lima Nascimento, Danielle Nawcki, Gabriele Muller Feustel, Patricia Vida Cassi Bettega, Sergio Aparecido Ignacio, João Armando Brancher, Luana Alves Tannous, Renata Iani Werneck, Paulo Henrique Couto Souza, Marlene Maria Tourais de Barros, Aline Cristina Batista Rodrigues Johann

PLOS ONE PTSD in prison settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis of comorbid mental disorders and problematic behaviours

October 21, 2019 Emma Facer-Irwin, Nigel J. Blackwood, Annie Bird, Hannah Dickson, Daniel McGlade, Filipa Alves-Costa, Deirdre MacManus

PLOS Biology Development of neural specialization for print: Evidence for predictive coding in visual word recognition

October 21, 2019 Jing Zhao, Urs Maurer, Sheng He, Xuchu Weng

PLOS ONE Tracheostomy and long-term mortality in ICU patients undergoing prolonged mechanical ventilation

October 21, 2019 Raphaël Cinotti, Sebastian Voicu, Samir Jaber, Benjamin Chousterman, Catherine Paugam-Burtz, Haikel Oueslati, Charles Damoisel, Anaïs Caillard, Antoine Roquilly, Fanny Feuillet, Alexandre Mebazaa, Etienne Gayat, On behalf of FROG-ICU investigators

PLOS Biology Walking enhances peripheral visual processing in humans

October 21, 2019 Liyu Cao, Barbara Händel

PLOS ONE Detection of vision and /or hearing loss using the interRAI Community Health Assessment aligns well with common behavioral vision/hearing measurements

October 21, 2019 Andrea Urqueta Alfaro, Dawn M. Guthrie, Natalie A. Phillips, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Paul Mick, Cathy McGraw, Walter Wittich

PLOS ONE Effect of an intensive 3-day social cognitive treatment (can do treatment) on control self-efficacy in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis and low disability: A single-centre randomized controlled trial

October 21, 2019 Peter Joseph Jongen, Ghislaine A. van Mastrigt, Marco Heerings, Leo H. Visser, Rob P. Ruimschotel, Astrid Hussaarts, Lotte Duyverman, Joyce Valkenburg-Vissers, Job Cornelissen, Michel Bos, Maarten van Droffelaar, Rogier Donders

PLOS ONE Integrated HIV surveillance finds recent adult hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission and intermediate HBV prevalence among military in uncharacterized Caribbean country

October 1, 2019 Siobhan M. O’Connor, Tonya Mixson-Hayden, Lilia Ganova-Raeva, Djeneba Audrey Djibo, Matthew Brown, Guo-Liang Xia, Saleem Kamili, Marni Jacobs, Maxia Dong, Anne G. Thomas, Marc Bulterys, Braden Hale

PLOS ONE Discharge care quality in hospitalised elderly patients: Extended validation of the Discharge Care Experiences Survey

October 21, 2019 Ranveig Marie Boge, Arvid Steinar Haugen, Roy Miodini Nilsen, Frøydis Bruvik, Stig Harthug

PLOS ONE Dietary polyphenols as a safe and novel intervention for modulating pain associated with intervertebral disc degeneration in an in-vivo rat model

October 21, 2019 Alon Lai, Lap Ho, Thomas W. Evashwick-Rogler, Hironobu Watanabe, Jonathan Salandra, Beth A. Winkelstein, Damien Laudier, Andrew C. Hecht, Giulio M. Pasinetti, James C. Iatridis

PLOS ONE CT-perfusion in peripheral arterial disease – Correlation with angiographic and hemodynamic parameters

October 21, 2019 Bert-Ram Sah, Patrick Veit-Haibach, Klaus Strobel, Martin Banyai, Martin W. Huellner

PLOS ONE Early and long-term outcomes of coronary artery bypass surgery with and without use of heart-lung machine and with special respect to renal function – A retrospective study

October 21, 2019 Julia Merkle, Jaison Sunny, Laura Ehlscheid, Anton Sabashnikov, Carolyn Weber, Kaveh Eghbalzadeh, Ilija Djordjevic, Oliver Liakopoulos, Yeong-Hoon Choi, Thorsten Wahlers, Mohamed Zeriouh

PLOS ONE Trace amine-associated receptor gene polymorphism increases drug craving in individuals with methamphetamine dependence

October 21, 2019 Jennifer M. Loftis, Michael Lasarev, Xiao Shi, Jodi Lapidus, Aaron Janowsky, William F. Hoffman, Marilyn Huckans

PLOS ONE The prediction model of suicidal thoughts in Korean adults using Decision Tree Analysis: A nationwide cross-sectional study

October 21, 2019 Sung-Man Bae

PLOS ONE Long-term outcomes of dialysis in patients with chronic kidney disease and new-onset atrial fibrillation: A population-based cohort study

October 21, 2019 Tung-Wei Hung, Jing-Yang Huang, Gwo-Ping Jong

PLOS ONE Therapeutic efficacy of neuregulin 1-expressing human adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells for ischemic stroke

October 21, 2019 Sun Ryu, Jae-Min Lee, Cheong A. Bae, Chae-Eun Moon, Kyung-Ok Cho

PLOS ONE Religious practices and long-term survival after hospital discharge for an acute coronary syndrome

October 21, 2019 Hawa O. Abu, Kate L. Lapane, Molly E. Waring, Christine M. Ulbricht, Randolph S. Devereaux, David D. McManus, Jeroan J. Allison, Catarina I. Kiefe, Robert J. Goldberg

PLOS ONE Remarkable cell recovery from cerebral ischemia in rats using an adaptive escalator-based rehabilitation mechanism

October 21, 2019 Chi-Chun Chen, Yu-Lin Wang, Ching-Ping Chang

PLOS ONE The Nordic Maintenance Care Program: Does psychological profile modify the treatment effect of a preventive manual therapy intervention? A secondary analysis of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial

October 21, 2019 Andreas Eklund, Irene Jensen, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Alice Kongsted, Mattias Jonsson, Peter Lövgren, Jakob Petersen-Klingberg, Christian Calvert, Iben Axén

PLOS ONE Positive allosteric modulation of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor as a treatment for cognitive deficits after traumatic brain injury

October 21, 2019 David J. Titus, Timothy Johnstone, Nathan H. Johnson, Sidney H. London, Meghana Chapalamadugu, Derk Hogenkamp, Kelvin W. Gee, Coleen M. Atkins

PLOS Medicine Community-based football in men with prostate cancer: 1-year follow-up on a pragmatic, multicentre randomised controlled trial

October 21, 2019 Eik Dybboe Bjerre, Thomas Hindborg Petersen, Anders Bojer Jørgensen, Christoffer Johansen, Peter Krustrup, Bente Langdahl, Mads Hvid Poulsen, Søren Sørensen Madsen, Peter Busch Østergren, Michael Borre, Mikael Rørth, Klaus Brasso, Julie Midtgaard

PLOS ONE Differences in macular capillary parameters between healthy black and white subjects with Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA)

October 21, 2019 Lindsay Y. Chun, Megan R. Silas, Rose C. Dimitroyannis, Kimberly Ho, Dimitra Skondra

PLOS ONE Effect of tranexamic acid administration on acute traumatic coagulopathy in rats with polytrauma and hemorrhage

October 21, 2019 Xiaowu Wu, Avi Benov, Daniel N. Darlington, Jeffrey D. Keesee, Bin Liu, Andrew P. Cap

PLOS ONE Analyzing data from the digital healthcare exchange platform for surveillance of antibiotic prescriptions in primary care in urban Kenya: A mixed-methods study

October 21, 2019 Legese A. Mekuria, Tobias FR de Wit, Nicole Spieker, Ramona Koech, Robert Nyarango, Stanley Ndwiga, Christine J. Fenenga, Alice Ogink, Constance Schultsz, Anja van’t Hoog

PLOS ONE Current status and direct medical cost of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the region of Catalonia: A population-based analysis

October 21, 2019 Josep Darbà

PLOS ONE “If I have a cancer, it is not my fault I am a refugee”: A qualitative study with expert stakeholders on cancer care management for Syrian refugees in Jordan

October 21, 2019 Manar Marzouk, Maureen Kelley, Ibtihal Fadhil, Slim Slama, Kajsa-Stina Longuere, Proochista Ariana, Gail Carson, Vicki Marsh

PLOS ONE Pneumoproteins are associated with pulmonary function in HIV-infected persons

October 21, 2019 Diane Jeon, Emily G. Chang, Maggie McGing, Marlena Hartman-Filson, Mathew Sommers, Eula Lewis, John R. Balmes, Daniela Moisi, Michael M. Lederman, Kristine A. Madsen, Prescott G. Woodruff, Peter W. Hunt, Laurence Huang, for the Inflammation, Aging, Microbes and Obstructive Lung Disease (I AM OLD) Study

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases The association of depression, anxiety, and stress with caring for a child with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Brazil; Results of a cross-sectional study

October 21, 2019 Hannah Kuper, Maria Elisabeth Lopes Moreira, Thália Velho Barreto de Araújo, Sandra Valongueiro, Silke Fernandes, Marcia Pinto, Tereza Maciel Lyra

PLOS ONE Surgical approach for complete cochlear coverage in EAS-patients after residual hearing loss

October 21, 2019 Nora M. Weiss, Anandhan Dhanasingh, Sebastian P. Schraven, Marko Schulze, Soenke Langner, Robert Mlynski

PLOS ONE Animal-assisted therapy for patients in a minimally conscious state: A randomized two treatment multi-period crossover trial

October 21, 2019 Karin Hediger, Milena Petignat, Rahel Marti, Margret Hund-Georgiadis

PLOS ONE Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in active military population of The Colombian National Army gathered in five departments

October 21, 2019 Claudia Méndez, Maria Clara Duque, Yanira Romero, Julie Pérez, Omaira Rodríguez, Camilo A. Correa-Cárdenas, Maria Teresa Alvarado, Omar Cantillo-Barraza

PLOS ONE Prosthesis design of animal models of periprosthetic joint infection following total knee arthroplasty: A systematic review

October 21, 2019 Ke Jie, Peng Deng, Houran Cao, Wenjun Feng, Jinlun Chen, Yirong Zeng

PLOS Biology Dynamic enhancers control skeletal muscle identity and reprogramming

October 21, 2019 Krithika Ramachandran, Madhavi D. Senagolage, Meredith A. Sommars, Christopher R. Futtner, Yasuhiro Omura, Amanda L. Allred, Grant D. Barish

PLOS ONE The effectiveness of a community-based, type 2 diabetes prevention programme on health-related quality of life. The DE-PLAN study

October 21, 2019 Georgios Karamanakos, Bernardo Costa-Pinel, Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska, Dzilda Velickiene, Francisco Barrio-Torrell, Xavier Cos-Claramunt, Santiago Mestre-Miravet, Beata Piwońska-Solska, Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Stavros Liatis, Konstantinos Makrilakis

PLOS ONE Effect of psycho-social support by teachers on improving mental health and hope of adolescents in an earthquake-affected district in Nepal: A cluster randomized controlled trial

October 21, 2019 Rolina Dhital, Akira Shibanuma, Moe Miyaguchi, Junko Kiriya, Masamine Jimba

PLOS ONE Prevalence, associated factors and health impact of intimate partner violence against women in different life stages

October 21, 2019 Belén Sanz-Barbero, Natalia Barón, Carmen Vives-Cases

PLOS ONE Sub-types of safety behaviours and their effects on social anxiety disorder

October 21, 2019 Emily Gray, Esther T. Beierl, David M. Clark

PLOS Genetics Multi-omics analysis identifies mitochondrial pathways associated with anxiety-related behavior

October 21, 2019 Zuzanna Misiewicz, Stella Iurato, Natalia Kulesskaya, Laura Salminen, Luis Rodrigues, Giuseppina Maccarrone, Jade Martins, Darina Czamara, Mikaela A. Laine, Ewa Sokolowska, Kalevi Trontti, Christiane Rewerts, Bozidar Novak, Naama Volk, Dong Ik Park, Eija Jokitalo, Lars Paulin, Petri Auvinen, Vootele Voikar, Alon Chen, Angelika Erhardt, Christoph W. Turck, Iiris Hovatta

PLOS ONE Disease spectrum and outcomes among elderly patients in two tertiary hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

October 21, 2019 Basil Tumaini, Patricia Munseri, Kisali Pallangyo

PLOS ONE Veterans Health Administration nurses’ training and beliefs related to care of patients with traumatic brain injury

October 8, 2019 Tolu O. Oyesanya

PLOS ONE The effects of action observation training on improving upper limb motor functions in people with stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis

September 23, 2019 Bingbing Zhang, Laidi Kan, Jiaqi Zhang, Zhongfei Bai, Yi Xie, Qianhao Liu, Yuzhong Peng, Anqin Dong

PLOS ONE Strategies to strengthen the provision of mental health care at the primary care setting: An Evidence Maprnrnrnrn

September 23, 2019 Witness Mapanga, Daleen Casteleijn, Carmel Ramiah, Willem Odendaal, Zolani Metu, Lesley Robertson, Jane Goudge

PLOS Medicine The Fear Reduction Exercised Early (FREE) approach to management of low back pain in general practice: A pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial

September 23, 2019 Ben Darlow, James Stanley, Sarah Dean, J. Haxby Abbott, Sue Garrett, Ross Wilson, Fiona Mathieson, Anthony Dowell

PLOS ONE Affect regulation training reduces symptom severity in depression – A randomized controlled trial

September 23, 2019 Matthias Berking, Eva Eichler, Maike Luhmann, Alice Diedrich, Wolfgang Hiller, Winfried Rief

PLOS ONE World’s fastest brain-computer interface: Combining EEG2Code with deep learning

September 23, 2019 Sebastian Nagel, Martin Spüler

PLOS ONE Mindfulness- and acceptance-based interventions for patients with fibromyalgia – A systematic review and meta-analyses

September 23, 2019 Trond Haugmark, Kåre Birger Hagen, Geir Smedslund, Heidi A. Zangi

PLOS ONE Users’ and therapists’ perceptions of myoelectric multi-function upper limb prostheses with conventional and pattern recognition control

September 23, 2019 Andreas W. Franzke, Morten B. Kristoffersen, Raoul M. Bongers, Alessio Murgia, Barbara Pobatschnig, Fabian Unglaube, Corry K. van der Sluis

PLOS ONE Metal implants influence CT scan parameters leading to increased local radiation exposure: A proposal for correction techniques

September 10, 2019 Ok kyu Song, Nieun Seo, Song-Ee Baek, Jin-Young Choi, Mi-Suk Park, Myeong-Jin Kim, Yong Eun Chung

PLOS ONE Pain interference type and level guide the assessment process in chronic pain: Categorizing pain patients entering tertiary pain treatment with the Brief Pain Inventory

September 10, 2019 Teemu Miettinen, Hannu Kautiainen, Pekka Mäntyselkä, Steven J. Linton, Eija Kalso

PLOS ONE Crank fore-aft position alters the distribution of work over the push and pull phase during synchronous recumbent handcycling of able-bodied participants

September 10, 2019 Riemer J. K. Vegter, Barry S. Mason, Bastiaan Sporrel, Benjamin Stone, Lucas H. V. van der Woude, Vicky L. Goosey-Tolfrey

PLOS Biology Identification of traits and functional connectivity-based neurotraits of chronic pain

September 10, 2019 Etienne Vachon-Presseau, Sara E. Berger, Taha B. Abdullah, James W. Griffith, Thomas J. Schnitzer, A. Vania Apkarian

PLOS ONE Development of a predictive model of hospitalization in primary care patients with heart failure

September 10, 2019 Luis García-Olmos, Río Aguilar, David Lora, Montse Carmona, Angel Alberquilla, Rebeca García-Caballero, Luis Sánchez-Gómez, the CHIC Group

PLOS ONE Gait can reveal sleep quality with machine learning models

September 8, 2019 Xingyun Liu, Bingli Sun, Zhan Zhang, Yameng Wang, Haina Tang, Tingshao Zhu

PLOS ONE Cognitive function in multiple sclerosis: A long-term look on the bright side

August 29, 2019 Yermi Harel, Alon Kalron, Shay Menascu, David Magalashvili, Mark Dolev, Glen Doniger, Ely Simon, Anat Achiron

PLOS ONE Helping patients help themselves: A systematic review of self-management support strategies in primary health care practice

August 28, 2019 Sarah Dineen-Griffin, Victoria Garcia-Cardenas, Kylie Williams, Shalom I. Benrimoj

PLOS ONE Ecological validity of walking capacity tests following rehabilitation in people with multiple sclerosis

August 28, 2019 Rainer Ehling, Gabriel Bsteh, Andreas Muehlbacher, Kay Hermann, Christian Brenneis

PLOS ONE Brain-related proteins as serum biomarkers of acute, subconcussive blast overpressure exposure: A cohort study of military personnel

August 28, 2019 Angela M. Boutté, Bharani Thangavelu, Christina R. LaValle, Jeffrey Nemes, Janice Gilsdorf, Deborah A. Shear, Gary H. Kamimori

PLOS ONE Virtual reality for management of pain in hospitalized patients: A randomized comparative effectiveness trial

August 28, 2019 Brennan Spiegel, Garth Fuller, Mayra Lopez, Taylor Dupuy, Benjamin Noah, Amber Howard, Michael Albert, Vartan Tashjian, Richard Lam, Joseph Ahn, Francis Dailey, Bradley T. Rosen, Mark Vrahas, Milton Little, John Garlich, Eldin Dzubur, Waguih IsHak, Itai Danovitch

PLOS ONE Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and risk of epilepsy after traumatic brain injury – A population based cohort study

August 28, 2019 Jakob Christensen, Henrik Schou Pedersen, Morten Fenger-Grøn, Jesse R. Fann, Nigel C. Jones, Mogens Vestergaard

PLOS ONE Validation of the Auditory Stroop Task to increase cognitive load in walking tasks in healthy elderly and persons with Parkinson’s disease

August 28, 2019 S. Janssen, J. J. A. Heijs, W. van der Meijs, J. Nonnekes, M. Bittner, L. D. A. Dorresteijn, B. R. Bloem, R. J. A. van Wezel, T. Heida

PLOS ONE Trajectories of functional impairment in homeless older adults: Results from the HOPE HOME study

August 28, 2019 Rebecca T. Brown, David Guzman, Lauren M. Kaplan, Claudia Ponath, Christopher T. Lee, Margot B. Kushel

PLOS ONE The features of muscle activity during chair standing and sitting motion in submerged condition

August 28, 2019 Koichi Kaneda

PLOS ONE Can verbal suggestions strengthen the effects of a relaxation intervention?

August 28, 2019 Lemmy Schakel, Dieuwke S. Veldhuijzen, Henriët van Middendorp, Meriem Manaï, Stefanie H. Meeuwis, Pieter Van Dessel, Andrea W. M. Evers

PLOS ONE The relationship between plasma amino acids and circulating albumin and haemoglobin in postabsorptive stroke patients

August 28, 2019 Roberto Aquilani, Roberto Maestri, Mirella Boselli, Maria Pia Achilli, Nadia Arrigoni, Mariella Bruni, Maurizia Dossena, Manuela Verri, Daniela Buonocore, Evasio Pasini, Annalisa Barbieri, Federica Boschi

PLOS ONE Specific and general adaptations following motor imagery practice focused on muscle strength in total knee arthroplasty rehabilitation: A randomized controlled trial

August 28, 2019 Armin H. Paravlic, Rado Pisot, Uros Marusic

PLOS ONE Aberrant resting-state functional connectivity of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to the anterior insula and its association with fear avoidance belief in chronic neck pain patients

August 28, 2019 Naho Ihara, Kenta Wakaizumi, Daisuke Nishimura, Jungo Kato, Takashige Yamada, Takeshi Suzuki, Saori Hashiguchi, Yuri Terasawa, Hiroshi Morisaki, Shizuko Kosugi

PLOS ONE Measuring Cognitive Reserve (CR) – A systematic review of measurement properties of CR questionnaires for the adult population

August 28, 2019 Nadja Kartschmit, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Torsten Schubert, Maria Elena Lacruz

PLOS ONE Dyskalemia, its patterns, and prognosis among patients with incident heart failure: A nationwide study of US veterans

August 28, 2019 Kunihiro Matsushita, Yingying Sang, Chao Yang, Shoshana H. Ballew, Morgan E. Grams, Josef Coresh, Miklos Z. Molnar

PLOS ONE Using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 to assess disability in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

August 28, 2019 Michelle J. Bovin, Eric C. Meyer, Nathan A. Kimbrel, Sarah E. Kleiman, Jonathan D. Green, Sandra B. Morissette, Brian P. Marx

PLOS ONE Perceived social support functions as a resilience in buffering the impact of trauma exposure on PTSD symptoms via intrusive rumination and entrapment in firefighters

August 28, 2019 Jong-Sun Lee

PLOS ONE Context matters: A review to formulate a conceptual framework for coaching as a disability accommodation

August 22, 2019 Nancy Elizabeth Doyle, Almuth McDowall

PLOS ONE The role of personality in posttraumatic stress disorder, trait resilience, and quality of life in people exposed to the Kiss nightclub fire

August 13, 2019 Vitor Crestani Calegaro, Pedro Henrique Canova Mosele, Bianca Lorenzi Negretto, Cleonice Zatti, Angelo Batista Miralha da Cunha, Lucia Helena Machado Freitas

PLOS ONE Metabolic features of Gulf War illness

August 13, 2019 Robert K. Naviaux, Jane C. Naviaux, Kefeng Li, Lin Wang, Jonathan M. Monk, A. Taylor Bright, Hayley J. Koslik, Janis B. Ritchie, Beatrice A. Golomb

PLOS ONE Factors associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease: Data mining in the French nationwide discharge summary database between 2008 and 2014

August 13, 2019 Michaël Rochoy, Régis Bordet, Sophie Gautier, Emmanuel Chazard

PLOS ONE The use of physiotherapy in nursing homes internationally: A systematic review

July 31, 2019 Lindsey Brett, Tim Noblet, Mikaela Jorgensen, Andrew Georgiou

PLOS ONE Participation and autonomy five years after stroke: A longitudinal observational study

July 31, 2019 Annie Palstam, Astrid Sjödin, Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen

PLOS ONE RebiQoL: A randomized trial of telemedicine patient support program for health-related quality of life and adherence in people with MS treated with Rebif

July 31, 2019 Anne-Marie Landtblom, Claes Martin, Stefan Olsson-Hau, Sara Haghighi, Lillemor Jansson, Sten Fredrikson, Dimitri Guala

PLOS ONE How psychology might alleviate violence in queues: Perceived future wait and perceived load moderate violence against service providers

July 15, 2019 Dorit Efrat-Treister, Arik Cheshin, Dana Harari, Anat Rafaeli, Shira Agasi, Hadar Moriah, Hanna Admi

PLOS ONE Identification of clinically related requirements of a novel assistive device for people with a high spinal cord injury

July 15, 2019 Amihai Gottlieb, Racheli Kizony, Zoe Katsarou, Sevasti Bostantjopoulou, Gabi Zeilig, Meir Plotnik

PLOS ONE Do changes in health reveal the possibility of undiagnosed pancreatic cancer? Development of a risk-prediction model based on healthcare claims data

July 15, 2019 Aileen Baecker, Sungjin Kim, Harvey A. Risch, Teryl K. Nuckols, Bechien U. Wu, Andrew E. Hendifar, Stephen J. Pandol, Joseph R. Pisegna, Christie Y. Jeon

PLOS ONE Post-war (1946-2017) population health change in the United Kingdom: A systematic review

July 15, 2019 Dawid Gondek, David Bann, Ke Ning, Emily Grundy, George B. Ploubidis

PLOS ONE The use of complementary and integrative health approaches for chronic musculoskeletal pain in younger US Veterans: An economic evaluation

July 2, 2019 Patricia M. Herman, Anita H. Yuan, Matthew S. Cefalu, Karen Chu, Qing Zeng, Nell Marshall, Karl A. Lorenz, Stephanie L. Taylor

PLOS ONE Lipid profile is associated with decreased fatigue in individuals with progressive multiple sclerosis following a diet-based intervention: Results from a pilot study

July 2, 2019 Kelly Fellows Maxwell, Terry Wahls, Richard W. Browne, Linda Rubenstein, Babita Bisht, Catherine A. Chenard, Linda Snetselaar, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Murali Ramanathan

PLOS ONE Rehabilitation technology for self-care: Customised foot and ankle exercise software for people with diabetes

July 2, 2019 Jane S. S. P. Ferreira, Isabel C. N. Sacco, Alisson A. Siqueira, Maria H. M. Almeida, Cristina D. Sartor

PLOS Biology The interleukin-4/PPARγ signaling axis promotes oligodendrocyte differentiation and remyelination after brain injury

June 21, 2019 Qingxiu Zhang, Wen Zhu, Fei Xu, Xuejiao Dai, Ligen Shi, Wei Cai, Hongfeng Mu, T. Kevin Hitchens, Lesley M. Foley, Xiangrong Liu, Fang Yu, Jie Chen, Yejie Shi, Rehana K. Leak, Yanqin Gao, Jun Chen, Xiaoming Hu

PLOS ONE Health perspectives among Halabja’s civilian survivors of sulfur mustard exposure with respiratory symptoms—A qualitative study

June 21, 2019 Faraidoun Moradi, Mia Söderberg, Fazil Moradi, Bledar Daka, Anna-Carin Olin, Mona Lärstad

PLOS ONE Are associations between psychosocial stressors and incident lung cancer attributable to smoking?

June 20, 2019 Carolyn E. Behrendt, Candace M. Cosgrove, Norman J. Johnson, Sean F. Altekruse

PLOS ONE Test-retest reliability of the Mini Nutritional Assessment and its relationship with quality of life in patients with stroke

June 20, 2019 Shu-Chi Lin, Kuan-Hung Lin, Ya-Chen Lee, Hsiao-Yun Peng, En-Chi Chiu

PLOS ONE HABscope: A tool for use by citizen scientists to facilitate early warning of respiratory irritation caused by toxic blooms of Karenia brevis

June 20, 2019 D. Ransom Hardison, William C. Holland, Robert D. Currier, Barbara Kirkpatrick, Richard Stumpf, Tracy Fanara, Devin Burris, Andrew Reich, Gary J. Kirkpatrick, R. Wayne Litaker

PLOS ONE Racial differences and mortality risk in patients with heart failure and hyponatremia

June 19, 2019 Jeremy A. Miles, Renato Quispe, Yonatan Mehlman, Kavisha Patel, Claudia Lama Von Buchwald, Jee Young You, Seth Sokol, Robert T. Faillace

PLOS ONE A cluster-based approach for integrating clinical management of Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions

June 19, 2019 Brent M. Egan, Susan E. Sutherland, Peter L. Tilkemeier, Robert A. Davis, Valinda Rutledge, Angelo Sinopoli

PLOS ONE The problem with self-management: Problematising self-management and power using a Foucauldian lens in the context of stroke care and rehabilitation

June 19, 2019 Simon Fletcher, Sara Demain, Fiona Jones, Stefan Tino Kulnik

PLOS Medicine Associations of genetics, behaviors, and life course circumstances with a novel aging and healthspan measure: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

June 18, 2019 Zuyun Liu, Xi Chen, Thomas M. Gill, Chao Ma, Eileen M. Crimmins, Morgan E. Levine

PLOS ONE Unscheduled hospital contacts after inpatient discharge: A national observational study of COPD and heart failure patients in England

June 13, 2019 Kate Honeyford, Derek Bell, Faiza Chowdhury, Jennifer Quint, Paul Aylin, Alex Bottle

PLOS ONE Spinal anesthesia for lumbar spine surgery correlates with fewer total medications and less frequent use of vasoactive agents: A single center experience

June 13, 2019 Hao Deng, Jean-Valery Coumans, Richard Anderson, Timothy T. Houle, Robert A. Peterfreund

PLOS ONE Thumb and finger movement is reduced after stroke: An observational study

June 12, 2019 Helleana Eschmann, Martin E. Héroux, James H. Cheetham, Stephanie Potts, Joanna Diong

PLOS ONE Technique to reduce the minimum toe clearance of young adults during walking to simulate the risk of tripping of the elderly

June 12, 2019 Jessica Beltran Ullauri, Shogo Okamoto, Yoji Yamada, Yasuhiro Akiyama

PLOS ONE Is higher resilience predictive of lower stress and better mental health among corporate executives?

June 11, 2019 Cindy A. Kermott, Ruth E. Johnson, Sarah M. Jenkins, Amit Sood, Richa Sood

PLOS ONE Depression is a major risk factor for the development of dementia in people with lower urinary tract symptoms: A nationwide population-based study

June 7, 2019 Ming-Jung Ou, Chun-Che Huang, Yi-Chi Wang, Yung-Liang Chen, Chung-Han Ho, Ming-Ping Wu, Yu-Tung Huang, Chien-Yi Wu, Ping-Jen Chen

PLOS ONE How do impairments in cognitive functions affect activities of daily living functions in older adults?

June 7, 2019 Meng-Ta Lee, Yuh Jang, Wan-Ying Chang

PLOS ONE In-hospital costs after severe traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and quality assessment

June 6, 2019 Jeroen T. J. M. van Dijck, Mark D. Dijkman, Robbin H. Ophuis, Godard C. W. de Ruiter, Wilco C. Peul, Suzanne Polinder

PLOS ONE Distinguishing and phenotype monitoring of traumatic brain injury and post-concussion syndrome including chronic migraine in serum of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans

June 6, 2019 Jay S. Hanas, James R. S. Hocker, Megan R. Lerner, James R. Couch

PLOS ONE See your mental state from your walk: Recognizing anxiety and depression through Kinect-recorded gait data

June 6, 2019 Nan Zhao, Zhan Zhang, Yameng Wang, Jingying Wang, Baobin Li, Yuanyuan Xiang, Tingshao Zhu

PLOS ONE Assessing the fall risks of community-dwelling stroke survivors using the Short-form Physiological Profile Assessment (S-PPA)

June 6, 2019 Tai-Wa Liu, Shamay S. M. Ng

PLOS ONE Symptoms of osteoarthritis influence mental and physical health differently before and after joint replacement surgery: A prospective study

June 6, 2019 Thomas V. Perneger, Didier Hannouche, Hermès H. Miozzari, Anne Lübbeke

PLOS ONE Improving the measurement of TMS-assessed voluntary activation in the knee extensors

June 6, 2019 Jeanne Dekerle, Aaron Greenhouse-Tucknott, James G. Wrightson, Lisa Schäfer, Paul Ansdell

PLOS ONE Blame it on the weather? The association between pain in fibromyalgia, relative humidity, temperature and barometric pressure

June 6, 2019 Asbjørn J. Fagerlund, Maria Iversen, Andrea Ekeland, Connie Malèn Moen, Per M. Aslaksen

PLOS ONE Reliability and validity of the German version of the Myositis Activities Profile (MAP) in patients with inflammatory myopathy

June 3, 2019 Pierrette Baschung Pfister, Eling D. de Bruin, Caroline H. G. Bastiaenen, Britta Maurer, Ruud H. Knols

PLOS ONE Gait-initiation onset estimation during sit-to-walk: Recommended methods suitable for healthy individuals and ambulatory community-dwelling stroke survivors

May 29, 2019 Gareth D. Jones, Darren C. James, Michael Thacker, Rhian Perry, David A. Green

PLOS ONE Incidence of stroke in patients with HIV infection: A population-based study in Taiwan

May 22, 2019 Hui-Lin Lin, Chih-Hsin Muo, Cheng-Yu Lin, Hsuan-Ju Chen, Pei-Chun Chen

PLOS ONE The impact of disease severity adjustment on hospital standardised mortality ratios: Results from a service-wide analysis of ischaemic stroke admissions using linked pre-hospital, admissions and mortality data

May 21, 2019 Melina Gattellari, Chris Goumas, Bin Jalaludin, John Worthington

PLOS ONE Glaucoma Symptom Scale: Psychometric properties of the Serbian version

May 20, 2019 Ivan Sencanic, Tatjana Gazibara, Jelena Dotlic, Miroslav Stamenkovic, Vesna Jaksic, Marija Bozic, Anita Grgurevic

PLOS ONE fMRI biomarkers of social cognitive skills training in psychosis: Extrinsic and intrinsic functional connectivity

May 17, 2019 Junghee Lee, Amy M. Jimenez, William P. Horan, Michael F. Green

PLOS ONE Memory-related perceptual illusions directly affect physical activity in humans

May 16, 2019 Anne A. Cuperus, Rico T. Disco, Ilja G. Sligte, Milan N. A. van der Kuil, Andrea W. M. Evers, Ineke J. M. van der Ham

PLOS ONE Long-term performance of instrumental activities of daily living in young and middle-aged stroke survivors—Impact of cognitive dysfunction, emotional problems and fatigue

May 16, 2019 Charlotte Blomgren, Hans Samuelsson, Christian Blomstrand, Christina Jern, Katarina Jood, Lisbeth Claesson

PLOS ONE Healthy aging affects cerebrovascular reactivity and pressure-flow responses, but not neurovascular coupling: A cross-sectional study

May 16, 2019 Kayla B. Stefanidis, Christopher D. Askew, Timo Klein, Jim Lagopoulos, Mathew J. Summers

PLOS ONE Retrospective analysis of diabetic foot osteomyelitis management and outcome at a tertiary care hospital in the UK

May 16, 2019 Mauricio Arias, Sittiga Hassan-Reshat, William Newsholme

PLOS ONE Caregiver-mediated exercises with e-health support for early supported discharge after stroke (CARE4STROKE): A randomized controlled trial

May 15, 2019 Judith D. M. Vloothuis, Marijn Mulder, Rinske H. M. Nijland, Quirine S. Goedhart, Manin Konijnenbelt, Henry Mulder, Cees M. P. M. Hertogh, Maurits van Tulder, Erwin E. H. van Wegen, Gert Kwakkel

PLOS ONE Cognitive performance and brain dynamics during walking with a novel bionic foot: A pilot study

May 15, 2019 Kevin De Pauw, Pierre Cherelle, Bruno Tassignon, Jeroen Van Cutsem, Bart Roelands, Felipe Gomez Marulanda, Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght, Romain Meeusen

PLOS ONE Feasibility and clinical experience of implementing a myoelectric upper limb orthosis in the rehabilitation of chronic stroke patients: A clinical case series report

May 15, 2019 Jessica P. McCabe, Dennyse Henniger, Jessica Perkins, Margaret Skelly, Curtis Tatsuoka, Svetlana Pundik

PLOS ONE Clinical factors associated with persistently poor diabetes control in the Veterans Health Administration: A nationwide cohort study

May 15, 2019 Anastasia-Stefania Alexopoulos, George L. Jackson, David Edelman, Valerie A. Smith, Theodore S. Z. Berkowitz, Sandra L. Woolson, Hayden B. Bosworth, Matthew J. Crowley

PLOS ONE Predicting kidney failure from longitudinal kidney function trajectory: A comparison of models

May 9, 2019 Jan A. J. G. van den Brand, Tjeerd M. H. Dijkstra, Jack Wetzels, Bénédicte Stengel, Marie Metzger, Peter J. Blankestijn, Hiddo J. Lambers Heerspink, Ron T. Gansevoort

PLOS ONE Novel stochastic framework for automatic segmentation of human thigh MRI volumes and its applications in spinal cord injured individuals

May 9, 2019 Samineh Mesbah, Ahmed M. Shalaby, Sean Stills, Ahmed M. Soliman, Andrea Willhite, Susan J. Harkema, Enrico Rejc, Ayman S. El-Baz

PLOS ONE Effects of exercise programs on kyphosis and lordosis angle: A systematic review and meta-analysis

April 29, 2019 Noelia González-Gálvez, Gemma M. Gea-García, Pablo J. Marcos-Pardo

PLOS ONE Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and television viewing patterns in the Nurses’ Health Study II: A longitudinal analysis

April 8, 2019 Sun Jae Jung, Ashley Winning, Andrea L. Roberts, Kristen Nishimi, Qixuan Chen, Paola Gilsanz, Jennifer A. Sumner, Cristina A. Fernandez, Eric B. Rimm, Laura D. Kubzansky, Karestan C. Koenen

PLOS ONE A national study of Veterans with major upper limb amputation: Survey methods, participants, and summary findings

April 8, 2019 Linda Resnik, Sarah Ekerholm, Matthew Borgia, Melissa A. Clark

PLOS ONE Metabolomic analysis of male combat veterans with post traumatic stress disorder

April 8, 2019 Synthia H. Mellon, F. Saverio Bersani, Daniel Lindqvist, Rasha Hammamieh, Duncan Donohue, Kelsey Dean, Marti Jett, Rachel Yehuda, Janine Flory, Victor I. Reus, Linda M. Bierer, Iouri Makotkine, Duna Abu Amara, Clare Henn Haase, Michelle Coy, Francis J. Doyle III, Charles Marmar, Owen M. Wolkowitz

PLOS ONE Food insecurity and violence in a prospective cohort of women at risk for or living with HIV in the U.S.

March 25, 2019 Amy A. Conroy, Mardge H. Cohen, Edward A. Frongillo, Alexander C. Tsai, Tracey E. Wilson, Eryka L. Wentz, Adaora A. Adimora, Daniel Merenstein, Ighovwerha Ofotokun, Lisa Metsch, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Adebola Adedimeji, Janet M. Turan, Phyllis C. Tien, Sheri D. Weiser

PLOS ONE Family caregiver satisfaction with inpatient rehabilitation care

March 25, 2019 Kristine T. Hanson, Kathleen F. Carlson, Greta Friedemann-Sanchez, Laura A. Meis, Courtney H. Van Houtven, Agnes C. Jensen, Sean M. Phelan, Joan M. Griffin

PLOS ONE Implementing a function-based cognitive strategy intervention within inter-professional stroke rehabilitation teams: Changes in provider knowledge, self-efficacy and practice

March 25, 2019 Sara E. McEwen, Michelle Donald, Katelyn Jutzi, Kay-Ann Allen, Lisa Avery, Deirdre R. Dawson, Mary Egan, Katherine Dittmann, Anne Hunt, Jennifer Hutter, Sylvia Quant, Jorge Rios, Elizabeth Linkewich

PLOS ONE Multi-state models of transitions in depression and anxiety symptom severity and cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease

March 7, 2019 Michelle L. Meyer, Feng-Chang Lin, Andrea Jaensch, Ute Mons, Harry Hahmann, Wolfgang Koenig, Hermann Brenner, Dietrich Rothenbacher

PLOS ONE User violence in mental health services: Adaptation of an instrument. Healthcare-workers’ Aggressive Behavior Scale-Users-Mental Health Version (HABS-U-MH)

March 4, 2019 José Antonio Ruiz-Hernández, María Sánchez-Muñoz, David Pina López, Inmaculada Galían-Muñoz, Bartolomé Llor-Esteban, Laura Llor-Zaragoza, José Antonio Jiménez-Barbero

PLOS ONE Adverse stroke outcomes among patients with bipolar disorder

March 4, 2019 Pao-Huan Chen, Yi-Wei Kao, Ben-Chang Shia, Jiunn-Horng Kang, Herng-Ching Lin

PLOS ONE Consideration of substance use in compensation and pension examinations of veterans filing PTSD claims

February 25, 2019 Rebecca L. Jankowski, Anne C. Black, Christina M. Lazar, Bradley R. Brummett, Marc I. Rosen

PLOS ONE Marriage and divorce after military deployment to Afghanistan: A matched cohort study from Sweden

February 25, 2019 Carl-Martin Pethrus, Johan Reutfors, Kari Johansson, Kristian Neovius, Jonas Söderling, Martin Neovius, Gustaf Bruze

PLOS ONE Depression and obesity, data from a national administrative database study: Geographic evidence for an epidemiological overlap

January 28, 2019 Jean-Christophe Chauvet-Gelinier, Adrien Roussot, Jonathan Cottenet, Marie-Claude Brindisi, Jean-Michel Petit, Bernard Bonin, Bruno Vergès, Catherine Quantin

PLOS ONE An augmented reality sign-reading assistant for users with reduced vision

January 28, 2019 Jonathan Huang, Max Kinateder, Matt Dunn, Wojciech Jarosz, Xing-Dong Yang, Emily Cooper

PLOS ONE Exercise-induced hypoalgesia: A meta-analysis of exercise dosing for the treatment of chronic pain

January 28, 2019 Anna M. Polaski, Amy L. Phelps, Matthew C. Kostek, Kimberly A. Szucs, Benedict J. Kolber

PLOS ONE Comparative effectiveness of aerobic, resistance, and combined training on cardiovascular disease risk factors: A randomized controlled trial

January 28, 2019 Elizabeth C. Schroeder, Warren D. Franke, Rick L. Sharp, Duck-chul Lee

PLOS ONE Controlled clinical trial of canine therapy versus usual care to reduce patient anxiety in the emergency department

January 28, 2019 Jeffrey A. Kline, Michelle A. Fisher, Katherine L. Pettit, Courtney T. Linville, Alan M. Beck

PLOS Medicine Enhancing the prediction of acute kidney injury risk after percutaneous coronary intervention using machine learning techniques: A retrospective cohort study

November 27, 2018 Chenxi Huang, Karthik Murugiah, Shiwani Mahajan, Shu-Xia Li, Sanket Dhruva, Julian Haimovich, Yongfei Wang, Wade Schulz, Jeffrey Testani, Francis Wilson, Carlos Mena...

PLOS ONE Health literacy in men and women with cardiovascular diseases and its association with the use of health care services – Results from the population-based GEDA2014/2015-EHIS survey in Germany

January 14, 2019 Claudia Diederichs, Susanne Jordan, Olga Domanska, Hannelore Neuhauser

PLOS ONE Effects of pregabalin on neurobehavior in an adult male rat model of PTSD

January 14, 2019 Debra A. Valdivieso, Thomas G. Baughan II, Ursuline M. Canavati, Allison M. Rey, Cristal L. Trotter, Destynni R. Burrell, John E. Buonora, Tomás Eduardo Ceremuga

PLOS ONE Veterans’ compensation claims beliefs predict timing of PTSD treatment use relative to compensation and pension exam

January 14, 2019 Anne C. Black, Sarah Meshberg-Cohen, Andric C. Perez-Ortiz, Thomas A. Thornhill, Marc I. Rosen

PLOS ONE Artificial tactile and proprioceptive feedback improves performance and confidence on object identification tasks

January 14, 2019 Matthew A. Schiefer, Emily L. Graczyk, Steven M. Sidik, Daniel W. Tan, Dustin J. Tyler

PLOS ONE Sex differences in intrusive memories following trauma

January 14, 2019 Chia-Ming K. Hsu, Birgit Kleim, Emma L. Nicholson, Daniel V. Zuj, Pippa J. Cushing, Kate E. Gray, Latifa Clark, Kim L. Felmingham

PLOS ONE Offending behaviour, health and wellbeing of military veterans in the criminal justice system

November 30, 2018 Roxanna Short, Hannah Dickson, Neil Greenberg, Deirdre MacManus

PLOS ONE Design and development of a gait training system for Parkinson’s disease

November 30, 2018 Ainara Garzo, Paula Alexandra Silva, Nestor Garay-Vitoria, Erik Hernandez, Stephen Cullen, Valérie Cochen De Cock, Petra Ihalainen, Rudi Villing

PLOS ONE Age-related changes in trunk muscle activity and spinal and lower limb kinematics during gait

November 30, 2018 Rebecca Crawford, Leonardo Gizzi, Angela Dieterich, Áine Ni Mhuiris, Deborah Falla

PLOS ONE Perceptual assessment of environmental stability modulates postural sway

November 30, 2018 Natalia Cooper, Iain Cant, Mark D. White, Georg F. Meyer

PLOS ONE Efficacy of acupuncture for lifestyle risk factors for stroke: A systematic review

November 19, 2018 David Sibbritt, Wenbo Peng, Romy Lauche, Caleb Ferguson, Jane Frawley, Jon Adams

PLOS ONE Electrical dry needling as an adjunct to exercise, manual therapy and ultrasound for plantar fasciitis: A multi-center randomized clinical trial

November 19, 2018 James Dunning, Raymond Butts, Nathan Henry, Firas Mourad, Amy Brannon, Hector Rodriguez, Ian Young, Jose L Arias-Buría, César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

PLOS ONE The use and helpfulness of self-management strategies for depression: The experiences of patients

November 19, 2018 Rosa A. van Grieken, Mirjam J. van Tricht, Maarten W. J. Koeter, Wim van den Brink, Aart H. Schene

PLOS ONE Dynamic cerebral autoregulation is impaired in Veterans with Gulf War Illness: A case-control study

November 5, 2018 Michael J. Falvo, Jacob B. Lindheimer, Jorge M. Serrador

PLOS ONE Effect of a four-week virtual reality-based training versus conventional therapy on upper limb motor function after stroke: A multicenter parallel group randomized trial

November 5, 2018 Corina Schuster-Amft, Kynan Eng, Zorica Suica, Irene Thaler, Sandra Signer, Isabelle Lehmann, Ludwig Schmid, Michael A. McCaskey, Miura Hawkins, Martin L. Verra, Daniel Kiper

PLOS ONE Factors associated with common mental health problems of humanitarian workers in South Sudan

October 31, 2018 Hannah Strohmeier, Willem F. Scholte, Alastair Ager

PLOS ONE Non-pharmacological interventions for the improvement of post-stroke activities of daily living and disability amongst older stroke survivors: A systematic review

October 23, 2018 Carrie Stewart, Selvarani Subbarayan, Pamela Paton, Elliot Gemmell, Iosief Abraha, Phyo Kyaw Myint, Denis O’Mahony, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, Antonio Cherubini, Roy L. Soiza

PLOS ONE Inter-rater and test-retest reliability of movement control tests for the neck, shoulder, thoracic, lumbar, and hip regions in military personnel

October 23, 2018 Matthias Tegern, Ulrika Aasa, Björn O. Äng, Karin Harms-Ringdahl, Helena Larsson

PLOS ONE Effect of far ultraviolet light emitted from an optical diffuser on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in vitro

August 10, 2018 David Welch, Manuela Buonanno, Igor Shuryak, Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, Henry M. Spotnitz, David J. Brenner

PLOS ONE Reliability, validation and norms of the Chinese version of Anxiety Sensitivity Index 3 in a sample of military personnel

August 9, 2018 Wenpeng Cai, Wei Dong, Yu Pan, Cun Wei, Shuimiao Zhang, Bin Tian, Jin Yan, Guanghui Deng

PLOS ONE Sensory modulation dysfunction is associated with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

August 9, 2018 Tami Bar-Shalita, Anatoly Livshitz, Yulia Levin-Meltz, Debbie Rand, Lisa Deutsch, Jean-Jacques Vatine

PLOS ONE Multimodal cortical and subcortical exercise compared with treadmill training for spinal cord injury

August 9, 2018 Stephanie A. Martinez, Nhuquynh D. Nguyen, Eric Bailey, Denis Doyle-Green, Henry A. Hauser, John P. Handrakis, Steven Knezevic, Casey Marett, Jennifer Weinman, Angelica F. Romero, Tiffany M. Santiago, Ajax H. Yang, Lok Yung, Pierre K. Asselin, Joseph P. Weir, Stephen D. Kornfeld, William A. Bauman, Ann M. Spungen, Noam Y. Harel

PLOS ONE Complications of bone-anchored prostheses for individuals with an extremity amputation: A systematic review

August 9, 2018 Robin Atallah, Ruud A. Leijendekkers, Thomas J. Hoogeboom, Jan Paul Frölke

PLOS ONE Cranberry-derived proanthocyanidins induce a differential transcriptomic response within Candida albicans urinary biofilms

August 8, 2018 Anitha Sundararajan, Hallie S. Rane, Thiruvarangan Ramaraj, Johnny Sena, Amy B. Howell, Stella M. Bernardo, Faye D. Schilkey, Samuel A. Lee

PLOS ONE Hypotension and a positive fluid balance are associated with delirium in patients with shock

August 7, 2018 Duc Nam Nguyen, Luc Huyghens, Jose Parra, Johan Schiettecatte, Johan Smitz, Jean-Louis Vincent

PLOS ONE fNIRS measurement of cortical activation and functional connectivity during a visuospatial working memory task

August 2, 2018 Joseph M. Baker, Jennifer L. Bruno, Andrew Gundran, S. M. Hadi Hosseini, Allan L. Reiss

PLOS ONE Cognitive deficits in fibromyalgia syndrome are associated with pain responses to low intensity pressure stimulation

August 1, 2018 Carmen M. Galvez-Sánchez, Cristina Muñoz Ladrón de Guevara, Casandra I. Montoro, María José Fernández-Serrano, Stefan Duschek, Gustavo A. Reyes del Paso

PLOS ONE Health seeking behavior as a predictor of healthcare utilization in a population of patients with spinal pain

August 1, 2018 Derek Clewley, Dan Rhon, Timothy Flynn, Shane Koppenhaver, Chad Cook

PLOS ONE Matching diagnostics development to clinical need: Target product profile development for a point of care test for community-acquired lower respiratory tract infection

August 1, 2018 Micaela Gal, Nicholas A. Francis, Kerenza Hood, Jorge Villacian, Herman Goossens, Angela Watkins, Christopher C. Butler, the RAPP-ID consortium

PLOS ONE A comprehensive assessment of patient reported symptom burden, medical comorbidities, and functional well being in patients initiating direct acting antiviral therapy for chronic hepatitis C: Results from a large US multi-center observational study

August 1, 2018 Donna M. Evon, Paul W. Stewart, Jipcy Amador, Marina Serper, Anna S. Lok, Richard K. Sterling, Souvik Sarkar, Carol E. Golin, Bryce B. Reeve, David R. Nelson, Nancy Reau, Joseph K. Lim, K. Rajender Reddy, Adrian M. Di Bisceglie, Michael W. Fried

PLOS ONE County-level air quality and the prevalence of diagnosed chronic kidney disease in the US Medicare population

July 31, 2018 Jennifer Bragg-Gresham, Hal Morgenstern, William McClellan, Sharon Saydah, Meda Pavkov, Desmond Williams, Neil Powe, Delphine Tuot, Raymond Hsu, Rajiv Saran, for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CKD Surveillance System

PLOS Medicine Reducing the opioid overdose death toll in North America

July 31, 2018 Wayne D. Hall, Michael Farrell

PLOS ONE Psychosocial stress and central adiposity: A Brazilian study with a representative sample of the public health system users

July 31, 2018 Flávia Vitorino Freitas, Wagner Miranda Barbosa, Laíz Aparecida Azevedo Silva, Marianna Junger de Oliveira Garozi, Júlia de Assis Pinheiro, Aline Ribeiro Borçoi, Catarine Lima Conti, Juliana Krüger Arpini, Heberth de Paula, Mayara Mota de Oliveira, Anderson Barros Archanjo, Érika Aparecida Silva de Freitas, Daniela Rodrigues de Oliveira, Elizeu Batista Borloti, Iuri Drumond Louro, Adriana Madeira Alvares-da-Silva

PLOS ONE Quality of end-of-life care in patients with dementia compared to patients with cancer: A population-based register study

July 30, 2018 Lisa Martinsson, Staffan Lundström, Johan Sundelöf

PLOS ONE A prospective study of the influence of the skeleton on calcium mass transfer during hemodialysis

July 30, 2018 Patricia Taschner Goldenstein, Fabiana Giorgeti Graciolli, Gisele Lins Antunes, Wagner Vasques Dominguez, Luciene Machado dos Reis, Sharon Moe, Rosilene Motta Elias, Vanda Jorgetti, Rosa Maria Affonso Moysés

PLOS ONE Clinical efficacy of virtual reality for acute procedural pain management: A systematic review and meta-analysis

July 27, 2018 Evelyn Chan, Samantha Foster, Ryan Sambell, Paul Leong

PLOS ONE Identification of 613 new loci associated with heel bone mineral density and a polygenic risk score for bone mineral density, osteoporosis and fracture

July 26, 2018 Stuart K. Kim

PLOS ONE Estimating the survival of elderly patients diagnosed with dementia in Taiwan: A longitudinal study

July 25, 2018 Kwo-Chen Lee, Wen-Hsuan Hsu, Po-Han Chou, Jia-Jean Yiin, Chih-Hsin Muo, Yun-Ping Lin

PLOS ONE Increased risk of keratopathy after psoriasis: A nationwide population-based study

July 25, 2018 Chia-Yi Lee, Hung-Chi Chen, Hui-Wen Lin, Jing-Yang Huang, Teng-Li Lin, Chia-Hsuan Yang, Chao-Bin Yeh, Hung-Yu Lin, Shun-Fa Yang

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Specific human antibody responses to Aedes aegypti and Aedes polynesiensis saliva: A new epidemiological tool to assess human exposure to disease vectors in the Pacific

July 24, 2018 Françoise Mathieu-Daudé, Aurore Claverie, Catherine Plichart, Denis Boulanger, Fingani A. Mphande, Hervé C. Bossin

PLOS ONE Effects of exercise modalities on central hemodynamics, arterial stiffness and cardiac function in cardiovascular disease: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

July 23, 2018 Yahui Zhang, Lin Qi, Xingguo Sun, Wenyan Liu, Shuran Zhou, Frans van de Vosse, Stephen E. Greenwald, Lisheng Xu

PLOS ONE Use of rheumatology-specific patient navigators to understand and reduce barriers to medication adherence: Analysis of qualitative findings

July 19, 2018 Alyssa Wohlfahrt, Anarosa Campos, Maura D. Iversen, Joshua J. Gagne, Elena Massarotti, Daniel H. Solomon, Candace H. Feldman

PLOS ONE Missing single nucleotide polymorphisms in Genetic Risk Scores: A simulation study

July 19, 2018 Miguel Chagnon, Jennifer O’Loughlin, James C. Engert, Igor Karp, Marie-Pierre Sylvestre

PLOS ONE Patterns and predictors of off-label prescription of psychiatric drugs

July 19, 2018 Aishwarya Vijay, Jessica E. Becker, Joseph S. Ross

PLOS ONE Index or illusion: The case of frailty indices in the Health and Retirement Study

July 18, 2018 Yi-Sheng Chao, Hsing-Chien Wu, Chao-Jung Wu, Wei-Chih Chen

PLOS ONE Five-week yin yoga-based interventions decreased plasma adrenomedullin and increased psychological health in stressed adults: A randomized controlled trial

July 18, 2018 Daiva Daukantaitė, Una Tellhed, Rachel E. Maddux, Thomas Svensson, Olle Melander

PLOS ONE Associations between perfluorinated chemicals and serum biochemical markers and performance status in uremic patients under hemodialysis

July 17, 2018 Wen-Sheng Liu, Yen-Ting Lai, Hsiang-Lin Chan, Szu-Yuan Li, Chih-Ching Lin, Chih-Kuang Liu, Han-Hsing Tsou, Tsung-Yun Liu

PLOS ONE A pilot study into reaching performance after severe to moderate stroke using upper arm support

July 17, 2018 Matthew R. Williams

PLOS ONE The association between outpatient follow-up visits and all-cause non-elective 30-day readmissions: A retrospective observational cohort study

July 17, 2018 Liping Tong, Tim Arnold, Jie Yang, Xinyong Tian, Cole Erdmann, Tina Esposito

PLOS ONE Time course of traumatic neuroma development

July 16, 2018 Karla M. C. Oliveira, Lukas Pindur, Zhihua Han, Mit B. Bhavsar, John H. Barker, Liudmila Leppik

PLOS ONE Cognitive frailty predicting all-cause mortality among community-living older adults in Taiwan: A 4-year nationwide population-based cohort study

July 12, 2018 Wei-Ju Lee, Li-Ning Peng, Chih-Kuang Liang, Ching-Hui Loh, Liang-Kung Chen

PLOS ONE Gout and the risk of age-related macular degeneration in the elderly

July 12, 2018 Jasvinder A. Singh, John D. Cleveland

PLOS ONE Effectiveness of robot therapy on body function and structure in people with limited upper limb function: A systematic review and meta-analysis

July 12, 2018 Fernanda Márcia Rodrigues Martins Ferreira, Maria Emília Abreu Chaves, Vinícius Cunha Oliveira, Adriana Maria Valladão Novais Van Petten, Claysson Bruno Santos Vimieiro

PLOS ONE Mining patterns of comorbidity evolution in patients with multiple chronic conditions using unsupervised multi-level temporal Bayesian network

July 12, 2018 Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Carlos A. Jaramillo, Jennifer S. Potter, Mary Jo Pugh, Adel Alaeddini

PLOS ONE Feasibility and effects of intra-dialytic low-frequency electrical muscle stimulation and cycle training: A pilot randomized controlled trial

July 11, 2018 Gordon McGregor, Stuart Ennis, Richard Powell, Thomas Hamborg, Neil T. Raymond, William Owen, Nicolas Aldridge, Gail Evans, Josie Goodby, Sue Hewins, Prithwish Banerjee, Nithya S. Krishnan, Stephen M. S. Ting, Daniel Zehnder

PLOS ONE What speech and language therapy do community dwelling stroke survivors with aphasia receive in the UK?

July 10, 2018 Rebecca Palmer, Helen Witts, Timothy Chater

PLOS ONE Factors associated with advance directives completion among patients with advance care planning communication in Taipei, Taiwan

July 6, 2018 Dachen Chu, Yung-Feng Yen, Hsiao-Yun Hu, Yun-Ju Lai, Wen-Jung Sun, Ming-Chung Ko, Li-Ying Huang, Chu-Chieh Chen, J. Randall Curtis, Ya-Ling Lee, Sheng-Jean Huang

PLOS ONE Binge eating, trauma, and suicide attempt in community adults with major depressive disorder

June 21, 2018 Ji Hyun Baek, Kiwon Kim, Jin Pyo Hong, Maeng Je Cho, Maurizio Fava, David Mischoulon, Sung Man Chang, Ji Yeon Kim, Hana Cho, Hong Jin Jeon

PLOS ONE Genetic profile and patient-reported outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A systematic review

June 21, 2018 Hélder Melro, Jorge Gomes, Gabriela Moura, Alda Marques

PLOS ONE A scoping review of the role of HIV-related stigma and discrimination in noncommunicable disease care

June 21, 2018 Melissa A. Stockton, Kayla Giger, Laura Nyblade

PLOS ONE U-shape association of serum albumin level and acute kidney injury risk in hospitalized patients

June 21, 2018 Charat Thongprayoon, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Michael A. Mao, Ankit Sakhuja, Kianoush Kashani

PLOS ONE Association between dry eye symptoms and suicidal ideation in a Korean adult population

June 20, 2018 Sun-Bi Um, Hyungseon Yeom, Na Hyun Kim, Hyeon Chang Kim, Hyung Keun Lee, Il Suh

PLOS ONE More than a feeling: Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is characterized by reliable changes in affect and physiology

June 20, 2018 Giulia Lara Poerio, Emma Blakey, Thomas J. Hostler, Theresa Veltri

PLOS ONE Altered expression of genes involved in ganglioside biosynthesis in substantia nigra neurons in Parkinson’s disease

June 14, 2018 Jay S. Schneider

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Searching for a change: The need for increased support for public health and research on fungal diseases

June 14, 2018 Marcio L. Rodrigues, Priscila C. Albuquerque

PLOS ONE Epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacterial infections in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration

June 13, 2018 Makoto M. Jones, Kevin L. Winthrop, Scott D. Nelson, Scott L. Duvall, Olga V. Patterson, Kevin E. Nechodom, Kimberly E. Findley, Lewis J. Radonovich Jr., Matthew H. Samore, Kevin P. Fennelly

PLOS ONE Negative self-referential processing is associated with genetic variation in the serotonin transporter-linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR): Evidence from two independent studies

June 13, 2018 Justin Dainer-Best, Seth G. Disner, John E. McGeary, Bethany J. Hamilton, Christopher G. Beevers

PLOS ONE The VOICE study – A before and after study of a dementia communication skills training course

June 11, 2018 Rebecca O’Brien, Sarah. E. Goldberg, Alison Pilnick, Suzanne Beeke, Justine Schneider, Kate Sartain, Louise Thomson, Megan Murray, Bryn Baxendale, Rowan H. Harwood

PLOS Biology The bench is closer to the bedside than we think: Uncovering the ethical ties between preclinical researchers in translational neuroscience and patients in clinical trials

June 6, 2018 Mark Yarborough, Annelien Bredenoord, Flavio D’Abramo, Nanette C. Joyce, Jonathan Kimmelman, Ubaka Ogbogu, Emily Sena, Daniel Strech, Ulrich Dirnagl

PLOS ONE Disability and return to work after MRI on suspicion of scaphoid fracture: Influence of MRI pathology and occupational mechanical exposures

June 4, 2018 Lone Kirkeby, Poul Frost, Torben Bæk Hansen, Susanne Wulff Svendsen

PLOS ONE Addressing limitations of the Gait Variability Index to enhance its applicability: The enhanced GVI (EGVI)

June 1, 2018 Arnaud Gouelle, Linda Rennie, David J. Clark, Fabrice Mégrot, Chitralakshmi K. Balasubramanian

PLOS ONE A scoping review of biopsychosocial risk factors and co-morbidities for common spinal disorders

June 1, 2018 Bart N. Green, Claire D. Johnson, Scott Haldeman, Erin Griffith, Michael B. Clay, Edward J. Kane, Juan M. Castellote, Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran, Matthew Smuck, Eric L. Hurwitz, Kristi Randhawa, Hainan Yu, Margareta Nordin

PLOS ONE Lactobacillus plantarum reverse diabetes-induced Fmo3 and ICAM expression in mice through enteric dysbiosis-related c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase pathways

May 31, 2018 Wen-Chung Liu, Ming-Chieh Yang, Ying-Ying Wu, Pei-Hsuan Chen, Ching-Mei Hsu, Lee-Wei Chen

PLOS ONE Unexpected timely fracture union in matrix metalloproteinase 9 deficient mice

May 31, 2018 Masato Yuasa, Masanori Saito, Cesar Molina, Stephanie N. Moore-Lotridge, Michael A. Benvenuti, Nicholas A. Mignemi, Atsushi Okawa, Toshitaka Yoshii, Herbert S. Schwartz, Jeffry S. Nyman, Jonathan G. Schoenecker

PLOS ONE Neurotrophic factors and hippocampal activity in PTSD

May 25, 2018 Ümit Tural, Ahmet Tamer Aker, Emin Önder, Hatice Turan Sodan, Hatice Ünver, Gür Akansel

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Zika virus infection in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), 2015-2016

May 24, 2018 Patricia L. Schirmer, Aaron Wendelboe, Cynthia A. Lucero-Obusan, Russell A. Ryono, Mark A. Winters, Gina Oda, Mirsonia Martinez, Sonia Saavedra, Mark Holodniy

PLOS ONE Efficacy and safety of direct oral anticoagulants approved for cardiovascular indications: Systematic review and meta-analysis

May 24, 2018 Raghavendra Charan P. Makam, David C. Hoaglin, David D. McManus, Victoria Wang, Joel M. Gore, Frederick A. Spencer, Richeek Pradhan, Hoang Tran, Hong Yu, Robert J. Goldberg

PLOS ONE Predicting opioid receptor binding affinity of pharmacologically unclassified designer substances using molecular docking

May 24, 2018 Christopher R. Ellis, Naomi L. Kruhlak, Marlene T. Kim, Edward G. Hawkins, Lidiya Stavitskaya

PLOS ONE A network analysis of the propagation of evidence regarding the effectiveness of fat-controlled diets in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD): Selective citation in reviews

May 24, 2018 Rhodri Ivor Leng

PLOS ONE The importance of manager support for the mental health and well-being of ambulance personnel

May 23, 2018 Katherine Petrie, Aimée Gayed, Bridget T. Bryan, Mark Deady, Ira Madan, Anita Savic, Zoe Wooldridge, Isabelle Counson, Rafael A. Calvo, Nicholas Glozier, Samuel B. Harvey

PLOS ONE Core neurological examination items for neurology clerks: A modified Delphi study with a grass-roots approach

May 17, 2018 Chi-Hung Liu, Li-Ling Hsu, Cheng-Ting Hsiao, Suh-Ing Hsieh, Chun-Wei Chang, Elaine Shinwei Huang, Yeu-Jhy Chang

PLOS ONE Variables associated with sleep quality in chronic tension-type headache: A cross-sectional and longitudinal design

May 17, 2018 Elena Benito-González, Maria Palacios-Ceña, Juan J. Fernández-Muñoz, Matteo Castaldo, Kelun Wang, Antonella Catena, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

PLOS ONE Faster clinical response to the onset of adverse events: A wearable metacognitive attention aid for nurse triage of clinical alarms

May 16, 2018 Daniel C. McFarlane, Alexa K. Doig, James A. Agutter, Lara M. Brewer, Noah D. Syroid, Ranjeev Mittu

PLOS ONE Stopping the effective non-fluoroquinolone antibiotics at day 7 vs continuing until day 14 in adults with acute pyelonephritis requiring hospitalization: A randomized non-inferiority trial

May 16, 2018 Pavankumar Rudrabhatla, Jharna Mandal, Rathinam Palamalai Swaminathan, Tamilarasu Kadhiravan, Surendran Deepanjali

PLOS ONE A qualitative study of implementation and adaptations to Progressive Tinnitus Management (PTM) delivery

May 16, 2018 Anaïs Tuepker, Christine Elnitsky, Tara Zaugg, James A. Henry, Summer Newell

PLOS ONE Divergent humoral responses to 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in critically-ill burn and neurosurgical patients

May 14, 2018 Scott W. Mueller, Laura J. Baumgartner, Rob MacLaren, Robert Neumann, Arek J. Wiktor, Tyree H. Kiser, Gordon Lindberg, Luis Cava, Douglas N. Fish, Edward N. Janoff

PLOS ONE Multiple bacterial infections increase the risk of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis

May 10, 2018 Lan-Ting Yuan, Seng-Kee Chuah, Shih-Cheng Yang, Chih-Ming Liang, Cheng-Kun Wu, Wei-Chen Tai, Tsung-Hsing Hung, Seng-Howe Nguang, Jiunn-Wei Wang, Kuo-Lun Tseng, Ming-Kun Ku, Pin-I Hsu, Deng-Chyang Wu, Chien-Ning Hsu

PLOS ONE White matter hyperintensities and the mediating role of cerebral amyloid angiopathy in dominantly-inherited Alzheimer’s disease

May 9, 2018 Seonjoo Lee, Molly E. Zimmerman, Atul Narkhede, Sara E. Nasrabady, Giuseppe Tosto, Irene B. Meier, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, Daniel S. Marcus, Anne M. Fagan, Nick C. Fox, Nigel J. Cairns, David M. Holtzman, Virginia Buckles, Bernardino Ghetti, Eric McDade, Ralph N. Martins, Andrew J. Saykin, Colin L. Masters, John M. Ringman, Stefan Fӧrster, Peter R. Schofield, Reisa A. Sperling, Keith A. Johnson, Jasmeer P. Chhatwal, Stephen Salloway, Stephen Correia, Clifford R. Jack Jr, Michael Weiner, Randall J. Bateman, John C. Morris, Richard Mayeux, Adam M. Brickman, Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network

PLOS ONE Choosing emergency medicine: Influences on medical students’ choice of emergency medicine

May 9, 2018 John C. Ray, Laura R. Hopson, William Peterson, Sally A. Santen, Sorabh Khandelwal, Fiona E. Gallahue, Melissa White, John C. Burkhardt

PLOS ONE Sleep habits and strategies of ultramarathon runners

May 9, 2018 Tristan Martin, Pierrick J. Arnal, Martin D. Hoffman, Guillaume Y. Millet

PLOS ONE Tubulin and Tau: Possible targets for diagnosis of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases

May 9, 2018 Mohamed Salama, Ali Shalash, Alshimaa Magdy, Marianne Makar, Tamer Roushdy, Mahmoud Elbalkimy, Hanan Elrassas, Passent Elkafrawy, Wael Mohamed, Mohamed B. Abou Donia

PLOS ONE Repeated mild traumatic brain injury can cause acute neurologic impairment without overt structural damage in juvenile rats

May 8, 2018 Alicia Meconi, Ryan C. Wortman, David K. Wright, Katie J. Neale, Melissa Clarkson, Sandy R. Shultz, Brian R. Christie

PLOS ONE Associations between structure and function are different in healthy and glaucomatous eyes

May 3, 2018 Fang-I Chu, Iván Marín-Franch, Koosha Ramezani, Lyne Racette

PLOS ONE Enteral resuscitation with oral rehydration solution to reduce acute kidney injury in burn victims: Evidence from a porcine model

May 2, 2018 Belinda I. Gómez, Matthew K. McIntyre, Jennifer M. Gurney, Kevin K. Chung, Leopoldo C. Cancio, Michael A. Dubick, David M. Burmeister

PLOS ONE Is prevention better than cure? A systematic review of the effectiveness of well-being interventions for military personnel adjusting to civilian life

May 2, 2018 Andreas Bauer, Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Shannon Robalino, Jennifer Ferguson, Sarah Wigham

PLOS ONE The Complementary Health Approaches for Pain Survey (CHAPS): Validity testing and characteristics of a rural population with pain

May 2, 2018 Termeh Feinberg, Dina L. Jones, Christa Lilly, Amna Umer, Kim Innes

PLOS ONE Mild cognitive dysfunction of caregivers and its association with care recipients’ end-of-life plans and preferences

April 30, 2018 Keiko Kurita, Mark S. Lachs, Ronald D. Adelman, Eugenia L. Siegler, M. Cary Reid, Holly G. Prigerson

PLOS ONE Predictors for patients understanding reason for hospitalization

April 27, 2018 Himali Weerahandi, Boback Ziaeian, Robert L. Fogerty, Grace Y. Jenq, Leora I. Horwitz

PLOS ONE The psychometric properties of the 10-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) in Canadian military personnel

April 26, 2018 Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga, Mark A. Zamorski, Ian Colman

PLOS ONE The psychometric properties of the 10-item Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) in Canadian military personnel

April 26, 2018 Hugues Sampasa-Kanyinga, Mark A. Zamorski, Ian Colman

PLOS ONE Differences in vaping topography in relation to adherence to exclusive electronic cigarette use in veterans

April 25, 2018 Andrea Guerrero-Cignarella, Landy V. Luna Diaz, Kira Balestrini, Gregory Holt, Mehdi Mirsaeidi, Rafael Calderon-Candelario, Philip Whitney, Matthias Salathe, Michael A. Campos

PLOS ONE Development and validation of a dementia screening tool for primary care in Taiwan: Brain Health Test

April 25, 2018 Ping-Huang Tsai, Jian-Liang Liu, Ker-Neng Lin, Chiung-Chih Chang, Ming-Chyi Pai, Wen-Fu Wang, Jen-Ping Huang, Tzung-Jeng Hwang, Pei-Ning Wang

PLOS ONE Medication burden attributable to chronic co-morbid conditions in the very old and vulnerable

April 23, 2018 Kelly L. Moore, Kanan Patel, W. John Boscardin, Michael A. Steinman, Christine Ritchie, Janice B. Schwartz

PLOS ONE Plasma metabolomic biomarkers accurately classify acute mild traumatic brain injury from controls

April 20, 2018 Massimo S. Fiandaca, Mark Mapstone, Amin Mahmoodi, Thomas Gross, Fabio Macciardi, Amrita K. Cheema, Kian Merchant-Borna, Jeffrey Bazarian, Howard J. Federoff

PLOS ONE Costs and effectiveness of pharmacist-led group medical visits for type-2 diabetes: A multi-center randomized controlled trial

April 19, 2018 Wen-Chih Wu, Tracey H. Taveira, Sean Jeffery, Lan Jiang, Lisa Tokuda, Joanna Musial, Lisa B. Cohen, Fred Uhrle

PLOS ONE Mapping the knowledge structure of frailty in journal articles by text network analysis

April 19, 2018 Youngji Kim, Soong-nang Jang

PLOS ONE Lower serum IgA is associated with COPD exacerbation risk in SPIROMICS

April 12, 2018 Nirupama Putcha, Gabriel G. Paul, Antoine Azar, Robert A. Wise, Wanda K. O’Neal, Mark T. Dransfield, Prescott G. Woodruff, Jeffrey L. Curtis, Alejandro P. Comellas, M. Bradley Drummond, Allison A. Lambert, Laura M. Paulin, Ashraf Fawzy, Richard E. Kanner, Robert Paine III, MeiLan K. Han, Fernando J. Martinez, Russell P. Bowler, R. Graham Barr, Nadia N. Hansel, for the SPIROMICS investigators

PLOS ONE Information presentation through a head-worn display (“smart glasses”) has a smaller influence on the temporal structure of gait variability during dual-task gait compared to handheld displays (paper-based system and smartphone)

April 9, 2018 Alireza Sedighi, Sophia M. Ulman, Maury A. Nussbaum

PLOS ONE Prevalence and risk factors of sexually transmitted infections among French service members

April 2, 2018 Sandrine Duron, Henri Panjo, Aline Bohet, Christine Bigaillon, Sébastien Sicard, Nathalie Bajos, Jean-Baptiste Meynard, Audrey Mérens, Caroline Moreau

PLOS ONE Using support vector machines on photoplethysmographic signals to discriminate between hypovolemia and euvolemia

March 29, 2018 Natasa Reljin, Gary Zimmer, Yelena Malyuta, Kirk Shelley, Yitzhak Mendelson, David J. Blehar, Chad E. Darling, Ki H. Chon

PLOS ONE Effects of pharmacologic sclerostin inhibition or testosterone administration on soleus muscle atrophy in rodents after spinal cord injury

March 26, 2018 Ean G. Phillips, Luke A. Beggs, Fan Ye, Christine F. Conover, Darren T. Beck, Dana M. Otzel, Payal Ghosh, Anna C. F. Bassit, Stephen E. Borst, Joshua F. Yarrow

PLOS ONE Thoracic dysfunction in whiplash associated disorders: A systematic review

March 23, 2018 Nicola R. Heneghan, Richard Smith, Isaak Tyros, Deborah Falla, Alison Rushton

PLOS ONE Leading causes of cardiovascular hospitalization in 8.45 million US veterans

March 22, 2018 Nirupama Krishnamurthi, Joseph Francis, Stephan D. Fihn, Craig S. Meyer, Mary A. Whooley

PLOS ONE MicroRNA expression in serum samples of sulfur mustard veterans as a diagnostic gateway to improve care

March 22, 2018 Sedigheh Gharbi, Shahriar Khateri, Mohammad Reza Soroush, Mehdi Shamsara, Parisa Naeli, Ali Najafi, Seyed Javad Mowla, Eberhard Korsching

PLOS ONE Risk factors for cardiopulmonary and respiratory arrest in medical and surgical hospital patients on opioid analgesics and sedatives

March 22, 2018 Igor Izrailtyan, Jiejing Qiu, Frank J. Overdyk, Mary Erslon, Tong J. Gan

PLOS ONE Risk prediction for Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection following cardiothoracic surgery; A secondary analysis of the V710-P003 trial

March 21, 2018 Fleur P. Paling, Karina Olsen, Kristin Ohneberg, Martin Wolkewitz, Vance G. Fowler Jr., Mark J. DiNubile, Hasan S. Jafri, Frangiscos Sifakis, Marc J. M. Bonten, Stephan J. Harbarth, Jan A. J. W. Kluytmans

PLOS ONE A risk-model for hospital mortality among patients with severe sepsis or septic shock based on German national administrative claims data

March 20, 2018 Daniel Schwarzkopf, Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek, Hendrik Rüddel, Konrad Reinhart, Daniel O. Thomas-Rüddel

PLOS ONE Do blast induced skull flexures result in axonal deformation?

March 16, 2018 Harsha T. Garimella, Reuben H. Kraft, Andrzej J. Przekwas

PLOS ONE Time-dependent analysis of dosage delivery information for patient-controlled analgesia services

March 15, 2018 I-Ting Kuo, Kuang-Yi Chang, De-Fong Juan, Steen J. Hsu, Chia-Tai Chan, Mei-Yung Tsou

PLOS ONE Effects of ^99mTc-TRODAT-1 drug template on image quantitative analysis

March 15, 2018 Cheng-Han Wu, Bang-Hung Yang, Yuan-Hwa Chou, Shyh-Jen Wang, Jyh-Cheng Chen

PLOS ONE Characteristics and risk factors for inconsistency between the risk of exacerbations and the severity of airflow limitation in COPD based on GOLD 2017: A retrospective, cross-sectional study

March 12, 2018 Wei-Chang Huang, Ming-Feng Wu, Hui-Chen Chen, Jeng-Yuan Hsu, on behalf of The Taiwan Obstructive Lung Disease Consortium

PLOS ONE Metabolic syndrome is associated with incidence of deep cerebral microbleeds

March 8, 2018 Shingo Mitaki, Hiroyuki Takayoshi, Tomonori Nakagawa, Atsushi Nagai, Hiroaki Oguro, Shuhei Yamaguchi

PLOS ONE Short term dynamics of the sputum microbiome among COPD patients

March 8, 2018 Rohita Sinha, Lisa A. Weissenburger-Moser, Jennifer L. Clarke, Lynette M. Smith, Art J. Heires, Debra J. Romberger, Tricia D. LeVan

PLOS ONE Augmented frontal cortex diacylglycerol levels in Parkinson’s disease and Lewy Body Disease

March 7, 2018 Paul L. Wood, Soumya Tippireddy, Joshua Feriante, Randall L. Woltjer

PLOS ONE Individual differences in regulatory mode moderate the effectiveness of a pilot mHealth trial for diabetes management among older veterans

March 7, 2018 Michelle Dugas, Kenyon Crowley, Guodong Gordon Gao, Timothy Xu, Ritu Agarwal, Arie W. Kruglanski, Nanette Steinle

PLOS ONE A search algorithm for identifying likely users and non-users of marijuana from the free text of the electronic medical record

March 6, 2018 Salomeh Keyhani, Marzieh Vali, Beth Cohen, Alexandra Woodbridge, Melanie Arenson, Elnaz Eilkhani, Christina Aivadyan, Deborah Hasin

PLOS ONE The rocky road to prosocial behavior at work: The role of positivity and organizational socialization in preventing interpersonal strain

March 1, 2018 Stefano Livi, Annalisa Theodorou, Marika Rullo, Luigi Cinque, Guido Alessandri

PLOS ONE Reversals and limitations on high-intensity, life-sustaining treatments

February 28, 2018 Gustavo Chavez, Ilana B. Richman, Rajani Kaimal, Jason Bentley, Lee Ann Yasukawa, Russ B. Altman, Vyjeyanthi S. Periyakoil, Jonathan H. Chen

PLOS ONE Time course of blast-induced injury in the rat auditory cortex

February 28, 2018 Srinivasu Kallakuri, Edward Pace, Huichao Lu, Hao Luo, John Cavanaugh, Jinsheng Zhang

PLOS ONE Validation of the Spanish version of the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia Scale for older people with dementia

February 27, 2018 María Carmen Saucedo Figueredo, Juan Carlos Morilla Herrera, Mercedes San Alberto Giraldos, Inmaculada López Leiva, Álvaro León Campos, Celia Martí García, Silvia García Mayor, Shakira Kaknani Uttumchandani, José Miguel Morales Asencio

PLOS ONE Validation of the portable Air-Smart Spirometer

February 23, 2018 Cristina Ramos Hernández, Marta Núñez Fernández, Abel Pallares Sanmartín, Cecilia Mouronte Roibas, Luz Cerdeira Domínguez, Maria Isabel Botana Rial, Nagore Blanco Cid, Alberto Fernández Villar

PLOS ONE Intracellular amyloid beta expression leads to dysregulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase and bone morphogenetic protein-2 signaling axis

February 22, 2018 Eric Cruz, Sushil Kumar, Li Yuan, Jyothi Arikkath, Surinder K. Batra

PLOS ONE Self-compassion moderates the perfectionism and depression link in both adolescence and adulthood

February 21, 2018 Madeleine Ferrari, Keong Yap, Nicole Scott, Danielle A. Einstein, Joseph Ciarrochi

PLOS ONE Understanding the psychiatric effects of concussion on constructed identity in hockey players: Implications for health professionals

February 21, 2018 Ryan Todd, Shree Bhalerao, Michael T. Vu, Sophie Soklaridis, Michael D. Cusimano

PLOS ONE Notch signaling inhibitor DAPT provides protection against acute craniocerebral injury

February 15, 2018 Hong-Mei Zhang, Pei Liu, Cheng Jiang, Xiao-Qing Jin, Rui-Ning Liu, Shun-Qing Li, Yan Zhao

PLOS ONE Combined impairments in vision, hearing and cognition are associated with greater levels of functional and communication difficulties than cognitive impairment alone: Analysis of interRAI data for home care and long-term care recipients in Ontario

February 15, 2018 Dawn M. Guthrie, Jacob G. S. Davidson, Nicole Williams, Jennifer Campos, Kathleen Hunter, Paul Mick, Joseph B. Orange, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, Natalie A. Phillips, Marie Y. Savundranayagam, Walter Wittich

PLOS ONE Head movements and postures as pain behavior

February 14, 2018 Philipp Werner, Ayoub Al-Hamadi, Kerstin Limbrecht-Ecklundt, Steffen Walter, Harald C. Traue

PLOS ONE Motor and psychosocial impact of robot-assisted gait training in a real-world rehabilitation setting: A pilot study

February 14, 2018 Cira Fundarò, Anna Giardini, Roberto Maestri, Silvia Traversoni, Michelangelo Bartolo, Roberto Casale

PLOS ONE Evidence of chronic kidney disease in veterans with incident diabetes mellitus

February 9, 2018 Justin Gatwood, Marie Chisholm-Burns, Robert Davis, Fridtjof Thomas, Praveen Potukuchi, Adriana Hung, Csaba P. Kovesdy

PLOS ONE How many strides are required for a reliable estimation of temporal gait parameters? Implementation of a new algorithm on the phase coordination index

February 8, 2018 Lotem Kribus-Shmiel, Gabi Zeilig, Boris Sokolovski, Meir Plotnik

PLOS ONE Positive age beliefs protect against dementia even among elders with high-risk gene

February 7, 2018 Becca R. Levy, Martin D. Slade, Robert H. Pietrzak, Luigi Ferrucci

PLOS ONE Integration of neural and epigenetic contributions to posttraumatic stress symptoms: The role of hippocampal volume and glucocorticoid receptor gene methylation

February 7, 2018 M. Windy McNerney, Tong Sheng, Jordan M. Nechvatal, Alex G. Lee, David M. Lyons, Salil Soman, Chun-Ping Liao, Ruth O’Hara, Joachim Hallmayer, Joy Taylor, J. Wesson Ashford, Jerome Yesavage, Maheen M. Adamson

PLOS ONE Buttock tissue response to loading in men with spinal cord injury

February 7, 2018 Sharon Eve Sonenblum, Stephen H. Sprigle

PLOS ONE Shared trauma reality in war: Mental health therapists’ experience

February 6, 2018 Sara A. Freedman, Rivka Tuval Mashiach

PLOS ONE Examining the short-term anxiolytic and antidepressant effect of Floatation-REST

February 2, 2018 Justin S. Feinstein, Sahib S. Khalsa, Hung-wen Yeh, Colleen Wohlrab, W. Kyle Simmons, Murray B. Stein, Martin P. Paulus

PLOS ONE The effects of anxiety and external attentional focus on postural control in patients with Parkinson’s disease

February 1, 2018 Seyede Zohreh Jazaeri, Akram Azad, Hajar Mehdizadeh, Seyed Amirhassan Habibi, Mahbubeh Mandehgary Najafabadi, Zakieh Sadat Saberi, Hawre Rahimzadegan, Saeed Moradi, Saeed Behzadipour, Mohamad Parnianpour, Ghorban Taghizadeh, Kinda Khalaf

PLOS ONE Depression in Parkinson’s disease: A case-control study

February 1, 2018 Yu-Hsuan Wu, Yi-Huei Chen, Ming-Hong Chang, Ching-Heng Lin

PLOS ONE Improvements in bladder, bowel and sexual outcomes following task-specific locomotor training in human spinal cord injury

January 31, 2018 Charles H. Hubscher, April N. Herrity, Carolyn S. Williams, Lynnette R. Montgomery, Andrea M. Willhite, Claudia A. Angeli, Susan J. Harkema

PLOS ONE Population-based cohort study of the impacts of mild traumatic brain injury in adults four years post-injury

January 31, 2018 Alice Theadom, Nicola Starkey, Suzanne Barker-Collo, Kelly Jones, Shanthi Ameratunga, Valery Feigin, on behalf of the BIONIC4you Research Group

PLOS Medicine Traumatic brain injury and the risk of dementia diagnosis: A nationwide cohort study

January 30, 2018 Anna Nordström, Peter Nordström

PLOS ONE Assessing the integrity of the cognitive processes involved in belief reasoning by means of two nonverbal tasks: Rationale, normative data collection and illustration with brain-damaged patients

January 30, 2018 Aurélie Biervoye, Gaëlle Meert, Ian A. Apperly, Dana Samson

PLOS ONE Validation of the Perceived Stigmatization Questionnaire for Brazilian adult burn patients

January 30, 2018 Noélle de Oliveira Freitas, Carlos García Forero, Marina Paes Caltran, Jordi Alonso, Rosana A. Spadoti Dantas, Monica Sarto Piccolo, Jayme Adriano Farina Jr, John W. Lawrence, Lidia A. Rossi

PLOS ONE Clinical prediction models for mortality and functional outcome following ischemic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis

January 29, 2018 Marion Fahey, Elise Crayton, Charles Wolfe, Abdel Douiri

PLOS ONE Facebook as communication support for persons with potential mild acquired cognitive impairment: A content and social network analysis study

January 29, 2018 Aboozar Eghdam, Ulrika Hamidi, Aniko Bartfai, Sabine Koch

PLOS ONE Sensorimotor adaptation of voice fundamental frequency in Parkinson’s disease

January 26, 2018 Defne Abur, Rosemary A. Lester-Smith, Ayoub Daliri, Ashling A. Lupiani, Frank H. Guenther, Cara E. Stepp

PLOS ONE Location, number and factors associated with cerebral microbleeds in an Italian-British cohort of CADASIL patients

January 25, 2018 Serena Nannucci, Valentina Rinnoci, Giovanni Pracucci, Andrew D. MacKinnon, Francesca Pescini, Poneh Adib-Samii, Silvia Bianchi, Maria Teresa Dotti, Antonio Federico, Domenico Inzitari, Hugh S. Markus, Leonardo Pantoni

PLOS ONE Mobile tablet-based therapies following stroke: A systematic scoping review of administrative methods and patient experiences

January 23, 2018 Michael Pugliese, Tim Ramsay, Dylan Johnson, Dar Dowlatshahi

PLOS ONE Patterns of zolpidem use among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans: A retrospective cohort analysis

January 23, 2018 Ramona Shayegani, Kangwon Song, Megan E. Amuan, Carlos A. Jaramillo, Blessen C. Eapen, Mary Jo Pugh

PLOS ONE Effects of a psychological intervention programme on mental stress, coping style and immune function in percutaneous coronary intervention patients

January 22, 2018 Xiaoying Shen, Xuemei Zhu, Yanni Wu, Yuqiu Zhou, Li Yang, Yini Wang, Qiulan Zheng, Yinghui Liu, Shen Cong, Ningning Xiao, Qiuli Zhao

PLOS ONE Influence of early stress on memory reconsolidation: Implications for post-traumatic stress disorder treatment

January 19, 2018 Hélène Villain, Aïcha Benkahoul, Philippe Birmes, Barbara Ferry, Pascal Roullet

PLOS ONE How do the outcomes of the DEKA Arm compare to conventional prostheses?

January 17, 2018 Linda J. Resnik, Matthew L. Borgia, Frantzy Acluche, Jill M. Cancio, Gail Latlief, Nicole Sasson

PLOS ONE Biofeedback effect of hybrid assistive limb in stroke rehabilitation: A proof of concept study using functional near infrared spectroscopy

January 16, 2018 Kazuya Saita, Takashi Morishita, Hisatomi Arima, Koichi Hyakutake, Toshiyasu Ogata, Kenji Yagi, Etsuji Shiota, Tooru Inoue

PLOS ONE Bilateral changes in afterhyperpolarization duration of spinal motoneurones in post-stroke patients

January 16, 2018 Bożenna Kuraszkiewicz, Jia-Jin Jason Chen, Hanna Goszczyńska, Yu-Lin Wang, Maria Piotrkiewicz

PLOS ONE Is the proportional recovery rule applicable to the lower limb after a first-ever ischemic stroke?

January 12, 2018 Janne M. Veerbeek, Caroline Winters, Erwin E. H. van Wegen, Gert Kwakkel

PLOS ONE Impact of grouping complications on mortality in traumatic brain injury: A nationwide population-based study

January 11, 2018 Chung-Han Ho, Fu-Wen Liang, Jhi-Joung Wang, Chung-Ching Chio, Jinn-Rung Kuo

PLOS ONE Activation of biceps femoris long head reduces tibiofemoral anterior shear force and tibial internal rotation torque in healthy subjects

January 5, 2018 Nur Liyana Azmi, Ziyun Ding, Rui Xu, Anthony M. J. Bull

PLOS ONE Associations between self-reported lifetime history of traumatic brain injuries and current disability assessment in a population sample of Canadian adults

January 5, 2018 Gabriela Ilie, Edward M. Adlaf, Robert E. Mann, Anca Ialomiteanu, Hayley Hamilton, Jürgen Rehm, Mark Asbridge, Michael D. Cusimano

PLOS ONE Firefighters, posttraumatic stress disorder, and barriers to treatment: Results from a nationwide total population survey

January 5, 2018 Jieun E. Kim, Stephen R. Dager, Hyeonseok S. Jeong, Jiyoung Ma, Shinwon Park, Jungyoon Kim, Yera Choi, Suji L. Lee, Ilhyang Kang, Eunji Ha, Han Byul Cho, Sunho Lee, Eui-Jung Kim, Sujung Yoon, In Kyoon Lyoo

PLOS ONE Intravenously delivered mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosomes target M2-type macrophages in the injured spinal cord

January 2, 2018 Karen L. Lankford, Edgardo J. Arroyo, Katarzyna Nazimek, Krzysztof Bryniarski, Philip W. Askenase, Jeffery D. Kocsis

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