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J Oral Rehabil 2021 Feb 14;48(2):183-194. Epub 2020 Dec 14.

Department of Physical Therapy, Congdon School of Health Sciences, High Point University, High Point, NC, USA.

Background: Painful temporomandibular (TM) disorders result in 4.3 billion dollars spent annually in the United States. The complex interplay of physiological processes in persistent pain and dysfunctional sleep has been established. Read More

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2020 07;2020:5402-5405

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex, multi-system autoimmune disease of unclear etiology that causes significant morbidity and, in severely affected patients, early mortality. Despite efforts from academic and private research entities, pharmaceutical companies, and patient advocacy groups, and hundreds of millions of dollars in spending, numerous gaps in care still exist. A digital therapeutic platform is described that uses self-tracking technology, analytics, and telehealth coaching to identify and remove possible dietary and/or other lifestyle triggers of SLE. Read More

PLoS One 2020 30;15(6):e0235253. Epub 2020 Jun 30.

Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Killing people is universally considered reprehensible and evokes in observers a need to punish perpetrators. Here, we explored how observers' personality is associated with their cognitive, emotional, and punishing reactions towards perpetrators using data from 1,004 participants who responded to a set of fifteen third-party perspective moral dilemmas. Among those, four scenarios (architect, life boat, footbridge, smother for dollars) describing deliberate killings were compared to investigate the role of the content features "motive for killing" (selfish vs. Read More

Can J Cardiol 2020 Aug 30;36(8):1194-1195. Epub 2019 Dec 30.

Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address: