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Environ Int 2022 Jun 16;166:107355. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, PR China.

Nitropolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs) present one of the most important airborne pollutants. Recent studies have shown that one of the most abundant NPAHs, 2-Nitrofluorene (NF), was supposed to be converted to endocrine-disrupting metabolites by cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) in human cells. However, the mechanism is still largely unexplored. Read More

Neuropsychopharmacol Rep 2022 Jun 25. Epub 2022 Jun 25.

Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Hirosaki-Aiseikai Hospital, Hirosaki-shi, Aomori, Japan.

Color-blindness, or more accurately, color vision deficiency (CVD), which is the inability or decreased ability to distinguish different colors, is one of the commonest visual disorders. Patients with schizophrenia usually have multiple types of visual processing impairments, including color vision impairments. Here, we present a case of schizophrenia with congenital CVD. Read More

Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry 2022 Jun 24:13591045221110730. Epub 2022 Jun 24.

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 12310Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

Research on the relationship between sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) and scores on neuropsychological tests (such as those measuring processing speed and reaction time) is inconclusive, and the association between SCT and motor incoordination and dysgraphia has not been objectively investigated. Mothers of 413 elementary school children (6-12 years of age) rated their children on the Pediatric Behavior Scale (PBS), which yields psychological problem scores, including SCT. Children were administered an extensive battery of neuropsychological tests assessing processing and performance speed, working memory, immediate and delayed recall, sustained attention, response inhibition, cognitive flexibility, fine motor manipulative skill, verbal fluency and retrieval, set shifting, and interference control, as well as intelligence and reading and math achievement. Read More

Br J Dev Psychol 2022 Jun 24. Epub 2022 Jun 24.

T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.

Promoting prosocial behaviour towards those who are dissimilar from oneself is an urgent contemporary issue. Because children spend much time in same-gender relationships, promoting other-gender prosociality could help them develop more inclusive relationships. Our goals were to better understand the development of school-age children's intergroup prosocial behavior and the extent to which elementary school-age children consider their own and the recipient's gender in prosocial behaviour. Read More

Child Adolesc Ment Health 2022 Jun 24. Epub 2022 Jun 24.

Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Background: School-based physical activity (PA) programmes such as The Daily Mile (TDM) are widely promoted to address shortfalls in meeting PA recommendations. This study is the first to examine TDM (a daily one mile outdoor run/walk performed at a self-selected pace during school hours) on mental health, self-esteem and self-perceived competence of elementary schoolchildren.

Methods: In total, 550 children (n = 289 boys, aged 5-13 years) were recruited from seven schools across Flanders. Read More