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Dev Cogn Neurosci 2021 Apr 3;48:100951. Epub 2021 Apr 3.

Department of Radiology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary, Canada.

Cognitive and functional brain alterations can occur in children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). We examined the functional connectivity (FC) among regions within and between attention networks, and whether inter- and intranetwork FC moderated cognition in children with PAE (n = 37; age 12.8 ± 2. Read More

Brain Cogn 2021 Apr 7;150:105727. Epub 2021 Apr 7.

Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, United States.

Background: When performing the clock-drawing test healthy participants often draw the clock face using a counter clockwise movement. The reason for this circular directional bias is not known. These actions may be related to the development of motor or attentional programs that associate leftward with downward movements, and rightward with upward movements. Read More

J Health Econ 2021 Feb 16;77:102423. Epub 2021 Feb 16.

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and NBER, United States.

Prices negotiated between payers and providers affect a health insurance contract's value via enrollees' cost-sharing and self-insured employers' costs. However, price variation across payers is difficult to observe. We measure negotiated prices for hospital-payer pairs in Massachusetts and characterize price variation. Read More

Epidemics 2021 Mar 24;35:100456. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Department of Mathematics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA.

Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) is the most reported sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with a major cause of infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease, and ectopic pregnancy among women. Despite decades of screening women for Ct, rates increase among young African Americans (AA). We create and analyze a heterosexual agent-based network model to help understand the spread of Ct. Read More

Addict Behav 2021 Mar 26;119:106922. Epub 2021 Mar 26.

Rowan University, United States. Electronic address:

Despite a large body of work exploring associations between perceived norms and drinking and norms-based interventions for drinking, less work has examined moderators of associations between norms and drinking outcomes to determine potential sub-groups that might benefit most from brief norms-based interventions. The present study investigates shyness as a moderator of associations between drinking norms and alcohol use. We hypothesized that shyness would moderate associations between drinking norms and alcohol use such that individuals who are higher in shyness might be more sensitive to social influence and thus show stronger associations between drinking norms and alcohol use. Read More