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Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview

Description: This article explores the relationship between smoking cessation interventions and suicidality and explore common treatments, their associated risks, and effectiveness in promoting smoking reduction and abstinence.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: Penberthy, J. Kim; Penberthy, J. Morgan; Harris, Marcus R.; Nanda, Sonali; Ahn, Jennifer; Martinez, Caridad Ponce et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Arsenic exposure, AS3MT polymorphism, and neuropsychological functioning among rural dwelling adults and elders: a cross-sectional study

Description: This article aims to examine the link between low-level arsenic exposure and cognitive functioning, and the potential role of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP A35991G, rs10748835) of the AS3MT gene in modifying this link.
Date: March 12, 2014
Creator: Edwards, Melissa; Hall, James R.; Gong, Gordon & O'Bryant, Sid E.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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The assumption of a reliable instrument and other pitfalls to avoid when considering the reliability of data

Description: This article helps researchers avoid common pitfalls associated with reliability including incorrectly assuming that measurement error always attenuates observed score correlations, different sources of measurement error originate from the same source, and reliability is a function of instrumentation.
Date: April 12, 2012
Creator: Nimon, Kim F.; Zientek, Linda Reichwein & Henson, Robin K.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Blood-Based Biomarkers: A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

Description: This article describes the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an Alzheimer's disease blood screen.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

Description: Article describes study examining the positive and negative predictive values of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood test if implemented in primary care.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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The construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population

Description: This article tests the four-factor model of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised empirical construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population by using instruments that supply different types of data.
Date: October 2, 2014
Creator: León Mayer, Elizabeth; Folino, Jorge O.; Neumann, Craig S. & Hare, Robert D.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Content Analysis of Expressive Writing Narratives About Stressful Relational Events Using Interpersonal Decentering

Description: Article from a study completed using secondary analysis of data from two studies of expressive writing about stressful relational events to first describe the relations of word use to social-cognitive maturity of role-taking using Feffer’s Interpersonal Decentering scoring system and then to test hypotheses about active processing of relational information versus event closure. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published article.
Date: March 4, 2013
Creator: Jenkins, Sharon Rae; Austin, Heather L. & Boals, Adriel
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360°

Description: This article's aim was to compare the efficiency of the Picture Interpretation Test 360° (PIT 360°) with traditional measures on executive dysfunction in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) and Healthy Controls (HC). Overall, the PIT 360° was concluded to be a quick, sensitive, and ecological tool that captures real-world executive dysfunction in PwMS. This engaging measure is sensitive for the detection of executive deficits since the early phases of the disease.
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Realdon, Olivia; Serino, Silvia; Savazzi, Federica; Rossetto, Federica; Cipresso, Pietro; Parsons, Thomas D. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Evaluating player task engagement and arousal using electroencephalography

Description: This paper from the 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics and the Affiliated Conference, AHFE 2015 conference proceedings coordinate task engagement data with arousal-valence data for application to expressive transformations to video game play in real time by tuning different performance parameters in an Engagement-Arousal rule system.
Date: October 23, 2015
Creator: McMahan, Timothy; Parberry, Ian & Parsons, Thomas D.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Fearful Faces do Not Lead to Faster Attentional Deployment in Individuals with Elevated Psychopathic Traits

Description: This article discusses a gaze-cueing experiment in which the predictivity of a gaze-cue was manipulated to assess the degree to which individuals with elevated psychopathic traits can use contextual information.
Date: June 30, 2017
Creator: Hoppenbrouwers, Sylvo S.; Munneke, Jaap; Kooiman, Karen A.; Little, Bethany; Neumann, Craig S. & Theeuwes, Jan
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Guidelines for the standardization of preanalytic variables for blood‐based biomarker studies in Alzheimer's disease research

Description: Review article which provides (1) a synopsis of selected preanalytical methods utilized in many international AD cohort studies, (2) initial draft guidelines/SOPs for preanalytical methods, and (3) a list of required methodological information and protocols to be made available for publications in the field to foster cross‐validation across cohorts and laboratories.
Date: September 30, 2014
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Gupta, Veer; Henriksen, Kim; Edwards, Melissa; Jeromin, Andreas; Lista, Simone et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Hemisphere-specific effects of prefrontal theta-burst stimulation on visual recognition memory accuracy and awareness

Description: Article describes study seeking to determine if theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS) to prefrontal cortex modulates visual memory accuracy, visual memory awareness, or both, and whether these effects depend on brain hemisphere.
Date: January 6, 2019
Creator: Carbajal, Ivan; O'Neil, Jonathan T.; Palumbo, Robert T.; Voss, Joel L. & Ryals, Anthony J.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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The Impact of Mental Aerobics Training on Older Adults

Description: This article investigates the impact of mental aerobics on older adults. Findings support the conclusion that MA can be an effective intervention in improving older adults’ affectivity, everyday task self-efficacy, and self-rated health.
Date: May 1, 2015
Creator: Hayslip, Bert; Paggi, Kay & Caballero, Daniela
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Inverted Social Reward: Associations between Psychopathic Traits and Self-Report and Experimental Measures of Social Reward

Description: This article describes two studies of individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits. Study 1 explores what aspects of social reward are associated with psychopathic traits, and Study 2 administers these measures to a new group of participants along with two experimental tasks investigating monetary and social reward value.
Date: August 27, 2014
Creator: Foulkes, Lucy; McCrory, Eamon J.; Neumann, Craig S. & Viding, Essi
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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