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

PLOS ONE Diagnostic outcomes of exome sequencing in patients with syndromic or non-syndromic hearing loss

January 2, 2018 Tina Likar, Mensuda Hasanhodžić, Nataša Teran, Aleš Maver, Borut Peterlin, Karin Writzl

PLOS ONE The impact of pre-existing anxiety on affective and cognitive processing of a Virtual Reality analogue trauma

December 29, 2017 Tina Schweizer, Julian Schmitz, Laura Plempe, Dali Sun, Christian Becker-Asano, Rainer Leonhart, Brunna Tuschen-Caffier

PLOS ONE Handwriting training in Parkinson’s disease: A trade-off between size, speed and fluency

December 22, 2017 Evelien Nackaerts, Sanne Broeder, Marcelo P. Pereira, Stephan P. Swinnen, Wim Vandenberghe, Alice Nieuwboer, Elke Heremans

PLOS ONE The performance of stroke survivors in turning-while-walking while carrying out a concurrent cognitive task compared with controls

December 22, 2017 Wing-nga Chan, William Wai-nam Tsang

PLOS ONE Robotic exoskeleton assessment of transient ischemic attack

December 22, 2017 Leif Simmatis, Jonathan Krett, Stephen H. Scott, Albert Y. Jin

PLOS ONE Management of intracranial hemorrhage in adult patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): An observational cohort study

December 21, 2017 Alexander Fletcher-Sandersjöö, Eric Peter Thelin, Jiri Bartek Jr., Adrian Elmi-Terander, Mikael Broman, Bo-Michael Bellander

PLOS ONE Intensive care treatments associated with favorable discharge outcomes in Argentine children with severe traumatic brain injury: For the South American Guideline Adherence Group

December 15, 2017 Monica S. Vavilala, Silvia B. Lujan, Qian Qiu, Michael J. Bell, Nicolás M. Ballarini, Nahuel Guadagnoli, María Alejandra Depetris, Gabriela A. Faguaga, Gloria M. Baggio, Leonardo O. Busso, Mirta E. García, Osvaldo R. González Carrillo, Paula L. Medici, Silvia S. Sáenz, Elida E. Vanella, Carly K. Farr, Gustavo J. Petroni

PLOS ONE Treatment with albumin-hydroxyoleic acid complex restores sensorimotor function in rats with spinal cord injury: Efficacy and gene expression regulation

December 15, 2017 Gerardo Avila-Martin, Manuel Mata-Roig, Iriana Galán-Arriero, Julian S. Taylor, Xavier Busquets, Pablo V. Escribá

PLOS ONE Individual preferences for physical exercise as secondary prevention for non-specific low back pain: A discrete choice experiment

December 15, 2017 Emmanuel Aboagye, Jan Hagberg, Iben Axén, Lydia Kwak, Malin Lohela-Karlsson, Eva Skillgate, Gunilla Dahlgren, Irene Jensen

PLOS ONE Remote ischemic preconditioning attenuates cardiopulmonary bypass-induced lung injury

December 12, 2017 Xiaona Zhou, Runzhu Jiang, Yucai Dong, Lifeng Wang

PLOS ONE Back and neck pain and function in females with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: A follow-up at least 23 years after conservative treatment with a Milwaukee brace

December 11, 2017 Ewa Misterska, Jakub Głowacki, Adam Okręt, Maria Laurentowska, Maciej Głowacki

PLOS ONE Adults with patellofemoral pain do not exhibit manifestations of peripheral and central sensitization when compared to healthy pain-free age and sex matched controls – An assessor blinded cross-sectional study

December 8, 2017 Michael Skovdal Rathleff, Camilla Rams Rathleff, Aoife Stephenson, Rebecca Mellor, Mark Matthews, Kay Crossley, Bill Vicenzino

PLOS ONE Does cognitive impairment impact adherence? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between cognitive impairment and medication non-adherence in stroke

December 8, 2017 Daniela Rohde, Niamh A. Merriman, Frank Doyle, Kathleen Bennett, David Williams, Anne Hickey

PLOS ONE The Back Belief Questionnaire is efficient to assess false beliefs and related fear in low back pain populations: A transcultural adaptation and validation study

December 6, 2017 Arnaud Dupeyron, Charlotte Lanhers, Sophie Bastide, Sandrine Alonso, Matthias Toulotte, Claire Jourdan, Emmanuel Coudeyre

PLOS ONE Comparison of construct validity of two short forms of Stroke-Specific Quality of Life scale

December 6, 2017 Chia-Yeh Chou, Chien-Yu Huang, Yi-Jing Huang, Gong-Hong Lin, Sheau-Ling Huang, Shu-Chun Lee, Ching-Lin Hsieh

PLOS ONE Arm rehabilitation in post stroke subjects: A randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of myoelectrically driven FES applied in a task-oriented approach

December 4, 2017 Johanna Jonsdottir, Irene Aprile, Silvia Galeri, Giovanna Spannocchi, Ettore Beghi, Elisa Bianchi, Angelo Montesano, Maurizio Ferrarin, Rune Thorsen

PLOS ONE Intensive Care Syndrome: Promoting Independence and Return to Employment (InS:PIRE). Early evaluation of a complex intervention

November 29, 2017 Joanne McPeake, Martin Shaw, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Malcolm Daniel, Helen Devine, Lyndsey Jarvie, John Kinsella, Pamela MacTavish, Tara Quasim

PLOS ONE Evaluating the versatility of EEG models generated from motor imagery tasks: An exploratory investigation on upper-limb elbow-centered motor imagery tasks

November 29, 2017 Xin Zhang, Xinyi Yong, Carlo Menon

PLOS ONE Regional brain morphometry in patients with traumatic brain injury based on acute- and chronic-phase magnetic resonance imaging

November 28, 2017 Christian Ledig, Konstantinos Kamnitsas, Juha Koikkalainen, Jussi P. Posti, Riikka S. K. Takala, Ari Katila, Janek Frantzén, Henna Ala-Seppälä, Anna Kyllönen, Henna-Riikka Maanpää, Jussi Tallus, Jyrki Lötjönen, Ben Glocker, Olli Tenovuo, Daniel Rueckert

PLOS ONE Fractal analyses reveal independent complexity and predictability of gait

November 28, 2017 Frédéric Dierick, Anne-Laure Nivard, Olivier White, Fabien Buisseret

PLOS ONE Disentangling self-management goal setting and action planning: A scoping review

November 27, 2017 Stephanie Anna Lenzen, Ramon Daniëls, Marloes Amantia van Bokhoven, Trudy van der Weijden, Anna Beurskens

PLOS ONE The scavenging chemokine receptor ACKR2 has a significant impact on acute mortality rate and early lesion development after traumatic brain injury

November 27, 2017 Thomas M. Woodcock, Tony Frugier, Tan Thanh Nguyen, Bridgette Deanne Semple, Nicole Bye, Matteo Massara, Benedetta Savino, Roberta Besio, Cristina Sobacchi, Massimo Locati, Maria Cristina Morganti-Kossmann

PLOS ONE Chronic post-traumatic intramedullary lesions in dogs, a translational model

November 22, 2017 Neringa Alisauskaite, Ingo Spitzbarth, Wolfgang Baumgärtner, Peter Dziallas, Sabine Kramer, Ricarda Dening, Veronika Maria Stein, Andrea Tipold

PLOS ONE Unpredictable chronic mild stress differentially impairs social and contextual discrimination learning in two inbred mouse strains

November 22, 2017 Michiel van Boxelaere, Jason Clements, Patrick Callaerts, Rudi D’Hooge, Zsuzsanna Callaerts-Vegh

PLOS ONE Proprioceptive assessment in clinical settings: Evaluation of joint position sense in upper limb post-stroke using a robotic manipulator

November 21, 2017 Sara Contu, Asif Hussain, Simone Kager, Aamani Budhota, Vishwanath A. Deshmukh, Christopher W. K. Kuah, Lester H. L. Yam, Liming Xiang, Karen S. G. Chua, Lorenzo Masia, Domenico Campolo

PLOS ONE Shoulder complaints in wheelchair athletes: A systematic review

November 21, 2017 Omar W. Heyward, Riemer J. K. Vegter, Sonja de Groot, Lucas H. V. van der Woude

PLOS ONE An electronic health record based model predicts statin adherence, LDL cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease in the United States Military Health System

November 20, 2017 Joseph E. Lucas, Taylor C. Bazemore, Celan Alo, Patrick B. Monahan, Deepak Voora

PLOS ONE Experiences of older people with dementia participating in a high-intensity functional exercise program in nursing homes: “While it’s tough, it’s useful”

November 17, 2017 Nina Lindelöf, Lillemor Lundin-Olsson, Dawn A. Skelton, Berit Lundman, Erik Rosendahl

PLOS ONE The influence of computer-based cognitive flexibility training on subjective cognitive well-being after stroke: A multi-center randomized controlled trial

November 16, 2017 Renate M. van de Ven, Jaap M. J. Murre, Jessika I. V. Buitenweg, Dick J. Veltman, Justine A. Aaronson, Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Suzanne J. C. Kruiper-Doesborgh, Coen A. M. van Bennekom, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Ben Schmand

PLOS ONE Predictors of suicide ideation among older adults with bipolar disorder

November 16, 2017 Norm O’Rourke, Marnin J. Heisel, Sarah L. Canham, Andrew Sixsmith, BADAS Study Team

PLOS ONE Identification of hospitalized elderly patients at risk for adverse in-hospital outcomes in a university orthopedics and trauma surgery environment

November 10, 2017 Janine Gronewold, Christian Dahlmann, Marcus Jäger, Dirk M. Hermann

PLOS ONE Sex-based differences in veterans with pulmonary hypertension: Results from the veterans affairs-clinical assessment reporting and tracking database

November 9, 2017 Corey E. Ventetuolo, Edward Hess, Eric D. Austin, Anna E. Barón, James R. Klinger, Tim Lahm, Thomas M. Maddox, Mary E. Plomondon, Lauren Thompson, Roham T. Zamanian, Gaurav Choudhary, Bradley A. Maron

PLOS ONE Cardiac cycle-synchronized electrical muscle stimulator for lower limb training with the potential to reduce the heart’s pumping workload

November 8, 2017 Ken-ichiro Sasaki, Hiroo Matsuse, Ryuji Akimoto, Shiro Kamiya, Toshio Moritani, Motoki Sasaki, Yuta Ishizaki, Masanori Ohtsuka, Takaharu Nakayoshi, Takafumi Ueno, Naoto Shiba, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

PLOS ONE Adjustment of the dynamic weight distribution as a sensitive parameter for diagnosis of postural alteration in a rodent model of vestibular deficit

November 7, 2017 Brahim Tighilet, David Péricat, Alais Frelat, Yves Cazals, Guillaume Rastoldo, Florent Boyer, Olivier Dumas, Christian Chabbert

PLOS ONE Rehabilitative skilled forelimb training enhances axonal remodeling in the corticospinal pathway but not the brainstem-spinal pathways after photothrombotic stroke in the primary motor cortex

November 2, 2017 Naohiko Okabe, Naoyuki Himi, Emi Maruyama-Nakamura, Norito Hayashi, Kazuhiko Narita, Osamu Miyamoto

PLOS ONE Trajectories of positive, negative and general psychopathology symptoms in first episode psychosis and their relationship with functioning over a 2-year follow-up period

November 2, 2017 Edimansyah Abdin, Siow Ann Chong, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Chao Xu Peh, Lye Yin Poon, Sujatha Rao, Swapna Verma, Mythily Subramaniam

PLOS ONE Affect during incremental exercise: The role of inhibitory cognition, autonomic cardiac function, and cerebral oxygenation

November 1, 2017 Weslley Quirino Alves da Silva, Eduardo Bodnariuc Fontes, Rodrigo Menezes Forti, Zayonara Larissa Lima, Daniel Gomes da Silva Machado, Andréa Camaz Deslandes, Erika Hussey, Nathan Ward, Rickson Coelho Mesquita, Alexandre Hideki Okano, Hassan Mohamed Elsangedy

PLOS ONE Effectiveness of telephone-based aftercare case management for adult patients with unipolar depression compared to usual care: A randomized controlled trial

October 27, 2017 Laura Kivelitz, Levente Kriston, Eva Christalle, Holger Schulz, Birgit Watzke, Martin Härter, Lutz Götzmann, Harald Bailer, Sabine Zahn, Hanne Melchior

PLOS ONE Cost effectiveness analysis comparing repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to antidepressant medications after a first treatment failure for major depressive disorder in newly diagnosed patients – A lifetime analysis

October 26, 2017 Jeffrey Voigt, Linda Carpenter, Andrew Leuchter

PLOS ONE Effects of physiatrist and registered therapist operating acute rehabilitation (PROr) in patients with stroke

October 26, 2017 Tokio Kinoshita, Yukihide Nishimura, Takeshi Nakamura, Takamasa Hashizaki, Daisuke Kojima, Makoto Kawanishi, Hiroyasu Uenishi, Hideki Arakawa, Takahiro Ogawa, Yoshi-ichiro Kamijo, Takashi Kawasaki, Fumihiro Tajima

PLOS ONE Comparison of multistate Markov modeling with contemporary outcomes in a reanalysis of the NINDS tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke treatment trial

October 26, 2017 Christy Cassarly, Renee’ H. Martin, Marc Chimowitz, Edsel A. Peña, Viswanathan Ramakrishnan, Yuko Y. Palesch

PLOS ONE High-performance wireless powering for peripheral nerve neuromodulation systems

October 24, 2017 Yuji Tanabe, John S. Ho, Jiayin Liu, Song-Yan Liao, Zhe Zhen, Stephanie Hsu, Chika Shuto, Zi-Yi Zhu, Andrew Ma, Christopher Vassos, Peter Chen, Hung Fat Tse, Ada S. Y. Poon

PLOS ONE Oxygen uptake during functional activities after stroke—Reliability and validity of a portable ergospirometry system

October 24, 2017 Tor Ivar Gjellesvik, Berit Brurok, Arnt Erik Tjønna, Tom Tørhaug, Torunn Askim

PLOS ONE Do all inhibitions act alike? A study of go/no-go and stop-signal paradigms

October 24, 2017 Ran Littman, Ádám Takács

PLOS ONE Canine companionship is associated with modification of attentional bias in posttraumatic stress disorder

October 11, 2017 Steven H. Woodward, Andrea L. Jamison, Sasha Gala, Tyson H. Holmes

PLOS ONE Wearable sensors objectively measure gait parameters in Parkinson’s disease

October 11, 2017 Johannes C. M. Schlachetzki, Jens Barth, Franz Marxreiter, Julia Gossler, Zacharias Kohl, Samuel Reinfelder, Heiko Gassner, Kamiar Aminian, Bjoern M. Eskofier, Jürgen Winkler, Jochen Klucken

PLOS ONE Can Tai Chi training impact fractal stride time dynamics, an index of gait health, in older adults? Cross-sectional and randomized trial studies

October 11, 2017 Brian J. Gow, Jeffrey M. Hausdorff, Brad Manor, Lewis A. Lipsitz, Eric A. Macklin, Paolo Bonato, Vera Novak, Chung-Kang Peng, Andrew C. Ahn, Peter M. Wayne

PLOS ONE Military service, deployments, and exposures in relation to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis survival

October 10, 2017 John D. Beard, Lawrence S. Engel, David B. Richardson, Marilie D. Gammon, Coleen Baird, David M. Umbach, Kelli D. Allen, Catherine L. Stanwyck, Jean Keller, Dale P. Sandler, Silke Schmidt, Freya Kamel

PLOS ONE A moving fluoroscope to capture tibiofemoral kinematics during complete cycles of free level and downhill walking as well as stair descent

October 9, 2017 Renate List, Barbara Postolka, Pascal Schütz, Marco Hitz, Peter Schwilch, Hans Gerber, Stephen J. Ferguson, William R. Taylor

PLOS ONE Weight loss from 20 years of age is associated with cognitive impairment in middle-aged and elderly individuals

October 5, 2017 Kaori Kitamura, Yumi Watanabe, Kazutoshi Nakamura, Akemi Takahashi, Ribeka Takachi, Rieko Oshiki, Ryosaku Kobayashi, Toshiko Saito, Shoichiro Tsugane, Ayako Sasaki

PLOS ONE Detecting Parkinson’s disease from sustained phonation and speech signals

October 5, 2017 Evaldas Vaiciukynas, Antanas Verikas, Adas Gelzinis, Marija Bacauskiene

PLOS ONE ‘Timed Up and Go’ test: Age, gender and cognitive impairment stratified normative values of older adults

October 3, 2017 Azianah Ibrahim, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Suzana Shahar

PLOS ONE Acute single channel EEG predictors of cognitive function after stroke

October 2, 2017 Anna Aminov, Jeffrey M. Rogers, Stuart J. Johnstone, Sandy Middleton, Peter H. Wilson

PLOS ONE CCL11 is increased in the CNS in chronic traumatic encephalopathy but not in Alzheimer’s disease

September 26, 2017 Jonathan D. Cherry, Thor D. Stein, Yorghos Tripodis, Victor E. Alvarez, Bertrand R. Huber, Rhoda Au, Patrick T. Kiernan, Daniel H. Daneshvar, Jesse Mez, Todd M. Solomon, Michael L. Alosco, Ann C. McKee

PLOS ONE Target-directed motor imagery of the lower limb enhances event-related desynchronization

September 19, 2017 Kosuke Kitahara, Yoshikatsu Hayashi, Shiro Yano, Toshiyuki Kondo

PLOS ONE Adult hippocampal neurogenesis poststroke: More new granule cells but aberrant morphology and impaired spatial memory

September 14, 2017 Florus Woitke, Mihai Ceanga, Max Rudolph, Fanny Niv, Otto W. Witte, Christoph Redecker, Albrecht Kunze, Silke Keiner

PLOS ONE Role of mitochondrial DNA damage and dysfunction in veterans with Gulf War Illness

September 14, 2017 Yang Chen, Joel N. Meyer, Helene Z. Hill, Gudrun Lange, Michael R. Condon, Jacquelyn C. Klein, Duncan Ndirangu, Michael J. Falvo

PLOS ONE Intra and inter-session reliability of rapid Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation stimulus-response curves of tibialis anterior muscle in healthy older adults

September 14, 2017 Elisabetta Peri, Emilia Ambrosini, Vera Maria Colombo, Mark van de Ruit, Michael J. Grey, Marco Monticone, Giorgio Ferriero, Alessandra Pedrocchi, Giancarlo Ferrigno, Simona Ferrante

PLOS ONE Psychometric properties of the Brisbane Burn Scar Impact Profile in adults with burn scars

September 13, 2017 Zephanie Tyack, Roy Kimble, Steven McPhail, Anita Plaza, Megan Simons

PLOS ONE Associations between lower-limb muscle activation and knee flexion in post-stroke individuals: A study on the stance-to-swing phases of gait

September 8, 2017 Wei Wang, Ke Li, Shouwei Yue, Cuiping Yin, Na Wei

PLOS ONE Delivery of mental health treatment to combat veterans with psychiatric diagnoses and TBI histories

September 8, 2017 Shannon R. Miles, Juliette M. Harik, Natalie E. Hundt, Joseph Mignogna, Nicholas J. Pastorek, Karin E. Thompson, Jessica S. Freshour, Hong J. Yu, Jeffrey A. Cully

PLOS ONE Assessing the accuracy of blood RNA profiles to identify patients with post-concussion syndrome: A pilot study in a military patient population

September 1, 2017 Jimmaline J. Hardy, Scott. R. Mooney, Andrea. N. Pearson, Dawn McGuire, Daniel. J. Correa, Roger P. Simon, Robert Meller

PLOS ONE Risk factors for 14-day rehospitalization following trauma with new traumatic spinal cord injury diagnosis: A 10-year nationwide study in Taiwan

September 1, 2017 Carlos Lam, Ping-Ling Chen, Jiunn-Horng Kang, Kuang-Fu Cheng, Ray-Jade Chen, Kuo-Sheng Hung

PLOS ONE Sensitivity of self-reported opioid use in case-control studies: Healthy individuals versus hospitalized patients

August 30, 2017 Hamideh Rashidian, Maryam Hadji, Maryam Marzban, Mahin Gholipour, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Farin Kamangar, Reza Malekzadeh, Elisabete Weiderpass, Abbas Rezaianzadeh, Abdolvahab Moradi, Nima Babhadi-Ashar, Reza Ghiasvand, Hossein Khavari-Daneshvar, Ali Akbar Haghdoost, Kazem Zendehdel

PLOS ONE Consequences and coping strategies six years after a subarachnoid hemorrhage – A qualitative study

August 30, 2017 Hanna C. Persson, Karin Törnbom, Katharina S. Sunnerhagen, Marie Törnbom

PLOS ONE Peripheral denervation participates in heterotopic ossification in a spinal cord injury model

August 30, 2017 Charlotte Debaud, Marjorie Salga, Laurent Begot, Xavier Holy, Malha Chedik, Nicolas de l’Escalopier, Fréderic Torossian, Jean-Pierre Levesque, Jean-Jacques Lataillade, Marie-Caroline Le Bousse-Kerdilès, François Genêt

PLOS ONE Facilitatory and inhibitory pain mechanisms are altered in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

August 30, 2017 Benjamin Soon, Bill Vicenzino, Annina B. Schmid, Michel W. Coppieters

PLOS Medicine Evaluating the impact of Affordable Care Act repeal on America’s opioid epidemic

August 29, 2017 Leana S. Wen, Evan B. Behrle, Alexander C. Tsai

PLOS ONE Constraint-induced aphasia therapy in post-stroke aphasia rehabilitation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

August 28, 2017 Jiaqi Zhang, Jiadan Yu, Yong Bao, Qing Xie, Yang Xu, Junmei Zhang, Pu Wang

PLOS ONE Influence of electrode array stiffness and diameter on hearing in cochlear implanted guinea pig

August 24, 2017 Mylène Drouillard, Renato Torres, Elisabeth Mamelle, Daniele De Seta, Olivier Sterkers, Evelyne Ferrary, Yann Nguyen

PLOS ONE Predicting the preferences for involvement in medical decision making among patients with mental disorders

August 24, 2017 Svea Michaelis, Levente Kriston, Martin Härter, Birgit Watzke, Holger Schulz, Hanne Melchior

PLOS ONE Trehalose improves traumatic brain injury-induced cognitive impairment

August 24, 2017 Stuart D. Portbury, Dominic J. Hare, David I. Finkelstein, Paul A. Adlard

PLOS ONE Predicting the length of hospital stay of post-acute care patients in Taiwan using the Chinese version of the continuity assessment record and evaluation item set

August 23, 2017 Chen-Yu Hung, Wei-Ting Wu, Ke-Vin Chang, Tyng-Guey Wang, Der-Sheng Han

PLOS ONE Choosing the right rehabilitation setting after herniated disc surgery: Motives, motivations and expectations from the patients’ perspective

August 22, 2017 Margrit Löbner, Janine Stein, Melanie Luppa, Alexander Konnopka, Hans Jörg Meisel, Lutz Günther, Jürgen Meixensberger, Katarina Stengler, Matthias C. Angermeyer, Hans-Helmut König, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller

PLOS ONE Development of a psychological intervention for fatigue after stroke

August 17, 2017 Simiao Wu, Trudie Chalder, Kirstin E. Anderson, David Gillespie, Malcolm R. Macleod, Gillian E. Mead

PLOS ONE Differentiating between subtypes of primary progressive aphasia and mild cognitive impairment on a modified version of the Frontal Behavioral Inventory

August 16, 2017 Donna C. Tippett, Carol B. Thompson, Cornelia Demsky, Rajani Sebastian, Amy Wright, Argye E. Hillis

PLOS ONE Joint modelling of longitudinal 3MS scores and the risk of mortality among cognitively impaired individuals

August 16, 2017 Chris B. Guure, Noor Akma Ibrahim, Mohd Bakri Adam, Salmiah Md Said

PLOS Medicine Lay worker-administered behavioral treatments for psychological distress in resource-limited settings: Time to move from evidence to practice?

August 15, 2017 Alexander C. Tsai

PLOS ONE A cross-sectional study comparing lateral and diagonal maximum weight shift in people with stroke and healthy controls and the correlation with balance, gait and fear of falling

August 15, 2017 Margaretha M. van Dijk, Sarah Meyer, Solveig Sandstad, Evelyne Wiskerke, Rhea Thuwis, Chesny Vandekerckhove, Charlotte Myny, Nitesh Ghosh, Hilde Beyens, Eddy Dejaeger, Geert Verheyden

PLOS ONE The very low-frequency band of heart rate variability represents the slow recovery component after a mental stress task

August 14, 2017 Harunobu Usui, Yusuke Nishida

PLOS ONE Stroke survivors with severe mental illness: Are they at-risk for increased non-psychiatric hospitalizations?

August 11, 2017 Flavius Robert Lilly, Joel Culpepper, Mary Stuart, Donald Steinwachs

PLOS ONE Testing and comparing two self-care-related instruments among older Chinese adults

August 9, 2017 Lina Guo, Ulrika Söderhamn, Jacqueline McCallum, Xianfei Ding, Han Gao, Qiyun Guo, Kun Liu, Yanjin Liu

PLOS ONE Discrepancy between self-assessed hearing status and measured audiometric evaluation

August 8, 2017 So Young Kim, Hyung-Jong Kim, Min-Su Kim, Bumjung Park, Jin-Hwan Kim, Hyo Geun Choi

PLOS ONE Association of psychotropic drug use with falls among older adults in Germany. Results of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults 2008-2011 (DEGS1)

August 8, 2017 Yong Du, Ingrid-Katharina Wolf, Hildtraud Knopf

PLOS ONE Workplace social support in job satisfaction among veterans with posttraumatic stress symptoms: A preliminary correlational study

August 4, 2017 J. I. Harris, Thad Q. Strom, Amanda G. Ferrier-Auerbach, Matthew E. Kaler, Lucas P. Hansen, Christopher R. Erbes

PLOS ONE Two new risk factors for heterotopic ossification development after severe burns

August 4, 2017 Laurent Thefenne, Gratiane de Brier, Thomas Leclerc, Claire Jourdan, Claire Nicolas, Stéphanie Truffaut, Eric Lapeyre, Francois Genet

PLOS ONE Neural stem cell mediated recovery is enhanced by Chondroitinase ABC pretreatment in chronic cervical spinal cord injury

August 3, 2017 Hidenori Suzuki, Christopher S. Ahuja, Ryan P. Salewski, Lijun Li, Kajana Satkunendrarajah, Narihito Nagoshi, Shinsuke Shibata, Michael G. Fehlings

PLOS ONE Plasma metabolomics profiles in rats with acute traumatic brain injury

August 3, 2017 Fei Zheng, Zi-An Xia, Yi-Fu Zeng, Jie-Kun Luo, Peng Sun, Han-Jin Cui, Tao Tang, Yan-Tao Zhou, Yang Wang

PLOS ONE The effect of brief case management on emergency department use of frequent users in mental health: Findings of a randomized controlled trial

August 3, 2017 Vicky Stergiopoulos, Agnes Gozdzik, Ashley Cohen, Tim Guimond, Stephen W. Hwang, Paul Kurdyak, Molyn Leszcz, Donald Wasylenki

PLOS ONE Identifying relevant biomarkers of brain injury from structural MRI: Validation using automated approaches in children with unilateral cerebral palsy

August 1, 2017 Alex M. Pagnozzi, Nicholas Dowson, James Doecke, Simona Fiori, Andrew P. Bradley, Roslyn N. Boyd, Stephen Rose

PLOS ONE Intolerance of uncertainty in opioid dependency – Relationship with trait anxiety and impulsivity

July 31, 2017 Julia Garami, Paul Haber, Catherine E. Myers, Michael T. Allen, Blazej Misiak, Dorota Frydecka, Ahmed A. Moustafa

PLOS ONE Older adults must hurry at pedestrian lights! A cross-sectional analysis of preferred and fast walking speed under single- and dual-task conditions

July 31, 2017 Patrick Eggenberger, Sara Tomovic, Thomas Münzer, Eling D. de Bruin

PLOS ONE The impact of repetitive long-duration water immersion on vascular function

July 27, 2017 Erin E. Simmons, Elizabeth R. Bergeron, John P. Florian

PLOS ONE Synergistic effects of cognitive impairment on physical disability in all-cause mortality among men aged 80 years and over: Results from longitudinal older veterans study

July 26, 2017 Wan-Chen Yu, Ming-Yueh Chou, Li-Ning Peng, Yu-Te Lin, Chih-Kuang Liang, Liang-Kung Chen

PLOS Medicine Translational approaches to coagulopathy after trauma: Towards targeted treatment

July 25, 2017 Mitchell Jay Cohen

PLOS Medicine Cerebrovascular pressure reactivity monitoring using wavelet analysis in traumatic brain injury patients: A retrospective study

July 25, 2017 Xiuyun Liu, Joseph Donnelly, Marek Czosnyka, Marcel J. H. Aries, Ken Brady, Danilo Cardim, Chiara Robba, Manuel Cabeleira, Dong-Joo Kim, Christina Haubrich, Peter J. Hutchinson, Peter Smielewski

PLOS ONE Risk factors associated with posttraumatic stress disorder in US veterans: A cohort study

July 25, 2017 Jan Müller, Sarmila Ganeshamoorthy, Jonathan Myers

PLOS ONE Facilitators and barriers to physical activity in people with chronic low back pain: A qualitative study

July 25, 2017 Laura Boutevillain, Caroline Rouch, Emilie Richard, Emmanuel Coudeyre, Arnaud Dupeyron

PLOS ONE Virtual daily living test to screen for mild cognitive impairment using kinematic movement analysis

July 24, 2017 Kyoungwon Seo, Jae-kwan Kim, Dong Hoon Oh, Hojin Choi, Hokyoung Ryu

PLOS ONE Effects of health risk assessment and counselling on physical activity in older people: A pragmatic randomised trial

July 20, 2017 Anna Marie Herghelegiu, André Moser, Gabriel Ioan Prada, Stephan Born, Matthias Wilhelm, Andreas E. Stuck

PLOS ONE A comparative study of patients’ activities and interactions in a stroke unit before and after reconstruction—The significance of the built environment

July 20, 2017 Anna Anåker, Lena von Koch, Christina Sjöstrand, Julie Bernhardt, Marie Elf

PLOS ONE Why aren’t people with young onset dementia and their supporters using formal services? Results from the INSPIRED study

July 19, 2017 Monica Cations, Adrienne Withall, Ruth Horsfall, Nicole Denham, Fiona White, Julian Trollor, Clement Loy, Henry Brodaty, Perminder Sachdev, Peter Gonski, Apo Demirkol, Robert G. Cumming, Brian Draper

PLOS ONE Instruments for the assessment of suicide risk: A systematic review evaluating the certainty of the evidence

July 19, 2017 Bo Runeson, Jenny Odeberg, Agneta Pettersson, Tobias Edbom, Ingalill Jildevik Adamsson, Margda Waern

PLOS Medicine Trauma care: Finding a better way

July 18, 2017 Hasan B. Alam

PLOS ONE Loneliness is adversely associated with physical and mental health and lifestyle factors: Results from a Swiss national survey

July 17, 2017 Aline Richard, Sabine Rohrmann, Caroline L. Vandeleur, Margareta Schmid, Jürgen Barth, Monika Eichholzer

PLOS ONE Atrophy of gluteus maximus among women with a history of chronic low back pain

July 17, 2017 Amy H. Amabile, John H. Bolte, Saskia D. Richter

PLOS ONE Kinematic and biomimetic assessment of a hydraulic ankle/foot in level ground and camber walking

July 13, 2017 Xuefei Bai, David Ewins, Andrew D. Crocombe, Wei Xu

PLOS ONE A cluster-randomized controlled study to evaluate a team coaching concept for improving teamwork and patient-centeredness in rehabilitation teams

July 13, 2017 Mirjam Körner, Leonie Luzay, Anne Plewnia, Sonja Becker, Manfred Rundel, Linda Zimmermann, Christian Müller

PLOS ONE Stair negotiation made easier using novel interactive energy-recycling assistive stairs

July 12, 2017 Yun Seong Song, Sehoon Ha, Hsiang Hsu, Lena H. Ting, C. Karen Liu

PLOS Medicine Cellular therapies in trauma and critical care medicine: Looking towards the future

July 11, 2017 Shibani Pati, Todd Rasmussen

PLOS ONE Lower extremity EMG-driven modeling of walking with automated adjustment of musculoskeletal geometry

July 11, 2017 Andrew J. Meyer, Carolynn Patten, Benjamin J. Fregly

PLOS Medicine Trends in traumatic brain injury mortality in China, 2006–2013: A population-based longitudinal study

July 11, 2017 Peixia Cheng, Peng Yin, Peishan Ning, Lijun Wang, Xunjie Cheng, Yunning Liu, David C. Schwebel, Jiangmei Liu, Jinlei Qi, Maigeng Zhou, Guoqing Hu

PLOS ONE Diagnostic accuracy of tablet-based software for the detection of concussion

July 7, 2017 Suosuo Yang, Benjamin Flores, Rotem Magal, Kyrsti Harris, Jonathan Gross, Amy Ewbank, Sasha Davenport, Pablo Ormachea, Waleed Nasser, Weidong Le, W. Frank Peacock, Yael Katz, David M. Eagleman

PLOS ONE Physical activity and the mediating effect of fear, depression, anxiety, and catastrophizing on pain related disability in people with chronic low back pain

July 7, 2017 Paul W. M. Marshall, Siobhan Schabrun, Michael F. Knox

PLOS ONE IQ and mental health are vital predictors of work drop out and early mortality. Multi-state analyses of Norwegian male conscripts

July 6, 2017 Stein Atle Lie, Torill H. Tveito, Silje E. Reme, Hege R. Eriksen

PLOS Medicine Long-term health status and trajectories of seriously injured patients: A population-based longitudinal study

July 5, 2017 Belinda Gabbe, Pam Simpson, Peter Cameron, Jennie Ponsford, Ronan Lyons, Alex Collie, Mark Fitzgerald, Rodney Judson, Warwick Teague, Sandra Braaf, Andrew Nunn, Shanthi Ameratunga, James Harrison

PLOS Medicine Major scientific lessons learned in the trauma field over the last two decades

July 5, 2017 John Holcomb

PLOS ONE It’s positive to be negative: Achilles tendon work loops during human locomotion

July 3, 2017 Karl E. Zelik, Jason R. Franz

PLOS ONE Endothelial keratoplasty versus repeat penetrating keratoplasty after failed penetrating keratoplasty: A systematic review and meta-analysis

July 3, 2017 Feng Wang, Tao Zhang, Yan Wei Kang, Jing Liang He, Shi-Ming Li, Shao-Wei Li

PLOS ONE Clinimetric properties of lower limb neurological impairment tests for children and young people with a neurological condition: A systematic review

July 3, 2017 Ramona Clark, Melissa Locke, Bridget Hill, Cherie Wells, Andrea Bialocerkowski

PLOS ONE Addition of transcranial direct current stimulation to quadriceps strengthening exercise in knee osteoarthritis: A pilot randomised controlled trial

June 30, 2017 Wei-Ju Chang, Kim L. Bennell, Paul W. Hodges, Rana S. Hinman, Carolyn L. Young, Valentina Buscemi, Matthew B. Liston, Siobhan M. Schabrun

PLOS ONE Dynamic wheelchair seating positions impact cardiovascular function after spinal cord injury

June 30, 2017 Jessica A. Inskip, Henrike (Rianne) J. C. Ravensbergen, Inderjeet S. Sahota, Christine Zawadzki, Lowell T. McPhail, Jaimie F. Borisoff, Victoria E. Claydon

PLOS ONE Low-dose, non-supervised, health insurance initiated exercise for the treatment and prevention of chronic low back pain in employees. Results from a randomized controlled trial

June 29, 2017 Sven Haufe, Klaus Wiechmann, Lothar Stein, Momme Kück, Andrea Smith, Stefan Meineke, Yvonne Zirkelbach, Samuel Rodriguez Duarte, Michael Drupp, Uwe Tegtbur

PLOS ONE Metabolomic profiling to characterize acute intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury

June 29, 2017 Rachel G. Khadaroo, Thomas A. Churchill, Victor Tso, Karen L. Madsen, Chris Lukowski, Saad Y. Salim

PLOS ONE The effect of anti-rheumatic medications for coronary artery diseases risk in patients with rheumatoid arthritis might be changed over time: A nationwide population-based cohort study

June 28, 2017 Yao-Min Hung, Lichi Lin, Chyong-Mei Chen, Jeng-Yuan Chiou, Yu-Hsun Wang, Paul Yung-Pou Wang, James Cheng-Chung Wei

PLOS ONE Post-exercise hypotension and heart rate variability response after water- and land-ergometry exercise in hypertensive patients

June 28, 2017 Danilo Sales Bocalini, Marco Bergamin, Alexandre Lopes Evangelista, Roberta Luksevicius Rica, Francisco Luciano Pontes Junior, Aylton Figueira Junior, Andrey Jorge Serra, Emilly Martinelli Rossi, Paulo José Ferreira Tucci, Leonardo dos Santos

PLOS ONE Dynamic properties of successful smiles

June 28, 2017 Nathaniel E. Helwig, Nick E. Sohre, Mark R. Ruprecht, Stephen J. Guy, Sofía Lyford-Pike

PLOS ONE Early mobilisation after total hip or knee arthroplasty: A multicentre prospective observational study

June 27, 2017 Matthew J. Chua, Andrew J. Hart, Rajat Mittal, Ian A. Harris, Wei Xuan, Justine M. Naylor

PLOS ONE The role of Patient Health Engagement Model (PHE-model) in affecting patient activation and medication adherence: A structural equation model

June 27, 2017 Guendalina Graffigna, Serena Barello, Andrea Bonanomi

PLOS ONE Role of magnesium supplementation in the treatment of depression: A randomized clinical trial

June 27, 2017 Emily K. Tarleton, Benjamin Littenberg, Charles D. MacLean, Amanda G. Kennedy, Christopher Daley

PLOS ONE Increased inspiratory resistance affects the dynamic relationship between blood pressure changes and subarachnoid space width oscillations

June 27, 2017 Magdalena Wszedybyl-Winklewska, Jacek Wolf, Ewa Swierblewska, Katarzyna Kunicka, Kamila Mazur, Marcin Gruszecki, Pawel J. Winklewski, Andrzej F. Frydrychowski, Leszek Bieniaszewski, Krzysztof Narkiewicz

PLOS ONE Development and psychometric properties of knee-specific body-perception questionnaire in people with knee osteoarthritis: The Fremantle Knee Awareness Questionnaire

June 26, 2017 Tomohiko Nishigami, Akira Mibu, Katsuyoshi Tanaka, Yuh Yamashita, Eiji Yamada, Benedict M. Wand, Mark J. Catley, Tasha R. Stanton, G. Lorimer Moseley

PLOS ONE Determinants of generic and specific health-related quality of life in patients with Parkinson’s disease

June 26, 2017 Xiao-Jing Tu, Wen-Juh Hwang, Hui-Ing Ma, Ling-Hui Chang, Shih-Pin Hsu

PLOS ONE Abnormal global functional network connectivity and its relationship to medial temporal atrophy in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

June 26, 2017 Can Sheng, Mingrui Xia, Haikuo Yu, Yue Huang, Yan Lu, Fang Liu, Yong He, Ying Han

PLOS ONE Physician assessments of drug seeking behavior: A mixed methods study

June 23, 2017 Michael A. Fischer, John B. McKinlay, Jeffrey N. Katz, Eric Gerstenberger, Felicia Trachtenberg, Lisa D. Marceau, Lisa C. Welch

PLOS ONE Severe hearing impairment and risk of depression: A national cohort study

June 22, 2017 So Young Kim, Hyung-Jong Kim, Eun-Kyu Park, Jiwon Joe, Songyong Sim, Hyo Geun Choi

PLOS ONE Beneficial effects of a gait used while wearing a kimono to decrease the knee adduction moment in healthy adults

June 22, 2017 Susumu Ota, Yukari Ogawa, Hiroki Ota, Tomoya Fujiwara, Tadashi Sugiyama, Akira Ochi

PLOS ONE Accelerometer measured levels of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity and sedentary time in children and adolescents with chronic disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

June 22, 2017 Rabha Elmesmari, John J. Reilly, Anne Martin, James Y. Paton

PLOS ONE Mechanisms of acute neurovascular protection with AT1 blockade after stroke: Effect of prestroke hypertension

June 22, 2017 Ahmed Alhusban, Anna Kozak, Bindu Pillai, Heba Ahmed, Mohammed A. Sayed, Maribeth H. Johnson, Tauheed Ishrat, Adviye Ergul, Susan C. Fagan

PLOS ONE Effective treatment options for musculoskeletal pain in primary care: A systematic overview of current evidence

June 22, 2017 Opeyemi O. Babatunde, Joanne L. Jordan, Danielle A. Van der Windt, Jonathan C. Hill, Nadine E. Foster, Joanne Protheroe

PLOS ONE The path to specialist multidisciplinary care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A population- based study of consultations, interventions and costs

June 22, 2017 Miriam Galvin, Padhraig Ryan, Sinead Maguire, Mark Heverin, Caoifa Madden, Alice Vajda, Charles Normand, Orla Hardiman

PLOS ONE Neuromuscular electrical stimulation prevents skeletal muscle dysfunction in adjuvant-induced arthritis rat

June 21, 2017 Koichi Himori, Daisuke Tatebayashi, Keita Kanzaki, Masanobu Wada, Håkan Westerblad, Johanna T. Lanner, Takashi Yamada

PLOS ONE Hemodynamic and metabolic characteristics associated with development of a right ventricular outflow tract pressure gradient during upright exercise

June 21, 2017 Annelieke C. M. J. van Riel, David M. Systrom, Rudolf K. F. Oliveira, Michael J. Landzberg, Barbara J. M. Mulder, Berto J. Bouma, Bradley A. Maron, Amil M. Shah, Aaron B. Waxman, Alexander R. Opotowsky

PLOS ONE BackUp: Development and evaluation of a smart-phone application for coping with suicidal crises

June 21, 2017 Kirsten Pauwels, Saskia Aerts, Ekke Muijzers, Eva De Jaegere, Kees van Heeringen, Gwendolyn Portzky

PLOS ONE CTRP3 is a novel biomarker for diabetic retinopathy and inhibits HGHL-induced VCAM-1 expression in an AMPK-dependent manner

June 20, 2017 Zheyi Yan, Jianli Zhao, Lu Gan, Yanqing Zhang, Rui Guo, Xiaoming Cao, Wayne Bond Lau, Xin Ma, Yajing Wang

PLOS ONE Short-term EEG dynamics and neural generators evoked by navigational images

June 20, 2017 Axelle Leroy, Carlos Cevallos, Ana-Maria Cebolla, Stéphanie Caharel, Bernard Dan, Guy Cheron

PLOS ONE The impact of glycemic status on radiological manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis in diabetic patients

June 19, 2017 Li-Kuo Huang, Hsueh-Han Wang, Yi-Chun Lai, Shi-Chuan Chang

PLOS ONE Is normal-tension glaucoma a risk factor for stroke?—A 10-year follow-up study

June 19, 2017 Meng-Sheng Lee, Elise Chia-Hui Tan, Oscar K. Lee, Li-Lin Kuo

PLOS ONE Intra-individual gait patterns across different time-scales as revealed by means of a supervised learning model using kernel-based discriminant regression

June 15, 2017 Fabian Horst, Alexander Eekhoff, Karl M. Newell, Wolfgang I. Schöllhorn

PLOS ONE Statins are related to impaired exercise capacity in males but not females

June 15, 2017 Martin Bahls, Stefan Groß, Till Ittermann, Raila Busch, Sven Gläser, Ralf Ewert, Henry Völzke, Stephan B. Felix, Marcus Dörr

PLOS ONE The effects of high-frequency rTMS over the left DLPFC on cognitive control in young healthy participants

June 14, 2017 Yanmin Li, Lin Wang, Meng Jia, Jihong Guo, Huijun Wang, Mingwei Wang

PLOS ONE EEG-based motor network biomarkers for identifying target patients with stroke for upper limb rehabilitation and its construct validity

June 14, 2017 Chun-Chuan Chen, Si-Huei Lee, Wei-Jen Wang, Yu-Chen Lin, Mu-Chun Su

PLOS ONE Changes in arm-hand function and arm-hand skill performance in patients after stroke during and after rehabilitation

June 14, 2017 Johan Anton Franck, Rob Johannes Elise Marie Smeets, Henk Alexander Maria Seelen

PLOS ONE Protective mental health factors in children of parents with alcohol and drug use disorders: A systematic review

June 13, 2017 Olga Wlodarczyk, Mirjam Schwarze, Hans-Jürgen Rumpf, Franka Metzner, Silke Pawils

PLOS ONE A Korean validation study of the Clinically Useful Anxiety Outcome Scale: Comorbidity and differentiation of anxiety and depressive disorders

June 12, 2017 Sang Won Jeon, Young-Hoon Ko, Seoyoung Yoon, Chi-Un Pae, Joonho Choi, Jae-Min Kim, Ho-Kyoung Yoon, Hoseon Lee, Ashwin A. Patkar, Mark Zimmerman, Changsu Han

PLOS ONE Dynamic changes in diffusion measures improve sensitivity in identifying patients with mild traumatic brain injury

June 12, 2017 Alexander W. Thomas, Richard Watts, Christopher G. Filippi, Joshua P. Nickerson, Trevor Andrews, Gregory Lieberman, Magdalena R. Naylor, Margaret J. Eppstein, Kalev Freeman

PLOS ONE A Bayesian mathematical model of motor and cognitive outcomes in Parkinson’s disease

June 12, 2017 Boris Hayete, Diane Wuest, Jason Laramie, Paul McDonagh, Bruce Church, Shirley Eberly, Anthony Lang, Kenneth Marek, Karl Runge, Ira Shoulson, Andrew Singleton, Caroline Tanner, Iya Khalil, Ajay Verma, Bernard Ravina

PLOS ONE A systematic review evaluating the psychometric properties of measures of social inclusion

June 9, 2017 Reinie Cordier, Ben Milbourn, Robyn Martin, Angus Buchanan, Donna Chung, Renée Speyer

PLOS ONE Measurement agreement between a newly developed sensing insole and traditional laboratory-based method for footstrike pattern detection in runners

June 9, 2017 Roy T. H. Cheung, Winko W. An, Ivan P. H. Au, Janet H. Zhang, Zoe Y. S. Chan, Alfred Man, Fannie O. Y. Lau, Melody K. Y. Lam, K. K. Lau, C. Y. Leung, N. W. Tsang, Louis K. Y. Sze, Gilbert W. K. Lam

PLOS ONE Association among presence of cancer pain, inadequate pain control, and psychotropic drug use

June 8, 2017 Paula Parás-Bravo, María Paz-Zulueta, María Cristina Alonso-Blanco, Paloma Salvadores-Fuentes, Ana Rosa Alconero-Camarero, Miguel Santibañez

PLOS ONE A behavioral typology of opioid overdose risk behaviors among recent veterans in New York City

June 8, 2017 Alex S. Bennett, Andrew Golub, Luther Elliott

PLOS ONE Comparative risk of hospitalized infection between biological agents in rheumatoid arthritis patients: A multicenter retrospective cohort study in Japan

June 8, 2017 Shunsuke Mori, Tamami Yoshitama, Toshihiko Hidaka, Fumikazu Sakai, Mizue Hasegawa, Yayoi Hashiba, Eiichi Suematsu, Hiroshi Tatsukawa, Akinari Mizokami, Shigeru Yoshizawa, Naoyuki Hirakata, Yukitaka Ueki

PLOS ONE Serum proteins mediate depression’s association with dementia

June 8, 2017 Donald R. Royall, Safa Al-Rubaye, Ram Bishnoi, Raymond F. Palmer

PLOS ONE No changes in functional connectivity during motor recovery beyond 5 weeks after stroke: A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study

June 8, 2017 Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Floor E. Buma, Caroline Winters, Mariska J. Vansteensel, Gert Kwakkel, Nick F. Ramsey, Mathijs Raemaekers

PLOS ONE An indicator cell assay for blood-based diagnostics

June 8, 2017 Samuel A. Danziger, Leslie R. Miller, Karanbir Singh, G. Adam Whitney, Elaine R. Peskind, Ge Li, Robert J. Lipshutz, John D. Aitchison, Jennifer J. Smith

PLOS ONE Positive mental health among health professionals working at a psychiatric hospital

June 7, 2017 Louisa Picco, Qi Yuan, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Sherilyn Chang, Edimansyah Abdin, Hong Choon Chua, Siow Ann Chong, Mythily Subramaniam

PLOS ONE Greater HbA_1c variability is associated with increased cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetes patients with preserved renal function, but not in moderate to advanced chronic kidney disease

June 7, 2017 Mei-Yueh Lee, Pi-Jung Hsiao, Yu-Ting Huang, Jiun-Chi Huang, Wei-Hao Hsu, Shyi–Jang Shin, Szu-Chia Chen

PLOS ONE The acute effects of lower limb intermittent negative pressure on foot macro- and microcirculation in patients with peripheral arterial disease

June 7, 2017 Øyvind Heiberg Sundby, Lars Øivind Høiseth, Iacob Mathiesen, Harald Weedon-Fekjær, Jon O. Sundhagen, Jonny Hisdal

PLOS ONE Why do authors derive new cardiovascular clinical prediction rules in the presence of existing rules? A mixed methods study

June 7, 2017 Jong-Wook Ban, Emma Wallace, Richard Stevens, Rafael Perera

PLOS ONE Health-related quality of life among military HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy

June 7, 2017 Leonard Emuren, Seth Welles, Alison A. Evans, Marcia Polansky, Jason F. Okulicz, Grace Macalino, Brian K. Agan, the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program HIV Working Group

PLOS ONE Hyponatremia and increased risk of dementia: A population-based retrospective cohort study

June 7, 2017 Mu-Chi Chung, Tung-Min Yu, Kuo-Hsiung Shu, Ming-Ju Wu, Chao-Hsiang Chang, Chih-Hsin Muo, Chi-Jung Chung

PLOS ONE Patients with schizophrenia activate behavioural intentions facilitated by counterfactual reasoning

June 6, 2017 Fernando Contreras, Auria Albacete, Cristian Tebé, Bessy Benejam, Agnes Caño, José Manuel Menchón

PLOS ONE Nocturnal leg cramps: Prevalence and associations with demographics, sleep disturbance symptoms, medical conditions, and cardiometabolic risk factors

June 6, 2017 Michael A. Grandner, John W. Winkelman

PLOS Biology What makes a reach movement effortful? Physical effort discounting supports common minimization principles in decision making and motor control

June 6, 2017 Pierre Morel, Philipp Ulbrich, Alexander Gail

PLOS ONE Psychometric properties of a Power Mobility Caregiver Assistive Technology Outcome Measure

June 6, 2017 W. Ben Mortenson, Louise Demers, Paula W. Rushton, Claudine Auger, François Routhier, William C. Miller

PLOS ONE Traumatic injury and perceived injustice: Fault attributions matter in a “no-fault” compensation state

June 5, 2017 Liane J. Ioannou, Peter A. Cameron, Stephen J. Gibson, Belinda J. Gabbe, Jennie Ponsford, Paul A. Jennings, Carolyn A. Arnold, Stella M. Gwini, Nellie Georgiou-Karistianis, Melita J. Giummarra

PLOS ONE Human resources and models of mental healthcare integration into primary and community care in India: Case studies of 72 programmes

June 5, 2017 Nadja van Ginneken, Meera S. Maheedhariah, Sarah Ghani, Jayashree Ramakrishna, Anusha Raja, Vikram Patel

PLOS ONE Spontaneous low frequency BOLD signal variations from resting-state fMRI are decreased in Alzheimer disease

June 5, 2017 Samaneh Kazemifar, Kathryn Y. Manning, Nagalingam Rajakumar, Francisco A. Gómez, Andrea Soddu, Michael J. Borrie, Ravi S. Menon, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative , Robert Bartha

PLOS ONE Detailed spatial characterization of superficial hip muscle activation during walking: A multi-electrode surface EMG investigation of the gluteal region in healthy older adults

June 5, 2017 Christoph Anders, Steffen Patenge, Klaus Sander, Frank Layher, Uta Biedermann, Raimund W. Kinne

PLOS ONE Diurnal fluctuation in the number of hypocretin/orexin and histamine producing: Implication for understanding and treating neuronal loss

June 1, 2017 Ronald McGregor, Ling Shan, Ming-Fung Wu, Jerome M. Siegel

PLOS ONE A machine learning approach for gait speed estimation using skin-mounted wearable sensors: From healthy controls to individuals with multiple sclerosis

June 1, 2017 Ryan S. McGinnis, Nikhil Mahadevan, Yaejin Moon, Kirsten Seagers, Nirav Sheth, John A. Wright Jr., Steven DiCristofaro, Ikaro Silva, Elise Jortberg, Melissa Ceruolo, Jesus A. Pindado, Jacob Sosnoff, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Shyamal Patel

PLOS ONE One bout of open skill exercise improves cross-modal perception and immediate memory in healthy older adults who habitually exercise

June 1, 2017 Jessica O’Brien, Giovanni Ottoboni, Alessia Tessari, Annalisa Setti

PLOS ONE Perspectives of older people about contingency planning for falls in the community: A qualitative meta-synthesis

May 31, 2017 Kimberly Charlton, Carolyn M. Murray, Saravana Kumar

PLOS ONE Diagnostic potential of multimodal neuroimaging in posttraumatic stress disorder

May 30, 2017 Jooyeon Jamie Im, Binna Kim, Jaeuk Hwang, Jieun E. Kim, Jung Yoon Kim, Sandy Jeong Rhie, Eun Namgung, Ilhyang Kang, Sohyeon Moon, In Kyoon Lyoo, Sujung Yoon, Chang-hyun Park

PLOS ONE Assessment of psychological pain in suicidal veterans

May 30, 2017 Christopher Reist, Steven Mee, Ken Fujimoto, Vivek Rajani, William E. Bunney, Blynn G. Bunney

PLOS ONE Relationship of mechanical impact magnitude to neurologic dysfunction severity in a rat traumatic brain injury model

May 26, 2017 Tsung-Hsun Hsieh, Jing-Wei Kang, Jing-Huei Lai, Ying-Zu Huang, Alexander Rotenberg, Kai-Yun Chen, Jia-Yi Wang, Shu-Yen Chan, Shih-Ching Chen, Yung-Hsiao Chiang, Chih-Wei Peng

PLOS ONE Decreased health-related quality of life in angiodysplasia patients: A cross-sectional cohort

May 26, 2017 Karina V. Grooteman, Mijntje Matheeuwsen, Erwin J. M. van Geenen, Joost P. H. Drenth

PLOS ONE Toward a more personalized motor function rehabilitation in Myotonic dystrophy type 1: The role of neuroplasticity

May 25, 2017 Simona Portaro, Antonino Naro, Antonino Chillura, Luana Billeri, Alessia Bramanti, Placido Bramanti, Carmelo Rodolico, Rocco Salvatore Calabrò

PLOS ONE Regional brain amyloid-β accumulation associates with domain-specific cognitive performance in Parkinson disease without dementia

May 25, 2017 Rizwan S. Akhtar, Sharon X. Xie, Yin J. Chen, Jacqueline Rick, Rachel G. Gross, Ilya M. Nasrallah, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, John Q. Trojanowski, Alice S. Chen-Plotkin, Howard I. Hurtig, Andrew D. Siderowf, Jacob G. Dubroff, Daniel Weintraub

PLOS ONE German validation of Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI) assessment and associated factors

May 24, 2017 Nicole von Steinbüchel, Ruben G. L. Real, Nadine Sasse, Lindsay Wilson, Christiane Otto, Ryan Mullins, Robert Behr, Wolfgang Deinsberger, Ramon Martinez-Olivera, Wolfgang Puschendorf, Werner Petereit, Veit Rohde, Holger Schmidt, Stephan Sehmisch, Klaus Michael Stürmer, Klaus von Wild, Henning Gibbons

PLOS ONE In vivo transduction of neurons with TAT-UCH-L1 protects brain against controlled cortical impact injury

May 24, 2017 Hao Liu, Marie E. Rose, Xiecheng Ma, Sherman Culver, C. Edward Dixon, Steven H. Graham

PLOS ONE Gait asymmetry, ankle spasticity, and depression as independent predictors of falls in ambulatory stroke patients

May 23, 2017 Ta-Sen Wei, Peng-Ta Liu, Sen-Yung Liu, Liang-Wey Chang

PLOS ONE No relevant association of kinematic gait parameters with Health-related Quality of Life in Parkinson’s disease

May 22, 2017 Kristina Bettecken, Felix Bernhard, Jennifer Sartor, Markus A. Hobert, Marc Hofmann, Till Gladow, Janet M. T. van Uem, Inga Liepelt-Scarfone, Walter Maetzler

PLOS ONE Host mediated inflammatory influence on glioblastoma multiforme recurrence following high-dose ionizing radiation

May 22, 2017 J. Tyson McDonald, Xuefeng Gao, Cole Steber, Jawon Lee Breed, Caitlin Pollock, Lili Ma, Lynn Hlatky

PLOS ONE A narrative systematic review of factors affecting diabetes prevention in primary care settings

May 22, 2017 Josie Messina, Stephen Campbell, Rebecca Morris, Emily Eyles, Caroline Sanders

PLOS ONE Prognostic psychosocial factors for disabling low back pain in Japanese hospital workers

May 22, 2017 Takahiko Yoshimoto, Junji Katsuhira, Tomoko Fujii, Katsuhiko Masuda, Sakae Tanaka, Ko Matsudaira, Hiroyuki Oka

PLOS ONE Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation enhances the effects of aerobic training on cardiopulmonary function

May 22, 2017 Takashi Moriki, Yoshi-ichiro Kamijo, Yukihide Nishimura, Motohiko Banno, Tokio Kinoshita, Hiroyasu Uenishi, Fumihiro Tajima, Takeshi Nakamura

PLOS ONE Neuropsychological characteristics of Gulf War illness: A meta-analysis

May 17, 2017 Patricia A. Janulewicz, Maxine H. Krengel, Alexis Maule, Roberta F. White, Joanna Cirillo, Emily Sisson, Timothy Heeren, Kimberly Sullivan

PLOS ONE Multiple modality biomarker prediction of cognitive impairment in prospectively followed de novo Parkinson disease

May 17, 2017 Chelsea Caspell-Garcia, Tanya Simuni, Duygu Tosun-Turgut, I-Wei Wu, Yu Zhang, Mike Nalls, Andrew Singleton, Leslie A. Shaw, Ju-Hee Kang, John Q. Trojanowski, Andrew Siderowf, Christopher Coffey, Shirley Lasch, Dag Aarsland, David Burn, Lana M. Chahine, Alberto J. Espay, Eric D. Foster, Keith A. Hawkins, Irene Litvan, Irene Richard, the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) , Daniel Weintraub

PLOS ONE Neurofeedback as a form of cognitive rehabilitation therapy following stroke: A systematic review

May 16, 2017 Tian Renton, Alana Tibbles, Jane Topolovec-Vranic

PLOS ONE Aquatic cycling—What do we know? A scoping review on head-out aquatic cycling

May 16, 2017 Stefanie Rewald, Ilse Mesters, Antoine F. Lenssen, Jens Bansi, Johan Lambeck, Rob A. de Bie, Benjamin Waller

PLOS ONE A reverse dot blot assay for the screening of twenty mutations in four genes associated with NSHL in a Chinese population

May 15, 2017 Siping Li, Qi Peng, Shengyun Liao, Wenrui Li, Qiang Ma, Xiaomei Lu

PLOS ONE Comparative effectiveness of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors versus angiotensin II receptor blockers for major renal outcomes in patients with diabetes: A 15-year cohort study

May 15, 2017 Hon-Yen Wu, Chiao-Ling Peng, Pei-Chun Chen, Chih-Kang Chiang, Chee-Jen Chang, Jenq-Wen Huang, Yu-Sen Peng, Yu-Kang Tu, Tzong-Shinn Chu, Kuan-Yu Hung, Kuo-Liong Chien

PLOS ONE Percutaneous coronary intervention with second-generation drug-eluting stent versus bare-metal stent: Systematic review and cost–benefit analysis

May 12, 2017 Thomas G. Poder, Jihane Erraji, Lucien P. Coulibaly, Kouamé Koffi

PLOS ONE When do traumatic experiences alter risk-taking behavior? A machine learning analysis of reports from refugees

May 12, 2017 Mareike Augsburger, Thomas Elbert

PLOS ONE Myopia and depressive symptoms among older Chinese adults

May 12, 2017 Yin Wu, Qinghua Ma, Hong-Peng Sun, Yong Xu, Mei-E Niu, Chen-Wei Pan

PLOS ONE Ultra high-field (7tesla) magnetic resonance spectroscopy in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

May 12, 2017 Nazem Atassi, Maosheng Xu, Christina Triantafyllou, Boris Keil, Robert Lawson, Paul Cernasov, Elena Ratti, Christopher J. Long, Sabrina Paganoni, Alyssa Murphy, Nouha Salibi, Ravi Seethamraju, Bruce Rosen, Eva-Maria Ratai

PLOS ONE Cognitive function in multiple sclerosis improves with telerehabilitation: Results from a randomized controlled trial

May 11, 2017 Leigh E. Charvet, Jie Yang, Michael T. Shaw, Kathleen Sherman, Lamia Haider, Jianjin Xu, Lauren B. Krupp

PLOS ONE Functional decline in nursing home residents: A prognostic study

May 11, 2017 Javier Jerez-Roig, Lidiane Maria de Brito Macedo Ferreira, José Rodolfo Torres de Araújo, Kenio Costa Lima

PLOS ONE Apathy, but not depression, is associated with executive dysfunction in cerebral small vessel disease

May 11, 2017 Valerie Lohner, Rebecca L. Brookes, Matthew J. Hollocks, Robin G. Morris, Hugh S. Markus

PLOS ONE Vertical ground reaction force marker for Parkinson’s disease

May 11, 2017 Md Nafiul Alam, Amanmeet Garg, Tamanna Tabassum Khan Munia, Reza Fazel-Rezai, Kouhyar Tavakolian

PLOS ONE A two-question tool to assess the risk of repeated falls in the elderly

May 10, 2017 Alejandro Rodríguez-Molinero, César Gálvez-Barrón, Leire Narvaiza, Antonio Miñarro, Jorge Ruiz, Esther Valldosera, Natalia Gonzalo, Thalia Ng, María Jesús Sanguino, Antonio Yuste

PLOS ONE Human perception of electrical stimulation on the surface of somatosensory cortex

May 10, 2017 Shivayogi V. Hiremath, Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara, Jesse J. Wheeler, Daniel W. Moran, Robert A. Gaunt, Jennifer L. Collinger, Stephen T. Foldes, Douglas J. Weber, Weidong Chen, Michael L. Boninger, Wei Wang

PLOS ONE Online mindfulness as a promising method to improve exercise capacity in heart disease: 12-month follow-up of a randomized controlled trial

May 9, 2017 Rinske A. Gotink, John O. Younge, Machteld F. Wery, Elisabeth M. W. J. Utens, Michelle Michels, Dimitris Rizopoulos, Liesbeth F. C. van Rossum, Jolien W. Roos-Hesselink, Myriam M. G. Hunink

PLOS ONE Evaluation of a transdiagnostic psychodynamic online intervention to support return to work: A randomized controlled trial

May 8, 2017 Rüdiger Zwerenz, Jan Becker, Katharina Gerzymisch, Martin Siepmann, Martin Holme, Ulrich Kiwus, Sieglinde Spörl-Dönch, Manfred E. Beutel

PLOS ONE Unmasking adrenoleukodystrophy in a cohort of cerebellar ataxia

May 8, 2017 Ying-Hao Chen, Yi-Chung Lee, Yu-Shuen Tsai, Yuh-Cherng Guo, Cheng-Tsung Hsiao, Pei-Chien Tsai, Jin-An Huang, Bing-Wen Soong, Yi-Chu Liao

PLOS ONE Shaping innovations in long-term care for stroke survivors with multimorbidity through stakeholder engagement

May 5, 2017 Euan Sadler, Talya Porat, Iain Marshall, Uy Hoang, Vasa Curcin, Charles D. A. Wolfe, Christopher McKevitt

PLOS ONE Lexical ambiguity resolution during sentence processing in Parkinson’s disease: An event-related potential study

May 5, 2017 Anthony J. Angwin, Nadeeka N. W. Dissanayaka, Katie L. McMahon, Peter A. Silburn, David A. Copland

PLOS ONE Association between social support and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among Chinese patients with ovarian cancer: A multiple mediation model

May 5, 2017 Chunli Liu, Yi Zhang, Hong Jiang, Hui Wu

PLOS ONE The impact of obesity on neuropsychological functioning in adults with and without major depressive disorder

May 5, 2017 Maria R. Restivo, Margaret C. McKinnon, Benicio N. Frey, Geoffrey B. Hall, Wasimuddin Syed, Valerie H. Taylor

PLOS ONE Impact of illicit opioid use on T cell subsets among HIV-infected adults

May 4, 2017 E. Jennifer Edelman, Kaku So-Armah, Debbie M. Cheng, Margaret F. Doyle, Sharon M. Coleman, Carly Bridden, Natalia Gnatienko, Dmitry A. Lioznov, Elena Blokhina, Matthew S. Freiberg, Evgeny M. Krupitsky, Brinda Emu, Jeffrey H. Samet

PLOS ONE Evaluation of a novel Serious Game based assessment tool for patients with Alzheimer’s disease

May 4, 2017 Vanessa Vallejo, Patric Wyss, Luca Rampa, Andrei V. Mitache, René M. Müri, Urs P. Mosimann, Tobias Nef

PLOS ONE Factors associated with stage of change in smoker in relation to smoking cessation based on the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey II-V

May 4, 2017 Ah Young Leem, Chang Hoon Han, Chul Min Ahn, Sang Haak Lee, Jae Yeol Kim, Eun Mi Chun, Kwang Ha Yoo, Korean Smoking Cessation Study Group , Ji Ye Jung

PLOS ONE Management of vertebral compression fracture in general practice: BEACH program

May 4, 2017 Rodrigo Z. Megale, Allan Pollack, Helena Britt, Jane Latimer, Vasi Naganathan, Andrew J. McLachlan, Manuela L. Ferreira

PLOS ONE Modified 30-second Sit to Stand test predicts falls in a cohort of institutionalized older veterans

May 2, 2017 Eva V. Applebaum, Dominic Breton, Zhuo Wei Feng, An-Tchi Ta, Kayley Walsh, Kathleen Chassé, Shawn M. Robbins

PLOS ONE The effect of cognitive-based training for the healthy older people: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

May 1, 2017 Huei-Ling Chiu, Hsin Chu, Jui-Chen Tsai, Doresses Liu, Ying-Ren Chen, Hui-Ling Yang, Kuei-Ru Chou

PLOS ONE Feasibility of computerized working memory training in individuals with Huntington disease

April 28, 2017 Mahsa Sadeghi, Emily Barlow-Krelina, Clare Gibbons, Komal T. Shaikh, Wai Lun Alan Fung, Wendy S. Meschino, Christine Till

PLOS ONE Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening program using hand-held ultrasound in primary healthcare

April 28, 2017 Antoni Sisó-Almirall, Belchin Kostov, Marta Navarro González, Daniel Cararach Salami, Alfonso Pérez Jiménez, Rosa Gilabert Solé, Concepció Bru Saumell, Lluís Donoso Bach, Mireia Villalta Martí, Luis González-de Paz, Rafael Ruiz Riera, Vicenç Riambau Alonso, Nihan Acar-Denizli, Marta Farré Almacellas, Manuel Ramos-Casals, Jaume Benavent Àreu

PLOS ONE A systematic review of hybrid brain-computer interfaces: Taxonomy and usability perspectives

April 28, 2017 Inchul Choi, Ilsun Rhiu, Yushin Lee, Myung Hwan Yun, Chang S. Nam

PLOS ONE Altered nucleocytoplasmic proteome and transcriptome distributions in an in vitro model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

April 28, 2017 Jee-Eun Kim, Yoon Ho Hong, Jin Young Kim, Gye Sun Jeon, Jung Hee Jung, Byung-Nam Yoon, Sung-Yeon Son, Kwang-Woo Lee, Jong-Il Kim, Jung-Joon Sung

PLOS ONE Altered resting-state intra- and inter- network functional connectivity in patients with persistent somatoform pain disorder

April 28, 2017 Zhiyong Zhao, Tianming Huang, Chaozheng Tang, Kaiji Ni, Xiandi Pan, Chao Yan, Xiaoduo Fan, Dongrong Xu, Yanli Luo

PLOS Computational Biology Personalized glucose forecasting for type 2 diabetes using data assimilation

April 27, 2017 David J. Albers, Matthew Levine, Bruce Gluckman, Henry Ginsberg, George Hripcsak, Lena Mamykina

PLOS ONE Vasopressor use following traumatic injury – A single center retrospective study

April 27, 2017 Mathieu Hylands, Marie-Pier Godbout, Sandeep K. Mayer, William D. Fraser, Alain Vanasse, Marc-André Leclair, Alexis F. Turgeon, François Lauzier, Emmanuel Charbonney, Vincent Trottier, Tarek S. Razek, André Roy, Frédérick D’Aragon, Emilie Belley-Côté, Andrew G. Day, Soazig Le Guillan, Robert Sabbagh, François Lamontagne

PLOS ONE Better than counting seconds: Identifying fallers among healthy elderly using fusion of accelerometer features and dual-task Timed Up and Go

April 27, 2017 Moacir Ponti, Patricia Bet, Caroline L. Oliveira, Paula C. Castro

PLOS ONE The impact of anti-drug antibodies on drug concentrations and clinical outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with adalimumab, etanercept, or infliximab: Results from a multinational, real-world clinical practice, non-interventional study

April 27, 2017 Robert J. Moots, Ricardo M. Xavier, Chi Chiu Mok, Mahboob U. Rahman, Wen-Chan Tsai, Mustafa H. Al-Maini, Karel Pavelka, Ehab Mahgoub, Sameer Kotak, Joan Korth-Bradley, Ron Pedersen, Linda Mele, Qi Shen, Bonnie Vlahos

PLOS ONE Employment 12 months after kidney transplantation: An in-depth bio-psycho-social analysis of the Swiss Transplant Cohort

April 27, 2017 Brigitta Danuser, Amira Simcox, Michael Koller, Pascal Wild, for the Psychosocial Interest Group, Swiss Transplant Cohort Study , Regina Studer

PLOS ONE Individuals with severely impaired vision can learn useful orientation and mobility skills in virtual streets and can use them to improve real street safety

April 26, 2017 Ellen Lambert Bowman, Lei Liu

PLOS ONE Delayed histochemical alterations within the neurovascular unit due to transient focal cerebral ischemia and experimental treatment with neurotrophic factors

April 26, 2017 Dominik Michalski, Roman Pitsch, Deepu R. Pillai, Bianca Mages, Susanne Aleithe, Jens Grosche, Henrik Martens, Felix Schlachetzki, Wolfgang Härtig

PLOS ONE Pattern classification of EEG signals reveals perceptual and attentional states

April 26, 2017 Alexandra List, Monica D. Rosenberg, Aleksandra Sherman, Michael Esterman

PLOS ONE Creating and parameterizing patient-specific deep brain stimulation pathway-activation models using the hyperdirect pathway as an example

April 25, 2017 Kabilar Gunalan, Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Bryan Howell, Yuval Duchin, Scott F. Lempka, Remi Patriat, Guillermo Sapiro, Noam Harel, Cameron C. McIntyre

PLOS Medicine Identification of genes associated with dissociation of cognitive performance and neuropathological burden: Multistep analysis of genetic, epigenetic, and transcriptional data

April 25, 2017 Charles C. White, Hyun-Sik Yang, Lei Yu, Lori B. Chibnik, Robert J. Dawe, Jingyun Yang, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Daniel Felsky, Alfredo Ramos-Miguel, Konstantinos Arfanakis, William G. Honer, Reisa A. Sperling, Julie A. Schneider, David A. Bennett, Philip L. De Jager

PLOS ONE Relative predictive value of lung cancer screening CT versus myocardial perfusion attenuation correction CT in the evaluation of coronary calcium

April 24, 2017 Grant Bailey, Abigail Healy, Bryan D. Young, Esseim Sharma, Judith Meadows, Hyung J. Chun, Wen-Chih Wu, Gaurav Choudhary, Alan R. Morrison

PLOS ONE Stage call: Cardiovascular reactivity to audition stress in musicians

April 24, 2017 Theerasak Chanwimalueang, Lisa Aufegger, Tricia Adjei, David Wasley, Cinzia Cruder, Danilo P. Mandic, Aaron Williamon

PLOS ONE Prevalence of alcohol use disorders among under- and post-graduate healthcare students in Italy

April 24, 2017 Monica Lamberti, Francesco Napolitano, Paola Napolitano, Antonio Arnese, Vincenzo Crispino, Gianclaudio Panariello, Gabriella Di Giuseppe

PLOS ONE Cerebellar volume as imaging outcome in progressive multiple sclerosis

April 24, 2017 Matilde Inglese, Maria Petracca, Enricomaria Mormina, Anat Achiron, Rebecca Straus-Farber, Shmuel Miron, Michelle Fabian, Stephen Krieger, Aaron Miller, Fred Lublin, Maria Pia Sormani

PLOS ONE Predictors of falls and mortality among elderly adults with traumatic brain injury: A nationwide, population-based study

April 21, 2017 Wayne W. Fu, Terence S. Fu, Rowan Jing, Steven R. McFaull, Michael D. Cusimano

PLOS ONE Identifying a combined construct of grief and explosive anger as a response to injustice amongst survivors of mass conflict: A latent class analysis of data from Timor-Leste

April 21, 2017 Susan J. Rees, Alvin Kuowei Tay, Elisa Savio, Zelia Maria Da Costa, Derrick Silove

PLOS ONE Facework and trust in facilitating health-focused housing interventions

April 20, 2017 Dominic Aitken, Glenda Cook, Allison Lawson, Philip Hodgson

PLOS ONE Acute kidney injury can predict in-hospital and long-term mortality in elderly patients undergoing hip fracture surgery

April 20, 2017 Seong Eun Hong, Tae-Young Kim, Je-Hyun Yoo, Jwa-Kyung Kim, Sung Gyun Kim, Hyung Jik Kim, Young Rim Song

PLOS ONE The impact of a point-of-care testing device on CVD risk assessment completion in New Zealand primary-care practice: A cluster randomised controlled trial and qualitative investigation

April 19, 2017 Sue Wells, Natasha Rafter, Timothy Kenealy, Geoff Herd, Kyle Eggleton, Rose Lightfoot, Kim Arcus, Angela Wadham, Yannan Jiang, Chris Bullen

PLOS ONE The long term outcome of micturition, defecation and sexual function after spinal surgery for cauda equina syndrome

April 19, 2017 Nina S. Korse, Anna B. Veldman, Wilco C. Peul, Carmen L. A. Vleggeert-Lankamp

PLOS ONE H-FABP: A new biomarker to differentiate between CT-positive and CT-negative patients with mild traumatic brain injury

April 18, 2017 Linnéa Lagerstedt, Juan José Egea-Guerrero, Alejandro Bustamante, Joan Montaner, Ana Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Amir El Rahal, Natacha Turck, Manuel Quintana, Roser García-Armengol, Carmen Melinda Prica, Elisabeth Andereggen, Lara Rinaldi, Asita Sarrafzadeh, Karl Schaller, Jean-Charles Sanchez

PLOS ONE Post-ischemic stroke rehabilitation is associated with a higher risk of fractures in older women: A population-based cohort study

April 17, 2017 Huei Kai Huang, Shu Man Lin, Clement Shih Hsien Yang, Chung Chao Liang, Hung Yu Cheng

PLOS ONE Validation of enhanced kinect sensor based motion capturing for gait assessment

April 14, 2017 Björn Müller, Winfried Ilg, Martin A. Giese, Nicolas Ludolph

PLOS ONE Novel behavioral indicator of explicit awareness reveals temporal course of frontoparietal neural network facilitation during motor learning

April 14, 2017 Regan R. Lawson, Jordan O. Gayle, Lewis A. Wheaton

PLOS ONE Blindness enhances auditory obstacle circumvention: Assessing echolocation, sensory substitution, and visual-based navigation

April 13, 2017 Andrew J. Kolarik, Amy C. Scarfe, Brian C. J. Moore, Shahina Pardhan

PLOS ONE Comorbidity and dementia: A nationwide survey in Taiwan

April 12, 2017 Ting-Bin Chen, Szu-Yu Yiao, Yu Sun, Huey-Jane Lee, Shu-Chien Yang, Ming-Jang Chiu, Ta-Fu Chen, Ker-Neng Lin, Li-Yu Tang, Chung-Chih Lin, Pei-Ning Wang

PLOS ONE Efficacy and safety of aspirin in patients with peripheral vascular disease: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

April 12, 2017 Ahmed N. Mahmoud, Akram Y. Elgendy, Cecil Rambarat, Dhruv Mahtta, Islam Y. Elgendy, Anthony A. Bavry

PLOS ONE Physical Activity on Prescription (PAP), in patients with metabolic risk factors. A 6-month follow-up study in primary health care

April 12, 2017 Stefan Lundqvist, Mats Börjesson, Maria E. H. Larsson, Lars Hagberg, Åsa Cider

PLOS ONE Simulated blast overpressure induces specific astrocyte injury in an ex vivo brain slice model

April 12, 2017 Saranya Canchi, Malisa Sarntinoranont, Yu Hong, Jeremy J. Flint, Ghatu Subhash, Michael A. King

PLOS ONE Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and chronic cognitive impairment: A scoping review

April 11, 2017 Kerry McInnes, Christopher L. Friesen, Diane E. MacKenzie, David A. Westwood, Shaun G. Boe

PLOS ONE Tackling psychosocial maladjustment in Parkinson’s disease patients following subthalamic deep-brain stimulation: A randomised clinical trial

April 11, 2017 Joao Flores Alves Dos Santos, Sophie Tezenas du Montcel, Marcella Gargiulo, Cecile Behar, Sébastien Montel, Thierry Hergueta, Soledad Navarro, Hayat Belaid, Pauline Cloitre, Carine Karachi, Luc Mallet, Marie-Laure Welter

PLOS Medicine The effects of implementing a point-of-care electronic template to prompt routine anxiety and depression screening in patients consulting for osteoarthritis (the Primary Care Osteoarthritis Trial): A cluster randomised trial in primary care

April 11, 2017 Christian D. Mallen, Barbara I. Nicholl, Martyn Lewis, Bernadette Bartlam, Daniel Green, Sue Jowett, Jesse Kigozi, John Belcher, Kris Clarkson, Zoe Lingard, Christopher Pope, Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Peter Croft, Elaine M. Hay, George Peat

PLOS ONE Use of a machine learning framework to predict substance use disorder treatment success

April 10, 2017 Laura Acion, Diana Kelmansky, Mark van der Laan, Ethan Sahker, DeShauna Jones, Stephan Arndt

PLOS ONE Short- and long-term effects of a need-supportive physical activity intervention among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomized controlled pilot trial

April 6, 2017 Jari Vanroy, Jan Seghers, An Bogaerts, Karlien Devloo, Stijn De Cock, Filip Boen

PLOS ONE Relationship between functional disability and costs one and two years post stroke

April 6, 2017 Ingrid Lekander, Carl Willers, Mia von Euler, Mikael Lilja, Katharina S. Sunnerhagen, Hélène Pessah-Rasmussen, Fredrik Borgström

PLOS ONE Oxygen uptake efficiency slope as a useful measure of cardiorespiratory fitness in morbidly obese women

April 6, 2017 Tatiana Onofre, Nicole Oliver, Renata Carlos, Amanda Felismino, Renata Cristina Corte, Eliane Silva, Selma Bruno

PLOS ONE Bimanual reach to grasp movements after cervical spinal cord injury

April 6, 2017 Laura Britten, Rachel Coats, Ronaldo Ichiyama, Wajid Raza, Firas Jamil, Sarah Astill

PLOS ONE Does Tai Chi relieve fatigue? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

April 5, 2017 Yu Xiang, Liming Lu, Xiankun Chen, Zehuai Wen

PLOS ONE Type D personality and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among intensive care unit nurses: The mediating effect of resilience

April 5, 2017 Geum-Jin Cho, Jiyeon Kang

PLOS ONE Preferences for care towards the end of life when decision-making capacity may be impaired: A large scale cross-sectional survey of public attitudes in Great Britain and the United States

April 5, 2017 Gemma Clarke, Elizabeth Fistein, Anthony Holland, Matthew Barclay, Pia Theimann, Stephen Barclay

PLOS ONE Transcutaneous spinal direct current stimulation induces lasting fatigue resistance and enhances explosive vertical jump performance

April 5, 2017 Helen R. Berry, Rothwelle J. Tate, Bernard A. Conway

PLOS Medicine Talking sensibly about depression

April 4, 2017 Vikram Patel

PLOS ONE The “DOC” screen: Feasible and valid screening for depression, Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and cognitive impairment in stroke prevention clinics

April 4, 2017 Richard H. Swartz, Megan L. Cayley, Krista L. Lanctôt, Brian J. Murray, Ashley Cohen, Kevin E. Thorpe, Michelle N. Sicard, Karen Lien, Demetrios J. Sahlas, Nathan Herrmann

PLOS ONE The empowerment of elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Managing life with the disease

April 3, 2017 Zahra Fotokian, Farahnaz Mohammadi Shahboulaghi, Masoud Fallahi-Khoshknab, Ali Pourhabib

PLOS ONE Can activities of daily living contribute to EMG normalization for gait analysis?

April 3, 2017 Aseel Ghazwan, Sarah M. Forrest, Cathy A. Holt, Gemma M. Whatling

PLOS ONE Socioeconomic factors explain suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected Australian adults with viral suppression

April 3, 2017 Krista J. Siefried, Limin Mao, Stephen Kerr, Lucette A. Cysique, Thomas M. Gates, John McAllister, Anthony Maynard, John de Wit, Andrew Carr, On behalf of PAART study investigators

PLOS ONE Intimate partner violence in the post-war context: Women’s experiences and community leaders’ perceptions in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka

March 31, 2017 Sepali Guruge, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Colleen Varcoe, Vathsala Jayasuriya-Illesinghe, Mahesan Ganesan, Sivagurunathan Sivayogan, Parvathy Kanthasamy, Pushparani Shanmugalingam, Hemamala Vithanarachchi

PLOS ONE Incidence, risk, and associated factors of depression in adults with physical and sensory disabilities: A nationwide population-based study

March 31, 2017 Szu-Ching Shen, Kuang-Hua Huang, Pei-Tseng Kung, Li-Ting Chiu, Wen-Chen Tsai

PLOS ONE The association between sleep duration and physical performance in Chinese community-dwelling elderly

March 30, 2017 Liyuan Fu, Liye Jia, Wen Zhang, Peipei Han, Li Kang, Yixuan Ma, Hairui Yu, Tianqi Zhai, Xiaoyu Chen, Qi Guo

PLOS ONE Does personality affect health-related quality of life? A systematic review

March 29, 2017 I-Chan Huang, Joy L. Lee, Pavinarmatha Ketheeswaran, Conor M. Jones, Dennis A. Revicki, Albert W. Wu

PLOS ONE A blood-based biomarker panel to risk-stratify mild traumatic brain injury

March 29, 2017 Richa Sharma, Alexandra Rosenberg, Ellen R. Bennett, Daniel T. Laskowitz, Shawn K. Acheson

PLOS ONE Effects of different lower-limb sensory stimulation strategies on postural regulation—A systematic review and meta-analysis

March 29, 2017 Mei Teng Woo, Keith Davids, Jarmo Liukkonen, Dominic Orth, Jia Yi Chow, Timo Jaakkola

PLOS ONE Signs of current suicidality in men: A systematic review

March 29, 2017 Tara Hunt, Coralie J. Wilson, Peter Caputi, Alan Woodward, Ian Wilson

PLOS Medicine Association between delirium superimposed on dementia and mortality in hospitalized older adults: A prospective cohort study

March 28, 2017 Thiago Avelino-Silva, Flavia Campora, Jose Curiati, Wilson Jacob-Filho

PLOS Medicine The impact of individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) on cognition, quality of life, caregiver health, and family relationships in dementia: A randomised controlled trial

March 28, 2017 Martin Orrell, Lauren Yates, Phuong Leung, Sujin Kang, Zoe Hoare, Chris Whitaker, Alistair Burns, Martin Knapp, Iracema Leroi, Esme Moniz-Cook, Stephen Pearson, Stephen Simpson, Aimee Spector, Steven Roberts, Ian Russell, Hugo de Waal, Robert Woods, Vasiliki Orgeta

PLOS ONE Can group-based reassuring information alter low back pain behavior? A cluster-randomized controlled trial

March 27, 2017 Pernille Frederiksen, Aage Indahl, Lars L. Andersen, Kim Burton, Rasmus Hertzum-Larsen, Tom Bendix

PLOS ONE Association of eNOS and Cav-1 gene polymorphisms with susceptibility risk of large artery atherosclerotic stroke

March 27, 2017 Hann-Yeh Shyu, Ming-Hua Chen, Yi-Hsien Hsieh, Jia-Ching Shieh, Ling-Rong Yen, Hsiao-Wei Wang, Chun-Wen Cheng

PLOS ONE Six degree-of-freedom knee joint kinematics in obese individuals with knee pain during gait

March 24, 2017 Jing-Sheng Li, Tsung-Yuan Tsai, David T. Felson, Guoan Li, Cara L. Lewis

PLOS ONE Challenges of developing a cardiovascular risk calculator for patients with rheumatoid arthritis

March 23, 2017 Cynthia S. Crowson, Silvia Rollefstad, George D. Kitas, Piet L. C. M. van Riel, Sherine E. Gabriel, Anne Grete Semb, On behalf of A Trans-Atlantic Cardiovascular Risk Consortium for Rheumatoid Arthritis (ATACC-RA)

PLOS ONE Physical activity is independently associated with reduced mortality: 15-years follow-up of the Hordaland Health Study (HUSK)

March 22, 2017 Øyvind Kopperstad, Jens Christoffer Skogen, Børge Sivertsen, Grethe S. Tell, Solbjørg Makalani Myrtveit Sæther

PLOS ONE The value of theory in programmes to implement clinical guidelines: Insights from a retrospective mixed-methods evaluation of a programme to increase adherence to national guidelines for chronic disease in primary care

March 22, 2017 Jessica Sheringham, Francesca Solmi, Cono Ariti, Abigail Baim-Lance, Steve Morris, Naomi J. Fulop

PLOS ONE Intra articular hyaluronic acid in the management of knee osteoarthritis: Pharmaco-economic study from the perspective of the national health insurance system

March 22, 2017 Thierry Thomas, Françoise Amouroux, Patrice Vincent

PLOS ONE Problems identified by dual sensory impaired older adults in long-term care when using a self-management program: A qualitative study

March 21, 2017 Lieve Roets-Merken, Sytse Zuidema, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Marianne Dees, Pieter Hermsen, Gertrudis Kempen, Maud Graff

PLOS ONE Drug therapy for alcohol dependence in primary care in the UK: A Clinical Practice Research Datalink study

March 20, 2017 Andrew Thompson, Darren M. Ashcroft, Lynn Owens, Tjeerd P. van Staa, Munir Pirmohamed

PLOS ONE Effects of sudden walking perturbations on neuromuscular reflex activity and three-dimensional motion of the trunk in healthy controls and back pain symptomatic subjects

March 20, 2017 Juliane Mueller, Tilman Engel, Steffen Mueller, Josefine Stoll, Heiner Baur, Frank Mayer

PLOS ONE Treating major depression with yoga: A prospective, randomized, controlled pilot trial

March 16, 2017 Sudha Prathikanti, Renee Rivera, Ashly Cochran, Jose Gabriel Tungol, Nima Fayazmanesh, Eva Weinmann

PLOS ONE The association between frequent alcohol drinking and opioid consumption after abdominal surgery: A retrospective analysis

March 16, 2017 Sheng-Chin Kao, Hsin-I Tsai, Chih-Wen Cheng, Ta-Wei Lin, Chien-Chuan Chen, Chia-Shiang Lin

PLOS ONE Interaction between the oculomotor and postural systems during a dual-task: Compensatory reductions in head sway following visually-induced postural perturbations promote the production of accurate double-step saccades in standing human adults

March 15, 2017 Mathieu Boulanger, Guillaume Giraudet, Jocelyn Faubert

PLOS ONE Associations of perceived social support and positive psychological resources with fatigue symptom in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

March 14, 2017 NeiLi Xu, Shuai Zhao, HongXia Xue, WenYi Fu, Li Liu, TianQi Zhang, Rui Huang, Ning Zhang

PLOS Medicine Challenges and opportunities in understanding dementia and delirium in the acute hospital

March 14, 2017 Thomas A. Jackson, John R. F. Gladman, Rowan H. Harwood, Alasdair M. J. MacLullich, Elizabeth L. Sampson, Bart Sheehan, Daniel H. J. Davis

PLOS Medicine Early diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia through basic and instrumental activities of daily living: Development of a new evaluation tool

March 14, 2017 Elise Cornelis, Ellen Gorus, Ingo Beyer, Ivan Bautmans, Patricia De Vriendt

PLOS ONE Obesity paradox in stroke – Myth or reality? A systematic review

March 14, 2017 Lisa Oesch, Turgut Tatlisumak, Marcel Arnold, Hakan Sarikaya

PLOS ONE Few serum proteins mediate APOE’s association with dementia

March 14, 2017 Donald R. Royall, Safa Al-Rubaye, Ram Bishnoi, Raymond F. Palmer

PLOS ONE Increased risk of essential tremor in migraine: A population-based retrospective cohort study

March 13, 2017 Chi-Ieong Lau, Che-Chen Lin, Hsuan-Ju Chen, Han-Cheng Wang, Wei-Hung Chen, Ji-An Liang

PLOS ONE D-cycloserine augmentation of behavior therapy for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders: A meta-analysis

March 10, 2017 Paul-Christian Bürkner, Nadine Bittner, Heinz Holling, Ulrike Buhlmann

PLOS ONE Low back pain during military service predicts low back pain later in life

March 10, 2017 Ville M. Mattila, Matti Santtila, Harri Pihlajamäki, Heikki Kyröläinen

PLOS ONE Are community-based nurse-led self-management support interventions effective in chronic patients? Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis

March 10, 2017 Azzurra Massimi, Corrado De Vito, Alice Corsaro, Carolina Marzuillo, Giuseppe Migliara, Maria Luisa Rega, Walter Ricciardi, Paolo Villari, Gianfranco Damiani, Ilaria Brufola

PLOS ONE The essential and downstream common proteins of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A protein-protein interaction network analysis

March 10, 2017 Yimin Mao, Su-Wei Kuo, Le Chen, C. J. Heckman, M. C. Jiang

PLOS ONE The influence of a hydraulic prosthetic ankle on residual limb loading during sloped walking

March 9, 2017 Sara R. Koehler-McNicholas, Eric A. Nickel, Joseph Medvec, Kyle Barrons, Spencer Mion, Andrew H. Hansen

PLOS ONE Characterizing the community use of an ultralight wheelchair with “on the fly” adjustable seating functions: A pilot study

March 9, 2017 Johanne Mattie, William C. Miller, Borna Noureddin, Jaimie Borisoff

PLOS ONE The role of the inspiratory muscle weakness in functional capacity in hemodialysis patients

March 9, 2017 Pedro Henrique Scheidt Figueiredo, Márcia Maria Oliveira Lima, Henrique Silveira Costa, Rosalina Tossige Gomes, Camila Danielle Cunha Neves, Evandro Silveira de Oliveira, Frederico Lopes Alves, Vanessa Gomes Brandão Rodrigues, Emílio Henrique Barroso Maciel, Cláudio Heitor Balthazar

PLOS ONE Classical and adaptive control of ex vivo skeletal muscle contractions using Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)

March 8, 2017 Paola Jaramillo Cienfuegos, Adam Shoemaker, Robert W. Grange, Nicole Abaid, Alexander Leonessa

PLOS ONE Perceptions of physical activity and walking in an early stage after stroke or acquired brain injury

March 8, 2017 Karin Törnbom, Katharina S. Sunnerhagen, Anna Danielsson

PLOS ONE Postoperative pain treatment after total knee arthroplasty: A systematic review

March 8, 2017 Anders Peder Højer Karlsen, Mik Wetterslev, Signe Elisa Hansen, Morten Sejer Hansen, Ole Mathiesen, Jørgen B. Dahl

PLOS Medicine Multimorbidity and healthcare utilization among home care clients with dementia in Ontario, Canada: A retrospective analysis of a population-based cohort

March 7, 2017 Luke Mondor, Colleen Maxwell, David Hogan, Susan Bronskill, Andrea Gruneir, Natasha Lane, Walter Wodchis

PLOS ONE Patient education for people with multiple sclerosis-associated fatigue: A systematic review

March 7, 2017 Maria Janina Wendebourg, Christoph Heesen, Marcia Finlayson, Björn Meyer, Jana Pöttgen, Sascha Köpke

PLOS Medicine Rehabilitation for people living with dementia: A practical framework of positive support

March 7, 2017 Linda Clare

PLOS Medicine What’s the “Take Home” from Research on Dementia Trends?

March 7, 2017 Eric Larson, Kenneth Langa

PLOS ONE Cost-effectiveness of adjunct non-pharmacological interventions for osteoarthritis of the knee

March 7, 2017 Beth Woods, Andrea Manca, Helen Weatherly, Pedro Saramago, Eleftherios Sideris, Christina Giannopoulou, Stephen Rice, Mark Corbett, Andrew Vickers, Matthew Bowes, Hugh MacPherson, Mark Sculpher

PLOS Medicine Subjective and objective cognitive function among older adults with a history of traumatic brain injury: A population-based cohort study

March 7, 2017 Raquel Gardner, Kenneth Langa, Kristine Yaffe

PLOS ONE Impaired perception of surface tilt in progressive supranuclear palsy

March 7, 2017 Marian L. Dale, Fay B. Horak, W. Geoffrey Wright, Bernadette M. Schoneburg, John G. Nutt, Martina Mancini

PLOS ONE Brain training improves recovery after stroke but waiting list improves equally: A multicenter randomized controlled trial of a computer-based cognitive flexibility training

March 3, 2017 Renate M. van de Ven, Jessika I. V. Buitenweg, Ben Schmand, Dick J. Veltman, Justine A. Aaronson, Tanja C. W. Nijboer, Suzanne J. C. Kruiper-Doesborgh, Coen A. M. van Bennekom, Sascha M. C. Rasquin, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Jaap M. J. Murre

PLOS ONE Uncovering precision phenotype-biomarker associations in traumatic brain injury using topological data analysis

March 3, 2017 Jessica L. Nielson, Shelly R. Cooper, John K. Yue, Marco D. Sorani, Tomoo Inoue, Esther L. Yuh, Pratik Mukherjee, Tanya C. Petrossian, Jesse Paquette, Pek Y. Lum, Gunnar E. Carlsson, Mary J. Vassar, Hester F. Lingsma, Wayne A. Gordon, Alex B. Valadka, David O. Okonkwo, Geoffrey T. Manley, Adam R. Ferguson, TRACK-TBI Investigators

PLOS ONE Voluntary activation of biceps-to-triceps and deltoid-to-triceps transfers in quadriplegia

March 2, 2017 Carrie L. Peterson, Michael S. Bednar, Anne M. Bryden, Michael W. Keith, Eric J. Perreault, Wendy M. Murray

PLOS ONE Validity and reliability of a new tool to evaluate handwriting difficulties in Parkinson’s disease

March 2, 2017 Evelien Nackaerts, Elke Heremans, Bouwien C. M. Smits-Engelsman, Sanne Broeder, Wim Vandenberghe, Bruno Bergmans, Alice Nieuwboer

PLOS ONE The value of psychological treatment for borderline personality disorder: Systematic review and cost offset analysis of economic evaluations

March 1, 2017 Denise Meuldijk, Alexandra McCarthy, Marianne E. Bourke, Brin F. S. Grenyer

PLOS ONE Recruitment and retention of young adult veteran drinkers using Facebook

March 1, 2017 Eric R. Pedersen, Diana Naranjo, Grant N. Marshall

PLOS ONE Effects of delayed NSAID administration after experimental eccentric contraction injury – A cellular and proteomics study

February 28, 2017 Amy E. Bryant, Michael J. Aldape, Clifford R. Bayer, Eva J. Katahira, Laura Bond, Carrie D. Nicora, Thomas L. Fillmore, Therese R. W. Clauss, Thomas O. Metz, Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson, Dennis L. Stevens

PLOS ONE Variability of spatial temporal gait parameters and center of pressure displacements during gait in elderly fallers and nonfallers: A 6-month prospective study

February 27, 2017 Zdenek Svoboda, Lucia Bizovska, Miroslav Janura, Eliska Kubonova, Katerina Janurova, Nicolas Vuillerme

PLOS ONE Physical performance analysis: A new approach to assessing free-living physical activity in musculoskeletal pain and mobility-limited populations

February 24, 2017 Matthew Smuck, Christy Tomkins-Lane, Ma Agnes Ith, Renata Jarosz, Ming-Chih Jeffrey Kao

PLOS ONE Assessing upper-extremity motion: An innovative method to quantify functional capacity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

February 24, 2017 Nima Toosizadeh, Cristine Berry, Christian Bime, Bijan Najafi, Monica Kraft, Jane Mohler

PLOS ONE Comparison of the HUI3 and the EQ-5D-3L in a nursing home setting

February 24, 2017 Tom Lung, Kirsten Howard, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Moira Sim, Gill Lewin, Glenn Arendts

PLOS ONE A convolutional neural network for steady state visual evoked potential classification under ambulatory environment

February 22, 2017 No-Sang Kwak, Klaus-Robert Müller, Seong-Whan Lee

PLOS ONE Genome-wide study of resistant hypertension identified from electronic health records

February 21, 2017 Logan Dumitrescu, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Joshua C. Denny, Nihal M. El Rouby, Caitrin W. McDonough, Yuki Bradford, Andrea H. Ramirez, Suzette J. Bielinski, Melissa A. Basford, High Seng Chai, Peggy Peissig, David Carrell, Jyotishman Pathak, Luke V. Rasmussen, Xiaoming Wang, Jennifer A. Pacheco, Abel N. Kho, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Martha Matsumoto, Maureen E. Smith, Rongling Li, Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff, Iftikhar J. Kullo, Christopher G. Chute, Rex L. Chisholm, Gail P. Jarvik, Eric B. Larson, David Carey, Catherine A. McCarty, Marc S. Williams, Dan M. Roden, Erwin Bottinger, Julie A. Johnson, Mariza de Andrade, Dana C. Crawford

PLOS ONE Prevalence and associated comorbidities of restless legs syndrome (RLS): Data from a large population-based door-to-door survey on 19176 adults in Tehran, Iran

February 17, 2017 Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Arash Rahmani, Mahdiyeh Shafieesabet, Mahshid Soori, Ahmad Delbari, Mohammad Reza Motamed, Johan Lökk

PLOS ONE The contribution of gender-based violence and network trauma to gender differences in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

February 16, 2017 Derrick Silove, Jess R. Baker, Mohammed Mohsin, Maree Teesson, Mark Creamer, Meaghan O'Donnell, David Forbes, Natacha Carragher, Tim Slade, Katherine Mills, Richard Bryant, Alexander McFarlane, Zachary Steel, Kim Felmingham, Susan Rees

PLOS ONE Osteoporosis in adult patients with atopic dermatitis: A nationwide population-based study

February 16, 2017 Ching-Ying Wu, Ying-Yi Lu, Chun-Ching Lu, Yu-Feng Su, Tai-Hsin Tsai, Chieh-Hsin Wu

PLOS ONE Home detection of freezing of gait using support vector machines through a single waist-worn triaxial accelerometer

February 15, 2017 Daniel Rodríguez-Martín, Albert Samà, Carlos Pérez-López, Andreu Català, Joan M. Moreno Arostegui, Joan Cabestany, Àngels Bayés, Sheila Alcaine, Berta Mestre, Anna Prats, M. Cruz Crespo, Timothy J. Counihan, Patrick Browne, Leo R. Quinlan, Gearóid ÓLaighin, Dean Sweeney, Hadas Lewy, Joseph Azuri, Gabriel Vainstein, Roberta Annicchiarico, Alberto Costa, Alejandro Rodríguez-Molinero

PLOS ONE Post-traumatic stress disorder symptom burden and gender each affect generalization in a reward- and punishment-learning task

February 14, 2017 Milen L. Radell, Kevin D. Beck, Mark W. Gilbertson, Catherine E. Myers

PLOS ONE Long-term renal outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury: A nationwide population-based cohort study

February 14, 2017 Chia-Lin Wu, Chew-Teng Kor, Ping-Fang Chiu, Chun-Chieh Tsai, Ie-Bin Lian, Tao-Hsiang Yang, Der-Cherng Tarng, Chia-Chu Chang

PLOS ONE Characterization of the disruption of neural control strategies for dynamic fingertip forces from attractor reconstruction

February 13, 2017 Lorenzo Peppoloni, Emily L. Lawrence, Emanuele Ruffaldi, Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas

PLOS ONE Anticholinergic burden and cognitive function in a large German cohort of hospitalized geriatric patients

February 10, 2017 Barbara Pfistermeister, Thomas Tümena, Karl-Günter Gaßmann, Renke Maas, Martin F. Fromm

PLOS ONE Aerobic exercise for Alzheimer’s disease: A randomized controlled pilot trial

February 10, 2017 Jill K. Morris, Eric D. Vidoni, David K. Johnson, Angela Van Sciver, Jonathan D. Mahnken, Robyn A. Honea, Heather M. Wilkins, William M. Brooks, Sandra A. Billinger, Russell H. Swerdlow, Jeffrey M. Burns

PLOS ONE Tai chi for health benefits in patients with multiple sclerosis: A systematic review

February 9, 2017 Liye Zou, Huiru Wang, ZhongJun Xiao, Qun Fang, Mark Zhang, Ting Li, Geng Du, Yang Liu

PLOS ONE Can real-time visual feedback during gait retraining reduce metabolic demand for individuals with transtibial amputation?

February 9, 2017 Elizabeth Russell Esposito, Harmony S. Choi, Benjamin J. Darter, Jason M. Wilken

PLOS ONE Assessment of feedback modalities for wearable visual aids in blind mobility

February 9, 2017 Aminat Adebiyi, Paige Sorrentino, Shadi Bohlool, Carey Zhang, Mort Arditti, Gregory Goodrich, James D. Weiland

PLOS ONE The swimming test is effective for evaluating spasticity after contusive spinal cord injury

February 9, 2017 Youngjae Ryu, Motoshi Nagao, Taku Kitamura, Kazuhito Morioka, Yoshinori Ichihara, Toru Doi, Yasuhiro Sawada, Masami Akai, Ryohei Nishimura, Naoki Fujita, Toru Ogata

PLOS ONE Individualized 3D printing navigation template for pedicle screw fixation in upper cervical spine

February 2, 2017 Fei Guo, Jianhao Dai, Junxiang Zhang, Yichuan Ma, Guanghui Zhu, Junjie Shen, Guoqi Niu

PLOS ONE A Comparison of Four-Year Health Outcomes following Combat Amputation and Limb Salvage

January 25, 2017 Ted Melcer, Jay Walker, Vibha Bhatnagar, Erin Richard, V. Franklin Sechriest II, Michael Galarneau

PLOS ONE Altered Microstructural Caudate Integrity in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder but Not Traumatic Brain Injury

January 23, 2017 Dana Waltzman, Salil Soman, Nathan C. Hantke, J. Kaci Fairchild, Lisa M. Kinoshita, Max Wintermark, J. Wesson Ashford, Jerome Yesavage, Leanne Williams, Maheen M. Adamson, Ansgar J. Furst

PLOS ONE Further Development of the Assessment of Military Multitasking Performance: Iterative Reliability Testing

January 5, 2017 Margaret M. Weightman, Karen L. McCulloch, Mary V. Radomski, Marsha Finkelstein, Amy S. Cecchini, Leslie F. Davidson, Kristin J. Heaton, Laurel B. Smith, Matthew R. Scherer

PLOS ONE Symptoms Associated with Vestibular Impairment in Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

December 29, 2016 Yaa O. Haber, Helena K. Chandler, Jorge M. Serrador

PLOS ONE Activity-Limiting Musculoskeletal Conditions in US Veterans Compared to Non-Veterans: Results from the 2013 National Health Interview Survey

December 22, 2016 Ramon Hinojosa, Melanie Sberna Hinojosa

PLOS ONE Manual Wheelchair Skills Training for Community-Dwelling Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial

December 21, 2016 R. Lee Kirby, Doug Mitchell, Sunil Sabharwal, Mark McCranie, Audrey L. Nelson

PLOS ONE Characterizing the Mechanical Properties of Running-Specific Prostheses

December 14, 2016 Owen N. Beck, Paolo Taboga, Alena M. Grabowski

PLOS ONE The Effect of Alignment Changes on Unilateral Transtibial Amputee’s Gait: A Systematic Review

December 6, 2016 Niels Jonkergouw, Maarten R. Prins, Arjan W. P. Buis, Peter van der Wurff

PLOS ONE Delirium Detection and Impact of Comorbid Health Conditions in a Post-Acute Rehabilitation Hospital Setting

November 30, 2016 Julija Stelmokas, Nicolette Gabel, Jennifer M. Flaherty, Katherine Rayson, Kathileen Tran, Jason R. Anderson, Linas A. Bieliauskas

PLOS ONE A Dynamic Model of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for Military Personnel and Veterans

October 7, 2016 Navid Ghaffarzadegan, Alireza Ebrahimvandi, Mohammad S. Jalali

PLOS ONE The Effectiveness of Individualized Acupuncture Protocols in the Treatment of Gulf War Illness: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial

March 31, 2016 Lisa Conboy, Travis Gerke, Kai-Yin Hsu, Meredith St John, Marc Goldstein, Rosa Schnyer