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Befogging reason, undermining will: Understanding the prohibition of sleep deprivation as torture and ill-treatment in international law

Torture, 2019
Background: Sleep deprivation is a prevalent method of psychological torture. However, difficulties in documentation have meant that it is not adequately appreciated by courts and other quasijudicial institutions such as UN treaty bodies.
Ergün Cakal
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From patient advocacy to patient‐driven research: Building active partnerships beginning at the bench to reach the bedside

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Research is strongest when conducted alongside patients, not just about them. Patient research organizations help integrate patient perspectives into research priorities, study design, and scientific meetings, leading to meaningful patient outcomes and development of relevant therapies.
Jenica H. Kakadia, Rachel Heilmann, Maximiliano Barrientos, Laura MacNeill, Ingrid Vallee, Sarah K. Schultz, Patrick O'Donoghue, Angelica A. Moresco, Victoria M. Siu, Ilka U. Heinemann   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community Need Index (CNI): a simple tool to predict emergency department utilization after hospital discharge from the trauma service

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2019
Background Emergency department (ED) visits after hospital discharge may reflect failure of transition of care to the outpatient setting. Reduction of postdischarge ED utilization represents an opportunity for quality improvement and cost reduction.
Jordan A Weinberg, Pamela W Goslar, Jonathan L Dameworth, Scott R Petersen, Sharjeel Israr, Dih-Dih Huang, Mahmoud Z Shehada, Kristina M Chapple, Nathaniel S Rubalcava   +8 more
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Ethical Precision in Nanoscale Brain Interfacing

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
As brain interfaces approach the nanoscale, precision no longer only measures—it knows, predicts, and potentially reshapes the mind. This work argues that traditional ethics fails under such conditions and proposes a shift toward continuous, operation‐based governance using the recovery–discovery framework to track, constrain, and responsibly steer ...
Guilherme Wood
wiley   +1 more source

Privacy and Dignity in Continence Care for Older People. Report on Phase 1. [PDF]

, 2008
In recent years dignity in care has become a priority and the focus of a number of government reports and policy initiatives. (DH 2003, 2007), (SCIE 2006).
Alaszewski, Helen P., Billings, Jenny R.
core  

The treatment of mental illness in faith-based and traditional healing centres in Ghana: perspectives of service users and healers

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2020
Background The maltreatment of people with mental illness in Ghana's traditional and faith-based healing centres, including shackling, flogging, and forced fasting, has been documented by numerous sources.
Jessica E. Lambert, Fred Nantogmah, Adam Yahaya Dokurugu, Hanan Alhassan, Sandow Stanislaus Azuure, Peter Badimak Yaro, Jeanette Kørner   +6 more
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Learning Post-Stroke Gait Training Strategies by Modeling Patient-Therapist Interaction

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023
For safe and effective robot-aided gait training, it is essential to incorporate the knowledge and expertise of physical therapists. Toward this goal, we directly learn from physical therapists’ demonstrations of manual gait assistance in stroke ...
Seyed Mostafa Rezayat Sorkhabadi, Mason Smith, Roozbeh Khodmbashi, Rachel Lopez, Melissa Raasch, Trent Maruyama, Christina Kwasnica, Wenlong Zhang   +7 more
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Organoid Brain‐Machine‐Interface Devices for Central Nervous System Repair

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We envision organoid brain‐machine‐interface (Organoid‐BMI) devices as new biohybrid bidirectional communication pathways to connect the human CNS and the external world for personalized CNS repair and regeneration. ABSTRACT Central nervous system (CNS) repair and regeneration suffer from tremendous clinical challenges due to current limitations in ...
Yantao Xing, Yang Yang, Zichen Hong, Chunhui Tian, Huiyu Chu, Susanne Clara Prokop, Hongwei Cai, Mingxia Gu, Jason Tchieu, Ken Mackie, Feng Guo   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interventions addressing mental health in conflict-affected settings: A literature review

Conflict and Health
The burden of mental health disorders is high in conflict-affected populations. However, there is still limited evidence from studies that measure the effectiveness of mental health interventions implemented in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Nicoline Falkbøll, Marie Louise D. Østergaard, José Gabriel Zapata García, Diego Mauricio Aponte Canencio, Jens Modvig, Marie Brasholt   +5 more
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Assessing trauma in refugees using ITEM and ITI: clinician’s reported challenges and ethical-professional considerations

European Journal of Psychotraumatology
Introduction: This study investigates clinical reported challenges and ethical-professional considerations related to the use of the International Trauma Interview (ITI) and International Trauma Exposure Measure (ITEM) with trauma-affected refugees in ...
Frederik Bernt Scharff, Sofie Grimshave Bangsgaard, Thomas Brudholm, Lotte Segal, Linda Nordin, Sabina Palic, Marie Høgh Thøgersen   +6 more
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