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, 2017 "Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal" was founded in 2017 by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Its mission is to develop conversations among diverse people thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing . as a “Department Without Walls” that connects scholars and thinkers from different spheres.
Frank M. Spinath, Juliana Gottschling
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Narcissism predicts impulsive buying: phenotypic and genetic evidence
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Impulsive buying makes billions of dollars for retail businesses every year, particularly in an era of thriving e-commerce. Narcissism, characterized by impulsivity and materialism, may serve as a potential antecedent to impulsive buying.
Huajian eCai +3 more
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Brain Sciences, 2023 Background: The Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità) funded a 30-month project (July 2021–January 2024) to conduct a twin study of the relationships between Positive Mental Health (PMH) and cellular longevity.
Francesca Marcon +11 more
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Genetics of Obesity Traits: A Bivariate Genome-Wide Association Analysis
Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 Previous genome-wide association studies on anthropometric measurements have identified more than 100 related loci, but only a small portion of heritability in obesity was explained. Here we present a bivariate twin study to look for the genetic variants
Yili Wu +11 more
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Development and Psychopathology, 2015 This paper presents multilevel findings on adolescents' victimization exposure from a large longitudinal cohort of twins. Data were obtained from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, an epidemiological study of 2,232 children (1,116 ...
H. Fisher +13 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2019 OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the association between long-term sickness absence (LTSA) due to mental disorders and musculoskeletal disorders and all-cause disability pension (DP) among blue- and white-collar workers.
Björg Helgadóttir +6 more
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An overview of human handedness in twins
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 There has been a long-standing debate on the complex correlation between the development of human hand preference and brain lateralization. Handedness, used as a proxy for cerebral lateralization, is a topic of considerable importance because of its ...
Syuichi eOoki
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 Pallister–Killian syndrome is an uncommon genetic disorder that has broad developmental and multisystemic effects. While medical complications are widely reported throughout the literature, research on the neurodevelopmental profile has been limited ...
Carole A. Samango-Sprouse +12 more
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A study of hypertension in twins [PDF]
American Heart Journal, 1970 Abstract A study of the blood pressure of 86 pairs of like-sexed twins over age 40 selected at random was performed. Twelve per cent were found to have a diastolic blood pressure in excess of 94 mm. Hg. In 4 out of 5 identical twin sets both members were found to have hypertension of about equal magnitude.
Vander Molen, Ronald +4 more
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