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As HDAC3 and HDAC6 are crucial mediators of GR signaling, further molecular studies may aid in understanding the basis of development of resilience to target MDD with new prospective.Prostate cancer is one of the most common deadly diseases in men worldwide, which is seriously affecting people's life and health. Reliable and automated segmentation of the prostate gland in MRI data is exceptionally critical for diagnosis and treatment planning of prostate cancer. Although many automated segmentation methods have emerged, including deep learning based approaches, segmentation performance is still poor due to the large variability of image appearance, anisotropic spatial resolution, and imaging interference. This study proposes an automated prostate MRI data segmentation approach using bicubic interpolation with improved 3D V-Net (dubbed 3D PBV-Net). Considering the low-frequency components in the prostate gland, the bicubic interpolation is applied to preprocess the MRI data. On this basis, a 3D PBV-Net is developed to perform prostate MRI data segmentation. To illustrate the effectiveness of our approach, we evaluate the proposed 3D PBV-Net on two clinical prostate MRI data datasets, i.e., PROMISE 12 and TPHOH, with the manual delineations available as the ground truth. Our approach generates promising segmentation results, which have achieved 97.65% and 98.29% of average accuracy, 0.9613 and 0.9765 of Dice metric, 3.120 mm and 0.9382 mm of Hausdorff distance, and average boundary distance of 1.708, 0.7950 on PROMISE 12 and TPHOH datasets, respectively. Our method has effectively improved the accuracy of automated segmentation of the prostate MRI data and is promising to meet the accuracy requirements for telehealth applications.

Drinking behaviors and depression are common and highly correlated behaviors in undergraduates. Child adversity and drinker self-schemas have been recognized as significant risk factors of drinking behaviors and depression. However, how the various child adversity forms differentially influence the formation of drinker self-schema and behaviors is underexplored. We aimed to determine whether drinker self-schema serves as a mechanism underlying the influence of child adversity forms on drinking frequency, drinking problems, and depressive symptoms.

A cross-sectional, correlational study design with an anonymous, internet-based survey was conducted. Participants were 330 first- and second-year undergraduates enrolled in a four-year college/university as full-time students in Taiwan. Path analysis was performed to examine the direct and indirect effects (through drinker self-schema) of child adversity forms on drinking frequency, drinking problems, and depressive symptoms. Gender and friend's alcohol use werma serves as an underlying mechanism linking psychological maltreatments to drinking behaviors.

To estimate the difference in delay discounting (DD) between subjects with Internet addiction (IA) and those without as well as to identify significant variables involved in DD.

Using the keywords related to IA (e.g., "excessive Internet use", "Internet dependence") AND "delayed reward discounting" OR "delay discounting" OR "temporal discounting" OR "delayed gratification" OR time discounting OR intertemporal choice OR impulsive choice, the PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO databases were searched from inception to June 2020 for English articles with comparison between subjects with IA and those without. Effect sizes were calculated by group means from the k value or area under the curve (AUC). The random-effects models were used.

Fourteen studies in total were eligible for the current meta-analysis that involved 696 subjects with IA (mean age=22.71) and 2,394 subjects without (mean age=21.91). Subjects with IA had a steeper DD rate (g=1.10, 95% CI 0.57-1.64; p≤0.01) compared with that in those without. Regarding DD data, the difference between k value and AUC was significant (p<0.01; AUC>k). Additionally, the estimation of DD by the paper-and-pencil task was larger than that by the computerized task (p<0.01). Significant difference in the DD rate was also noted between subjects with Internet gaming disorder (IGD) and those with unspecified IA (p=0.00; IGD>IA). The percentage of men and task variables were significantly associated with the DD rate (all p<0.01), suggesting impaired DD in subjects with IA.

Our results suggested the feasibility of utilizing the DD rate as a therapeutic index for cognitive control in IA. Tinengotinib mw Nevertheless, judicious use is recommended taking into consideration the significant difference between k value and AUC.

Our results suggested the feasibility of utilizing the DD rate as a therapeutic index for cognitive control in IA. Nevertheless, judicious use is recommended taking into consideration the significant difference between k value and AUC.

While it is generally recognised that cognitive attributes can predict behaviour change outcomes in the field of addiction this question is typically studied in treatment seeking samples (to predict treatment outcomes and relapse). However the concept of behaviour change applies to the entire spectrum of addiction-like behaviours and initiatives such as temporary abstinence challenges offer insight into an understudied but equally relevant point of the spectrum. Thus the current study examined whether reward-related attentional capture predicted non-abstinence during IkPas (the Dutch national dry January campaign translated NoThanks!).

Participants included 1130 adults who had complete baseline data and performed above chance level on the cognitive task. Of these 683 participants completed the post-IkPas assessment and were included in the primary analysis. A binary logistic regression examined whether reward-related attentional capture predicted drinking during IkPas controlling for alcohol use at baseline (among other potential confounders).

Participants who showed greater reward-related attentional capture before IkPas were more likely to not remain abstinent from drinking during IkPas (p=.014). Findings were replicated using multiple imputation to replace missing data (p=.013).

These findings provide important insights into the cognitive mechanisms that support successful behaviour change such as the ability to ignore task-irrelevant reward cues and may inform the development of tools that individuals could use to maximise their likelihood of achieving successful behaviour change.

These findings provide important insights into the cognitive mechanisms that support successful behaviour change such as the ability to ignore task-irrelevant reward cues and may inform the development of tools that individuals could use to maximise their likelihood of achieving successful behaviour change.