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Proxy and patients ratings on quality of life in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Korea
This study aimed to assess the agreement between patient and proxy ratings of Quality of life (QoL) in patients with psychotic mental illnesses.
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Body image, sexual function and depression in Korean patients with breast cancer: modification by 5-HTT polymorphism
Nearly 50% of women with breast cancer show depressive symptoms after diagnosis and treatment. The purpose of this study was to clarify how psychosocial factors (body image, sexuality, and social relationships...
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Development of single-nucleotide polymorphism-based phylum-specific PCR amplification technique: Application to the community analysis using ciliates as a reference organism
Despite recent advance in mass sequencing technologies such as pyrosequencing, assessment of culture-independent microbial eukaryote community structures using universal primers remains very difficult due to t...
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Open AccessCommon variants of HTR3 genes are associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder and its phenotypic expression
Evidence from literature supports the existence of associations between serotonin-related genetic variants and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), but few studies have explored the involvement of serotonin re...
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Adaptation responses of individuals to environmental changes in the ciliate Euplotes crassus
Although the response unit of living organisms to environmental changes is at the individual level, most experiments on the adaptation responses of ciliates have been conducted in batches, comprising multiple-...
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Open AccessThe effect of trauma and PTSD on telomere length: An exploratory study in people exposed to combat trauma
Telomere length has been suggested to be a cellular marker for age-related diseases as well as psychosocial stress. The present study investigated whether telomere length is associated with post-traumatic stre...
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Open AccessMultidimensional impulsivity as a mediator of early life stress and alcohol dependence
Early life stress (ELS) leads to increased susceptibility to serious psychiatric problems such as alcohol dependence, but the mechanisms through which ELS affects alcohol dependence are unclear. We investigate...
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Open AccessDisturbed retrieval network and prospective memory decline in postpartum women
Prospective memory (PM) refers to the ability to remember to execute an intended action in the future. For successful PM performance, both top-down strategic monitoring and bottom-up spontaneous retrieval proc...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Disturbed retrieval network and prospective memory decline in postpartum women
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has not been fixed in the paper.
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Patterns of Gene Expression Variation across Body Parts of the Hydrothermal Vent Shrimp Nautilocaris saintlaurentae
Since deep-sea hydrothermal vents have been targeted for mining mineral resources, concerns about the potential impacts of mining on vent ecosystems have gradually increased. The vent alvinocaridid shrimp is o...
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Open AccessAssociation of PPM1G methylation with risk-taking in alcohol use disorder
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a chronic and relapsing disease with a substantial genetic influence. Given the recent discovery of the association of PPM1G methylation with alcohol use disorder (AUD) from a genome...
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Open AccessClozapine generates obsessive compulsive disorder-like behavior in mice
Clozapine is thought to induce obsessive compulsive symptoms (OCS) in schizophrenic patients. However, because OCS are often comorbid with schizophrenia regardless of clozapine treatment, it remains unclear wh...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Association of PPM1G methylation with risk-taking in alcohol use disorder
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessReduced DNA methylation of the oxytocin receptor gene is associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Oxytocin is an important neuromodulator involved in cognition and socio-emotional processing that exerts its central activities via oxytocin receptors. Epigenetic alterations in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) ...
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Metacognitive beliefs predict early response to pharmacological treatment in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder
Metacognitions, beliefs that monitor or control thoughts and co**, are considered to be important components for development and maintenance of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD).
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Open AccessUse of serotonin reuptake inhibitors and risk of subsequent bone loss in a nationwide population-based cohort study
This study examined whether the use of SRIs is associated with an increased risk of bone loss using a nested case–control design with a nationwide population–based cohort in Korea. Using the Korean National He...
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Influence of dopamine-related genes on craving, impulsivity, and aggressiveness in Korean males with alcohol use disorder
Dopamine is a major neuromodulator that is acutely involved in various cognitive processes, reward-motivated behaviors, and impulsivity. Abnormality in dopaminergic neurotransmission is implicated in the patho...
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Open AccessGenetic association of FKBP5 with trait resilience in Korean male patients with alcohol use disorder
The FKBP5 gene is known to have an important role in alcohol use disorder (AUD) in response to stress and has been reported to affect stress responses by interacting with childhood trauma. This study investigated...
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Open AccessValidation of reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR in chemical exposed and at different age’s brackish water flea Diaphanosoma celebensis
Real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), a primary approach for evaluating gene expression, requires an appropriate normalization strategy to confirm relative gene expr...
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Open AccessAltered prefrontal beta oscillatory activity during removal of information from working memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is related to working memory impairment. Since patients with OCD have difficulty controlling their obsessive thoughts, removal of irrelevant information might be important i...