FigshareJuly 17, 2026Wenjie Liu, Tian Yuan, Li Wang et al.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly restructured daily life, significantly impacting mental health. This negative event has been reported to alter subjective experience of time, such as the blending of days, reflecting distortions in long-term time perception over relatively coarse scales. However, the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on short-term time perception over fine scales has...
Research SquareJune 7, 2026Yaohua Guo, Fengping Zheng, Hui Yin et al.
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Abstract Purpose This study aimed to identify the latent profiles of self-transcendence in lung cancer patients and examine the relationship between these memberships and QoL. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted between April and September 2025, recruiting 318 lung cancer patients via convenience sampling at a teaching hospital in Sichuan Province, China. Data were collected by using...
The perception of eye gaze plays a pivotal role in human social interactions, which even occurs outside conscious awareness. However, whether such nonconscious gaze perception is susceptible to top-down cognitive processes, like working memory (WM), remains unclear. Using a delayed match-to-sample paradigm, we investigated the WM modulation on the perception of eye gaze rendered invisible...
Depression is a common and serious psychiatric disorder with significant impacts on individuals. Modified electroconvulsive therapy (MECT) is an established treatment for severe and treatment-resistant depression, but its cognitive side effects, particularly memory impairments, limit its use. Esketamine (ESK), an FDA-approved antidepressant, has shown neuroprotective effects. However, its role...
medRxivJanuary 18, 2025Stephanie C. DeMasi, Brant Imhoff, Ariel A. Lewis et al.
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Emergency tracheal intubation is a common and high-risk procedure. Ketamine and etomidate are sedative medicines commonly used to induce anesthesia for emergency tracheal intubation, but whether the induction medication used affects patient outcomes is uncertain. Does the use of ketamine for induction of anesthesia decrease the incidence of death among adults undergoing emergency tracheal...
This study investigated the impact of an 8-month daily-guided intensive meditation-based intervention (iMI) on persistent hallucinations/delusions and health-related quality of life (QoL) in male inpatients with schizophrenia with treatment-refractory hallucinations and delusions (TRHDs). A randomized controlled trial assigned 64 male inpatients with schizophrenia and TRHD equally to an 8-month...
Objectives: The primary purpose of the current study was to assess the effects of a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program, facilitated by non-psychologist clinicians, for improving psychosocial well-being. A secondary purpose of the current study was to explore the role of self-compassion as a potential underlying factor for improvements in emotional distress. Application of these...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of preoperative low-dose esketamine and dexmedetomidine nasal administration on the incidence of postoperative emergence delirium in children undergoing fiber bronchoscopy. A total of 129 patients, of any gender, aged 1 to 6 years, with ASA grades I and II, who were scheduled for fiber bronchoscopy, were randomly divided into three groups (n = 43)...