'The Oxford Handbook of Externalizing Spectrum Disorders' is the first book of its kind to capture the developmental psychopathology of externalizing spectrum disorders by examining causal factors across levels of analysis and developmental epochs, while departing from the categ…
The impact of church-related experiences upon substance abuse recovery was explored through this generic qualitative study. Previous authors indicated a positive relationship between church-related experiences and substance abuse recovery across multiple religious and denominati…
An animal’s ability to synchronize life-history events or stages with optimal environmental conditions is paramount to successfully reproducing and maximizing fitness. Additional events including migration, foraging, rearing of young, and emergence from hibernation are all examp…
Addiction continues to have deleterious effects for individuals, families, and communities. Fatalities from addiction have only continued to increase, as have the costs for the healthcare system and ultimately the payer. Unfortunately, accessing treatment does not mean sustainab…
Increased internet usage and reach have provided modern society with access to a large volume of information. However, malicious actors have exploited this privilege on the internet for political, financial, religious, and other gains affecting people’s trust in online informati…
Communication is integral to the life strategies of all living species on the planet, and among all its modalities, visual signals and cues comprise some of the most fascinating communication pathways. Because of direct links between individual quality and color development, vis…
La presente investigación tiene como objetivo vincular con el desarrollo histórico de la etología contemporánea los debates anticartesianos que se llevaron a cabo en Francia los primeros cincuenta años del siglo XVIII. Dicha vinculación se hará por medio del estudio histórico de…
The revolution in sequencing technologies has greatly advanced our understanding of genomes. Many regulatory elements lacking protein-coding ability, such as long non-coding RNAs have been identified and characterized in different biological contexts. However, functional interro…
For over 40 years, the sexual selection hypothesis of infanticide has sparked primatological interest in the evolutionary basis of this presumptively adaptive behavior. Infanticide by males has been largely accepted as a reproductive strategy in that when a new dominant sire kil…
What makes us move? Human movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease have long suggested a vital role for dopamine in movement initiation, but there exists surprisingly little evidence connecting endogenous dopaminergic activity to a causal role in this process. Although “stand…
Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent among individuals with a history of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE), and adolescent rodents demonstrate anxiety-like behavior following moderate PAE on Gestational Day (G) 12. A likely systemic target of PAE is the stress peptide corticotro…
Healthcare service utilization (HSU) describes how individuals engage with healthcare systems. Studies examining differences in rates of HSU among acute care-seeking patients have identified disparities in access to appropriate treatments. Alcohol-use disorders (AUDS) are increa…
African American women are disproportionately affected by fibroids, and many of them have reported health care experiences of discrimination, biases, and differential care that have affected their overall health significantly. African American women are less likely to receive ne…
In the experimental analysis of behavior, response allocation is typically studied under concurrent interval schedules, with two response alternatives, in a static environment. The natural environment of the unfettered organism, however, is dynamic insofar as even frequently vis…
The negative effects of missed clinic appointments are well-studied, and certain predictive factors, such as longer lead times and lack of private insurance, have been associated with no-show behavior across a breadth of clinical specialties. However, little is known about the r…
Weather creates energetic and survival challenges for organisms that can influence demography. Harsh weather often causes increased energy expenditure in adults, but how weather affects other life stages is less well understood. Juveniles are especially vulnerable because they m…
Background: Medical pluralism, has long been prevalent in Latin America and the world; as biomedical care is increasingly available in areas where it was previously unfound, its interaction with traditional systems of medicine interact is largely understudied. Paraguay has a lon…
One of the primary challenges foraging animals face is deciding how to divide their time between exploitation of known resources and exploration for new resources. As foraging is costly, investment in exploration should be mediated by natural selection to balance its costs and b…
The evolution and maintenance of cognitive variation is a question of fundamental interest in animal behavior because differences in cognition are predicted to underlie differences in behavior. The correlation between behavioral and cognitive variation has largely been conceptua…