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BACKGROUND: Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized across Canada in June 2016. Some have expressed concern that patient requests for MAiD might be driven by poor access to palliative care and that social and economic vulnerability of patients may influence access to or receipt of MAiD. To examine these concerns, we describe Ontario's early experience with MAiD and compare MAiD decedents with the general population of decedents in Ontario. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study comparing all MAiD-related deaths with all deaths in Ontario, Canada, between June 7, 2016, and Oct. 31, 2018. Clinical and demographic characteristics were collected for all MAiD decedents and compared with those of all Ontario decedents when possible. We used lo... |
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www.nature.com
Research suggests that listening to white noise may improve some aspects of cognitive performance in individuals with lower attention. This study investigated the impact of white noise on new word learning in healthy young adults, and whether this effect was mediated by executive attention skills. Eighty participants completed a single training session to learn the names of twenty novel objects. The session comprised 5 learning phases, each followed by a recall test. A final recognition test was also adm... |
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My Master's Thesis in General Health Psychology. A comprehensive meta-analysis of whole-brain rsfMRI studies comparing people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to neurotypical people. |
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humbledollar.com
WE CAN THINK OF OURbrains as having two parts. There's the fast-moving, instinctual part that tells us to pull our hand away from the hot stove, even before we're fully aware of what's happening. Then there's the slower-moving, more ponderous part that tries to override our instincts by, say, persuading us to spend less, eat healthily and go to the gym. Most of the time, our instincts are in the driver's seat-and that's a good thing. |
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