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Inadequate nutrition adversely impacts brain development and cognitive functioning (Pollitt et al., 1983). Studies examining the acute impact of eating regular meals on cognition have reported inconsistent findings, necessitating the exploration of individual differences in samples contributing to equivocal results. The present study examines the impact of skipping lunch on cognitive ability in college-aged students by including eating restraint as a moderator.

Participants were 99 college-aged students (M=19.7years, SD=1.5) randomized to a blinded 'lunch' or 'lunch-omission' condition, and assessed on memory, attention, processing speed, set shifting, and eating disorder symptomology.

Regressing long and short-term memory on the lunch manipulation, eating restraint scores, and their interaction revealed significant interactions those who had lunch had superior memory performance, but only for those reporting lower levels of eating restraint. Regressing set shifting speed on the manipulation, those who had lunch had slower set shifting speed than those who skipped, but only for those reporting lower levels of eating restraint.

Results suggest that skipping lunch may have immediate consequences on cognition, however, cognitive enhancing effects may be diminished in the presence of even low levels of eating restraint. Findings highlight the significance of purported subclinical levels of eating restraint and may inform health education strategies.

Results suggest that skipping lunch may have immediate consequences on cognition, however, cognitive enhancing effects may be diminished in the presence of even low levels of eating restraint. Findings highlight the significance of purported subclinical levels of eating restraint and may inform health education strategies.TORCH, the acronym of Toxoplasma gondii (TOX), others, rubella virus (RUV), cytomegalovirus (CMV) and herpes simplex virus (HSV), is a major contributor to congenital infection. National population-based study on the seroepidemiology of TORCH in women is yet lacking, and it is still obscure whether TORCH infection in the women was associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. A total of 48,406 asymptomatic women from eight hospitals in China which covered the most areas of mainland China were enrolled in this study, and 26,400 were simultaneously subjected to 7 detection tests for TORCH specific antibodies. Chemiluminescent immunoassay was performed to detect TORCH Immunoglobulin M (IgM) and/or Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies, and IgG avidities of TOX and CMV IgM and IgG positive serum samples. The overall IgG prevalence of TOX, RUV, CMV and HSV-(1 + 2) in the reproductive-aged women was 1.71 %, 81.97 %, 95.09 % and 90.15 % respectively. The corresponding IgM prevalence of TOX, RUV and CMV was 0.30 %, 0.89 % and 0.52 %. Moreover, the rates of primary TOX and CMV infections were at least 0.08 % (21/26,400) and 0.03 % (7/26,400) in the studied population. The distributions of TORCH positive women in various age, season and region groups were different (P less then 0.05). The CMV IgM-positive rate was higher in the pregnant women than those in non-pregnant women (P less then 0.05). The higher past infection rates of RUV, CMV and HSV in women with bad obstetric history (BOH) imply that TORCH infections are associated with BOH. These data suggest that TORCH infections in the prenatal women, especially with BOH, are worthwhile to be screened by detections of specific IgG and IgM antibodies, and even IgG avidities.

Child Maltreatment (CM) is a worldwide phenomenon. Literature suggests that children with disabilities are at increased risk for CM. However, limited information exists regarding if such increased risk is noted in community primary care clinics.

To report on the incidence of CM in children with and without disabilities attending community primary care clinics.

This was a cohort study of children belonging to a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) in Israel. The study group consisted of children with disabilities and the control group consisted of children without disabilities. Formal reports to child protection services, medical and sociodemographic data were extracted from designated documentation and medical records.

The odds to be identified as suspected CM, after adjusting for sociodemographic variables, was 6.2 times higher among children with disabilities compared to children without disabilities and 5.0 times higher among children with severe vs. mild disability.

Developmental disability is a risk factor for CM, and is noted even more seriously in community primary care clinics. CM positively correlated with the severity of disability. The presented data marks higher figures than previously reported, enhancing understanding of the scope of the problem and its relation to the type of organization being examined.

Developmental disability is a risk factor for CM, and is noted even more seriously in community primary care clinics. CM positively correlated with the severity of disability. The presented data marks higher figures than previously reported, enhancing understanding of the scope of the problem and its relation to the type of organization being examined.Around 100 years ago, the outbreak of peculiar encephalitis promoted knowledge advancement regarding sleep and psychomotricity control. This epidemic is believed to have disappeared ten years after it started, and it remained from 1916 to 1927. Since then, only a few sporadic cases have been reported, but previously, they happened in occasional and epidemics forms. SMS201995 Two pioneers in describing the cases were Jean-René Cruchet and his collaborators, and Constantin Von Economo. The firsts described diffuse symptomatology, "sub-acute encephalomyelitis." However, the reports by the Austrian aristocrat had a localized aspect which was admitted by him as a new disease, "Encephalitis lethargica" (EL). In his suppositions, based on clinical and anatomopathological material analysis, von Economo found distinct centers for sleep, in the rostral hypothalamus, and wakefulness, posterior hypothalamus. He plays an essential role in new achievements about EL and sleep neurobiology comprehension. These basic structural sleep-arousal regulatory neural systems had a lasting impact on contemporary sleep research, unfolded initially mainly by Frédéric Bremer, Giuseppe Moruzzi, and Horace Winchell Magoun, based on a passive theory of sleep induction.