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Food Science & Technology
Williara Queiroz de Oliveira, Paulo Henrique Machado De Sousa, Glaucia Maria Pastore
Summary: This article reports that taste and smell disorders resulting from COVID-19 may have an impact on eating pleasure and nutrition. It also highlights important technologies and trends that can be considered and improved in future studies.
TRENDS IN FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Maija Paakki, Maija Kantola, Terhi Junkkari, Leena Arjanne, Harri Luomala, Anu Hopia
Summary: Consumers with a strong unhealthy=tasty belief are less likely to choose healthy food because they assume it to be unpalatable. The belief is positively associated with positive expectations of unhealthy food and negative expectations of healthy food.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Barry R. Komisaruk, Maria Cruz Rodriguez del Cerro
Summary: This essay explores the topic of sexual pleasure and its relationship with neuronal function, highlighting similarities between brain regions activated during orgasm, euphoria, and craving. The findings suggest that sexual pleasure is a simultaneous activation of euphoria plus craving.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEXUAL HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Carmen Cipriano-Crespo, Borja Rivero-Jimenez, David Conde-Caballero, F. Xavier Medina, Lorenzo Mariano-Juarez
Summary: This qualitative study examined the difficulties of experiencing pleasure from eating within a functionally diverse group, using personal interviews and Grounded Theory. Four main themes were identified, emphasizing the importance of understanding the subjective experiences of functionally diverse individuals in order to develop new approaches to addressing their issues with food intake.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Nikoline Bach Hyldelund, Chanette Frederiksen, Derek Victor Byrne, Barbara Vad Andersen
Summary: Psychological stress is associated with altered eating behavior and anhedonic traits. A study conducted with Danish consumers found that high levels of stress resulted in loss of appetite and anhedonia, while moderate stress led to changes in meal patterns. These findings contribute to our understanding of the impact of stress on individual and public health.
Article
Thermodynamics
Yu Chen, Boqiang Lin
Summary: The study finds that infrastructure development not only directly improves energy services, but also indirectly enhances them through promoting economic growth. The efficiency of capital circulation in enterprises plays a moderating role in this process.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Yongseok Kwon, Kyung Hee Hong, Yoo-Kyung Park, Sohye Kim
Summary: This study examined the relationship between general population characteristics and diet-related factors pertaining to eating alone for older adults (65 years and older) in Korea. The study used data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES), 2016-2020, focusing on 7037 Koreans aged 65 years or older who participated in the survey. The main findings suggest that higher frequency of eating alone is associated with lower food security, essential food intake, and quality of life. Based on these results, implementing a dietary life support program such as eating together program is necessary to improve the quality of life of older individuals who eat alone.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yanxia Li, Xiaohong Li, Tuanting Zhang, Haixia Guo, Caili Sun
Summary: This study reveals the link between the excessive consumption of junk food and obesity among children and adolescents. The perceived severity, vulnerability, and fear of junk food have significant effects on eating behavior and obesity. The study also demonstrates that product knowledge hiding moderates the relationship between junk food consumption and obesity.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Yongseok Kwon, Sohye Kim
Summary: This study investigates the association between plant food intake and the prevention of periodontal disease among elderly people aged over 65 years. The results show that consuming plant food can lower the risk of periodontal disease among elderly Koreans.
Article
Economics
Qiong Xu, Meirui Zhong, Xin Li
Summary: Digitalization has a profound impact on energy by reducing consumption, decreasing intensity, and optimizing structure. Technological innovation, human capital, and industrial structure play different mediating roles in this impact.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yuan Yao
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in reduced travel and increased household food and energy consumption. This study investigates the overall environmental impacts of these changes by estimating the life cycle environmental impacts of U.S. households during the pandemic. The results show that the decrease in travel outweighed the increase in household energy consumption, leading to a nationwide decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, smog formation, minerals and metal use, commercial wastes, and acidification. However, there was an increase in life cycle freshwater withdrawals and slight increases in eutrophication, ozone depletion, and freshwater ecotoxicity due to increased household energy and food consumption.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Zhe Shang, Yingying Wang, Taiyong Bi
Summary: Research has shown that fearful emotion can enhance visual acuity, and this emotion interacts with attention to affect basic visual functions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Daojing He, Hang Yu, Beibei Zhou, Shanshan Zhu, Min Zhang, Sammy Chan, Mohsen Guizani
Summary: The study shows that religious beliefs influence the generation of user passwords, Christian password datasets exhibit high similarity and resistance to attacks, which is lacking in ordinary password datasets.
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Andres F. Jola-Sanchez
Summary: Warfare has varying effects on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). While service firms experience an increase in TFP, manufacturing and other nonservice companies see a decrease. This effect is attributed to the growth of intellectual capital and the ability of service firms to create value from customer input.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Wenbo Zhu, Yongfu Chen, Xinru Han, Jinshang Wen, Guojing Li, Yadong Yang, Zixuan Liu
Summary: This study uses data from 22,210 urban households in six provinces in China to examine the impact of income heterogeneity on food consumption prediction. The results show that demand elasticity varies across income strata and the potential for growth is higher in low-income groups. Therefore, considering the differences in consumer behavior and conducting dynamic simulations are crucial for accurate predictions.
Article
Substance Abuse
Anna Parisi, Hannah Louise Landicho, Justin Hudak, Siri Leknes, Brett Froeliger, Eric L. Garland
Summary: Emotional distress and pain catastrophizing were found to predict cue-elicited craving and autonomic cue-reactivity among chronic pain patients receiving long-term opioid therapy. Pain severity did not have predictive power in this context. Furthermore, misuse status moderated the relationship between distress and self-reported craving.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Uta Sailer, Siri Leknes
Summary: The pleasantness of gentle stroking varies greatly between individuals and studies, indicating that there may be other relevant factors to consider. The affective value of a touch event is determined by how well its perceived purpose matches the goals of the touch receiver, which is influenced by sensory characteristics, setting, person factors, and the touchee's expectations.
CURRENT OPINION IN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Charlotte Skoglund, Siri Leknes, Markus Heilig
Summary: This article discusses the significant improvement of impaired social cognition and function in autism spectrum disorder through the long-term low-dose administration of the partial mu-opioid agonist, buprenorphine. It suggests a role for endogenous opioid systems in social attachment and proposes the need for randomized controlled trials to further investigate these findings.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL CASE REPORTS
(2022)
Correction
Anesthesiology
Siri Leknes, Lauren Y. Atlas
BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Social
Jack W. Klein, Brock Bastian
Summary: Identity fusion can lead to both violence towards out-groups and cooperative relationships with them in the absence of threat. Fused actors feel safe and supported, forming reciprocal relationships with out-groups. However, the presence of threat can trigger a willingness to violently protect the group.
PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Martin Trostheim, Marie Eikemo, Jan Haaker, J. James Frost, Siri Leknes
Summary: This study provides a detailed analysis of central opioid receptor blockade after opioid antagonism based on positron emission tomography data. The results show that common doses of naloxone and naltrexone are sufficient to produce full blockade of central mu-opioid receptors. The study also presents models for estimating the receptor blockade and provides two web applications for experiment planning and evaluation.
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Guro Engvig Loseth, Marie Eikemo, Martin Trostheim, Isabell M. Meier, Herman Bjornstad, Anna Asratian, Claudia Pazmandi, Vegard Wathne Tangen, Markus Heilig, Siri Leknes
Summary: This study presents a new dyadic paradigm to study the causal mechanisms of social support in the laboratory. The findings show that free-form interaction with a friend enhances the recovery of emotional state, supporting the validity of spontaneous interaction between friends as a model of social support.
PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brock Bastian, Charlie R. Crimston, Christoph Klebl, Paul A. M. van Lange
Summary: A powerful way to promote the preservation of the natural and cultural environment is by assigning moral significance to cultural and environmental objects. This research explores factors that contribute to moral concern for protecting cultural and environmental objects as ends in themselves, going beyond the focus on sentience as the main determinant of moral significance. Through five studies, it is shown that non-sentient objects can be seen as possessing intrinsic value and moral standing, independent of their extrinsic or utilitarian value. People believe it is morally wrong to harm objects that are beautiful, sacred, rare, or old, which cannot be solely explained by their usefulness or economic value. These findings provide new insight into elevating the protection of natural and cultural objects as a moral issue and suggest ways to motivate the preservation of natural and cultural environments.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Joshua Conrad Jackson, Danica Dillion, Brock Bastian, Joseph Watts, William Buckner, Nicholas DiMaggio, Kurt Gray
Summary: Humans across cultures use supernatural beliefs to explain the world, with a focus on natural rather than social phenomena, according to a quantitative analysis of ethnographic text from 114 societies.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2023)
Article
Substance Abuse
Molly Carlyle, Malin Kvande, Isabell M. M. Meier, Martin Trostheim, Kaja Buen, Eira Nordeng Jensen, Gernot Ernst, Siri Leknes, Marie Eikemo
Summary: This study aimed to examine whether childhood adversity increases opioid reward during surgery. The results showed that childhood adversity did not have a significant effect on drug-induced feelings of pleasure, but it was negatively associated with drug liking. Exploratory analysis suggested a potential nonlinear relationship between childhood adversity and positive opioid effects. Future research should investigate the link between childhood adversity, subjective effects, and opioid use after surgery.
ADDICTION RESEARCH & THEORY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jack W. Klein, Garrett Tyler-Parker, Brock Bastian
Summary: This study found that psychological distress has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, and identified predictors of distress. These factors include stress attributed to COVID-19, feeling the pandemic management is out of control, and vaccine hesitancy. The results also showed that women, youth, and Melbourne residents were most vulnerable to the negative effects of COVID-19 on wellbeing.
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Anesthesiology
M. Eikemo, I. M. Meier, G. E. Loseth, M. Trostheim, N. Orstavik, E. N. Jensen, E. L. Garland, C. Berna, G. Ernst, S. Leknes
Summary: Exposure to opioid analgesics during surgery increases the risk of new persistent opioid use. The belief that acute opioid treatment improves well-being and relieves anxiety is not consistently supported by laboratory studies of non-opioid users. This observational study found that opioid-induced improvement of well-being is infrequent in opioid-naive patients.
Article
Anesthesiology
Isabell M. Meier, Marie Eikemo, Martin Trostheim, Kaja Buen, Eira Jensen, Siri Gurandsrud Karlsen, Silje E. Reme, Chantal Berna, Siri Leknes, Gernot Ernst
Summary: This study conducted in a Norwegian hospital observed 270 outpatient surgery patients and found that only 35% of them took pain relief medication at home 1-2 days after discharge. The use of pain relief medication was associated with factors such as chronic pain, pre- and post-surgical pain severity, and the ability to cope with pain. However, the low levels of postoperative pain did not lead to widespread chronic opioid use.
REGIONAL ANESTHESIA AND PAIN MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Social
Luke D. Smillie, Matthew B. Ruby, Nicholas P. Tan, Liora Stollard, Brock Bastian
Summary: This research explores how individuals' personalities contribute to their responses to ethical vegetarian appeals. The study finds that individuals may vary in their receptivity to such appeals based on their traits, beliefs, and motives. Specifically, there are differences in how individuals respond to appeals focused on animal welfare. These findings have important implications for behavior change efforts.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Martin Trostheim, Marie Eikemo, Jan Haaker, J. James Frost, Siri Leknes
Summary: This study provides a detailed analysis of central opioid receptor blockade using existing positron emission tomography data. The researchers create models for estimating opioid receptor blockade with naloxone and naltrexone, and find that commonly used doses of these drugs are more than sufficient to produce full blockade of central mu-opioid receptors. They also develop web applications to help plan and evaluate experiments with opioid antagonists.
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2022)
