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Parental psychosocial stress and asthma morbidity in Puerto Rican twins
(Elsevier, 2011)
Background—Little is known about paternal psychosocial factors and childhood asthma.
Association of types of life events with depressive symptoms among Puerto Rican youth
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
The main objective of this study was to examine the association between four types of adverse life events (family environment, separation, social adversity, and death) and the development of depressive symptoms among Puerto ...
The social course of drug injection and sexual activity among YMSM and other high-risk youth: An agenda for future fesearch
(Springer, 2003)
The cumulative epidemiologic literature indicates that many injecting drug users (IDUs) initiate injection as a mode of drug administration during late adolescence or early adulthood. Recent studies have shown that IDUs ...
A twin study of early-childhood asthma in Puerto Ricans
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
BACKGROUND: The relative contributions of genetics and environment to asthma in Hispanics or to asthma in children younger than 3 years are not well understood.
Correlations between psychological tests and physiological responses during fear conditioning and renewal
(BioMed Central, 2012)
BACKGROUND:
Anxiety disorders are characterized by specific emotions, thoughts and physiological responses. Little is known, however, about the relationship between psychological/personality indices of anxiety responses ...
Revisiting the role of infralimbic cortex in fear extinction with optogenetics
(Society for Neuroscience., 2015)
Previous rodent studies have implicated the infralimbic (IL) subregion of the medial prefrontal cortex in extinction of auditory fear conditioning. However, these studies used pharmacological inactivation or electrical ...
Reduced functional connectivity within the mesocorticolimbic system in substance use disorders: An fMRI study of Puerto Rican young adults
(Frontiers Media, 2016-05)
Studies of the mesocorticolimbic reward system (MCLS) and its relationship with impulsivity and substance use disorders (SUD) have largely focused on individuals from non-minority backgrounds. This represents a significant ...
Disparities in asthma medication dispensing patterns: The case of pediatric asthma in Puerto Rico
(Tylor and Francis, 2010)
BACKGROUND—Disparities exist in asthma medication dispensing between children with public insurance and those with private insurance under a Managed Care Medicaid system in Puerto Rico.
Occurrence and correlates of overweight and obesity among island Puerto Rican youth
(International Society on Hypertension in Blacks, 2011)
Objective & Main Outcome Measures:
This paper provides 2005–08 population-based prevalence data on obesity and overweight among youth residing in Puerto Rico.
Erasing fear memories with extinction training
(2010)
Decades of behavioral studies have confirmed that extinction does not erase classically conditioned fear memories. For this reason, research efforts have focused on the mechanisms underlying the development of extinction-induced ...