SDG 3: GOOD HEALTH AND WELL BEING – Sustainable Development Goals

Psychological factors associated with emotional distress among Palestinian Arabs from East Jerusalem accessing psychiatric care in Israel

By: Nakash O., Nagar M., Levav I., Danilovich E., Abu-Tair M., Podolsky G.
Published in: Israel Journal of Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Background: The Palestinian population residing in East Jerusalem is characterized by high rates of poverty and unemploy (more…)

Adherence to Medical Cannabis among Licensed Patients in Israel

By: Zolotov Y., Baruch Y., Reuveni H., Magnezi R.
Published in: Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Objectives: To evaluate adherence among Israeli patients who are licensed to use medical cannabis and to identify factor (more…)

Differential burden of rare protein truncating variants in Alzheimer’s disease patients compared to centenarians

By: Freudenberg-Hua Y., Li W., Abhyankar A., Vacic V., Cortes V., Ben-Avraham D., Koppel J., Greenwald B., Germer S., Darnell R.B., Barzilai N., Freudenberg J., Atzmon G., Davies P., T2D-GENES Consortium
Published in: Human Molecular Genetics
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Natural Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: We compared coding region variants of 53 cognitively healthy centenarians and 45 patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), (more…)

Fair trade as an instrument for the regulation of risks in the cross-border surrogacy market

By: Bassan S.
Published in: European Journal of Risk Regulation
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Cross-border surrogacy transactions [CBST] entail several risks for the participants and the resulting child and, conseq (more…)

I did it my way

By: Roe D.
Published in: American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: In this Festschrift for John S. Strauss, a number of his profound contributions and their impact over time are highlight (more…)

The hidden price and possible benefit of repeated traumatic exposure

By: Levy-Gigi E., Richter-Levin G., Okon-Singer H., Kéri S., Bonanno G.A.
Published in: Stress
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Natural Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: There is a growing evidence showing that first-responders who are frequently exposed to traumatic events as part of thei (more…)

Tracing Stigma in Long-Term Care Insurance in Israel: Stakeholders’ Views of Policy Implementation

By: Strier R., Werner P.
Published in: Journal of Aging and Social Policy
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Almost all developed countries provide some answers for long-term care, but only a few countries in the world, such as J (more…)

Toxic Knowledge: Self-Alteration Through Child Abuse Work

By: Sigad L.I., Davidov J., Lev-Wiesel R., Eisikovits Z.
Published in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: The purpose of the present article is to examine the multiple ways in which the private lives of professionals are affec (more…)

Oxytocin improves compassion toward women among patients with PTSD

By: Palgi S., Klein E., Shamay-Tsoory S.G.
Published in: Psychoneuroendocrinology
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Although impairments in social skills, including empathic abilities, are common in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (more…)

Sleep disruption and motor development: Does pulling-to-stand impacts sleep-wake regulation?

By: Atun-Einy O., Scher A.
Published in: Infant Behavior and Development
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: During the second half of the 1st year, periods of increased sleep disruption have been documented alongside overall imp (more…)

Heparanase-neutralizing antibodies attenuate lymphoma tumor growth and metastasis

By: Weissmann M., Arvatz G., Horowitz N., Feld S., Naroditsky I., Zhang Y., Ng M., Hammond E., Nevo E., Vlodavsky I., Ilan N.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Heparanase is an endoglycosidase that cleaves heparan sulfate side chains of proteoglycans, resulting in disassembly of (more…)

Effect of Fampridine-PR (prolonged released 4-aminopyridine) on the manual functions of patients with Multiple Sclerosis

By: Savin Z., Lejbkowicz I., Glass-Marmor L., Lavi I., Rosenblum S., Miller A.
Published in: Journal of the Neurological Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Background Persons with MS (PwMS) commonly present ambulatory and manual dysfunctions. While ambulation is recognized as (more…)

High quality permanent draft genome sequence of Phaseolibacter flectens ATCC 12775T, a plant pathogen of French bean pods

By: Aizenberg-Gershtein Y., Izhaki I., Lapidus A., Copeland A., Reddy T.B.K., Huntemann M., Pillay M., Markowitz V., Göker M., Woyke T., Klenk H.-P., Kyrpides N.C., Halpern M.
Published in: Standards in Genomic Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Natural Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Phaseolibacter flectens strain ATCC 12775T (Halpern et al., Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 63:268-273, 2013) is a Gram-negati (more…)

Cognitive Function of Patients with Crohn’s Disease is Associated with Intestinal Disease Activity

By: Golan D., Gross B., Miller A., Klil-Drori S., Lavi I., Shiller M., Honigman S., Almog R., Segol O.
Published in: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Background: Systemic inflammation and nutritional deficiencies are characteristics of Crohn’s disease (CD) and have been (more…)

Outcome of a right aortic arch diagnosed in utero

By: Bronshtein M., Blumenfeld Z., Naroditsky I., Gover A.
Published in: Prenatal Diagnosis
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
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‘Virtual lesion’ in pain research; A study on magnetic stimulation of the primary motor cortex

By: Granovsky Y., Liem K.S., Weissman-Fogel I., Yarnitsky D., Chistyakov A., Sinai A.
Published in: European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom)
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Background ‘Virtual lesion’ (‘VL’) is a transient disruption of cortical activity during task performance. It can be ind (more…)

SLE-key® rule-out serologic test for excluding the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus: Developing the ImmunArray iCHIP®

By: Putterman C., Wu A., Reiner-Benaim A., Batty D.S., Sanz I., Oates J., Jakobi K., Petri M., Safer P., Gerwien R., Sorek R., Blumenstein Y., Cohen I.R.
Published in: Journal of Immunological Methods
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: We describe here the development, verification and validation of the SLE-key® rule-out test for a definitive rule-out of (more…)

A Longitudinal Study of Emotional Distress Intolerance and Psychopathology Following Exposure to a Potentially Traumatic Event in a Community Sample

By: Hashoul-Andary R., Assayag-Nitzan Y., Yuval K., Aderka I.M., Litz B., Bernstein A.
Published in: Cognitive Therapy and Research
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: This study focused on better understanding the association between anxiety sensitivity (AS), distress tolerance (DT), an (more…)

Understanding the Oxytocin System and Its Relevance to Psychiatry

By: Shamay-Tsoory S., Young L.J.
Published in: Biological Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
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The Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin

By: Shamay-Tsoory S.G., Abu-Akel A.
Published in: Biological Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03 | Units: Social Sciences | Time: 2016 | Link
Description: Oxytocin is a nonapeptide that also serves as a neuromodulator in the human central nervous system. Over the last decade (more…)

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