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A Mouse Model of Blast Injury to Brain: Initial Pathological, Neuropathological, and Behavioral Characterization by Koliatsos, Vassilis E, Cernak, Ibolja, Xu, Leyan, Song, Yeajin, Savonenko, Alena, Crain, Barbara J, Eberhart, Charles G, Frangakis, Constantine E, Melnikova, Tatiana, Kim, Hyunsu, Lee, Deidre

“…The increased use of explosives in recent wars has increased the number of veterans with blast injuries. Of particular interest is blast injury to the brain,…”
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Hemorrhagic Complications of Percutaneous Cryoablation for Renal Tumors: Results from a 7-year Prospective Study by Kakarala, Bharat, Frangakis, Constantine E., Rodriguez, Ron, Georgiades, Christos S.

“…Purpose Cryoablation of renal tumors is assumed to have a higher risk of hemorrhagic complications compared to other ablative modalities. Our purpose was to…”
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Written Verb Naming Improves After tDCS Over the Left IFG in Primary Progressive Aphasia by Fenner, Amberlynn S, Webster, Kimberly T, Ficek, Bronte N, Frangakis, Constantine E, Tsapkini, Kyrana

“…Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a non-invasive neuromodulation technique, is an effective adjunct to naming treatments in post-stroke aphasia…”
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Long-Term Changes in Axon Calibers after Injury: Observations on the Mouse Corticospinal Tract by Alexandris, Athanasios S, Wang, Yiqing, Frangakis, Constantine E, Lee, Youngrim, Ryu, Jiwon, Alam, Zahra, Koliatsos, Vassilis E

“…White matter pathology is common across a wide spectrum of neurological diseases. Characterizing this pathology is important for both a mechanistic…”
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Principal Stratification in Causal Inference by Frangakis, Constantine E., Rubin, Donald B.

“…Many scientific problems require that treatment comparisons be adjusted for posttreatment variables, but the estimands underlying standard methods are not…”
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Neural Correlates of Letter and Semantic Fluency in Primary Progressive Aphasia by Riello, Marianna, Frangakis, Constantine E, Ficek, Bronte, Webster, Kimberly T, Desmond, John E, Faria, Andreia V, Hillis, Argye E, Tsapkini, Kyrana

“…Verbal fluency (VF) is an informative cognitive task. Lesion and functional imaging studies implicate distinct cerebral areas that support letter versus…”
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Sampling-based approaches to improve estimation of mortality among patient dropouts: experience from a large PEPFAR-funded program in Western Kenya by Yiannoutsos, Constantin T, An, Ming-Wen, Frangakis, Constantine E, Musick, Beverly S, Braitstein, Paula, Wools-Kaloustian, Kara, Ochieng, Daniel, Martin, Jeffrey N, Bacon, Melanie C, Ochieng, Vincent, Kimaiyo, Sylvester

“…Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of HIV care and treatment programs is impacted by losses to follow-up (LTFU) in the patient population. The severity of this…”
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Cognitive Outcomes After Sertaline Treatment in Patients With Depression of Alzheimer Disease by Munro, Cynthia A., Ph.D, Longmire, Crystal Flynn, Ph.D, Drye, Lea T., Ph.D, Martin, Barbara K., Ph.D, Frangakis, Constantine E., Ph.D, Meinert, Curtis L., Ph.D, Mintzer, Jacobo E., M.D., M.B.A, Porsteinsson, Anton P., M.D, Rabins, Peter V., M.D., M.P.H, Rosenberg, Paul B., M.D, Schneider, Lon S., M.D., M.S, Weintraub, Daniel, M.D, Lyketsos, Constantine G., M.D., M.H.S

“…Objectives Although many depressed patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) are treated with antidepressants, the effect of such treatment on cognitive performance…”
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The Consistency Statement in Causal Inference: A Definition or an Assumption? by Cole, Stephen R, Frangakis, Constantine E

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Exploring lag and duration effect of sunshine in triggering suicide by Papadopoulos, Fotios C., Frangakis, Constantine E., Skalkidou, Alkistis, Petridou, Eleni, Stevens, Richard G., Trichopoulos, Dimitrios

“…Sunshine is considered to have a beneficial impact on mood. Interestingly, it has been consistently found that the incidence of suicide reaches a peak during…”
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A Role of Sunshine in the Triggering of Suicide by Petridou, Eleni, Papadopoulos, Fotios C., Frangakis, Constantine E., Skalkidou, Alkistis, Trichopoulos, Dimitrios

“…Several reports indicate that suicide follows a seasonal pattern with a dominant peak during the month of maximum daylight. The purpose of this study was to…”
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Is Sertraline Treatment or Depression Remission in Depressed Alzheimer Patients Associated with Improved Caregiver Well Being? Depression in Alzheimer's Disease Study 2 by Flynn Longmire, Crystal V., Ph.D., M.S.C.R, Drye, Lea T., Ph.D, Frangakis, Constantine E., Ph.D, Martin, Barbara K., Ph.D, Meinert, Curtis L., Ph.D, Mintzer, Jacobo E., M.D., M.B.A, Munro, Cynthia A., Ph.D, Porsteinsson, Anton P., M.D, Rabins, Peter V., M.D., M.P.H, Rosenberg, Paul B., M.D, Schneider, Lon S., M.D., M.S, Weintraub, Daniel, M.D, Lyketsos, Constantine G., M.D., M.H.S

“…Objective We wanted to assess if sertraline treatment (versus placebo) or remission of depression at 12 weeks (versus nonremission) in Alzheimer patients is…”
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The function of the left anterior temporal pole: evidence from acute stroke and infarct volume by Tsapkini, Kyrana, Frangakis, Constantine E., Hillis, Argye E.

“…The role of the anterior temporal lobes in cognition and language has been much debated in the literature over the last few years. Most prevailing theories…”
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Electrical brain stimulation in different variants of primary progressive aphasia: A randomized clinical trial by Tsapkini, Kyrana, Webster, Kimberly T., Ficek, Bronte N., Desmond, John E., Onyike, Chiadi U., Rapp, Brenda, Frangakis, Constantine E., Hillis, Argye E.

“…Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been recently shown to improve language outcomes in primary progressive aphasia (PPA) but most studies are…”
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Deductive derivation and turing‐computerization of semiparametric efficient estimation by Frangakis, Constantine E, Qian, Tianchen, Wu, Zhenke, Diaz, Ivan

“…Researchers often seek robust inference for a parameter through semiparametric estimation. Efficient semiparametric estimation currently requires theoretical…”
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Specificity in Generalization Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Primary Progressive Aphasia by Wang, Zeyi, Ficek, Bronte N, Webster, Kimberly T, Herrmann, Olivia, Frangakis, Constantine E, Desmond, John E, Onyike, Chiadi U, Caffo, Brian, Hillis, Argye E, Tsapkini, Kyrana

“…Generalization (or near-transfer) effects of an intervention to tasks not explicitly trained are the most desirable intervention outcomes. However, they are…”
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Development of a Research Agenda for Percutaneous Renal Tumor Ablation: Proceedings from a Multidisciplinary Research Consensus Panel by Georgiades, Christos S., MD, PhD, Rodriguez, Ronald, MD, PhD, Littrup, Peter J., MD, Frangakis, Constantine E., PhD, Leveille, Raymond, MD, Ahrar, Kamran, MD, Atwell, Thomas D., MD, Cadeddu, Jeffrey, MD, Trimmer, Clayton, DO, Durack, Jeremy C., MD, Hammers, Hans-Joerg, MD, PhD, Meng, Maxwell V., MD, Raman, Steven, MD, Solomon, Stephen B., MD, Zagoria, Ronald J., MD, McLennan, Gordon, MD, LaBerge, Jeanne M., MD, Gervais, Debra A., MD, Kee, Stephen T., MD

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Rejoinder to Discussions on: Deductive derivation and turing-computerization of semiparametric efficient estimation by Frangakis, Constantine E., Qian, Tianchen, Wu, Zhenke, Díaz, Iván

“…This article is the rejoinder to:…”
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Estimation of treatment effects in matched‐pair cluster randomized trials by calibrating covariate imbalance between clusters by Wu, Zhenke, Frangakis, Constantine E, Louis, Thomas A, Scharfstein, Daniel O

“…We address estimation of intervention effects in experimental designs in which (a) interventions are assigned at the cluster level; (b) clusters are selected…”
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Multiple Imputation by Ordered Monotone Blocks With Application to the Anthrax Vaccine Research Program by Li, Fan, Baccini, Michela, Mealli, Fabrizia, Zell, Elizabeth R., Frangakis, Constantine E., Rubin, Donald B.

“…Multiple imputation (MI) has become a standard statistical technique for dealing with missing values. The CDC Anthrax Vaccine Research Program (AVRP) dataset…”
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