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A mind you can count on: validating breath counting as a behavioral measure of mindfulness by Levinson, Daniel B, Stoll, Eli L, Kindy, Sonam D, Merry, Hillary L, Davidson, Richard J

“…Mindfulness practice of present moment awareness promises many benefits, but has eluded rigorous behavioral measurement. To date, research has relied on…”
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Neural correlates of attentional expertise in long-term meditation practitioners by Brefczynski-Lewis, J.A, Lutz, A, Schaefer, H.S, Levinson, D.B, Davidson, R.J

“…Meditation refers to a family of mental training practices that are designed to familiarize the practitioner with specific types of mental processes. One of…”
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Challenges for defining minimal clinically important difference (MCID) after spinal cord injury by Wu, X, Liu, J, Tanadini, L G, Lammertse, D P, Blight, A R, Kramer, John L K, Scivoletto, G, Jones, L, Kirshblum, S, Abel, R, Fawcett, J, Field-Fote, E, Guest, J, Levinson, B, Maier, D, Tansey, K, Weidner, N, Tetzlaff, W G, Hothorn, T, Curt, A, Steeves, J D

“…Study design: This is a review article. Objectives: This study discusses the following: (1) concepts and constraints for the determination of minimal…”
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Neurodegeneration associated with genetic defects in phospholipase A2 by GREGORY, A, WESTAWAY, S. K, RODRIGUEZ, D, DESGUERRE, I, BERTINI, E, SIMONATI, A, LEVINSON, B, DIAS, C, BARBOT, C, CARRILHO, I, SANTOS, M, MALIK, I, HOLM, I. E, GITSCHIER, J, HAYFLICK, S. J, KOTZBAUER, P. T, HOGARTH, P, SONEK, S, CORYELL, J. C, NGUYEN, T. M, NARDOCCI, N, ZORZI, G

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Neurodegeneration associated with genetic defects in phospholipase A(2) by Gregory, A, Westaway, S K, Holm, I E, Kotzbauer, P T, Hogarth, P, Sonek, S, Coryell, J C, Nguyen, T M, Nardocci, N, Zorzi, G, Rodriguez, D, Desguerre, I, Bertini, E, Simonati, A, Levinson, B, Dias, C, Barbot, C, Carrilho, I, Santos, M, Malik, I, Gitschier, J, Hayflick, S J

“…Mutations in the gene encoding phospholipase A(2) group VI (PLA2G6) are associated with two childhood neurologic disorders: infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy…”
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The Persistence of Thought: Evidence for a Role of Working Memory in the Maintenance of Task-Unrelated Thinking by Levinson, Daniel B., Smallwood, Jonathan, Davidson, Richard J.

“…Tasks that tax working memory (WM) have consistently been found to decrease mind wandering. These findings may indicate that maintenance of mind wandering…”
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OR14,81 SUN11031 (synthetic human Ghrelin) improves lean body mass and function in advanced COPD cachexia in a placebo controlled trial by Gertner, J, Levinson, B

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Less dropout from prolonged exposure sessions prescribed at least twice weekly: A meta‐analysis and systematic review of randomized controlled trials by Levinson, Daniel B., Halverson, Tate F., Wilson, Sarah M., Fu, Rongwei

“…Trauma‐focused psychotherapies, such as prolonged exposure (PE), are strongly recommended to treat posttraumatic stress disorder due to their effects in…”
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The rationale for the use of an internet-based clinical trial to obtain safety, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data in a dose-escalation study in neonates, with hyperbilirubinemia, who need exchange transfusion by Mitchel, J., Levinson, B.

“…When experimental drugs are used in the newborn, drug safety is of paramount importance. Unfortunately, there are often relatively large gaps between data…”
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Short Telomeres Induce p53 and Autophagy and Modulate Age‐Associated Changes in Cardiac Progenitor Cell Fate by Matsumoto, Collin, Jiang, Yan, Emathinger, Jacqueline, Quijada, Pearl, Nguyen, Nathalie, De La Torre, Andrea, Moshref, Maryam, Nguyen, Jonathan, Levinson, Aimee B., Shin, Minyoung, Sussman, Mark A., Hariharan, Nirmala

“…Aging severely limits myocardial repair and regeneration. Delineating the impact of age‐associated factors such as short telomeres is critical to enhance the…”
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Fluid management during the first postnatal day in very low birth weight neonates and rates of patent ductus arteriosus requiring treatment by Levinson, Michelle B., Messina, Catherine, Mintzer, Jonathan P.

“…Purpose: Previous studies have suggested an association between high maintenance fluid volumes during the first several postnatal days and patent ductus…”
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Azathioprine myelosuppression in multiple sclerosis: characterizing thiopurine methyltransferase polymorphisms by Frohman, E M, Havrdova, E, Levinson, B, Slanar, O

“…We describe two multiple sclerosis patients who developed pancytopenia following treatment with azathioprine. They were found to have the homozygous…”
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Diverse mutations in patients with Menkes disease often lead to exon skipping by Das, S, Levinson, B, Whitney, S, Vulpe, C, Packman, S, Gitschier, J

“…Fibroblast cultures from 12 unrelated patients with classical Menkes disease were analyzed for mutations in the MNK gene, by reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR)…”
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Attenuation of the kaluretic properties of furosemide by triamterene (Dyrenium) in healthy volunteers by Levinson, B, Shenouda, M, Stypinski, D

“…To examine if concomitant administration of furosemide, a loop diuretic, with the potassium- and magnesium-sparing diuretic triamterene would decrease loss of…”
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453 (PB441): NCI/CTEP #10276: A Phase I/II Study of Peposertib and Avelumab in Combination with Hypofractionated Radiation in Patients with Advanced/Metastatic Solid Tumors and Hepatobiliary Malignancies by Spencer, K., Beri, N., Girda, E., Cho, M., Levinson, B., Mahadevan, A., Hill, C., Butenschoen, H., Scavone, K., He, H.M., Davis, A., Dureja, M., Aguilar, D., Ganesan, S., Christner, S., Gore, S., Beumer, J., Jabbour, S., Mehnert, J.

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Concurrent interferon-alpha and radiation for head and neck melanoma by Nguyen, N P, Levinson, B, Dutta, S, Karlsson, U, Alfieri, A, Childress, C, Sallah, S

“…Melanoma cells are resistant to radiation in part due to their capacity to repair sublethal damage. A large fraction dose is therefore often utilized. However,…”
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Evidence for a third transcript from the human factor VIII gene by Levinson, B, Kenwrick, S, Gamel, P, Fisher, K, Gitschier, J

“…Intron 22 of the human factor VIII gene was recently found to contain a gene, associated with a CpG island, which is transcribed in the direction opposite to…”
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Deletion of the promoter region in the Atp7a gene of the mottled dappled mouse by Levinson, Barbara, Packman, Seymour, Gitschier, Jane

“…Mutations recently discovered in Atp7a, the mouse homologue of the human Menkes disease gene, have proved that mottled mice arise from defects in this gene…”
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Hydroxamic Acids as Potent Inhibitors of Endothelin-Converting Enzyme from Human Bronchiolar Smooth Muscle by Bihovsky, Ron, Levinson, Barry L, Loewi, Rivka C, Erhardt, Paul W, Polokoff, Mark A

“…Hydroxamic acids 6a-h, derived from malonyl amino acids, and 25a-d, derived from succinyl amino acids, were synthesized as inhibitors of human bronchiolar…”
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Subanesthetic Concentrations of Desflurane and Propofol Suppress Recall of Emotionally Charged Information by Chortkoff, Ben S., Gonsowski, Charles T., Bennett, Henry L., Levinson, Bernard, Crankshaw, David P., Dutton, Robert C., Ionescu, Pompiliu, Block, Robert I., Eger II, Edmond I

“…Whether anesthetized patients register emotionally charged information remains controversial.We tested this possibility using subanesthetic concentrations of…”
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