Attention bias to emotional faces varies by IQ and anxiety in Williams syndrome

Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) often experience significant anxiety. A promising approach to anxiety intervention has emerged from cognitive studies of attention bias to threat. To investigate the utility of this intervention in WS, this study examined attention bias to happy and angry faces in individuals with WS (N=46). Results showed a significant difference in attention bias patterns as a function of IQ and anxiety. Individuals with higher IQ or higher anxiety showed a significant bias toward angry, but not happy faces, whereas individuals with lower IQ or lower anxiety showed the opposite pattern. These results suggest that attention bias interventions to modify a threat bias may be most effectively targeted to anxious individuals with WS with relatively high IQ

Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe

Primary Care Clinician and Child Characteristics Impacting Autism Surveillance

Early detection of autism provides access to early intervention and subsequently fewer lifelong challenges. However, disparities in screening have been associated with socioeconomic status (SES) and race, and disparities in surveillance have been associated with clinician knowledge and beliefs about autism identification. The present study examines associations between demographic variables and clinician beliefs, and agreement between screening results and clinician surveillance. Surveillance included activities used by the primary care clinicians (PCCs) to assess risk for autism. PCCs reported their beliefs about autism screening and identification, their sex, race, years in practice, and racial distribution of their patient population. Children’s demographic information was also collected. PCCs identified children as having, or not having, an increased likelihood of autism, and parents of children completed an autism screener. Agreement between screening and surveillance results were examined across PCC, practice, and child demographics. Higher confidence in autism knowledge and screening resources, female PCC sex, and majority White practice patient demographics all predicted agreement between screening and surveillance. Female child sex and higher maternal education also predicted agreement between screening and surveillance. These findings highlight the importance of PCC screening beliefs and child and PCC demographics on the autism identification process

Positive shift in corrole redox potentials leveraged by modest β-CF3-substitution helps achieve efficient photocatalytic C-H bond functionalization by group 13 complexes

© 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry.Tris- A nd tetrakis-β-trifluoromethylated gallium (3CF3-Ga, 4CF3-Ga) and aluminum (3CF3-Al, 4CF3-Al) corrole systems were synthesized by a facile "one-pot" approach from the respective tri- A nd tetra-iodo starting compounds using the FSO2CF2CO2Me reagent. The isolated 5,10,15-(tris-pentafluorophenyl)corrole-based compounds set the groundwork for another important β-substituent study in inorganic photocatalysis. As seen previously,-CF3 group substitution leads to red shifts in both the absorption and emission spectra compared to their unsubstituted counterparts (X. Zhan, et al., Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 6184-6198). All CF3-substituted corrole complexes showed strong fluorescence; 3CF3-Al possessed the highest fluorescence quantum yield (0.71) among these compounds. The photocatalytic production of bromophenol by way of these photosensitizing complexes was studied demonstrating that tris-trifluoromethylation is an important substitution class, especially when Ga3+ is present (experimental TON value in parentheses): 3CF3-Ga (192) > 4CF3-Ga (146) > 3CF3-Al (130) > 4CF3-Al (56) > 1-Ga (43) > 1-Al (18). The catalytic performance (turn-over number, TON) for benzylbromide formation (from toluene) was found to be: 3CF3-Ga (225) > 1-Ga (138) > 3CF3-Al (130) > 4CF3-Ga (126) > 1-Al (95) > 4CF3-Al (89); in these trials, benzaldehyde was also detected as a product in which 3CF3-Ga outperforms the other compounds (TON = 109). The tetra-CF3-substituted 4CF3-Ga and 4CF3-Al species exhibit a dramatic formal positive shift of 116 mV and 126 mV per [CF3] group, respectively, compared to the unsubstituted parent species 1-Ga and 1-Al. However, the absorbance values (λabs = 400 nm) of these corrole complexes (all equally concentrated: 4.0 × 10-6 M) were 3CF3-Al (0.23) > 3CF3-Ga (0.22) > 1-Al (0.21) > 1-Ga (0.20) > 4CF3-Al (0.19) > 4CF3-Ga (0.15), which helps rationalize why 3CF3-Ga performs the best among these catalysts. These new photosensitizers were carefully characterized by 1H and 19F NMR spectroscopy to help verify the number and position (symmetry) of the CF3 groups; 3CF3-Ga and 3I-Al were structurally characterized. Distortions in the corrole macrocycle imposed by the multiple β-substitution were quantified.11sciescopu