ABSTRACT Context: Headache is reported to be the most common concussion related symptom. This has resulted in a heavy reliance on symptoms for the sideline assessment of concussive injuries. It is unclear however, if ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine racial and socioeconomic disparities in birth outcomes and explore the role of stress in at-risk and lower risk Blacks. The analyses are based on data from the Linked ...

This research is a comprehensive study that describes how individuals with hypertension do their health behaviors and how their behaviors change over time based on their diagnostic status and the duration of hypertension. The ...

Purpose: Heart rate variability (HRV) is the measure of time between heartbeats. It reflects autonomic nervous system modulation of the cardiovascular system, and is often used to track stressors acting upon the body. In ...

Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOEs) are narrow-band signals emitted from the cochlea and measured in the ear canal with a sensitive microphone. Because these emissions are correlated with sex and because sex is ...

Introduction: Parents have been considered an underutilized resource for educating children about HIV prevention. Parents and other family members can play a critical role in prevention efforts by using effective parenting ...

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the importance of menstrual phase and menstrual status (amenorrhea versus eumenorrhea) on the hormonal and metabolic responses to prolonged, aerobic exercise. Six amenorrheic ...

The medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR) modifies cochlear amplifier function to improve encoding of signals in static noise, but conflicting results have been reported regarding how the MOCR responds to dynamic, temporally-complex ...