Northwest Nazarene University

To evaluate whether neuropsychological functioning was impaired among individuals with pediatric primary headache disorders (PHD) compared with individuals without headaches. Adults with migraine appear to evidence deficits in neuropsychological performance, but few reviews have examined whether cognitive performance is impaired among children and adolescents with primary headache disorders.

we considered studies using a validated clinical neuropsychological measure among pediatric samples (<20-y old) that included a phd and control sample. two authors independently reviewed candidate articles to determine inclusion and to extract data. data were pooled using random-effects models. data sources: pubmed, embase, proquest health & medical, proquest psychology database, and psycinfo were searched from inception to february 2024.

Analysis of 16 included studies indicated significantly worse overall neuropsychological performance among pediatric PHD (g = −0.31; 95% CI = −0.44 to −0.17), as well as significantly worse performance across the motor, executive function, learning/memory, language, processing speed, intelligence, and visuospatial/construction domains, as compared with nonheadache controls. Moderate heterogeneity was observed (I2 = 43.13%) but analyses of publication bias and moderators were not significant. Sensitivity analyses indicated that negative effects were driven by samples with migraine and not observed among tension-type headache (TTH) samples.

Relative to controls without headache, pediatric samples with migraine demonstrate worse neurocognitive performance both generally and across specific domains. A small number of studies among samples with TTH were included and moderator analyses were likely underpowered.

Most problematic pornography use (PPU) research relies on cross-sectional designs. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies are needed to better understand PPU correlates. We evaluated how daily PPU and pornography use ratings were correlated with baseline PPU, pornography use frequency (over 12-months), alcohol problems, and depression in a community sample of men living in the United States.

Participants (n = 113, mean age 37.95 [11.09]) completed a baseline survey battery followed by daily EMAs over 14 days (k = 1,240 observations). Data were gathered on the Prolific panel.

Screener thresholds suggested 32%, 25%, and 24% of sample were at-risk for PPU, depression, and alcohol use problems respectively. Baseline estimates suggested PPU to be weakly correlated with depression (r = 0.29) and past 12-month pornography use (r = 0.27), but not alcohol problems (r = 0.08). Multilevel modeling indicated aggregated pornography use amount as a robust correlate of aggregated pornography control problems over the observation period. Baseline PPU and pornography use indicators were significant predictors of aggregated control problems and pornography use amount respectively. Baseline depression and alcohol problem predictors were non-significant. Past 12-month pornography use frequency and depression scores exacerbated the relationships between daily pornography use amount and aggregated control problems. Sensitivity analyses specific to only those who used pornography across all observations were consistent with full model results (though effect strength changed).

With exception to the PPU and pornography use indicators, cross-sectional baseline estimates (e.g., alcohol problems and depression) were generally not predictive of aggregated pornography use and control problems in the following 14 days.

The annual meeting for the Intermountain Branch was held in April 2024 on the campus of Brigham Young University. There were 127 branch members from Utah, Idaho, and Nevada who attended the meeting and were composed of undergraduate students, graduate or medical students, and faculty. This report highlights the diversity of, and the emerging trends in, the research conducted by American Society for Microbiology members in the Intermountain Branch.