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Piksa M, Noworyta K, Piasecki J, Gundersen A, Kunst J, Morzy M, Rygula R. Research Report: A Link between Sertraline Treatment and Susceptibility to (Mis)information. ACS Chem Neurosci 2024; 15:1515-1522. [PMID: 38484276 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Recent research revealed that several psycho-cognitive processes, such as insensitivity to positive and negative feedback, cognitive rigidity, pessimistic judgment bias, and anxiety, are involved in susceptibility to fake news. All of these processes have been previously associated with depressive disorder and are sensitive to serotoninergic manipulations. In the current study, a link between chronic treatment with the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) sertraline and susceptibility to true and fake news was examined. Herein, a sample of 1162 participants was recruited via Prolific Academic for an online study. Half of the sample reported taking sertraline (Zoloft) for at least 8 weeks (sertraline group), and the other half confirmed not taking any psychiatric medication (control group). The sertraline group was further divided according to their daily dosage (50, 100, 150, and 200 mg/day). All participants completed a susceptibility to misinformation scale, wherein they were asked to determine the veracity of the presented true and fake news and their willingness to behaviorally engage with the news. The results were compared between those of the sertraline groups and the control group. The results showed that sertraline groups did not differ significantly in the assessment of the truthfulness of information or their ability to discern the truth. However, those taking sertraline appeared to have a significantly increased likelihood of behavioral engagement with the information, and this effect was observed for both true and fake news. The research presented here represents the initial endeavor to comprehend the neurochemical foundation of the susceptibility to misinformation. The association between sertraline treatment and increased behavioral engagement with information observed in this study can be explained in light of previous studies showing positive correlations between serotonin (5-HT) system activity and the inclination to engage in social behaviors. It can also be attributed to the anxiolytic effects of sertraline treatment, which mitigate the fear of social judgment. The heightened behavioral engagement with information in people taking sertraline may, as part of a general phenomenon, also shape their interactions with fake news. Future longitudinal studies should reveal the specificity and exact causality of these interactions.
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- Michal Piksa
- Department of Pharmacology, Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, 12 Smetna Street, 31-343 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, 12 Smetna Street, 31-343 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kopernika 40, 31-501 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Postboks 1094, Blindern, 0317 Oslo Norway
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Postboks 1094, Blindern, 0317 Oslo Norway
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- Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 2, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, 12 Smetna Street, 31-343 Krakow, Poland
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Gundersen AB, van der Linden S, Piksa M, Morzy M, Piasecki J, Ryguła R, Gwiaździński P, Noworyta K, Kunst JR. The role of perceived minority-group status in the conspiracy beliefs of factual majority groups. R Soc Open Sci 2023; 10:221036. [PMID: 37859838 PMCID: PMC10582598 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2022] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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Research suggests that minority-group members sometimes are more susceptible to misinformation. Two complementary studies examined the influence of perceived minority status on susceptibility to misinformation and conspiracy beliefs. In study 1 (n = 2140), the perception of belonging to a minority group, rather than factually belonging to it, was most consistently related with an increased susceptibility to COVID-19 misinformation across national samples from the USA, the UK, Germany and Poland. Specifically, perceiving that one belongs to a gender minority group particularly predicted susceptibility to misinformation when participants factually did not belong to it. In pre-registered study 2 (n = 1823), an experiment aiming to manipulate the minority perceptions of men failed to influence conspiracy beliefs in the predicted direction. However, pre-registered correlational analyses showed that men who view themselves as a gender minority were more prone to gender conspiracy beliefs and exhibited a heightened conspiracy mentality. This effect was correlationally mediated by increased feelings of system identity threat, collective narcissism, group relative deprivation and actively open-minded thinking. Especially, the perception of being a minority in terms of power and influence (as compared to numerically) was linked to these outcomes. We discuss limitations and practical implications for countering misinformation.
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- Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
- Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Postboks 1094 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway
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Piksa M, Noworyta K, Gundersen AB, Kunst J, Morzy M, Piasecki J, Rygula R. Are we willing to share what we believe is true? Factors influencing susceptibility to fake news. Front Psychiatry 2023; 14:1165103. [PMID: 37654985 PMCID: PMC10467258 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1165103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/02/2023] Open
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Background The contemporary media landscape is saturated with the ubiquitous presence of misinformation. One can point to several factors that amplify the spread and dissemination of false information, such as blurring the line between expert and layman's opinions, economic incentives promoting the publication of sensational information, the zero cost of sharing false information, and many more. In this study, we investigate some of the mechanisms of fake news dissemination that have eluded scientific scrutiny: the evaluation of veracity and behavioral engagement with information in light of its factual truthfulness (either true or false), cognitive utility (either enforcing or questioning participants' beliefs), and presentation style (either sober or populistic). Results Two main results emerge from our experiment. We find that the evaluation of veracity is mostly related to the objective truthfulness of a news item. However, the probability of engagement is more related to the congruence of the information with the participants' preconceived beliefs than to objective truthfulness or information presentation style. Conclusion We conclude a common notion that the spread of fake news can be limited by fact-checking and educating people might not be entirely true, as people will share fake information as long as it reduces the entropy of their mental models of the world. We also find support for the Trojan Horse hypothesis of fake news dissemination.
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- Michal Piksa
- Department of Pharmacology, Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Faculty of Computing and Telecommunications, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Pharmacology, Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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Verbeke K, Krawczyk T, Baeyens D, Piasecki J, Borry P. Informed Consent and Debriefing When Deceiving Participants: A Systematic Review of Research Ethics Guidelines. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics 2023:15562646231173477. [PMID: 37186795 DOI: 10.1177/15562646231173477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Informed consent and debriefing of research participants in studies that use deception are ethical safeguards for which existing scholarly work on their implementation remains variable and insufficiently clear. A systematic review of research ethics guidelines was conducted to sketch a picture of whether, why and how informed consent and debriefing are recommended when using deception. Documents roughly agreed on several general principles, but varied significantly in the specifics of why and whether these safeguards are necessary, in which conditions and how they should be implemented. Various aspects that appear in the literature could not be found in the guidelines. In our review, guidance was integrated and showed a variation of implementation strategies that could help in contextualizing these safeguards.
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- Kamiel Verbeke
- Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Chair of Social and Societal Ethics Committee, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Research Unit Parenting and Special Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Gwiaździński P, Gundersen AB, Piksa M, Krysińska I, Kunst JR, Noworyta K, Olejniuk A, Morzy M, Rygula R, Wójtowicz T, Piasecki J. Psychological interventions countering misinformation in social media: A scoping review. Front Psychiatry 2023; 13:974782. [PMID: 36684016 PMCID: PMC9849948 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.974782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Introduction The rise of social media users and the explosive growth in misinformation shared across social media platforms have become a serious threat to democratic discourse and public health. The mentioned implications have increased the demand for misinformation detection and intervention. To contribute to this challenge, we are presenting a systematic scoping review of psychological interventions countering misinformation in social media. The review was conducted to (i) identify and map evidence on psychological interventions countering misinformation, (ii) compare the viability of the interventions on social media, and (iii) provide guidelines for the development of effective interventions. Methods A systematic search in three bibliographic databases (PubMed, Embase, and Scopus) and additional searches in Google Scholar and reference lists were conducted. Results 3,561 records were identified, 75 of which met the eligibility criteria for the inclusion in the final review. The psychological interventions identified during the review can be classified into three categories distinguished by Kozyreva et al.: Boosting, Technocognition, and Nudging, and then into 15 types within these. Most of the studied interventions were not implemented and tested in a real social media environment but under strictly controlled settings or online crowdsourcing platforms. The presented feasibility assessment of implementation insights expressed qualitatively and with numerical scoring could guide the development of future interventions that can be successfully implemented on social media platforms. Discussion The review provides the basis for further research on psychological interventions counteracting misinformation. Future research on interventions should aim to combine effective Technocognition and Nudging in the user experience of online services. Systematic review registration [https://figshare.com/], identifier [https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14649432.v2].
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- Paweł Gwiaździński
- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
- Consciousness Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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Verbeke K, Krawczyk T, Baeyens D, Piasecki J, Borry P. Assessing the acceptability of individual studies that use deception: A systematic review of normative guidance documents. Account Res 2022:1-23. [PMID: 36448698 DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2022.2153675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Research participants are often deceived for methodological reasons. However, assessing the ethical acceptability of an individual study that uses deception is not straightforward. The academic literature is scattered on the subject and several aspects of the acceptability assessment are only scarcely addressed, which parallels reports of inconsistent ethics review. Therefore, we aimed to investigate where normative guidance documents agree and disagree about this assessment. A PRISMA-Ethics-guided systematic review of normative guidance documents that discuss deception of research participants was conducted. Our search strategy resulted in 55 documents that were subsequently analyzed through abductive thematic analysis. While guidance documents mention little about specific risks and opportunities of deception, our analysis describes a rich picture of the thresholds for acceptability of the risks and benefits of deception and their integration, the comparison with the risk-benefit analysis of alternative non-deceptive methods, and the bodies of people who are positioned to do the review. Our review reveals an agreement on the general process of assessing the acceptability of studies that use deception, although significant variability remains in the details and several topics are largely or completely unaddressed in guidance documents.
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- Kamiel Verbeke
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven Belgium
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College (Poland)
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- Chair of Social and Societal Ethics Committee, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Research Unit Parenting and Special Education, KU Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College (Poland)
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven Belgium
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Piasecki J, Cheah PY. Ownership of individual-level health data, data sharing, and data governance. BMC Med Ethics 2022; 23:104. [PMID: 36309719 PMCID: PMC9617739 DOI: 10.1186/s12910-022-00848-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background The ownership status of individual-level health data affects the manner in which it is used. In this paper we analyze two competing models of the ownership status of the data discussed in the literature recently: private ownership and public ownership. Main body In this paper we describe the limitations of these two models of data ownership with respect to individual-level health data, in particular in terms of ethical principles of justice and autonomy, risk mitigation, as well as technological, economic, and conceptual issues. We argue that undifferentiated application of neither private ownership nor public ownership will allow us to resolve all the problems associated with effective, equitable, and ethical use of data. We suggest that, instead of focusing on data ownership, we should focus on the institutional and procedural aspects of data governance, such as using Data Access Committees (DACs) or equivalent managed access processes, which can balance the elements of these two ownership frameworks. Conclusion Undifferentiated application of the ownership concept (private or public) is not helpful in resolving problems associated with sharing individual-level health data. DACs or equivalent managed access processes should be an integral part of data governance. They can approve or disapprove data access requests after considering the potential benefits and harms to data subjects, their communities, primary researchers, and the wider society.
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Piksa M, Noworyta K, Piasecki J, Gwiazdzinski P, Gundersen AB, Kunst J, Rygula R. Cognitive Processes and Personality Traits Underlying Four Phenotypes of Susceptibility to (Mis)Information. Front Psychiatry 2022; 13:912397. [PMID: 35782415 PMCID: PMC9240766 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.912397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Misinformation on social media poses a serious threat to democracy, sociopolitical stability, and mental health. Thus, it is crucial to investigate the nature of cognitive mechanisms and personality traits that contribute to the assessment of news items' veracity, failures in the discernment of their truthfulness, and behavioral engagement with the news, especially if one wants to devise any intervention to stop the spread of misinformation in social media. The current research aimed to develop and test a 4-fold taxonomy classifying people into four distinct phenotypes of susceptibility to (mis)information. In doing so, it aimed to establish differences in cognitive and psychological profiles between these phenotypes. The investigated cognitive processes included sensitivity to feedback, belief updating, and cognitive judgment bias. Psychological traits of interest included the Big Five model, grandiose narcissism, anxiety, and dispositional optimism. The participants completed online surveys that consisted of a new scale designed to classify people into one of four phenotypes of susceptibility to (mis)information, advanced cognitive tests, and reliable psychological instruments. The four identified phenotypes, Doubters, Knowers, Duffers, and Consumers, showed that believing in misinformation does not imply denying the truth. In contrast, the numerically largest phenotypes encompassed individuals who were either susceptible (Consumers) or resistant (Doubters), in terms of veracity judgment and behavioral engagement, to any news, regardless of its truthfulness. Significantly less frequent were the phenotypes characterized by excellent and poor discernment of the news' truthfulness (the Knowers and the Duffers, respectively). The phenotypes significantly differed in sensitivity to positive and negative feedback, cognitive judgment bias, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, grandiose narcissism, anxiety, and dispositional optimism. The obtained results constitute a basis for a new and holistic approach in understanding susceptibility to (mis)information as a psycho-cognitive phenotype.
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- Michal Piksa
- Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Maj Institute of Pharmacology Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- Phaik Yeong Cheah
- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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Piasecki J, Walkiewicz-Żarek E, Figas-Skrzypulec J, Kordecka A, Dranseika V. Ethical issues in biomedical research using electronic health records: a systematic review. Med Health Care Philos 2021; 24:633-658. [PMID: 34146228 PMCID: PMC8214390 DOI: 10.1007/s11019-021-10031-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Digitization of a health record changes its accessibility. An electronic health record (EHR) can be accessed by multiple authorized users. Health information from EHRs contributes to learning healthcare systems' development. The objective of this systematic review is to answer a question: What are ethical issues concerning research using EHRs in the literature? We searched Medline Ovid, Embase and Scopus for publications concerning ethical issues of research use of EHRs. We employed the constant comparative method to retrieve common ethical themes. We descriptively summarized empirical studies. The study reveals the breadth, depth, and complexity of ethical problems associated with research use of EHRs. The central ethical question that emerges from the review is how to manage access to EHRs. Managing accessibility consists of interconnected and overlapping issues: streamlining research access to EHRs, minimizing risk, engaging and educating patients, as well as ensuring trustworthy governance of EHR data. Most of the ethical problems concerning EHR-based research arise from rapid cultural change. The framing of concepts of privacy, as well as individual and public dimensions of beneficence, are changing. We are currently living in the middle of this transition period. Human emotions and mental habits, as well as laws, are lagging behind technological developments. In the medical tradition, individual patient's health has always been in the center. Transformation of healthcare care, its digitalization, seems to have some impacts on our perspective of health care ethics, research ethics and public health ethics.
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- Jan Piasecki
- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland.
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- HTA Registry Sp. z o.o. Sp. K, Herzoga 15, 30-252, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical College, Jagiellonian University, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland
- Institute of Philosophy, Vilnius University, 9/1 Universiteto, 01513, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Magavern EF, Piasecki J, Cohen A, Cremers S. Ethics in clinical pharmacology: Facilitating public trust. Br J Clin Pharmacol 2021; 88:5-6. [PMID: 34773656 DOI: 10.1111/bcp.15118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Emma F Magavern
- William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.,Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Piasecki J, Dranseika V. Balancing professional obligations and risks to providers in learning healthcare systems. J Med Ethics 2020; 47:medethics-2019-105658. [PMID: 32220874 DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Revised: 01/28/2020] [Accepted: 02/21/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Clinicians and administrators have a professional obligation to contribute (OTC) to improvement of healthcare quality. At the same time, participation in embedded research poses risks to healthcare institutions. Disclosure of an institution's sensitive information could endanger relationships with patients and undermine its reputation. The existing ethical framework (EF) for learning healthcare systems (LHSs) does not address the conflict between the OTC and institutional interests. Ethical guidance and policy regulation are needed to create a safe environment for embedded research. In this article we analyse the EF for LHSs and the concept of professionalism. We suggest that the EF should be supplemented with an obligation to protect provider's legitimate interests. We define legitimate interests as those that enable providers to discharge their primary duties. We argue that both the OTC and the obligation to protect legitimate interests are grounded in the concept of medical professionalism and can be understood as a matter of contract between a democratic society and medical professionals. The proposed supplemented EF can be implemented into a regulatory system in three different ways: the self-regulating: where providers decide themselves how to balance the ethical claims, the centralised: where a governmental institution decides the right balance between providers' interests and interests of a health system; and the mediating: where medical professionals, the state and patients negotiate their interests. Our article contributes to the discussion on ethical relevance of providers' interests and the regulatory model for weighing opposite interests in LHSs.
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- Jan Piasecki
- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
- Institute of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Dranseika V, Piasecki J. Transparent Defaults and Consent for Participation in a Learning Health Care System: An Empirical Study. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics 2020; 15:261-270. [PMID: 32046592 DOI: 10.1177/1556264620904272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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We report a preregistered study that was designed to answer three questions about using transparent defaults to increase participation in a hypothetical learning health care system. Do default options influence consent to participate in learning activities within a learning health care system? Does transparency about default options decrease the effect of the defaults? Do people reconsider their choice of participation once they are informed about the defaults applied? In our study, application of the defaults did not have influence on rates of consent, nor did transparency about defaults have an effect on the rates of consent. Participants were also not likely to change their choice after being informed that defaults were applied to their previous choice. In general, our study raises doubts that defaults (both covert and transparent) can be used as an effective means in significantly increasing participation in learning health care systems.
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- Vilius Dranseika
- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland.,Vilnius University, Lithuania
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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BACKGROUND Sharing de-identified individual-level health research data is widely promoted and has many potential benefits. However there are also some potential harms, such as misuse of data and breach of participant confidentiality. One way to promote the benefits of sharing while ameliorating its potential harms is through the adoption of a managed access approach where data requests are channeled through a Data Access Committee (DAC), rather than making data openly available without restrictions. A DAC, whether a formal or informal group of individuals, has the responsibility of reviewing and assessing data access requests. Many individual groups, consortiums, institutional and independent DACs have been established but there is currently no widely accepted framework for their organization and function. MAIN TEXT We propose that DACs, should have the role of both promotion of data sharing and protection of data subjects, their communities, data producers, their institutions and the scientific enterprise. We suggest that data access should be granted by DACs as long as the data reuse has potential social value and provided there is low risk of foreseeable harms. To promote data sharing and to motivate data producers, DACs should encourage secondary uses that are consistent with the interests of data producers and their own institutions. Given the suggested roles of DACs, there should be transparent, simple and clear application procedures for data access. The approach to review of applications should be proportionate to the potential risks involved. DACs should be established within institutional and legal frameworks with clear lines of accountability, terms of reference and membership. We suggest that DACs should not be modelled after research ethics committees (RECs) because their functions and goals of review are different from those of RECs. DAC reviews should be guided by the principles of public health ethics instead of research ethics. CONCLUSIONS In this paper we have suggested a framework under which DACs should operate, how they should be organised, and how to constitute them.
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- Phaik Yeong Cheah
- Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Rajvithi Road, Bangkok, Thailand
- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, UK
- The Ethox Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, ul. Michalowskiego 12, Krakow, Poland
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Piasecki J, Dranseika V. Research versus practice: The dilemmas of research ethics in the era of learning health-care systems. Bioethics 2019; 33:617-624. [PMID: 30887541 DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2017] [Revised: 10/23/2018] [Accepted: 12/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In this article we attempt to answer the question of how the ethical and conceptual framework (ECF) for a learning health-care system (LHS) affects some of the main controversies in research ethics by addressing five key problems of research ethics: (a) What is the difference between practice and research? (b) What is the relationship between research ethics and clinical ethics? (c) What is the ethical relevance of the principle of clinical equipoise? (d) Does participation in research require a higher standard of informed consent than the practice of medicine? and (e) What ethical principle should take precedence in medicine? These questions allow us to construct two opposite idealized positions on the distinction between research and practice: the integration model and the segregation model of research and practice. We then compare the ECF for an LHS with these two idealized positions. We argue that the ECF for a LHS does not, in fact, solve these problems, but that it is a third, separate position in the relationship between research ethics and clinical ethics. Moreover, we suggest that the ECF for a LHS raises new ethical problems that require additional ethical analysis and justification. Our article contributes to the discussion on the relationship between research ethics and clinical ethics, revealing that although a learning health-care system may significantly change the landscape of health care, some ethical dilemmas still require resolving on both theoretical and policy-making levels.
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- Jan Piasecki
- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
- Institute of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania
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Piasecki M, Ireland A, Piasecki J, Degens H, Stashuk DW, Swiecicka A, Rutter MK, Jones DA, McPhee JS. Long-Term Endurance and Power Training May Facilitate Motor Unit Size Expansion to Compensate for Declining Motor Unit Numbers in Older Age. Front Physiol 2019; 10:449. [PMID: 31080415 PMCID: PMC6497749 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2018] [Accepted: 04/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The evidence concerning the effects of exercise in older age on motor unit (MU) numbers, muscle fiber denervation and reinnervation cycles is inconclusive and it remains unknown whether any effects are dependent on the type of exercise undertaken or are localized to highly used muscles. MU characteristics of the vastus lateralis (VL) were assessed using surface and intramuscular electromyography in eighty-five participants, divided into sub groups based on age (young, old) and athletic discipline (control, endurance, power). In a separate study of the biceps brachii (BB), the same characteristics were compared in the favored and non-favored arms in eleven masters tennis players. Muscle size was assessed using MRI and ultrasound. In the VL, the CSA was greater in young compared to old, and power athletes had the largest CSA within their age groups. Motor unit potential (MUP) size was larger in all old compared to young (p < 0.001), with interaction contrasts showing this age-related difference was greater for endurance and power athletes than controls, and MUP size was greater in old athletes compared to old controls. In the BB, thickness did not differ between favored and non-favored arms (p = 0.575), but MUP size was larger in the favored arm (p < 0.001). Long-term athletic training does not prevent age-related loss of muscle size in the VL or BB, regardless of athletic discipline, but may facilitate more successful axonal sprouting and reinnervation of denervated fibers. These effects may be localized to muscles most involved in the exercise.
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- M. Piasecki
- Clinical, Metabolic and Molecular Physiology, MRC-ARUK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Musculoskeletal Physiology Research Group, Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Gastroenterology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Manchester Diabetes Centre, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Musculoskeletal Science and Sports Medicine Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Department of Physiology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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Piasecki J, Waligora M, Dranseika V. Google Search as an Additional Source in Systematic Reviews. Sci Eng Ethics 2018; 24:809-810. [PMID: 29249022 PMCID: PMC5876410 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-017-0010-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2017] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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- Jan Piasecki
- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Science, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Science, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Logic and History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Piasecki M, Ireland A, Piasecki J, Stashuk DW, Swiecicka A, Rutter MK, Jones DA, McPhee JS. Failure to expand the motor unit size to compensate for declining motor unit numbers distinguishes sarcopenic from non-sarcopenic older men. J Physiol 2018. [PMID: 29527694 PMCID: PMC5924831 DOI: 10.1113/jp275520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Key points The age‐related loss of muscle mass is related to the loss of innervating motor neurons and denervation of muscle fibres. Not all denervated muscle fibres are degraded; some may be reinnervated by an adjacent surviving neuron, which expands the innervating motor unit proportional to the numbers of fibres rescued. Enlarged motor units have larger motor unit potentials when measured using electrophysiological techniques. We recorded much larger motor unit potentials in relatively healthy older men compared to young men, but the older men with the smallest muscles (sarcopenia) had smaller motor unit potentials than healthy older men. These findings suggest that healthy older men reinnervate large numbers of muscle fibres to compensate for declining motor neuron numbers, but a failure to do so contributes to muscle loss in sarcopenic men.
Abstract Sarcopenia results from the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and reduced function in older age. It is likely to be associated with the well‐documented reduction of motor unit numbers innervating limb muscles and the increase in size of surviving motor units via reinnervation of denervated fibres. However, no evidence exists to confirm the extent of motor unit remodelling in sarcopenic individuals. The aim of the present study was to compare motor unit size and number between young (n = 48), non‐sarcopenic old (n = 13), pre‐sarcopenic (n = 53) and sarcopenic (n = 29) men. Motor unit potentials (MUPs) were isolated from intramuscular and surface EMG recordings. The motor unit numbers were reduced in all groups of old compared with young men (all P < 0.001). MUPs were higher in non‐sarcopenic and pre‐sarcopenic men compared with young men (P = 0.039 and 0.001 respectively), but not in the vastus lateralis of sarcopenic old (P = 0.485). The results suggest that extensive motor unit remodelling occurs relatively early during ageing, exceeds the loss of muscle mass and precedes sarcopenia. Reinnervation of denervated muscle fibres probably expands the motor unit size in the non‐sarcopenic and pre‐sarcopenic old, but not in the sarcopenic old. These findings suggest that a failure to expand the motor unit size distinguishes sarcopenic from pre‐sarcopenic muscles. The age‐related loss of muscle mass is related to the loss of innervating motor neurons and denervation of muscle fibres. Not all denervated muscle fibres are degraded; some may be reinnervated by an adjacent surviving neuron, which expands the innervating motor unit proportional to the numbers of fibres rescued. Enlarged motor units have larger motor unit potentials when measured using electrophysiological techniques. We recorded much larger motor unit potentials in relatively healthy older men compared to young men, but the older men with the smallest muscles (sarcopenia) had smaller motor unit potentials than healthy older men. These findings suggest that healthy older men reinnervate large numbers of muscle fibres to compensate for declining motor neuron numbers, but a failure to do so contributes to muscle loss in sarcopenic men.
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- M Piasecki
- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15GD, UK
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- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15GD, UK
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- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15GD, UK
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- Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Andrology Research Unit, Cardiovascular, Metabolic and Nutritional Sciences Domain, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Andrology Research Unit, Cardiovascular, Metabolic and Nutritional Sciences Domain, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.,Manchester Diabetes Centre, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK
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- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15GD, UK
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- School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, M15GD, UK
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Piasecki J, Dirksen K, Inbadas H. Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics: a case for an effective model for international bioethics education. Med Health Care Philos 2018; 21:3-10. [PMID: 29127644 PMCID: PMC5814537 DOI: 10.1007/s11019-017-9814-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Designing bioethics curriculum for international postgraduate students is a challenging task. There are at least two main questions, which have to be resolved in advance: (1) what is a purpose of a particular teaching program and (2) how to respectfully arrange a classroom for students coming from different cultural and professional backgrounds. In our paper we analyze the case of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics program and provide recommendations for international bioethics education. In our opinion teaching bioethics to postgraduate international students goes beyond curriculum. It means that such a program requires not only well-defined goals, including equipping students with necessary skills and knowledge, but also it should first and foremost facilitate positive group dynamics among students and enables them to engage in dialogue to learn from one another.
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- Jan Piasecki
- Department Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland.
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- Providence Center for Health Care Ethics, Providence Health and Services, 9205 SW Barnes Road, Portland, OR, 97225, USA
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- School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries, Scotland, DG1 4ZL, UK
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Piasecki J, Ireland A, Piasecki M, Cameron J, McPhee JS, Degens H. The strength of weight-bearing bones is similar in amenorrheic and eumenorrheic elite long-distance runners. Scand J Med Sci Sports 2018; 28:1559-1568. [DOI: 10.1111/sms.13062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- J. Piasecki
- School of Healthcare Science; Manchester Metropolitan University; Manchester UK
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- School of Healthcare Science; Manchester Metropolitan University; Manchester UK
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- School of Healthcare Science; Manchester Metropolitan University; Manchester UK
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- School of Healthcare Science; Manchester Metropolitan University; Manchester UK
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- School of Healthcare Science; Manchester Metropolitan University; Manchester UK
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- School of Healthcare Science; Manchester Metropolitan University; Manchester UK
- Institute of Sport Science and Innovations; Lithuanian Sports University; Kaunas Lithuania
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Waligora M, Bala MM, Koperny M, Wasylewski MT, Strzebonska K, Jaeschke RR, Wozniak A, Piasecki J, Sliwka A, Mitus JW, Polak M, Nowis D, Fergusson D, Kimmelman J. Risk and surrogate benefit for pediatric Phase I trials in oncology: A systematic review with meta-analysis. PLoS Med 2018; 15:e1002505. [PMID: 29462168 PMCID: PMC5819765 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Accepted: 01/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pediatric Phase I cancer trials are critical for establishing the safety and dosing of anti-cancer treatments in children. Their implementation, however, must contend with the rarity of many pediatric cancers and limits on allowable risk in minors. The aim of this study is to describe the risk and benefit for pediatric cancer Phase I trials. METHODS AND FINDINGS Our protocol was prospectively registered in PROSPERO (CRD42015015961). We systematically searched Embase and PubMed for solid and hematological malignancy Phase I pediatric trials published between 1 January 2004 and 1 March 2015. We included pediatric cancer Phase I studies, defined as "small sample size, non‑randomized, dose escalation studies that defined the recommended dose for subsequent study of a new drug in each schedule tested." We measured risk using grade 3, 4, and 5 (fatal) drug-related adverse events (AEs) and benefit using objective response rates. When possible, data were meta-analyzed. We identified 170 studies meeting our eligibility criteria, accounting for 4,604 patients. The pooled overall objective response rate was 10.29% (95% CI 8.33% to 12.25%), and was lower in solid tumors, 3.17% (95% CI 2.62% to 3.72%), compared with hematological malignancies, 27.90% (95% CI 20.53% to 35.27%); p < 0.001. The overall fatal (grade 5) AE rate was 2.09% (95% CI 1.45% to 2.72%). Across the 4,604 evaluated patients, there were 4,675 grade 3 and 4 drug-related AEs, with an average grade 3/4 AE rate per person equal to 1.32. Our study had the following limitations: trials included in our review were heterogeneous (to minimize heterogeneity, we separated types of therapy and cancer types), and we relied on published data only and encountered challenges with the quality of reporting. CONCLUSIONS Our meta-analysis suggests that, on the whole, AE and response rates in pediatric Phase I trials are similar to those in adult Phase I trials. Our findings provide an empirical basis for the refinement and review of pediatric Phase I trials, and for communication about their risk and benefit.
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- Marcin Waligora
- Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group (REMEDY), Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Hygiene and Dietetics, Chair of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
- * E-mail: (MMB); (JK)
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- Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group (REMEDY), Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
- Department of Public Health and Health Promotion, Regional Sanitary-Epidemiological Station in Kraków, Poland
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- Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group (REMEDY), Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group (REMEDY), Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Section of Affective Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System, Warsaw, Poland
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- Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group (REMEDY), Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group (REMEDY), Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
- Department of Rehabilitation in Internal Diseases, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Surgical Oncology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Centre and Institute of Oncology, Kraków, Poland
- Department of Anatomy, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group (REMEDY), Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
- Chair of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Immunology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Genomic Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada
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- Studies of Translation, Ethics and Medicine (STREAM), Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- * E-mail: (MMB); (JK)
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Piasecki J, McPhee JS, Hannam K, Deere KC, Elhakeem A, Piasecki M, Degens H, Tobias JH, Ireland A. Hip and spine bone mineral density are greater in master sprinters, but not endurance runners compared with non-athletic controls. Arch Osteoporos 2018; 13:72. [PMID: 29971503 PMCID: PMC6028830 DOI: 10.1007/s11657-018-0486-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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UNLABELLED We examined bone density in older athletes and controls. Sprinters had greater hip and spine bone density than endurance athletes and controls, whereas values were similar in the latter two groups. These results could not be explained by differences in impact, muscle size or power between sprint and endurance athletes. PURPOSE We examined the relationship between prolonged participation in regular sprint or endurance running and skeletal health at key clinical sites in older age, and the factors responsible for any associations which we observed. METHODS We recruited 38 master sprint runners (28 males, 10 females, mean age 71 ± 7 years), 149 master endurance runners (111 males, 38 females, mean age 70 ± 6 years) and 59 non-athletic controls (29 males, 30 females, mean age 74 ± 5 years). Dual X-ray absorptiometry was used to assess hip and spine bone mineral density (BMD), body composition (lean and fat mass), whilst jump power was assessed with jumping mechanography. In athletes, vertical impacts were recorded over 7 days from a waist-worn accelerometer, and details of starting age, age-graded performance and training hours were recorded. RESULTS In ANOVA models adjusted for sex, age, height, body composition, and jump power, sprinter hip BMD was 10 and 14% greater than that of endurance runners and controls respectively. Sprinter spine BMD was also greater than that of both endurance runners and controls. There were no differences in hip or spine BMD between endurance runners and controls. Stepwise regression showed only discipline (sprint/endurance), sex, and age as predictors of athlete spine BMD, whilst these variables and starting age were predictive of hip BMD. CONCLUSIONS Regular running is associated with greater BMD at the fracture-prone hip and spine sites in master sprinters but not endurance runners. These benefits cannot be explained by indicators of mechanical loading measured in this study including vertical impacts, body composition or muscular output.
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- J. Piasecki
- Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
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- Department for Sports and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD UK
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- Musculoskeletal Research Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Musculoskeletal Research Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Musculoskeletal Research Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- MRC/ARUK Centre of Excellence for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research Centre, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Derby, UK
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- Department for Sports and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD UK ,Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University, Lithuania, Lithuania
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- Musculoskeletal Research Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department for Sports and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, John Dalton Building, Chester Street, Manchester, M1 5GD UK
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- Jan Piasecki
- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College
- Department of Logic and History of Philosophy, Vilnius University
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College
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Peterson S, de Vries P, Piasecki J, Rosler R. Tucatinib, a HER2 selective kinase inhibitor, is active in patient derived xenograft (PDX) models of HER2-amplified colorectal, esophageal and gastric cancers. Ann Oncol 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdx390.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Piasecki J, Waligora M, Dranseika V. What Do Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiology Say About an Ethics Review? A Qualitative Systematic Review. Sci Eng Ethics 2017; 23:743-768. [PMID: 27848192 PMCID: PMC5486592 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-016-9829-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Accepted: 09/15/2016] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Epidemiological research is subject to an ethics review. The aim of this qualitative review is to compare existing ethical guidelines in English for epidemiological research and public health practice in regard to the scope and matter of an ethics review. Authors systematically searched PubMed, Google Scholar and Google Search for ethical guidelines. Qualitative analysis (constant comparative method) was applied to categorize important aspects of the an ethics review process. Eight ethical guidelines in English for epidemiological research were retrieved. Five main categories that are relevant to the review of epidemiological research by Institutional Review Boards/Research Ethics Committees were distinguished. Within the scope of main categories, fifty-nine subcategories were analyzed. There are important differences between the guidelines in terms of the scope and matter of an ethics review. Not all guidelines encompass all identified ethically important issues, and some do not define precisely the scope and matter of an ethics review, leaving much to the ethics of the individual researchers and the discretion of IRBs/RECs.
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- Jan Piasecki
- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126 Krakow, Poland
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126 Krakow, Poland
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126 Krakow, Poland
- Department of Logic and History of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Dranseika V, Piasecki J, Waligora M. Relevant Information and Informed Consent in Research: In Defense of the Subjective Standard of Disclosure. Sci Eng Ethics 2017; 23:215-225. [PMID: 26792438 PMCID: PMC5236070 DOI: 10.1007/s11948-016-9755-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2015] [Accepted: 01/09/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In this article, we seek to contribute to the debate on the requirement of disclosure in the context of informed consent for research. We defend the subjective standard of disclosure and describe ways to implement this standard in research practice. We claim that the researcher should make an effort to find out what kinds of information are likely to be relevant for those consenting to research. This invites researchers to take empirical survey information seriously, attempt to understand the cultural context, talk to patients to be better able to understand what can be potentially different concerns and interests prevalent in the target population. The subjective standard of disclosure should be seen as a moral ideal that perhaps can never be perfectly implemented but still can and should be used as a normative ideal guiding research practice. In the light of these discussions, we call for more empirical research on what considerations are likely to be perceived as relevant by potential research participants recruited from different socio-economic and cultural groups.
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- Vilius Dranseika
- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Kraków, Poland
- Department of Logic and History of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Kraków, Poland
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Kraków, Poland.
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A child's objection, refusal and dissent regarding participation in non-beneficial biomedical research must be respected, even when the parents or legal representatives have given their permission. There is, however, no consensus on the definition and criteria of a meaningful and valid child's objection. The aim of this article is to clarify this issue. In the first part we describe the problems of a child's assent in research. In the second part we distinguish and analyze two models of a child's objection to research: the capacity-based model and the distress-based model. In the last part we present arguments for a broader and unified understanding of a child's objection within regulations and practices. This will strengthen children's rights and facilitate the entire process of assessment of research protocols.
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- Marcin Waligora
- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Science, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michałowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland.
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- Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, 00-927, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Science, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michałowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland
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Occasional reports in the literature suggest that biological samples collected and stored for scientific research are sometimes accessed and used for a variety of forensic purposes. However, donors are almost never informed about this possibility. In this paper we argue that the possibility of forensic access may constitute a relevant consideration at least to some potential research subjects in deciding whether to participate in research. We make the suggestion that if some type of forensic access to research collections is likely to be perceived by the subjects as a reason against donating their biological materials, there are good ethical reasons to make this type of access impossible or at least severely restricted. We also provide an ethical argument for the claim that, if a total ban on this type of forensic access cannot be achieved, potential research subjects should be informed about the extent to which this type of forensic access is possible.
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- Vilius Dranseika
- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland
- Department of Logic and History of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland
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- REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland.
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Biomedical research involving human subjects is an arena of conflicts of interests. One of the most important conflicts is between interests of participants and interests of future patients. Legal regulations and ethical guidelines are instruments designed to help find a fair balance between risks and burdens taken by research subjects and development of knowledge and new treatment. There is an universally accepted ethical principle, which states that it is not ethically allowed to sacrifice individual interests for the sake of society and science. This is the principle of precedence of individual. But there is a problem with how to interpret the principle of precedence of individual in the context of research without prospect of future benefit involving children. There are proposals trying to reconcile non-beneficial research involving children with the concept of the best interests. We assert that this reconciliation is flawed and propose an interpretation of the principle of precedence of individual as follows: not all, but only the most important interests of participants, must be guaranteed; this principle should be interpreted as the secure participant standard. In consequence, the issue of permissible risk ceiling becomes ethically crucial in research with incompetent subjects.
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- Jan Piasecki
- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Kraków, Poland,
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BACKGROUND Assent is an important ethical and legal requirement of paediatric research. Unfortunately, there are significant differences between the guidelines on the details of assent. DISCUSSION What often remains unclear is the scope of the assent, the procedure for acquiring it, and the way in which children's capacity to assent is determined. There is a general growing tendency that suggests that the process of assent should be personalised, that is, tailored to a particular child. This article supports the idea of personalisation. However, we also propose placing limits on personalisation by introducing a suggested requirement of assent starting at a school-age threshold. In some situations RECs/IRBs and researchers could reduce the suggested threshold. SUMMARY A recommended age threshold is likely to serve the interests of children better than ambiguous and flexible criteria for personalised age determination.
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- Marcin Waligora
- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, Krakow 31-126, Poland
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- Department of Logic and History of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, Krakow 31-126, Poland
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Alastuey A, Piasecki J. Interacting Bose gas: mean field and fluctuations revisited. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2011; 84:041122. [PMID: 22181102 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.041122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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We present the description of thermodynamic properties of a Bose gas by considering the hierarchy of equations satisfied by imaginary-time Green functions. In the case of an ideal gas the appearance of the off-diagonal long-range order (presence of condensate) is derived in a particularly simple way. The simplicity of the analysis persists at the level of the mean-field theory. Using Kac's scaling of the repulsive binary potential we then determine asymptotic corrections to the mean-field theory for thermodynamic states far from the region of the mean-field condensation. Our predictions are in accordance with rigorous results obtained previously, whereas the Hartree-Fock approximation is shown to neglect a whole class of equally important contributions.
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- A Alastuey
- Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon and CNRS, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
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Piasecki J, Talbot J, Viot P. Angular velocity distribution of a granular planar rotator in a thermalized bath. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2007; 75:051307. [PMID: 17677054 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.051307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2006] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The kinetics of a granular planar rotator with a fixed center undergoing inelastic collisions with bath particles is analyzed both numerically and analytically by means of the Boltzmann equation. The angular velocity distribution evolves from quasi-Gaussian in the Brownian limit to an algebraic decay in the limit of an infinitely light particle. In addition, we compare this model to that of a planar rotator with a free center and discuss the prospects for experimental confirmation of these results.
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- J Piasecki
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoza 69, Warsaw, Poland
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Soto R, Piasecki J, Mareschal M. Precollisional velocity correlations in a hard-disk fluid with dissipative collisions. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 2001; 64:031306. [PMID: 11580331 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.64.031306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Velocity correlations are studied in granular fluids, modeled by the inelastic hard sphere gas. Making a density expansion of the Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon hierarchy for the evolution of the reduced distributions, we predict the presence of precollisional velocity correlations. They are created by the propagation through correlated sequences of collisions (ring events) of the velocity correlations generated after dissipative collisions. The correlations have their origin in the dissipative character of collisions, being always present in granular fluids. The correlations, that manifest microscopically as an alignment of the velocities of a colliding pair produce modifications of collisional averages, in particular, the virial pressure. The pressure shows a reduction with respect to the elastic case as a consequence of the velocity alignment. Good qualitative agreement is obtained for the comparison of the numerical evaluations of the obtained analytical expressions and molecular dynamics results that showed evidence of precollisional velocity correlations [R. Soto and M. Mareschal, Phys. Rev. E 63, 041303 (2001)].
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- R Soto
- CECAM, ENS-Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69007 Lyon, France
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Piasecki J, Bienkowski P, Dudek K, Koros E, Kostowski W. Ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion in the rat: effects of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine lesion of the dorsal raphe nucleus. Alcohol 2001; 24:9-14. [PMID: 11524177 DOI: 10.1016/s0741-8329(01)00138-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- J Piasecki
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, ul. Sobieskiego 1/9, PL-02957, Warsaw, Poland
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Koros E, Piasecki J, Kostowski W, Bienkowski P. Development of alcohol deprivation effect in rats: lack of correlation with saccharin drinking and locomotor activity. Alcohol Alcohol 1999; 34:542-50. [PMID: 10456582 DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/34.4.542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The present study addressed the relationship between the parameters of saccharin drinking behaviour and locomotor activity in an open field environment and long-term alcohol self-administration. In a 22-day initiation phase, male Wistar rats were presented with increasing concentrations of ethanol (2-8%, v/v) in a choice with water. The rats were then given the choice between water and two ethanol solutions (8 and 16%). Every 28 days, ethanol was withdrawn for 5 days. The ethanol intake and the transient increase in ethanol consumption after each of six deprivation episodes (alcohol deprivation effect) was monitored and correlated with parameters of the subsequent saccharin drinking and open field tests. The total ethanol intake (g/kg/24 h) as well as the consumption of 16% ethanol were stable over time. However, the magnitude of the alcohol deprivation effect increased with the repeated deprivation episodes. None of the parameters measured in the open field or the saccharin drinking tests correlated with either ethanol consumption or the alcohol deprivation effect. These results suggest that (1) repeated episodes of ethanol deprivation may increase the magnitude of the alcohol deprivation effect, (2) neither saccharin drinking nor locomotor activity correlates with long-term ethanol drinking behaviour in rats.
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- E Koros
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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Piasecki J, Koros E, Dyr W, Kostowski W, Danysz W, Bienkowski P. Ethanol-reinforced behaviour in the rat: effects of uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist, memantine. Eur J Pharmacol 1998; 354:135-43. [PMID: 9754913 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(98)00442-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ethanol has been reported to alter NMDA receptor-mediated biochemical and electrophysiological responses in vitro. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of an uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist memantine, in animal models of alcoholism. Male Wistar rats were trained to drink 8% ethanol in a free-choice, limited access procedure. A separate group of animals was trained to lever press for 8% ethanol in an operant procedure where ethanol was introduced in the presence of sucrose. The selectivity of memantine's actions was assessed by studying its effects on food or water consumption in separate control experiments. Memantine (4.5-24 mg/kg) significantly, but not dose dependently, affected ethanol drinking in the limited access procedure. However, only 6 mg/kg memantine selectively decreased ethanol drinking. Memantine did not alter ethanol intake in rats trained to lever press for ethanol in the operant procedure. Only 9 mg/kg memantine reduced operant responding in the extinction procedure in the rats trained to lever press for ethanol. The same dose of memantine significantly reduced the operant behaviour of rats trained to respond for water. These results indicate that: (i) single doses of memantine only moderately and not dose dependently reduce alcohol drinking in the limited access procedure; (ii) memantine produces non-selective effects on operant behaviour in rats trained to lever press for ethanol in an oral self-administration procedure.
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- J Piasecki
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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Bienkowski P, Piasecki J, Koros E, Stefanski R, Kostowski W. Studies on the role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the discriminative and aversive stimulus properties of ethanol in the rat. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 1998; 8:79-87. [PMID: 9619685 DOI: 10.1016/s0924-977x(97)00052-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The role of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) in the discriminative and aversive stimulus effects of ethanol was studied in rats. In the operant drug discrimination procedure the rats were trained to discriminate between 1.0 g/kg ethanol and saline under the FR10 schedule of sweetened milk reinforcement. Neither the nAChR agonist, nicotine (0.1-0.6 mg/kg) nor the nAChR antagonist, mecamylamine (3.0-6.0 mg/kg) substituted for the ethanol stimulus. Moreover, mecamylamine (0.5-6.0 mg/kg) did not antagonise the ethanol stimulus. The cross-familiarisation conditioned taste aversion procedure was used as an alternative method to study stimulus resemblance between ethanol and nicotine. Six daily injections of nicotine (0.6 mg/kg) significantly decreased a subsequent ethanol-induced taste aversion conditioning. The aversive stimulus effects of ethanol were investigated with the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) paradigm. Mecamylamine (1.0-3.0 mg/kg) did not attenuate an ethanol-induced CTA. These results suggest that: (1) nAChRs are not primarily involved in the discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol when studied with the operant drug discrimination test; (2) nAChRs are not critically involved in the ethanol-induced CTA.
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- P Bienkowski
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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Bienkowski P, Iwinska K, Koros E, Panocka I, Piasecki J, Kostowski W. Prior repeated exposure to a 5-HT3 receptor agonist does not alter the ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion in rats. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1998; 59:975-80. [PMID: 9586858 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-3057(97)00522-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Several reports have indicated that the brain serotonergic 5-HT3 receptors are involved in at least some central effects of ethanol in rats. However, using an operant drug discrimination procedure, we have shown that these receptors are not primarily involved in the discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol. The aim of the present study was to further elucidate the role of 5-HT3 receptors in the formation of the ethanol-cueing effects in rats. To this purpose, a crossfamiliarization conditioned taste aversion (CF-CTA) procedure was used. Four daily injections of 1.5 g/kg ethanol (10% v/v) resulted in a significant attenuation of the subsequent ethanol-induced CTA. In contrast, four daily injections of the 5-HT3 receptor agonist, 1-(m-chlorophenyl)-biguanide (mCPBG; 50 microg per rat, i.c.v.) did not alter the subsequent ethanol-induced CTA. The 50 microg dose of mCPBG produced a marked CTA in a control experiment. These results taken together with some previous findings from our laboratory suggest that the brain 5-HT3 receptors do not play any crucial role in the mediation of the discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol.
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- P Bienkowski
- Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Warsaw Medical School, Poland
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This study examined the relationship between saccharin drinking, open field behaviour and ethanol drinking in Wistar rats. Correlational analysis revealed that both absolute saccharin drinking and an increase in total fluid intake in the presence of saccharin positively correlated with the initial acceptance of increasing ethanol concentrations in a two-bottle choice situation (2-8% v/v ethanol vs water). This relationship disappeared, however, during further weeks of ethanol drinking when ethanol was available in a three-bottle choice situation (8% ethanol vs 16% ethanol vs water). In contrast, none of the behavioural parameters measured in the open field test (forward locomotion, rearings, central entries, time in central area) correlated with subsequent ethanol consumption. These results indicate that saccharin drinking, rather than open field parameters, may predict subsequent ethanol intake during the initial period of exposure to low ethanol concentrations.
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- E Koros
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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Pretreatment with an uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist, dizocilpine [(+)MK-801; six daily injections of 0.1 or 0.2 mg/kg, i.p.] significantly enhanced subsequent 1.5 g/kg ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion (CTA). In a control experiment, dizocilpine (0.05-.2 mg/kg) produced only a marginal CTA. Thus, pre-exposure to low, non-aversive doses of MK-801 may sensitize rats to the aversive stimulus effects of ethanol.
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- P Bienkowski
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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The present study examined the effect of ethanol (0.25-1.0 g/kg, I.P.) alone and in combination with drugs affecting different ligand-gated ion channels on a horizontal locomotor activity of male Wistar rats. None of the drugs given alone affected the locomotor activity. Similarly, combining ethanol either with nicotine (0.1 or 0.6 mg/kg, S.C.) or the competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, CGP 40116 (0.5 mg/kg, I.P.) did not result in any significant changes in ambulation. On the other hand, a significant hyperadditive interaction between ethanol (0.5 or 1.0 g/kg) and the uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist, dizocilpine (0.1 mg/kg, I.P.) was found. Thus, a combined administration of ethanol and dizocilpine produced a marked stimulation of the locomotor activity. Combining 1.0 g/kg ethanol with the 5-HT3 receptor agonist, 1-(m-chlorophenyl)-biguanide (5.0 mg/kg, I.P.) tended to produce locomotor stimulation. Our results suggest the existence of interaction between ethanol and the NMDA receptor complex in mediation of locomotor stimulation. Alternatively, a common neurotransmitter system (other than glutamatergic) mediate central stimulatory effects of ethanol and dizocilpine. A possible role of dopamine in this interaction is being discussed.
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- P Bienkowski
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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Beals J, Piasecki J, Nelson S, Jones M, Keane E, Dauphinais P, Shirt RR, Sack WH, Manson SM. Psychiatric disorder among American Indian adolescents: prevalence in Northern Plains youth. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1997; 36:1252-9. [PMID: 9291727 DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199709000-00018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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UNLABELLED This article presents data on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among American Indian adolescents, using DSM-III-R criteria. OBJECTIVE To generate current prevalence data using a structured diagnostic instrument, the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, Version 2.1C (DISC-2.1C). METHODS Youths from a Northern Plains tribe who had participated in an earlier study comprised the sample. At reinterview, respondents were between 14 and 16 years of age, when Indian adolescents are thought to be at particularly high risk for manifesting emotional disorders. One hundred nine of the original sample of 251 were still in schools on the reservation. Trained indigenous lay interviewers administered the DISC-2.1C to respondents in a private setting within the school. RESULTS The findings indicate that rates of some psychiatric problems (e.g., disruptive behavior disorders, substance-related disorders, and their comorbidity) are high among these high school students. CONCLUSIONS These data, as well as national statistics, suggest that, compared with non-Indian populations, a greater percentage of Northern Plains adolescents manifest significant psychiatric symptoms which warrant treatment.
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- J Beals
- National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, Denver, CO 80220, USA.
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Bienkowski P, Iwinska K, Piasecki J, Kostowski W. 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine lesion does not affect ethanol-induced conditioned taste and place aversion in rats. Alcohol 1997; 14:439-43. [PMID: 9305458 DOI: 10.1016/s0741-8329(96)00191-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The effect of the lesion of central serotonergic neurons by 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT), on ethanol-induced taste and place aversion conditioning was studied in male Wistar rats. Control biochemical analysis revealed that 5,7-DHT (250 micrograms per rat, free base, i.c.v.) produced marked and selective depletion of serotonin (5-HT) in the hippocampal formation and the limbic forebrain complex. Ethanol-induced (1.5 g/kg, i.p.) conditioned taste aversion (CTA) to saccharin solution was unaffected by the lesion of central serotonergic neurons. The 5,7-DHT-lesioned and sham-lesioned rats showed comparable ethanol-induced CTA even 30 days after the last ethanol injection. Similarly, ethanol-induced (1.5 g/kg, i.p.) conditioned place aversion (CPA) was unaffected by 5,7-DHT administration. These results suggest that central serotonergic pathways are not primarily involved in the aversive effects of high ethanol doses in rats.
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- P Bienkowski
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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Bienkowski P, Kuca P, Piasecki J, Kostowski W. 5-HT3 receptor antagonist, tropisetron, does not influence ethanol-induced conditioned taste aversion and conditioned place aversion. Alcohol 1997; 14:63-9. [PMID: 9014026 DOI: 10.1016/s0741-8329(96)00108-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Numerous works have demonstrated an interaction between 5-HT3 receptor antagonists and some of the effects of ethanol (EtOH) using biochemical, electrophysiological, and behavioral techniques. Thus 5-HT3 antagonists are capable of reducing EtOH-induced release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, EtOH-induced hyperlocomotion, and voluntary EtOH consumption in laboratory animals. In addition to its rewarding effect, EtOH possesses aversive properties as demonstrated in the conditioned taste aversion (CTA) and conditioned place aversion (CPA) paradigms. The role of 5-HT3 receptors in aversive effects of EtOH remains, however, unknown. We decided to study the effect of 5-HT3 antagonist, tropisetron, on aversive properties of EtOH (1.5 g/kg i.p.) in rats using the CTA and CPA models. In addition, effect of tropisetron on morphine (Mf)-induced CTA (10.0 mg/kg SC) was investigated. Tropisetron (0.001-0.5 mg/kg) did not influence CTA produced by EtOH and Mf. When given alone, it failed to produce any taste conditioning. Furthermore, tropisetron did not modify CPA induced by EtOH. Our results suggest that 5-HT3 receptors are not involved in aversive effects of acute doses of EtOH.
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- P Bienkowski
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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Bienkowski P, Kuca P, Piasecki J, Kostowski W. Low dose of ethanol induces conditioned place preference in rats after repeated exposures to ethanol or saline injections. Alcohol Alcohol 1996; 31:547-53. [PMID: 9010545 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.alcalc.a008190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Using the place conditioning paradigm (biased design), we have shown that five conditioning sessions with ethanol (0.5 or 1.0 g/kg i.p.) did not result in place conditioning response. In contrast, rats that received 20 injections of ethanol (0.5 g/kg) or saline, before the conditioning procedure, showed significant place preference to the compartment paired with 0.5 g/kg ethanol (but not 1.0 g/kg).
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- P Bienkowski
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland
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