The current paper addresses the nature of epistemic injustice as it may be experienced by persons with dementia.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is considered a polygenic disorder. This view is clouded, however, by lingering uncertainty over how to treat the quasi “monogenic” role of apolipoprotein E (APOE).
With growing health risks from rising temperatures in the Global South, the lack of essential indoor cooling is increasingly seen as a dimension of energy poverty and human well-being.
Altered synaptic structure and function is a major hallmark of fragile X syndrome (FXS), autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), and other intellectual disabilities (IDs), which are therefore classified
Study objective: We estimate emergency department (ED) use differences across Medicare enrollees of different race/ethnicity who are residing in the same zip codes.
This chapter addresses goal 3 by providing an overview of sleep disorders in dementia.
Elsevier,
Confronting Prejudice and Discrimination, The Science of Changing Minds and Behaviors, 2019, Pages 3-28
This chapter advances SDGs 3 and 10 by examining predicted and actual personal responses to racism and sexism by targets of bias and by nontarget group witnesses.
Elsevier,
Confronting Prejudice and Discrimination, The Science of Changing Minds and Behaviors, 2019, Pages 275-297
This chapter advances SDGs 3 and 10 by proposing that patient confrontation of physician bias may serve as a self-advocacy tool that reduces physician bias and improves quality of patient care.
Tay–Sachs disease is an inherited lysosomal storage disease resulting from mutations in the lysosomal enzyme, β-hexosaminidase A, and leads to excessive accumulation of GM2 ganglioside.
Sideroblastic anemia (SA) is characterized by bone marrow ring sideoblasts (RSs). RS reflect abnormal iron accumulation in the mitochondria of erythroblasts. Congenital SA is caused by the mutation of genes involved in iron-heme metabolism. The most frequent form of congenital SA is X-linked SA due to ALAS2 gene mutation.
