Measuring genetic diversity of Texas bluegrass and allele sharing with Kentucky bluegrass interspecific hybrids using genome-wide markers.

Kentucky bluegrass is an important cool-season turfgrass species. However, heat and drought tolerance is an issue. Interspecific hybridization with a related species, Texas bluegrass, is an approach used to improve heat and drought tolerance.

Examining the role of thromboelastography in patients with COVID-19.

BackgroundCOVID-19 causes a severe respiratory distress syndrome. Systemic inflammation and hypercoagulability are common. These findings are often evaluated with non-specific markers, including CRP, D-dimer, and fibrinogen.

Dual Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance in Wheat Germplasm Lines W4909 and W4910.

Soil salinity adversely affects plant growth and development, reducing the yield of most crops, including wheat. The highly salt-tolerant wheat germplasm lines W4909 and W4910 were derived from a cross between two moderately salt-tolerant lines, the Chinese Spring (CS)/ disomic addition line AJDAj5 (AJ) and the Ph-inhibitor line (Ph-I) derived from CS/. Molecular markers for gene introgressions in W4909 and W4910 were not reported.

Group text messaging as a residency teaching tool in outpatient neurology and headache: A mixed-methods observational study.

Objective: To assess the feasibility and efficacy of group text messaging as a teaching tool to improve neurology resident knowledge and clinical pearl dissemination in an outpatient setting enriched with headache encounters, and to evaluate if learning points from this teaching method would influence resident care of subsequent patients.

Background: Inpatient neurology teaching during training is most often accomplished in team settings during rounds or conferences such as morning report, but outpatient teaching where headache is more likely encountered may be less consistently performed in such a setting where learning points may be shared. Few studies have evaluated whether group text messaging can be an innovative tool for teaching in residency training.

Curriculum Innovation: A Resident-Created Multiple-Choice Question of the Week to Augment Case-Based Learning.

Introduction And Problem Statement: Morning report (MR) has been a foundation of learning in many neurology residency programs. However, fortification of the high-yield learning points during MR cases may be achieved with supplementary educational initiatives to promote effective long-term retention and test-enhanced learning.

Objectives: During the 2020-2021 academic year, chief residents of our neurology training program sought to implement neurology certification board-style multiple-choice questions (MCQs) based on cases presented at MR to enhance case-based learning.

Correlation Between Medically Diagnosed Anxiety and Depression Disorder and Self-Reported Breast Implant Illness.

Background: Anxiety disorders, both with and without comorbid depression, are widespread globally. In this study we investigate the intersection of anxiety, depression, and self-reported breast implant illness (BII) in females undergoing aesthetic breast surgery.

Objectives: The objective of our research was to enhance understanding about mental health history, psychotropic medication use, and its relation to BII symptoms.

New Daily Persistent Headache.

Objective: This article describes the clinical features, etiology, differential diagnosis, management, and prognosis of new daily persistent headache.

Latest Developments: New daily persistent headache has attracted renewed attention as it may arise in the setting of a COVID-19 infection. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension, particularly from CSF-venous fistulas, remains an important secondary headache disorder to consider before diagnosing new daily persistent headache.

Calcitonin gene-related peptide-targeting therapies are a first-line option for the prevention of migraine: An American Headache Society position statement update.

Objective: To provide a position statement update from The American Headache Society specifically regarding therapies targeting calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) for the prevention of migraine.

Background: All migraine preventive therapies previously considered to be first-line treatments were developed for other indications and adopted later for migraine. Adherence to these therapies is often poor due to issues with efficacy and tolerability.

Pearls and pitfalls in letters of recommendation for neurology residency applications.

Letters of recommendation are a cornerstone of residency applications. Variability and bias in letters exists across specialties, neurology being no exception. Studies done in other specialty fields assessing nuanced language uncovered key attention points for improvement and mitigation of bias, lessons from which should be applied in the field of neurology.

Millions of Migraine Attacks, Many Answers, More Questions.

In the landscape of migraine treatment, many unanswered questions remain-particularly, which medications are most effective as acute agents and for which patients? Given the heterogeneity of patients, clinicians' practice, and the integration of new agents into migraine care, this is an ambitious question to address. At the same time, this question is crucial both because proper acute treatment is an important metric of quality of care and such treatments are woefully underused in the general population..

Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension in Pregnancy.

Purpose Of Review: Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is a debilitating disease typically featuring orthostatic headache and caused by a spinal CSF leak. This review will describe the characteristics of SIH in pregnant patients and the associated unique management and treatment considerations.

Recent Findings: Herein, a novel case is reported of a 41-year-old woman who presented with SIH pre-conception but saw marked improvement of symptoms after 5 weeks antepartum and symptom recurrence 2 months post-partum.

Education Research: The Development and Utilization of a Virtual Twitter Onboarding Curriculum for Neurologists, Trainees, and Students: A Prospective Study.

Background And Objectives: Social media has increased in popularity among neurologists in the past few years without a parallel increase in training opportunities to learn how to use social media effectively. This study tests the feasibility of an asynchronous, virtual onboarding curriculum using Twitter as a tool for professional development for neurologists and neurology trainees.

Methods: Neurologists and neurology trainees were recruited virtually through email, Twitter, and a listserv of the American Academy of Neurology (Synapse).

Spontaneous absorption of osteophytic calcification associated with chronic dural tear and ventral spinal CSF leak.

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is associated with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) hypovolemia, often from a traumatic dural tear from a calcified spinal osteophyte. Visualizing osteophytes on CT imaging can guide decision making on candidate leak sites. We report the atypical case of a 41-year-old woman whose ventral CSF leak was associated with an osteophyte that resorbed over an 18-month period.

Educational initiatives in headache medicine: A 20-year scoping review.

Background: Headache disorders are among the most common and disabling medical conditions worldwide, have a great societal impact and are a common reason to seek medical care. Headache disorders are often misdiagnosed and undertreated, and the number of headache fellowship-trained physicians cannot meet patient demand. Educational initiatives for non-headache-specialist clinicians may be an avenue to increase clinician competency and patient access to appropriate management.

Homoeologous evolution of the allotetraploid genome of Poa annua L.

Background: Poa annua (annual bluegrass) is an allotetraploid turfgrass, an agronomically significant weed, and one of the most widely dispersed plant species on earth. Here, we report the chromosome-scale genome assemblies of P. annua's diploid progenitors, P.

Lifetime history of an anxiety or depression disorder and adherence to medications used for the acute treatment of migraine.

Objective: In this secondary analysis of mobile health headache diary data, we evaluated the relationship between adherence to medication used for the acute treatment of migraine and lifetime history of an anxiety or depression disorder.

Background: Medication non-adherence can produce poor clinical efficacy and may be associated with medication overuse. Medication overuse was defined by taking a migraine-specific medication (MSM) for ≥10 days/month, an opioid or barbiturate for ≥10 days/month, or a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug for ≥15 days/month and having ≥15 headache days/month.

Injustice, quality of life, and psychiatric symptoms in people with migraine.

Objective: To describe and examine the relationships between perceived injustice, quality of life (QoL), and psychiatric symptoms through a mixed-methods, cross-sectional observational study design in people with migraine.

Method: Participants completed a series of online quantitative questionnaires, including the Injustice Experience Questionnaire (IEQ). Then, 10 participants took part in qualitative phenomenological interviews.

Migraine.

Migraine affects about 1 billion people worldwide, and up to 15% of adults in the United States have migraine attacks in any given year. Migraine is associated with substantial adverse socioeconomic and personal effects. It is the second leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide for all ages and the leading cause in women aged 15 to 49 years.

Chromosome-Scale Genome Assembly and Annotation of Allotetraploid Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua L.).

Poa annua L. is a globally distributed grass with economic and horticultural significance as a weed and as a turfgrass. This dual significance, and its phenotypic plasticity and ecological adaptation, have made P.