Peer-to-peer mentorship emerges from mandatory research coursework: A social network case study.

Purpose: Research training thrives when pairing coursework with peer-to-peer mentorship. To understand how emerging collaborations promote research productivity of medical students, this study investigates the development of peer-to-peer advice-seeking behaviors and identify social mechanism that fosters collaborations.

Method: Cross-sectional surveys on advice-seeking behaviors were collected from 95 medical students awarded research presentation or publication grants from 2016 to 2023.

Depression and the prefrontal-hippocampal pathway - A multimodal neuroimaging study in transgender women.

This study aims to investigate functional and neurotransmitter signaling in the prefrontal-hippocampal pathway in relation to depression in a cohort of Thai transgender women. Twenty participants completed mental health surveys and imaging between January and March 2024. Depression severity was measured by Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores.