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BackgroundThe estimated incidence of sports related concussion has increased from 300,000 in 2007 to over 1.6 million in 2017, with a large percentage occurring in youth athletes. There are growing concerns about the cognitive and emotional wellbeing of young athletes during concussion recovery.ObjectiveTo review research evaluating how concussion relates to changes in emotion and mood in high school and college athletes.Design/methodsRelevant articles from 1997 to 2017 were searched on PubMed using keywords and official MeSH terms such as: (1) concussion; or brain injuries, traumatic; or TBI and (2) high school; or college; and, (3) depression; or affect; or mood. English language articles were included for analysis if they measured concussed high school or college athletes using a validated instrument for assessing emotion and mood.ResultsTen published studies met the inclusion criteria. Five studies measured changes in emotional response in athletes after concussion. The other studies compared emotional response in athletes after concussion to the emotional response in athletes after non-concussive sports injury, such as musculoskeletal, or orthopedic injury.ConclusionDespite heterogeneity in methods and limitations in the literature, our review suggests growing consensus that concussions result in altered emotions and mood. However, current research shows conflicting results on whether alterations in emotional response are different post-concussion than post non-concussive sports injury.

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) comprises a multitude of disciplines, for example, acupuncture, ayurvedic medicine, biofeedback, herbal medicine, and homeopathic medicine. While research on CAM interventions has increased and the CAM literature has proliferated since the mid-1990s, a number of our colleagues have expressed difficulties in deciding where to publish CAM articles. In response, we created a short guide to peer-reviewed MEDLINE-indexed journals that publish CAM articles. We examined numerous English-language sources to identify titles that met our criteria, whether specific to or overlapping CAM. A few of the resources in which we found the journal titles that we included are Alternative Medicine Foundation, American Holistic Nurses Association, CINAHL/Nursing Database, Journal Citation Reports database, MEDLINE, PubMed, and Research Council for Complementary Medicine. We organized the 69 selected titles for easy use by creating 2 user-friendly tables, one listing titles in alphabetical order and one listing them in topical categories. A few examples of the topical categories are Acupuncture, CAM (general), Chinese Medicine, Herbal/Plant/Phytotherapy, Neuroscience/Psychology, Nursing/Clinical Care. Our study is the first to list general CAM journals, specialty CAM journals, and overlapping mainstream journals that are peer reviewed, in English, and indexed in MEDLINE. Our goal was to assist both authors seeking publication and mainstream journal editors who receive an overabundance of publishable articles but must recommend that authors seek publication elsewhere due to space and priority issues. Publishing in journals indexed by and included in MEDLINE (or PubMed) ensures that citations to articles will be found easily.

Background: Studies from past decades demonstrate that few articles on end of life issues are published in cardiology journals, compared with other medical specialties. Methods: We searched OvidMEDLINE from January 2001 - August 2012 for end of life articles published in cardiology, critical care, respiratory, geriatrics, general medicine, and oncology journals with impact factor (IF) > 1 according to Journal Citation Reports. To test reliability of defining end of life articles, a separate reviewer re-examined a subset of articles from a randomly selected journal for each specialty. Reviewers were compared using a kappa statistic. To estimate rate ratios for publishing end of life articles, a Poisson regression model was used with indicator variables for journal specialty, and IF as an adjustment covariate. Results: 3741 end of life articles were identified from 391 journals, including 89 cardiology journals. Agreement was good between reviewers (k=0.75). Critical care, general medicine and geriatrics published a higher percentage of end of life articles than cardiology (Rate Ratio [RR] 3.6, 2.5 and 3.7 respectively, p Conclusion: Cardiology journals no longer published the lowest percentage of end of life articles among medical specialties. These findings suggest a growing, though still suboptimal, recognition of the importance of end of life care in cardiology.