This approach supports the aim of the active surveillance study, which is to reflect drug use under real-life conditions.
The present cross-sectional study is embedded in the 'Be active, eat right' study, which aims to assess the effects of an overweight prevention protocol as detailed elsewhere [ 20].
These results are consistent with other active learning studies, which suggest that instruction which directly engages students in the learning process can lead to improvement in student attitudes towards learning (Alemdar & Rosen 2011; Casad & Jawaharlal 2012; Prince 2004; Smith et al. 2014).
Interestingly, closing a gap of information by using a control arm receiving active treatment, a recent study which was not part of the SLR reported that for patients with early RA who had failed to reach low disease activity after 3 months' MTX monotherapy, the addition of a TNF inhibitor yielded significantly better clinical outcomes than the addition of SSZ plus hydroxychloroquine.
More recently, this group analyzed MRI results from the GO-FORWARD (Golimumab for Subjects with Active RA Despite Methotrexate) study, which investigated efficacy of the anti-tumor necrosis factor (anti-TNF) agent golimumab [ 40] and found that the CRP decrease associated with a therapeutic response paralleled reductions in both synovitis and BME.
While it is possible that the pitch-tracking deficits previously found in children with ASD [ 10] may be ameliorated or improved without specifically targeting frequency discrimination or pitch processing, according to parental report S4 was also participating in active music training throughout the study, which may have influenced pitch tracking improvements.
The Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (ACTIVE) study [ 30], which performed large-scale cognitive training interventions, has examined various kinds of health-related and economic variables.
The hippocampus, the brain's learning and memory center, is known to be more active in schizophrenics, but this study, which appears in this month's issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, pinpoints the part that's hyperactive.
In March 2012, a prospective longitudinal cohort study, which included active surveillance for acute febrile illness, was initiated in Cebu City, Philippines (I. Yoon, unpub. data).
These are common elements to other mind-body therapies, including both physically active interventions in the present study, which may contribute to differences with conventional clinical trials in adherence and in outcomes.
