Are asian women less likely to express interest in infertility research?
Asian and Middle Eastern patients are less likely than non-Hispanic Whites to express interest in research participation in the infertility clinic setting. Strategies to target these women for research recruitment are necessary to achieve parity in both research participation and assisted reproductive technology outcomes.
The major finding of our study is that euthymic bipolar patients and remitted major depressed patients display residual anhedonic symptoms. This suggests that, in affective disorder patients, altered hedonic capacity could represent an enduring trait and that, possibly, dysfunctions in the neurobiological mechanisms underlying hedonic response and reward processing persist, irrespective of mood state.