Electroceuticals such as brain computer interfaces and spinal cord stimulation (SCS) represent transformative strategies for neuromodulation. Research has demonstrated that SCS can ameliorate motor an...

Phytosteroids like 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) and diosgenin (DSG) have shown promising anabolic and performance-enhancing effects in in vitro, animal, and human studies. Combining phytosteroids is co...

DBS (Capitainer-B50 and Tasso-M20) enabled detection of testosterone esters in all participants, whereas urine testing (T/E) missed cases including potential UGT2B17 del/del carriers and individuals ...

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Using targeted HILIC-MS/MS metabolomics, inosine and hypoxanthine were identified as potential biomarkers of EPO administration. Their consistent and sensitive plasma responses highlight their promis....

The metabolism of clostebol after oral and transdermal applications was described. Ten metabolites were detected after oral administration (M1–M10), but only five (M1–M4 and M9) could be detected aft...

Practicality of serum T/LH ratio was investigated in the context of a transdermal testosterone administration study and a field study where the T/LH ratio was measured using an automated immunoassay ...

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Utilizing adult sport (Study 1: N = 290; Mage = 25.0 years, SD = 10.9) and exercise (Study 2: N = 501; Mage = 23.9 years, SD = 7.2) samples—competing and training at a range of levels—we identified s...

The detection of the performance-enhancing drug testosterone (T) remains a significant challenge in doping control analysis. Longitudinal monitoring t…

Background Doping remains an ongoing threat to clean competition. To date, global preventive initiatives have not addressed critical psychosocial antecedents of doping thoroughly due to the scarcity of knowledge regarding its psychosocial mechanisms from a harmonised cross-country perspective. We, therefore, conducted a multi-country investigation testing the interplay of two important yet overlooked attributes, namely narcissism and self-compassion, and examined their psychosocial mechanisms underpinning doping. Methods Using a sample of 499 high-performing athletes (80% competing at national level or above) from the UK, US, and China, we performed a series of multi-variate multi-group moderation models to test the narcissism × compassion interaction on doping and examined potential psychosocial mechanisms underlying such effects. In all analyses, we applied cluster control to adjust for coach-/team-level confounds and compared fixed vs. random effects models for cross-country comparisons. Results We found an identical interaction across study countries showing self-compassion alleviates narcissism-related doping willingness (especially that vulnerable narcissism drives). Grandiose narcissism’s protective effect on vulnerable narcissism-related doping moral disengagement was invariant across countries. Resilient coping appears to be a consistent mechanism across study countries that explains narcissism-related risk and compassion-related protection. Fear of failure manifested varied mechanistic effects in different study countries, inferring potential cross-cultural differences. Conclusion Vulnerable narcissism is a critical person-level correlate of doping. Grandiose narcissism, in the presence of self-compassion, can alleviate such risk thanks to enhanced resilient coping. Future education and interventions should tackle these important person-level attributes for anti-doping.

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