Anxiety & Stress

Deflected Versus Preshaped Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Design and Performance Analysis Toward Reliable Soft Robots.

Soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) are customizable and conformable devices that enable desired motions in soft robots. Interactions with the environment or handling during their fabrication could introduce defects into SPAs that affect their performance. These defects could lead to high-stress concentrations in the SPA body and heterogeneous, unrepeatable, or inconsistent expansion affecting their r...

EEG Mental Stress Assessment Using Hybrid Multi-Domain Feature Sets of Functional Connectivity Network and Time-Frequency Features.

Exposure to mental stress for long period leads to serious accidents and health problems. To avoid negative consequences on health and safety, it is very important to detect mental stress at its early stages, i.e., when it is still limited to acute or episodic stress. In this study, we developed an experimental protocol to induce two different levels of stress by utilizing a mental arithmetic task...

Precise Control of Customized Macrophage Cell Robot for Targeted Therapy of Solid Tumors with Minimal Invasion.

Injecting micro/nanorobots into the body to kill tumors is one of the ultimate ambitions for medical nanotechnology. However, injecting current micro/...

Toxicity evaluation and oxidative stress response of fumaronitrile, a persistent organic pollutant (POP) of industrial waste water on tilapia fish (Oreochromis mossambicus).

The study was designed to determine the impact of acute toxicity of fumaronitrile exposure through tissue damaging, oxidative stress enzymes and histo...

A Bioinspired Stress-Response Strategy for High-Speed Soft Grippers.

The stress-response strategy is one of the nature's greatest developments, enabling animals and plants to respond quickly to environmental stimuli. On...

Predicting pediatric anxiety from the temporal pole using neural responses to emotional faces.

A prominent cognitive aspect of anxiety is dysregulation of emotional interpretation of facial expressions, associated with neural activity from the a...

A case of fatal multidrug intoxication involving flualprazolam: distribution in body fluids and solid tissues.

PURPOSE: Designer benzodiazepines (DBZDs) increasingly emerged on the novel psychoactive substance (NPS) market in the last few years. They are usuall...

Machine Learning for personalised stress detection: Inter-individual variability of EEG-ECG markers for acute-stress response.

Stress appears as a response for a broad variety of physiological stimuli. It does vary among individuals in amplitude, phase and frequency. Thus, the...

Understanding terror states of online users in the context of COVID-19: An application of Terror Management Theory.

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided psych challenges for many in society. One such challenge is the anxiety that is created in many people faced with t...

Machine Learning Predicts the Timing and Shear Stress Evolution of Lab Earthquakes Using Active Seismic Monitoring of Fault Zone Processes.

Machine learning (ML) techniques have become increasingly important in seismology and earthquake science. Lab-based studies have used acoustic emissio...

Exploring Factors for Predicting Anxiety Disorders of the Elderly Living Alone in South Korea Using Interpretable Machine Learning: A Population-Based Study.

This epidemiological study aimed to develop an X-AI that could explain groups with a high anxiety disorder risk in old age. To achieve this objective,...

Analysis of cognitive impairment in schizophrenia based on machine learning: Interaction between psychological stress and immune system.

The interaction between psychological stress and immune system may be associated with the cognitive impairment of schizophrenia. To employ machine lea...

Identifying Mobile Sensing Indicators of Stress-Resilience.

Resident physicians (residents) experiencing prolonged workplace stress are at risk of developing mental health symptoms. Creating novel, unobtrusive ...

Personalized machine learning of depressed mood using wearables.

Depression is a multifaceted illness with large interindividual variability in clinical response to treatment. In the era of digital medicine and prec...

Effectiveness of robot therapy in the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms for individuals with dementia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Robot therapy presents a promising alternative in dementia care. However, its effectiveness has not been verified comprehensively. This systematic rev...

Classification of Mental Stress Using CNN-LSTM Algorithms with Electrocardiogram Signals.

The mental stress faced by many people in modern society is a factor that causes various chronic diseases, such as depression, cancer, and cardiovascu...

Predicting anxiety in cancer survivors presenting to primary care - A machine learning approach accounting for physical comorbidity.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to explore predictors for anxiety as the most common form of psychological distress in cancer survivors whil...

Comparing stress prediction models using smartwatch physiological signals and participant self-reports.

Recent advances in wearable technology have facilitated the non-obtrusive monitoring of physiological signals, creating opportunities to monitor and p...

Immunomodulatory and antimicrobial non-mulberry silk fibroin accelerates fibroblast repair and regeneration by protecting oxidative stress.

The antimicrobial nature of silk-fibroin (SF) is reported but antioxidant potential and the immunomodulatory role towards the fibroblast cell repair ...

A Comparative Study of Modulation of Neuroendocrine Stress Response by Dexmedetomidine versus Fentanyl Premedication during Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

INTRODUCTION: Surgical stress is the systemic response to surgical injury. Analyzing these surgical stress responses and pharmacologically modulating ...