Psychiatry

Bipolar transurethral enucleation and resection of the prostate: Whether it is ready to supersede TURP?

OBJECTIVE: According to the EAU Guidelines, transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has so far still been considered as the gold standard for surgical treatment for patients with obstructing clinical benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). However, its relatively high rate of complications and postoperative recurrence necessitates further modification and innovation on the surgery technique. We ...

[Emotional robots in a nursing context : Empirical analysis of the present use and the effects of Paro and Pleo].

BACKGROUND: It has been questioned by researchers in robotics as well in the general public to what extent companion-type robots can support the elderly with the fulfillment of their psychological and social needs. Although these robots have already been used in care settings in Germany, research has referred little to this practical experience in order to analyze their impact and benefit. To star...

Support vector machine-based classification of first episode drug-naïve schizophrenia patients and healthy controls using structural MRI.

Although regional brain deficits have been demonstrated in schizophrenia patients by structural MRI studies, one important question that remains large...

A novel fuzzy rough selection of non-linearly extracted features for schizophrenia diagnosis using fMRI.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Schizophrenia is a severe brain disorder primarily diagnosed through externally observed behavioural symptoms due to the de...

Machine Learning for Precision Psychiatry: Opportunities and Challenges.

The nature of mental illness remains a conundrum. Traditional disease categories are increasingly suspected to misrepresent the causes underlying ment...

Prediction of persistent hemodynamic depression after carotid angioplasty and stenting using artificial neural network model.

OBJECTIVES: To assess and compare predictive factors for persistent hemodynamic depression (PHD) after carotid artery angioplasty and stenting (CAS) u...

Does this robot have a mind? Schizophrenia patients' mind perception toward humanoid robots.

Relevant Features Selection for Automatic Prediction of Preterm Deliveries from Pregnancy ElectroHysterograhic (EHG) records.

In this study, we proposed an approach able to predict whether a pregnant woman with contractions would give birth earlier than expected (i.e., before...

Can Dogs Assist Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder in Complying with Challenging Demands? An Exploratory Experiment with a Live and a Robotic Dog.

OBJECTIVES: Prompted by the need to find effective ways to enhance compliance in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and building on the inc...

Working Memory and Decision-Making in a Frontoparietal Circuit Model.

Working memory (WM) and decision-making (DM) are fundamental cognitive functions involving a distributed interacting network of brain areas, with the ...

Influence of facial feedback during a cooperative human-robot task in schizophrenia.

Rapid progress in the area of humanoid robots offers tremendous possibilities for investigating and improving social competences in people with social...

Neurocognitive Graphs of First-Episode Schizophrenia and Major Depression Based on Cognitive Features.

Neurocognitive deficits are frequently observed in patients with schizophrenia and major depressive disorder (MDD). The relations between cognitive fe...

Improving individual predictions: Machine learning approaches for detecting and attacking heterogeneity in schizophrenia (and other psychiatric diseases).

Psychiatric diseases are very heterogeneous both in clinical manifestation and etiology. With the recent rise of using machine learning techniques to ...

Neurobiological support to the diagnosis of ADHD in stimulant-naïve adults: pattern recognition analyses of MRI data.

OBJECTIVE: In adulthood, the diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been subject of recent controversy. We searched for a ne...

Whole brain white matter connectivity analysis using machine learning: An application to autism.

In this paper, we propose an automated white matter connectivity analysis method for machine learning classification and characterization of white mat...

Automatic recognition of therapy progress among children with autism.

The article presents a research study on recognizing therapy progress among children with autism spectrum disorder. The progress is recognized on the ...

Towards multilevel mental stress assessment using SVM with ECOC: an EEG approach.

Mental stress has been identified as one of the major contributing factors that leads to various diseases such as heart attack, depression, and stroke...

A pilot study for robot appearance preferences among high-functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorder: Implications for therapeutic use.

Recent rapid technological advances have enabled robots to fulfill a variety of human-like functions, leading researchers to propose the use of such t...

Stochastic spike synchronization in a small-world neural network with spike-timing-dependent plasticity.

We consider the Watts-Strogatz small-world network (SWN) consisting of subthreshold neurons which exhibit noise-induced spikings. This neuronal networ...

Predicting short term mood developments among depressed patients using adherence and ecological momentary assessment data.

Technology driven interventions provide us with an increasing amount of fine-grained data about the patient. This data includes regular ecological mom...