Psychiatry

A pet-type robot Artificial Intelligence Robot-assisted therapy for a patient with schizophrenia.

Threshold of Dopamine D2/3 Receptor Occupancy for Hyperprolactinemia in Older Patients With Schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVE: Although hyperprolactinemia carries a long-term risk of morbidity, the threshold of dopamine D2/3 receptor (D2/3R) occupancy for hyperprolactinemia has not been investigated in older patients with schizophrenia. Data were taken from a positron emission tomography (PET) study conducted between August 2007 and August 2015. The present post hoc study included 42 clinically stable outpatien...

Brief Report: Evaluation of an Intelligent Learning Environment for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Researchers are increasingly attempting to develop and apply innovative technological platforms for early detection and intervention of autism spectru...

Improving Prediction of Suicide and Accidental Death After Discharge From General Hospitals With Natural Language Processing.

IMPORTANCE: Suicide represents the 10th leading cause of death across age groups in the United States (12.6 cases per 100 000) and remains challenging...

Editorial Comment from Dr Stranne and Psychotherapist Stranne to Postoperative urinary incontinence exacerbates nocturia-specific quality of life after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Classification of Helpful Comments on Online Suicide Watch Forums.

Among social media websites, Reddit has emerged as a widely used online message board for focused mental health topics including depression, addiction...

On Interestingness Measures for Mining Statistically Significant and Novel Clinical Associations from EMRs.

Association rule mining has received significant attention from both the data mining and machine learning communities. While data mining researchers f...

The Hyper-Modular Associative Mind: A Computational Analysis of Associative Responses of Persons with Asperger Syndrome.

Rigidity of thought is considered a main characteristic of persons with Asperger syndrome (AS). This rigidity may explain the poor comprehension of un...

Evaluation of a Technology-Based Adaptive Learning and Prevention Program for Stress Response-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

To prevent deployment-related disorders, Chaos Driven Situations Management Retrieval System (CHARLY), a computer-aided training platform with a biofe...

Classification of EEG based-mental fatigue using principal component analysis and Bayesian neural network.

This paper presents an electroencephalography (EEG) based-classification of between pre- and post-mental load tasks for mental fatigue detection from ...

Ensemble statistical and subspace clustering model for analysis of autism spectrum disorder phenotypes.

Heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is complex including variability in behavioral phenotype as well as clinical, physiologic, and patholo...

Detection of mental stress due to oral academic examination via ultra-short-term HRV analysis.

Mental stress may cause cognitive dysfunctions, cardiovascular disorders and depression. Mental stress detection via short-term Heart Rate Variability...

Suicide Risk Assessment in Hospitals: An Expert System-Based Triage Tool.

BACKGROUND: The November 2010 Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert on the prevention of suicides in medical/surgical units and the emergency departme...

Classifying Schizophrenia Using Multimodal Multivariate Pattern Recognition Analysis: Evaluating the Impact of Individual Clinical Profiles on the Neurodiagnostic Performance.

Previous studies have shown that structural brain changes are among the best-studied candidate markers for schizophrenia (SZ) along with functional co...

Discriminative analysis of schizophrenia using support vector machine and recursive feature elimination on structural MRI images.

Structural abnormalities in schizophrenia (SZ) patients have been well documented with structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data using voxel-ba...

Mapping Robots to Therapy and Educational Objectives for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The aim of this study was to increase knowledge on therapy and educational objectives professionals work on with children with autism spectrum disorde...

American Psychiatric Nurses Association-Transitions in Practice Certificate Program: Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Caring for Psychiatric Patients Within the General Nursing Workforce.

The purpose of this article is to publicize an important new Web-based educational program. Recognizing the growing gap in psychiatric-mental health k...

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Make a Fruit Salad with Probo, the Social Robot: An Interaction Study.

Social robots are thought to be motivating tools in play tasks with children with autism spectrum disorders. Thirty children with autism were included...

Automated Tracking and Quantification of Autistic Behavioral Symptoms Using Microsoft Kinect.

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has risen significantly in the last ten years, and today, roughly 1 in 68 children has been diagnosed...

Anti-inflammatory Effect of Amitriptyline on Ulcerative Colitis in Normal and Reserpine-Induced Depressed Rats.

Depressive disorders are more common among persons with chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and anti-inflammatory effect of some antid...