BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Obesity is a well-established risk factor for gallstone formation, but traditional anthropometric measures (e.g., BMI, waist circumference) inadequately assess metabolically active visceral adiposity. The novel Metabolic Score fo...
Pain assessment in clinical practice largely relies on patient-reported subjectivity. Although previous studies using fMRI and EEG have attempted objective pain evaluation, their focus has been limited to resting conditions. This study aimed to class...
Exploring the influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and summarizing countermeasures is of great significance for effectively addressing potential public health crises. Based on survey data from China, we employed a Gradient Boosting Decis...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Jul 30, 2025
Past traumatic experiences shape neural responses to future stress, but the mechanisms underlying this dynamic interaction remain unclear. Here, we assessed how trauma-related brain networks respond to current acute stress in real time. Using a machi...
BACKGROUND: Identifying key characteristics of unknown suspects, such as age, height, and drug use, is essential for advancing forensic investigations.
BACKGROUND: The escalating mental health crisis during and post-COVID-19 underscores the urgent need for scalable, timely, cost-effective assessment solutions for general psychotic disorders. Regretfully, traditional symptom-based, one-to-one assessm...
Human prefrontal areas show enhanced activations when individuals are presented with images, under diverse task conditions. However, the functional role of these increased activations remains a deeply debated question. Here we addressed this question...
BACKGROUND: The use of conversational agents (CAs) in mental health therapy is gaining traction due to their accessibility, anonymity, and nonjudgmental nature. However, understanding the psychological factors driving preferences for CA-based therapy...
BACKGROUND: The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across various sectors, including health care, necessitate the need for a comprehensive understanding of their applications. Specifically, the acceptance and readiness of...
BACKGROUND: Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent in first-episode psychosis (FEP) and worsen clinical outcomes. It is currently difficult to determine which patients will have persistent depressive symptoms based on a clinical assessment. We aime...
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