Category: Human
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AI. Schizophrenia. (Unprepared…)
Researchers have taken a step forward in developing an artificial intelligence tool to predict schizophrenia by analyzing brain scans. The tool was used to analyze functional magnetic resonance images of 57 healthy first-degree relatives (siblings or children) of schizophrenia patients. It accurately identified the 14 individuals who scored highest on a self-reported schizotypal personality trait…
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Questioning Status Quo – Irrationality as a limitation of AI
Harmonia Philosophica Paper Author: Spyridon Kakos Abstract: Progress – scientific or of any other kind – happens when current norms are questioned and new ways of thinking arise. Things that were considered obvious become obsolete and people start viewing the world in a different way that was never there. This kind of change can only…
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Brain stimulation. Personalized. Full of grief.
Targeted neuromodulation tailored to individual patients’ distinctive symptoms is an increasingly common way of correcting misfiring brain circuits in people with epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease. Now, scientists have demonstrated a novel personalized neuromodulation approach that — at least in one patient — was able to provide relief from symptoms of severe treatment-resistant depression within minutes.…
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Wandering minds…
Anyone who has tried and failed to meditate knows that our minds are rarely still. But where do they roam? New research has come up with a way to track the flow of our internal thought processes and signal whether our minds are focused, fixated or wandering. (1) Where do our minds roam? (Does it…
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