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A New Outlook on Mental Illnesses: Glial Involvement Beyond the Glue

Mental illnesses have long been perceived as the exclusive consequence of abnormalities in neuronal functioning. Until recently, the role of glial cells in the pathophysiology of mental diseases has largely been overlooked. However recently, multiple lines ...

Frontiers Media Sa2015

Stratified medicine for mental disorders

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

There is recognition that biomedical research into the causes of mental disorders and their treatment needs to adopt new approaches to research. Novel biomedical techniques have advanced our understanding of how the brain develops and is shaped by behaviou ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, and related mortality in Italy in 2004: effects of treatment-based interventions on alcohol dependence

Gerrit Gmel

Background: The tradition of consuming alcohol has long been a part of Italian culture and is responsible for a large health burden. This burden may be reduced with effective interventions, one of the more important of which is treatment for Alcohol Depend ...

Biomed Central Ltd2013

EEG Microstates for BCI Therapist Feedback: Preliminary Results on a Stroke Patient

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Robert Leeb, Hesam Sagha, Andrea Biasiucci

Brain-Computer Interfaces convey a great potential in the field of stroke rehabilitation, where the continuous monitoring of the execution of mental tasks could support the positive effects of the therapy by reinforcing specific mental patterns. We propose ...

2011

Structured Mental Model Approach for Analyzing Perception of Risks to Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

This paper presents the Structural Mental Model Approach aimed at understanding differences in perception between experts and farmers regarding the various livelihood risks farmers are confronted with. The SMMA combines the Sustainable Livelihood Framework ...

2010

The influence of sex and empathy on putting oneself in the shoes of others

Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr

We tested whether putting oneself in the shoes of others is easier for women, possibly as a function of individuals' empathy levels, and whether any sex difference might be modulated by the sex of presented figures. Participants (N=100, 50 women) imagined ...

2010

Nanoparticle Based Tuberculosis Vaccine

Sai Reddy, Marie Ballester

Tuberculosis (TB) is a growing world health problem, especially in developing countries. The only available vaccine is the hundred years old Bacille de Calmette et Guérin (BCG). It has been shown to reduce infant mortality, but it is not an effective metho ...

2008

Multi-Modal Acute Stress Recognition Using Off-the-Shelf Wearable Devices

David Atienza Alonso, Amir Aminifar, Adriana Arza Valdes, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Victoriano Montesinos Canovas

Monitoring stress and, in general, emotions has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades. Stress monitoring has many applications, including high-risk missions and surgical procedures as well as mental/emotional health monitoring. In this pap ...

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