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

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

Female vulnerability to the development of depression-like behavior in a rat model of intimate partner violence is related to anxious temperament, coping responses, and amygdala vasopressin receptor 1a expression

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana, Guillaume Poirier

Exposure to violence is traumatic and an important source of mental health disturbance, yet the factors associated with victimization remain incompletely understood. The aim of the present study was to investigate factors related to vulnerability to depres ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2013

Diffusion estimation over cooperative networks with missing data

Ali H. Sayed

In many fields, and especially in the medical and social sciences and in various recommender systems, data are often gathered through clinical studies or targeted surveys. Participants are generally reluctant to respond to all questions in a survey or they ...

IEEE2013

Mining Large-Scale Smartphone Data for Personality Studies

Daniel Gatica-Perez

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between automatically extracted behavioral characteristics derived from rich smartphone data and self-reported Big-Five personality traits (Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability a ...

2013

The missing social instinct

Nicole Regula Zürcher Wimmer

Smooth social interactions in everyday life rely on spontaneous understanding of emotions and intentions of others, conveyed by subtle social cues, such as gaze and facial expressions. In individuals with autism, however, who represent close to 1% of the p ...

EPFL2012

Brain-Computer Interface in Multimedia Systems

Ashkan Yazdani

A brain-computer interface (BCI) is a system that allows a user to communicate with the environment only through cerebral activity, without using muscular output channels. To establish a direct link between the brain and a computer, the electroencephalogra ...

EPFL2012

Body Context and Posture Affect Mental Imagery of Hands

Olaf Blanke, Bogdan Draganski, Silvio Ionta

Different visual stimuli have been shown to recruit different mental imagery strategies. However the role of specific visual stimuli properties related to body context and posture in mental imagery is still under debate. Aiming to dissociate the behavioura ...

Public Library of Science2012

Scaling up interventions to achieve global tuberculosis control: progress and new developments

Stewart Cole

Tuberculosis is still one of the most important causes of death worldwide. The 2010 Lancet tuberculosis series provided a comprehensive overview of global control efforts and challenges. In this update we review recent progress. With improved control effor ...

2012

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

A supervised recalibration protocol for unbiased BCI

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Michele Tavella

One important source of performance degradation in BCIs is bias towards one of the mental classes. Recent literature has focused on the general problem of classification accuracy drop, identifying non-stationarity as the generating factor, thus leading to ...

2011

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