Author(s): Afnan J; Cai Z; Lina JM; Abdallah C; Pellegrino G; Arcara G; Khajehpour H; Frauscher B; Gotman J; Grova C;

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is widely used for studying resting-state brain connectivity. However, MEG source imaging is ill posed and has limited spatial resolution. This introduces source-leakage issues, making it challenging to interpret MEG-derived connectivity in resting states. To address ...

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Author(s): Stanley J; Rabot E; Reddy S; Belilovsky E; Mottron L; Bzdok D;

Efforts to use genome-wide assays or brain scans to diagnose autism have seen diminishing returns. Yet the clinical intuition of healthcare professionals, based on longstanding first-hand experience, remains the gold standard for diagnosis of autism. We leveraged deep learning to deconstruct and interrogate the logic of expert clinician intuition from cli ...

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Author(s): Nguyen PV; Dang-Vu TT; Forest G; Desjardins S; Forget MF; Vu TT; Nguyen QD; Kouassi E; Desmarais P;

Background: Mirtazapine promotes sleep by blocking serotonin and histaminergic receptors and is often used off-label to treat chronic insomnia. However, its efficacy remains to be demonstrated in a clinical trial. The MIRAGE study aims to determine the efficacy and safety of mirtazapine in older ...

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Author(s): Elmekki H; Alagha A; Sami H; Spilkin A; Zanuttini AM; Zakeri E; Bentahar J; Kadem L; Xie WF; Pibarot P; Mizouni R; Otrok H; Singh S; Mourad A;

Cardiac ultrasound (US) scanning is one of the most commonly used techniques in cardiology to diagnose the health of the heart and its proper functioning. During a typical US scan, medical professionals take several images of the heart to be classified based on the cardiac views they contain, wit ...

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Author(s): Cheligeer C; Southern DA; Yan J; Wu G; Pan J; Lee S; Martin EA; Jafarpour H; Eastwood CA; Zeng Y; Quan H;

Objectives: Adverse event detection from Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is challenging due to the low incidence of the event, variability in clinical documentation, and the complexity of data formats. Pulmonary embolism as an adverse event (PEAE) is particularly difficult to identify using exi ...

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Author(s): Lapointe VA; Dubé S; Rukhlyadyev S; Kessai T; Lafortune D;

Fueled by advances in artificial intelligence (AI), the adult entertainment industry is undergoing a significant transformation. AI-generated pornography-or AI porn-is reshaping how people create and consume sexually explicit content, progressively offering rapid, mass access to large quantities of interactive and highly customizable experiences. Yet, des ...

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Author(s): Alizadeh M; Collins DL; Kersten-Oertel M; Xiao Y;

Purpose: As a portable and cost-effective imaging modality with better accessibility than Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), transcranial sonography (TCS) has demonstrated its flexibility and potential utility in various clinical diagnostic applications, including Parkinson's disease and cerebrovascular conditions. To better understand the information ...

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Author(s): Ménard A; Podinic I; Conklin J; Hossain S; Arya A; Archibald D; Elliott J; Kothari A; Stolee P; Sveistrup H; Dehcheshmeh MM; Hsu AT;

Family involvement in care often continues after an individual moves into a long-term care (LTC) home. This cross-sectional study delves into the dynamics of family caregiving for LTC residents. Spouses/partners (n = 32, mean age 76) primarily focused on tasks such as mealtimes (53 %) and direct ...

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Author(s): Muffels IJJ; Waterham HR; D' Alessandro G; Zagnoli-Vieira G; Sacher M; Lefeber DJ; Van der Vinne C; Roifman CM; Gassen KLI; Rehmann H; Van Haaften-Visser DY; Nieuwenhuis ESS; Jackson SP; Fuchs SA; Wijk F; van Hasselt P;

Background: Deciphering variants of uncertain significance (VUS) represents a major diagnostic challenge, partially due to the lack of easy-to-use and versatile cellular readouts that aid the interpretation of pathogenicity and pathophysiology. To address this challenge, we propose a high-through ...

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Author(s): Langmuir T; Wilson M; McCleary N; Patey AM; Mekki K; Ghazal H; Estey Noad E; Buchan J; Dubey V; Galley J; Gibson E; Fontaine G; Smith M; Alghamyan A; Thompson K; Crawshaw J; Grimshaw JM; Arnason T; Brehaut J; Michie S; Brouwers M; Presse ...

Background: Ensuring widespread COVID-19 vaccine uptake is a public health priority in Canada and globally, particularly within communities that exhibit lower uptake rates and are at a higher risk of infection. Public health units (PHUs) have leveraged many resources to promote the uptake of reco ...

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Author(s): Dade MC; Bonn A; Eigenbrod F; Felipe-Lucia MR; Fisher B; Goldstein B; Holland RA; Hopping KA; Lavorel S; Lede Polain Waroux Y; MacDonald GK; Mandle L; Metzger JP; Pascual U; Rieb JT; Vallet A; Wells GJ; Ziter CD; Bennett EM; Robinson BE;

Context: There are urgent calls to transition society to more sustainable trajectories, at scales ranging from local to global. Landscape sustainability (LS), or the capacity for landscapes to provide equitable access to ecosystem services essential for human wellbeing for both current and future ...

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