Identifying Neuroimaging-Based Markers for Distinguishing Brain Disorders

2020 ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pascual
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The number of people with vision loss increases; a large part of them is nursing home resident. Although the number of elderly with visual impairments is growing, little special attention is paid to this group. This is however urgently needed. Caregivers need to understand the limitations of visual impairment and how to cope with them. This can lead to better coordinated care. This article presents a literature overview about what conditions are essential for the quality of care for older people with visual impairments caused by eye-diseases (not by brain disorders). The results show that these conditions concern the process of care, communication and emotional support, support when moving, in providing structure, specific training of caregivers, and lighting provision. Practical tips and advice are given that can be used in nursing homes.


Author(s):  
Iemaan Rana ◽  
Linda Rieswijk ◽  
Craig Steinmaus ◽  
Luoping Zhang

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauricio Castillo ◽  
Lester Kwock ◽  
James Scatliff ◽  
Suresh K. Mukherji

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Vanasse ◽  
Peter T. Fox ◽  
P. Mickle Fox ◽  
Franco Cauda ◽  
Tommaso Costa ◽  
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AbstractNetwork architecture is a brain-organizational motif present across spatial scales from cell assemblies to distributed systems. Structural pathology in some neurodegenerative disorders selectively afflicts a subset of functional networks, motivating the network degeneration hypothesis (NDH). Recent evidence suggests that structural pathology recapitulating physiology may be a general property of neuropsychiatric disorders. To test this possibility, we compared functional and structural network meta-analyses drawing upon the BrainMap database. The functional meta-analysis included results from >7,000 experiments of subjects performing >100 task paradigms; the structural meta-analysis included >2,000 experiments of patients with >40 brain disorders. Structure-function network concordance was high: 68% of networks matched (pFWE < 0.01), confirming the broader scope of NDH. This correspondence persisted across higher model orders. A positive linear association between disease and behavioral entropy (p = 0.0006;R2 = 0.53) suggests nodal stress as a common mechanism. Corroborating this interpretation with independent data, we show that metabolic ‘cost’ significantly differs along this transdiagnostic/multimodal gradient.


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