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Oxytocin modulates white matter functional connectivity tensor dynamics and circuit-targeted reconfiguration in depressive symptoms
Abstract Major depressive disorder involves disrupted neural circuit dynamics. While oxytocin has demonstrated modulatory effects on functional connectivity, its therapeutic potential for depression, particularly through white matter circuit modulation, remains poorly understood.
Deep learning reveals a neurocomputational mechanism predicting depression risk in adolescents
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Abstract INTRODUCTION RESULTS DISCUSSION MATERIALS AND METHODS Acknowledgments Supplementary Materials REFERENCES Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share Abstract Early detection and prevention of psychiatric disorders, particularly depression, remain as major global health challenges, yet reliable tools for identifying individuals before symptom onset are lacking.
By Xin Yang, Jiaming Cao, Holly V. Moeller, Han Lu, Xiaoqian Yan, Benjamin Becker, Andreas Heinz, Barbara Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Luolong Cao, Zuo Zhang, Lauren Robinson, Nilakshi Vaidya, Jeanne M Winterer, Sinead King, Charlotte Walton, Tobias Banaschewski, Gareth Barker, Arun Bokde, Rüdiger Brühl, Herta Flor, Hugh Garavan, Penny Gowland, Antoine Grigis, Zhaoyu Zuo
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Le Musée des Maisons comtoises : un voyage dans le temps avec le passeport de l'été en Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 2026
Parcourez ce site remarquable et découvrez la richesse et la diversité du patrimoine rural franc-comtois. Vivez une expérience de visite unique à travers un parcours immersif composé de 35 authentiques bâtiments comtois. Aux portes du Jura, à 15 minutes de Besançon, le musée-parc de Nancray est une invitation à découvrir la Franche-Comté à travers son histoire, son architecture, ses savoir-faire, mais aussi son agriculture et ses enjeux.
"C’est déjà une victoire" : Le retour de Xavier Thévenard au marathon du Mont Blanc après six ans de lutte conte la maladie de Lyme
Après des années marquées par la maladie de Lyme, l'ultra traileur Xavier Thévenard fait son retour sur la ligne de départ du Marathon du Mont Blanc, le 26 juin prochain à Chamonix. Le triple vainqueur de l'UTMB revient avant tout pour retrouver le plaisir de courir, plus que pour la performance. "Je suis hyper content de revenir sur une ligne de départ sur un format un peu long.
Accelerated non-invasive brain stimulation in childhood autism
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Integrating artificial intelligence and noninvasive brain stimulation: toward precision interventions for depression
Abstract The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into mental health and psychiatry is transforming the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, including major depressive disorder (MDD). While the initial and promising applications span diagnostic screening and therapeutic chatbots, these first-wave technologies do not directly address brain changes or treat MDD.
Mondays Really Are More Stressful on the Brain and Body
For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective groan that greets the start of each workweek. It’s also well documented in medical statistics. Mondays come with higher rates of anxiety, stress and even suicide compared with other days. Studies on the phenomenon across whole countries have found a 19 percent increase in the odds of sudden cardiac death from confirmed heart attacks and other cardiovascular events on Mondays, affecting men and women across age groups.
Mondays Really Are More Stressful on the Brain and Body
For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective groan that greets the start of each workweek. It’s also well documented in medical statistics. Mondays come with higher rates of anxiety, stress and even suicide compared with other days. Studies on the phenomenon across whole countries have found a 19 percent increase in the odds of sudden cardiac death from confirmed heart attacks and other cardiovascular events on Mondays, affecting men and women across age groups.
Multilevel brain functional connectivity and task-based representations explaining heterogeneity in major depressive disorder - Translational Psychiatry
Abstract Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a devastating mental disorder characterized by considerable clinical and biological heterogeneity. While comparable clinical symptoms may represent a common pathological endpoint, it is conceivable that distinct neurophysiological mechanisms underlie their manifestation.
Déjà plus de 5.000 inscrits à l'Ultra-Trail des Montagnes du Jura
Publié le lundi 5 mai 2025 à 4:45 Déjà plus de 5000 concurrents se sont inscrits pour les différents courses de l'UTMJ, l'Ultra-Trail des Montagnes du Jura. La 6e édition se déroulera le premier week-end d'octobre 2025 et la course s'attend à battre de nouveaux records de participation. Après une édition record en 2024, l'UTMJ, Ultra Trail des Montagnes du Jura, devrait à nouveau faire le plein en 2025.
The Immunomodulatory Effect of Different FLT3 Inhibitors on Dendritic Cells
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Improved Discriminability of Severe Lung Injury and Atelectasis in Thoracic Trauma at Low keV Virtual Monoenergetic Images from Photon-Counting Detector CT
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Self-supervised learning for classifying paranasal anomalies in the maxillary sinus
PURPOSE: Paranasal anomalies, frequently identified in routine radiological screenings, exhibit diverse morphological characteristics. Due to the diversity of anomalies, supervised learning methods require large labelled dataset exhibiting diverse anomaly morphology. Self-supervised learning (SSL) can be used to learn representations from unlabelled data. However, there are no SSL methods designed for the downstream task of classifying paranasal anomalies in the maxillary sinus (MS).
Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Maxillary Sinus Anomalies: Validation and Clinical Correlation
OBJECTIVE: Computer aided diagnostics (CAD) systems can automate the differentiation of maxillary sinus (MS) with and without opacification, simplifying the typically laborious process and aiding in clinical insight discovery within large cohorts. METHODS: This study uses Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS) a large, prospective, long-term, population-based cohort study of participants between 45 and 74 years of age.
A clustering approach identifies an Autism Spectrum Disorder subtype more responsive to chronic oxytocin treatment - Translational Psychiatry
Abstract Over the last decade, a number of clinical trials have reported effects of chronic treatment with intranasal oxytocin on autistic symptoms but with inconsistent findings. Autism is a heterogeneous disorder and one factor which may influence treatment outcome is whether a subtype of individuals is more sensitive to oxytocin.
Conceptual‐level disgust conditioning in contamination‐based obsessive‐compulsive disorder
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflict of interest. REFERENCES , & (2006). Psychometric properties and construct validity of the Obsessive–Compulsive Inventory—Revised: Replication and extension with a clinical sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20(8), 1016–1035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2006.03.001 , , , , , & (2014). The relevance of analogue studies for understanding obsessions and compulsions. Clinical Psychology Review, 34(3), 206–217.
Reduced olfactory bulb volume accompanies olfactory dysfunction after mild SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Oxytocin, but not vasopressin, decreases willingness to harm others by promoting moral emotions of guilt and shame - Molecular Psychiatry
Abstract Prosocial and moral behaviors have overlapping neural systems and can both be affected in a number of psychiatric disorders, although whether they involve similar neurochemical systems is unclear.
Use fines from EU social-media act to fund research on adolescent mental health
CORRESPONDENCE 09 April 2024 Despite equivocal evidence, risks such as cyberbullying and exposure to inappropriate content have sparked a global debate about possible links between social-media use and deteriorating adolescent mental health (see C. L. Odgers Nature 628, 29–30; 2024). Arguments also continue about whether social-media use is addictive, and what responsibility the industry bears for creating immersive platforms that result in prolonged time spent online (C. Montag and J. D. Elhai Curr.
Patterns of neural activity in response to threatening faces are predictive of autistic traits: modulatory effects of oxytocin receptor genotype - Translational Psychiatry
Abstract Autistic individuals generally demonstrate impaired emotion recognition but it is unclear whether effects are emotion-specific or influenced by oxytocin receptor (OXTR) genotype.
Computer‐Aided Diagnosis of Maxillary Sinus Anomalies: Validation and Clinical Correlation
INTRODUCTION Morphological changes in paranasal sinuses, often seen in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and computed tomography (CT), have been extensively studied.
Cortical gradient perturbation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder correlates with neurotransmitter‐, cell type‐specific and chromosome‐ transcriptomic signatures
Figure S1. Propensity density plot for both groups [treated units for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients and control units for typically developing (TD) individuals]. Figure S2. Comparison for frequency of both groups before and after PSM [treated units for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients and control units for typically developing (TD) individuals]. Figure S3. Scree plot for component of diffusion embedding maps. Figure S4.
Neural and behavioral evidence for oxytocin’s facilitatory effects on learning in volatile and stable environments - Communications Biology
Abstract Outcomes of past decisions profoundly shape our behavior. However, choice-outcome associations can become volatile and adaption to such changes is of importance. The present study combines pharmaco-electroencephalography with computational modeling to examine whether intranasal oxytocin can modulate reinforcement learning under a volatile vs. a stable association.
On Maximizing the Probability of Achieving Deadlines in Communication Networks
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Oxytocin, but not vasopressin, decreases willingness to harm others by promoting moral emotions of guilt and shame
Abstract Prosocial and moral behaviors have overlapping neural systems but whether they involve similar neurochemical systems is unclear.
Sniffing oxytocin: Nose to brain or nose to blood? - Molecular Psychiatry
Abstract In recent years ample studies have reported that intranasal administration of the neuropeptide oxytocin can facilitate social motivation and cognition in healthy and clinical populations. However, it is still unclear how effects are mediated since intranasally administered oxytocin can both directly enter the brain (nose to brain) and increase peripheral vascular concentrations (nose to blood).
Cortical gradient perturbation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder correlates with neurotransmitter-, cell type-specific and chromosome- transcriptomic signatures
Abstract Neurofunctional dysregulations in spatially discrete areas or isolated pathways have been suggested as neural markers for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, multiscale perspectives into the neurobiological underpins of ADHD spanning multiple biological systems remain sparse. This points to the need of multi-levels of analysis encompassing brain functional organization and its correlation with molecular and cell-specific transcriptional signatures are stressed.
Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Career Decision-making of First-Year Medical Students
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Why Neurology (or Not)? A Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Career Decision-Making of First-Year Medical Students
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Magnetic Adjustment of Afterload in Engineered Heart Tissues
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The role of oxytocin on self‐serving lying
Abstract Introduction The effects of intranasal administration of the neuropeptide oxytocin on social cognition and behavior are highly specific. Potentially situational and personal variables influence these effects. The aim of the present study was to investigate effects of oxytocin administration on self‐serving lying, including situational effects.
Modulating vs. Templating: The Fine Tuning of Hierarchally Porous PCN‐250 Using Fatty Acids for Engineering Guest Adsorption - Kirchon - - Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library
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Oxytocin amplifies sex differences in human mate choice
New Results Lei Xu, View ORCID ProfileBenjamin Becker, Ruixue Luo, Xiaoxiao Zheng, Weihua Zhao, Qiong Zhang, Keith M. Kendrick doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/416198 Abstract Infidelity is the major cause of breakups and individuals with a history of infidelity are more likely to repeat it, but may also present a greater opportunity for short-term sexual relationships.
Oral Contraceptives Impair Complex Emotion Recognition in Healthy Women
Introduction Although oral contraceptives (OCs) have been regarded as one of the best studied drugs in the history of medicine, remarkably little is known about the psychological and behavioral consequences of OC use (Montoya and Bos, 2017). Given that more than 100 million women worldwide use OCs for birth control (Christin-Maitre, 2013), studies investigating the effects of OCs on emotion, cognition, and behavior are highly warranted.
Mirroring Fear in the Absence of a Functional Amygdala
From an evolutionary perspective, facial expressions of fear convey highly recognizable emotional signals that serve adaptive functions by promoting survival and reproductive success ( 1 The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. ). Current theories of how the brain interprets facial expressions of fear implicate the mirror neuron network (MNN) in echoing the emotional states of others by internal simulation ( 2 Bastiaansen J.A. Thioux M. Keysers C. Evidence for mirror systems in emotions.
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