Connectomics in psychiatric research: advances and applications

Connectomics in psychiatric research: advances and applications

Psychiatric disorders disturb higher cognitive functions and severely compromise human health. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders are very complex, and understanding these mechanisms remains a great challenge. Currently, many psychiatric disorders are hypothesized to reflect "faulty wiring" or aberrant connectivity in the brains. Imaging connectomics is ...

Advances in Research and Applications of Smart Hydrogels Part I: Preparation Methods and Classification

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The advent of psychotropic medications over half of a century ago heralded a sea change in the treatment of psychiatric illness. Psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic interventions have improved outcomes for millions of patients. However, despite this armamentarium of treatments, many patients do not achieve adequate benefit from these interventions. The brain is an electrochemical organ. W...

Optogenetics: Applications in psychiatric research: Optogenetics for psychiatric research

Recently, optogenetic techniques have emerged as a method to optically manipulate molecular and cellular events in target cells both in vitro and in vivo. Optogenetics results from the fruitful combination of optics and genetic engineering, maximizing the advantages of each discipline. These advantages are optical control through the manipulation of wavelength and light intensity on the millise...

Introduction: Advances in IoT research and applications

The future of the Internet will consist of heterogeneously connected devices that will further extend the borders of the world with physical entities and virtual components. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term that has been introduced in recent years to describe objects equipped with digital functionality that are able to communicate via the Internet (Li 2013; Reaidy et al. 2015), and it is ...