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·August 8, 2019·2 min read

Happy? Sad? Study Uses AI to Examine What Affects Our Emotions

Using a smartwatch and new app, participants will track their emotional changes for 45 days. The app, called Mindcurrent, uses artificial intelligence to analyze emotional states and provides recommendations on how the user can elevate their mood.

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·May 30, 2021·5 min read

Mouse Pups’ Cries Give Clues About Autism

Mouse pups with the autism-associated 16p11.2 deletion can not able to correctly perform a specific vocalization pattern to call for their mother when separated from her in the same way those without the deletion can, a new study reveals.

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·July 26, 2019·4 min read

A computer that understands how you feel

EmoNet, a new convolutional neural network, can accurately decode images into eleven distinct emotional categories. Training the AI on over 25,000 images, researchers demonstrate image content is sufficient to predict the category and valence of human emotions.

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·January 4, 2019·5 min read

Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s in Brain Scans Six Years Before Diagnosis

A new machine learning algorithm was able to predict, with 98% accuracy, which patients would develop Alzheimer's disease, six years prior to diagnosis by analyzing PET brain scans.

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·June 5, 2018·6 min read

Neurons Ripple While Brain Rests to Lock in Memories

Using a model commonly used in machine learning, researchers discover how the brain encodes spatial maps and stores information while at rest.

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·June 23, 2018·5 min read

Important Step Towards a Computer Model That Predicts the Outcome of Eye Diseases

A new model of the retina can predict the outcome of defined perturbation.

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·July 18, 2022·6 min read

Robot Dog Learns to Walk in One Hour

A new learning algorithm trains a robotic dog to walk within one hour, researchers report.

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·April 29, 2021·3 min read

New Algorithm for the Diagnostics of Dementia

Researchers have created a new algorithm based on blood and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers to help detect dementia.

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·April 12, 2023·4 min read

Decoding Insomnia: Machine Learning Model Predicts Sleep Disorders From Patient Records

Analyzing demographics, lifestyle data, physical exam results, and laboratory values, a new machine-learning algorithm can accurately predict whether a person is at risk of sleep disorders. Age, weight, and depression are three factors the AI technology identified as being significant predictors of insomnia.

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·April 15, 2023·4 min read

AI Can Spot Early Signs of Alzheimer’s in Speech Patterns

Artificial intelligence can detect signs of mild cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease, even when no symptoms are apparent, by analyzing a person's speech. The technology could be used as a simple screening method to identify early signs of cognitive impairment.