brain damage
Scientists revive a pig's brain nearly an HOUR after it died - and they say the same technique could be used in humans
It might sound like something straight out of Frankenstein's lab. But Chinese researchers have now managed to revive a pig's brain, one hour after it was removed from the body. Scientists from the Guangdong Provincial International Cooperation Base of Science and Technology were able to restore brainwaves'considered to represent conscious activity' in the brain of a dead pig using an unusual new method. The technique works by incorporating a healthy liver into the artificial life support system keeping the brain alive. It is believed that the liver produces back-up energy molecules called'ketone bodies' which protect the brain from injury.
Comparison of Epilepsy Induced by Ischemic Hypoxic Brain Injury and Hypoglycemic Brain Injury using Multilevel Fusion of Data Features
Kadem, Sameer, Sami, Noor, Elaraby, Ahmed, Alyousif, Shahad, Jalil, Mohammed, Altaee, M., Almusawi, Muntather, Ismaeel, A. Ghany, Kareem, Ali Kamil, Kamalrudin, Massila, ftaiet, Adnan Allwi
The study aims to investigate the similarities and differences in the brain damage caused by Hypoxia-Ischemia (HI), Hypoglycemia, and Epilepsy. Hypoglycemia poses a significant challenge in improving glycemic regulation for insulin-treated patients, while HI brain disease in neonates is associated with low oxygen levels. The study examines the possibility of using a combination of medical data and Electroencephalography (EEG) measurements to predict outcomes over a two-year period. The study employs a multilevel fusion of data features to enhance the accuracy of the predictions. Therefore this paper suggests a hybridized classification model for Hypoxia-Ischemia and Hypoglycemia, Epilepsy brain injury (HCM-BI). A Support Vector Machine is applied with clinical details to define the Hypoxia-Ischemia outcomes of each infant. The newborn babies are assessed every two years again to know the neural development results. A selection of four attributes is derived from the Electroencephalography records, and SVM does not get conclusions regarding the classification of diseases. The final feature extraction of the EEG signal is optimized by the Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) to get the clear health condition of Hypoglycemia and Epilepsy patients. Through monitoring and assessing physical effects resulting from Electroencephalography, The Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) is used to extract the test samples with the most log data and to report hypoglycemia and epilepsy Keywords- Hypoxia-Ischemia , Hypoglycemia , Epilepsy , Multilevel Fusion of Data Features , Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) , Support Vector Machine (SVM)
GPT-4 Understands Discourse at Least as Well as Humans Do
Shultz, Thomas, Wise, Jamie, Nobandegani, Ardavan Salehi
MILA, Quebec AI Institute Abstract We test whether a leading AI system GPT-4 understands discourse as well as humans do, using a standardized test of discourse comprehension. Participants are presented with brief stories and then answer eight yes/no questions probing their comprehension of the story. The questions are formatted to assess the separate impacts of directness (stated vs. implied) and salience (main idea vs. details). GPT-4 performs slightly, but not statistically significantly, better than humans given the very high level of human performance. Both GPT-4 and humans exhibit a strong ability to make inferences about information that is not explicitly stated in a story, a critical test of understanding.
Brain Damage On Artificial Intelligence
The vanishing gradient is one of the biggest challenges when training a deep neural network. It is a situation where a deep neural network is unable to backpropagate gradient from the output layer back to the first hidden layer. It often happens when we try to build a deep neural network with a sigmoid activation function on its hidden layers. The problem is that the sigmoid derivative is always less than 0. Given the formula above we can say that the biggest derivative is obtained when f(x) 0.5 so that f'(x) 0.5 * (1–0.5) which is 0.25. Now imagine when we try to build 7 layers neural network with a sigmoid activation function in each layer.
The Woman Who Got Lost at Home - Issue 52: The Hive
WAI," short for "Where Am I." A well-educated 29-year-old man without any history of disease or trauma, it took him four tries to produce a semi-accurate map of the house he had lived in for 15 years.1 Another patient, Jennifer, from San Francisco, always feels like she is facing north, regardless of which direction she is actually facing. Judy Bentley had her memory of her physical surroundings suddenly vanish one day in high school. She suddenly had no idea what was beyond the classroom door. These are just some of the subjects that have been identified by a field that was kicked off with what might be called patient one, whom we'll call Alice.2 In 2007, Alice approached the neuroscientist Giuseppe Iaria with a peculiar and vexing problem: She had extraordinary difficulty finding her way around. Sometimes she would even get lost in her own house. She had to rely on standardized routes, going from door to door along a carefully memorized path. To get to work she knew when to get off ...
AI can detect athlete's concussions years later - Futurity
You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. A new method uses artificial intelligence to accurately detect brain damage caused by concussions years after the trauma happened. "With 1.6 to 3.8 million concussions per year in the US alone, the prevalence of this injury is alarming…" While the short-term effects of head trauma can be devastating, the long-term effects can be equally hard for patients. The symptoms may linger years after the concussion happened. The problem is it is often hard to say whether their symptoms are being caused by a concussion or other factors like another neurological condition or the normal aging process.
Being in a position of power can cause brain damage
The saying goes that'power corrupts', and a new study suggests there may be some truth behind this - especially when it comes to brain function. Researchers have found that CEOs and other leaders may suffer damage to their brain as a result of their rise to power. The damage results in the loss of the ability to read other people's emotions, which could explain why people who achieve great power lose their ability to feel empathy for the less powerful. Neuroscientists at McMaster University in Ontario used transcranial magnetic stimulation to discover the lack of empathy in people who feel powerful. Forty-five volunteers took part in the study.
Why are lawyers using brain damage as a criminal defense? The science doesn't support it
When his criminal trial begins next week, attorneys for Andres "Andy" Avalos, a Florida man charged with murdering his wife, a neighbor and a local pastor, will mount an insanity defense on behalf of their client because, as they announced last summer, a PET scan revealed that Avalos has a severely abnormal brain. In March, shortly after an Israeli American teenager was arrested on suspicion that he made bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the U.S. and abroad, his lawyer declared that the teenager had a brain tumor that might have affected his behavior. Both cases are part of a growing movement in which attorneys use brain damage in service of a legal defense. To support such claims in court, lawyers are turning to neuroscience. The defense brings in hired guns to testify that brain scans can identify areas of dysfunction linked to antisocial behavior, poor decision-making and lack of impulse control.
Machines combating disease - IoTUK
Alejandro (Sasha) Vicente Grabovetsky, Co-founder of Avalon AI, discusses the ways in which machine learning is improving the rates of failed dementia clinical trials and improving the lives of those living with the disease. The idea for Avalon AI came together when my Co-founder Olivier van den Biggelaar and I realised that we shared the same aim, which was to help defeat ageing. Following that, what immediately came to mind was dementia because it's a disease that has not been successfully tackled yet. Lots of age related diseases like diabetes and cancer receive a lot of funding and are being heavily addressed, while dementia is under-funded partly due to failed clinical trials. Very few dementia clinical trials have succeeded and we noticed that a lot of the past trials were targeting late-stage dementia, where a lot of brain damage had already occurred.