OA Biomarkers: how will we recognize the real mccoy?

How Do We Recognize a Face?

How individual faces are encoded by neurons in high-level visual areas has been a subject of active debate. An influential model is that neurons encode specific faces. However, Chang and Tsao conclusively show that, instead, these neurons encode features along specific axes, which explains why they were previously found to respond to apparently different faces.

How can we recognize continuous quality improvement?

OBJECTIVE Continuous quality improvement (CQI) methods are foundational approaches to improving healthcare delivery. Publications using the term CQI, however, are methodologically heterogeneous, and labels other than CQI are used to signify relevant approaches. Standards for identifying the use of CQI based on its key methodological features could enable more effective learning across quality i...

Perception and Emotion How We Recognize Facial Expressions

Perception and emotion interact, as is borne out by studies of how people recognize emotion from facial expressions. Psychological and neurological research has elucidated the processes, and the brain structures, that participate in facial emotion recognition. Studies have shown that emotional reactions to viewing faces can be very rapid and that these reactions may, in turn, be used to judge t...

Biomarkers in psychiatry: how close are we?

Until recently, there has been an ongoing worldwide quest in search for disease-specific molecular biomarkers in medicine. These biological molecules can allow for: a reliable and accurate disease diagnosis and prognosis, better understanding of pathogenesis and pathophysiological mechanisms, and for predicting disease progression and monitoring therapy. Furthermore, biomarkers can provide majo...

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