Personalized psychiatry: many questions, fewer answers

Personalized psychiatry: many questions, fewer answers.

Clinical practice in many areas of medicine is shifting toward personalized treatment. In other words, clinicians aim to treat patients based on their individual characteristics, including clinical presentation and/or biological markers. Biomarkers can help clinicians select the most effective treatments or reduce the risk of side effects by avoiding certain treatments in susceptible patients. ...

Anemia and cerebral outcomes: many questions, fewer answers.

A number of clinical studies have associated acute anemia with cerebral injury in perioperative patients. Evidence of such injury has been observed near the currently accepted transfusion threshold (hemoglobin [Hb] concentration, 7-8 g/dL), and well above the threshold for cerebral tissue hypoxia (Hb 3-4 g/dL). However, hypoxic and nonhypoxic mechanisms of anemia-induced cerebral injury have no...

Elective orthopedic surgery and perioperative DMARD management: many questions, fewer answers, and some opinions...

Natural Language Processing: many questions, no answers

Computational Linguistics, as a subfield of Linguistics, or Natural Language Processing (NLP), as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (two research areas that nowadays can be safely considered as merged) concentrate on the “study of computer systems for understanding and generating natural language” [10], in order to develop “a computational theory of language, using the notions of algorithms...

Language and hybrids: too many answers for too few questions.