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Neural Responses to Affective Sentences Reveal Signatures of Depression
Aditya Kommineni, Woojae Jeong, Kleanthis Avramidis, Colin McDaniel, Myzelle Hughes, Thomas McGee, Elsi Kaiser, Kristina Lerman, Idan A. Blank, Dani Byrd, Assal Habibi, B. Rael Cahn, Sudarsana Kadiri, Takfarinas Medani, Richard M. Leahy, Shrikanth Narayanan
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Neural Responses to Affective Sentences Reveal Signatures of Depression
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a highly prevalent mental health condition, and a deeper understanding of its neurocognitive foundations is essential for identifying how core functions such as emotional and self-referential processing are affected. We investigate how depression alters the temporal dynamics of emotional processing by measuring neural responses to self-referential affective sentences using surface electroencephalography (EEG) in healthy and depressed individuals. Our results r…

« Une expérience traumatisante » : un Britannique détenu Š Dubaï après une relation sexuelle avec une mineure - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/une

« Une expérience traumatisante » : un Britannique détenu à Dubaï après une relation sexuelle avec une mineure
Un Britannique de 19 ans purge une peine d’un an dans les Émirats arabes unis, reconnu coupable d’une relation sexuelle, pourtant consentie, avec une adolescente de quelques mois sa cadette. Il demande ce lundi une grâce au Premier ministre.

"Bertrand Meyer is, hands down, the best writer in the computer field, because of a simple reason: his books have both great content and great prose. Not all authors of computer books (and certainly not the one you are reading now) can make the same claim."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/bertrand-meyer/

“Of course, we’ll not sign it, we won’t return it, we’ll do nothing about it,”
Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives - The Guardian https://apple.news/AY-ia_hgUQIiUQ3Dh286CPg

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/06/04/JNEUROSCI.1479-24.2025 Now let's "mistake" meaningful noise as meaningful images through enhanced reliance…

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception
We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and veridical perception. Yet, false percepts must arise at least in part from internally generated signals. Here, we apply multivariate analyses to human MEG data to study the overlap between veridical and false perception across two aspects of perceptual inference: discrimination of content (what did I se…

Regenerating Daily Routines for Young Adults with Depression through User-Led Indoor Environment Modifications Using Local Natural Materials
Ziqun Hua, Ao Jiang, Haoling Yang, Hao Fan, Huizhong Hu, Bernard Foing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05729

Regenerating Daily Routines for Young Adults with Depression through User-Led Indoor Environment Modifications Using Local Natural Materials
Young adults with depression often experience prolonged indoor stays, limiting their access to natural environments and exacerbating mental health challenges. While nature therapy is recognized for its psychological benefits, existing interventions frequently require outdoor engagement, which may not be accessible for all individuals. This study explores the potential of user-led indoor modifications using local natural materials as a mental health intervention. A qualitative approach wasemploy…

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Geonwoo Cho, Jaemoon Lee, Jaegyun Im, Subi Lee, Jihwan Lee, Sundong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05980

AMPED: Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification
Skill-based reinforcement learning (SBRL) enables rapid adaptation in environments with sparse rewards by pretraining a skill-conditioned policy. Effective skill learning requires jointly maximizing both exploration and skill diversity. However, existing methods often face challenges in simultaneously optimizing for these two conflicting objectives. In this work, we propose a new method, Adaptive Multi-objective Projection for balancing Exploration and skill Diversification (AMPED), which expli…

"Of course, not everything made with Python was successful. Suffice to mention the GadflyB5 SQL relational database, or Mercurial; excellent tools in their own right, but shadowed by much more popular options. reStructuredText also is generally dismissed, developers usually prefering Markdown or Asciidoc."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-state-of-python-in-2021/

"It is an interesting phrase, “the business”, especially when used by engineers to label the group of non-engineers in the organisation. It implies that everybody else is engaged in getting customers and making money, while engineering is a cost centre funded presumably through altruistic motives."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/enough-agile/

"And what has it got us? You can now order any product made by stroking a pocket glass and have it next day or even quicker. What are you doing with all that time that is freed up?
Certainly not leisure. The average hours worked per week in developed countries has certainly dropped since the industrial revolution but remained roughly constant since 1980. Tracking all that work in Jira has not led to doing less of it."