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🚬 Manipulating the body's endocannabinoid receptor may result in neuropsychiatric issues
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-body-endocannabinoid-receptor-result-neuropsychiatric.html

Manipulating the body's endocannabinoid receptor may result in neuropsychiatric issues
Endocannabinoids are similar to the cannabinoids present in cannabis, but they are found naturally in the body. Endocannabinoids—and cannabinoids—work through a signaling system that supports neurodevelopment, but whether manipulating this system prenatally has long-lasting effects remains unclear.

NERVIS: An Interactive System for Graph-Based Exploration and Editing of Named Entities
Uro\v{s} \v{S}majdek, Ciril Bohak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04971 https://

NERVIS: An Interactive System for Graph-Based Exploration and Editing of Named Entities
We present an interactive visualization system for exploring named entities and their relationships across document collections. The system is designed around a graph-based representation that integrates three types of nodes: documents, entity mentions, and entities. Connections capture two key relationship types: (i) identical entities across contexts, and (ii) co-locations of mentions within documents. Multiple coordinated views enable users to examine entity occurrences, discover clusters of…

So we're doing an updated neuropsych for our younger kid in the spring, but we asked her therapist for a personal guess/opinion and she said [paraphrasing] "probably AuDHD." That would make us 2 for 2 - woo!
Probably all that Tylenol that my wife didn't take while pregnant, right Bobby Brainworms?

What your brain activity says about you: A review of neuropsychiatric disorders identified in resting-state and sleep EEG data
J. E. M. Scanlon, A. Pelzer, M. Gharleghi, K. C. Fuhrmeister, T. K\"ollmer, P. Aichroth, R. G\"oder, C. Hansen, K. I. Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04984

What your brain activity says about you: A review of neuropsychiatric disorders identified in resting-state and sleep EEG data
Electroencephalogram monitoring devices and online data repositories hold large amounts of data from individuals participating in research and medical studies without direct reference to personal identifiers. This paper explores what types of personal and health information have been detected and classified within task-free EEG data. Additionally, we investigate key characteristics of the collected resting-state and sleep data, in order to determine the privacy risks involved with openly availa…

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In the sixteenth century, lunacy was a constant theme that was never questioned. It was still frequent in the seventeenth century, but started to disappear, and by 1707, the year in which Le François asked the question ‘Estne aliquod lunae in corpora humana imperium?’ (Does the moon have any influence over the human body?), after lengthy discussions, the university decided that their reply was in the negative. In the course of the eighteenth century the moon was rarely cited among the causes of madness, even as a possible factor or an aggravation. But right at the end of the century the idea reappears, perhaps under the influence of English medicine, which had never entirely forgotten the moon, and Daquin, followed by Leuret and Guislain, all admitted the influence of the moon on the phases of maniacal excitement, or at the least on the agitation of their patients. But what is important here is not so much the return of the theme as the possibility and conditions necessary for its reappearance. It reappears entirely transformed, filled with a new significance that it did not formerly possess. In its traditional form, it designated an immediate influence, a direct coincidence in time and intersection in space, whose mode of action was entirely situated in the power of the stars. But in Daquin by contrast, the influence of the moon acts through a whole series of mediations, in a kind of hierarchy, surrounding man. The moon acts on the atmosphere with such intensity that it can set in motion a mass as heavy as the ocean. The nervous system, of all the parts that make up the human organism, is the part most sensitive to atmospheric variations, as the slightest variation in temperature, humidity or dryness can have serious effects upon it. The moon therefore, given the important power that its trajectory exerts on the atmosphere, is likely to act most on people whose nervous fibres are particularly delicate:
“Madness is an exclusively nervous condition, and the brain of a madman must therefore be infinitely more susceptible to the influence of the atmosphere, which itself undergoes considerable changes of intensity as a result of the different positions of the moon relative to the earth.” [Daquin, Philosophie de la folie, Paris, 1792]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

On the Normalization of Confusion Matrices: Methods and Geometric Interpretations
Johan Erbani, Pierre-Edouard Portier, Elod Egyed-Zsigmond, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Diana Nurbakova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04959

On the Normalization of Confusion Matrices: Methods and Geometric Interpretations
The confusion matrix is a standard tool for evaluating classifiers by providing insights into class-level errors. In heterogeneous settings, its values are shaped by two main factors: class similarity -- how easily the model confuses two classes -- and distribution bias, arising from skewed distributions in the training and test sets. However, confusion matrix values reflect a mix of both factors, making it difficult to disentangle their individual contributions. To address this, we introduce b…

Towards Electrophysiological and Histological Mapping of Upper Limb Nerves in Pigs Using Epineural Stimulation
Jonathan Baum (CAMIN), Chamot-Nonin Manon (CAMIN), Oppelt Vera (CAMIN), David Guiraud (CAMIN), Christine Azevedo Coste (CAMIN), Thomas Guiho (CAMIN)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02979

Towards Electrophysiological and Histological Mapping of Upper Limb Nerves in Pigs Using Epineural Stimulation
Understanding the relationship between nerve anatomy and the functional outcomes of electrical stimulation is critical for optimizing neural interface design. In this study, we conducted acute experiments on four pigs in which epineural cuff electrodes with multiple contacts were placed around upper limb nerves. A subset of electrical stimulation configurations -- previously identified via computational study -- was applied, and the resulting evoked electromyographic (EMG) responses were record…

Surformer v2: A Multimodal Classifier for Surface Understanding from Touch and Vision
Manish Kansana, Sindhuja Penchala, Shahram Rahimi, Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04658

Surformer v2: A Multimodal Classifier for Surface Understanding from Touch and Vision
Multimodal surface material classification plays a critical role in advancing tactile perception for robotic manipulation and interaction. In this paper, we present Surformer v2, an enhanced multi-modal classification architecture designed to integrate visual and tactile sensory streams through a late(decision level) fusion mechanism. Building on our earlier Surformer v1 framework [1], which employed handcrafted feature extraction followed by mid-level fusion architecture with multi-head cross-…

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Customarily, the honour of having liberated hysteria from the ancient myths about a displacement of the uterus goes to Le Pois and Willis. Jean Liebaud, translating or rather adapting Marinello’s work for the seventeenth century, still accepted (with a small number of caveats) the idea of a spontaneous movement of the womb. If it moved, it was “to be more at ease; not that this came about through prudence, nor was it a conscious decision or an animal stimulus, but by a natural instinct, to safeguard health and to have the pleasure of something delectable.” The idea that it could change its place and move around the body, bringing convulsions and spasms everywhere it travelled, had been abandoned, for it was now taken to be ‘tightly held in place’ by the cervix, ligaments, vessels and the sheath of the peritoneum; yet in some senses it could change its location. “The womb therefore, even though it is tightly fixed to the parts that we have described and cannot easily change its place, still manages to roam, making strange, petulant movements around the woman’s body. These diverse movements include ascensions and descents, convulsions, wanderings and prolapses. It can wander up to the liver, spleen, diaphragm, stomach, chest, heart, lung, throat and head.” Physicians of the classical age are more or less unanimous in refusing this explanation.
[…] Yet these analyses were not sufficient to break the theme of an essential link between hysteria and the womb. But the link is now conceived in different terms. It is no longer considered to be the trajectory of a real displacement through the body, but rather a sort of mute propagation through the paths of the organism and its functional proximities. It cannot be said that the seat of the malady has become the brain, nor that thanks to Willis a psychological explanation of hysteria was now possible. But the brain does take on the role of a relay that distributes a malady whose origins are visceral, and the womb brings it on just as the other viscera do. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, and Pinel, the uterus and the womb are still present in the pathology of hysteria, but thanks to a privileged diffusion by the humours and nerves, not because of any particular prestige of their nature.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)