Month: January 2020

A Guide To Following The Health Debate In The 2020 Elections

Health has been a top issue in the presidential campaign during the past year: Not only do the Democratic candidates disagree with President Donald Trump, but they also disagree among themselves. Voters have frequently complained that the debate has been confusing and hard to follow. Most of the attention so far has been focused on […]

Published on January 30, 2020

An Information Theoretic Approach to Reveal the Formation of Shared Representations

Modality-invariant categorical representations, i.e., shared representation, is thought to play a key role in learning to categorize multi-modal information. We have investigated how a bimodal autoencoder can form a shared representation in an unsupervised manner with multi-modal data. We explored whether altering the depth of the network and mixing the multi-modal inputs at the input […]

Published on January 30, 2020

Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Objective: To assess the association between low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) and risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).Methods: Embase, Pubmed, and Web of Science were searched until June 2019. Standard mean difference (SMD) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) was estimated using random-effects models.Results: Our meta-analysis of 26 studies revealed higher levels of LDL-c in AD than that […]

Published on January 30, 2020