Month: August 2021

FDA Feeling Heat to Fully Approve COVID Vaccines

The Food and Drug Administration is being pressured to fully approve the COVID-19 vaccines, a move that proponents say could help address hesitancy among the unvaccinated, The Hill reported Wednesday. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where […]

Published on August 11, 2021

Fitting Splines to Axonal Arbors Quantifies Relationship Between Branch Order and Geometry

Neuromorphology is crucial to identifying neuronal subtypes and understanding learning. It is also implicated in neurological disease. However, standard morphological analysis focuses on macroscopic features such as branching frequency and connectivity between regions, and often neglects the internal geometry of neurons. In this work, we treat neuron trace points as a sampling of differentiable curves […]

Published on August 11, 2021

Serum Proteomics of Older Patients Undergoing Major Cardiac Surgery: Identification of Biomarkers Associated With Postoperative Delirium

BackgroundPostoperative delirium (POD) is an acute altered mental state commonly encountered after cardiac surgery. The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying POD remain unclear. We aimed to identify circulating proteins significantly altered after major cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We also aimed to enable inferences on associations with POD.MethodsSerum and whole blood samples were collected before CPB […]

Published on August 11, 2021