Month: January 2024

Researchers discover potential microbiome links to skin aging

Recent findings have identified a potential new link to signs of skin aging — the skin microbiome, the collection of microorganisms that inhabits our skin. 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 he leads the charge in […]

Published on January 11, 2024

Transdiagnostic clustering of self-schema from self-referential judgements identifies subtypes of healthy personality and depression

IntroductionThe heterogeneity of depressive and anxiety disorders complicates clinical management as it may account for differences in trajectory and treatment response. Self-schemas, which can be determined by Self-Referential Judgements (SRJs), are heterogeneous yet stable. SRJs have been used to characterize personality in the general population and shown to be prognostic in depressive and anxiety disorders.MethodsIn […]

Published on January 11, 2024

A lightweight mixup-based short texts clustering for contrastive learning

Traditional text clustering based on distance struggles to distinguish between overlapping representations in medical data. By incorporating contrastive learning, the feature space can be optimized and applies mixup implicitly during the data augmentation phase to reduce computational burden. Medical case text is prevalent in everyday life, and clustering is a fundamental method of identifying major […]

Published on January 11, 2024