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Reply to comment by noopenusernames in Researchers develop highly accurate machine learning model for early detection of mild cognitive impairment in older drivers. The model has achieved an accuracy of 96 percent in predicting mild cognitive impairment and dementia, outperforming traditional machine learning models by Wagamaga
Few if any humans have had their "cognitive impairment" continuously documented over 60 or 75 years. What orifice did the "researchers" pull this metric from? Smells like and agenda to me. 96% accuracy? What's the standard measure, is it reproduceable, peer-reviewed? False positive rate? False negatives? Are these "researchers" professional driving evaluators? psychologists, statisticians, code monkeys?
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Reply to Researchers develop highly accurate machine learning model for early detection of mild cognitive impairment in older drivers. The model has achieved an accuracy of 96 percent in predicting mild cognitive impairment and dementia, outperforming traditional machine learning models by Wagamaga
What's the false positive/negative rate. How's it work on 30-year olds? Mostly I see asshole drivers a lot younger than I am.
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Reply to Research suggests that school-based physical activity intervention, by way of increasing physical exercise classes to daily during school, is successful in reducing childhood obesity. Scientists found that obesity was reversed after 3 years. by Wagamaga
Reduces obesity, lessens symptoms of ADHD, reduces depression, reduces anxiety, increases coordination, increases attention, blah, blah, blah. --sigh
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Reply to comment by km89 in Psychedelics activate the same receptors as serotonin, so why aren't we always tripping? Psychedelics may cause neuronal plasticity and relieve depression by activating intracellular serotonin receptors that serotonin itself cannot, suggests a new study. by rjmsci
There's no explanation - aside from wishful thinking - SSRIs do not work any better than placebo. In fact, the most reliable predictor of efficacy is believing they will work. If your doc can sell it, it might work. Sounds like religion to me. If, and I say if, SSRIs worked as advertises they would work in a few days not months / years. No other class of drugs enjoys more apologists than SSRIs.
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Reply to comment by rjmsci in Psychedelics activate the same receptors as serotonin, so why aren't we always tripping? Psychedelics may cause neuronal plasticity and relieve depression by activating intracellular serotonin receptors that serotonin itself cannot, suggests a new study. by rjmsci
Sigh . . . Science is funded by agendas.
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Reply to comment by OfLittleToNoValue in Study finds link between ‘free sugar’ intake and cardiovascular disease by YoanB
Sugars (looking at you fructose) results in the production of damaged VLDLs which elicit an inflammatory response on blood vessel walls, causing them to leak. Cholesterol's job is to plug leaks.
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Reply to Psychedelics activate the same receptors as serotonin, so why aren't we always tripping? Psychedelics may cause neuronal plasticity and relieve depression by activating intracellular serotonin receptors that serotonin itself cannot, suggests a new study. by rjmsci
Receptor binding and conformational dynamics is highly complex. Just because two chemicals bind at the same site, doesn't mean they elicit similar outcomes. Rarely do chemicals bind to only one site either.
The serotonin hypothesis of depression will just not die. 2022 - "The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations."
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Reply to comment by skibbi9 in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga
So the take-home point with vitamins is that they don't have any effect on mortality. Cool.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in Political views can be predicted by differences in brain activity. Study says political differences don’t just emerge when it comes to how we interpret reality around us; our brains actually ‘see’ different things depending on our politics. by mossadnik
No child is born a republican, democrat, fascist, capitalist, religious, racist, misogynist, asshole, etc., these are all learned behaviors, i.e. indoctrination.
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Reply to Wet-food diet promotes the recovery from surgery of castration in adult young cats by napovarj
Any wet cat food is better than dry food - told to me by several vets. Next there is no such thing as a prescription diet -it's all hype. Sorry Hills. Dry foods : Think ultra-processing and its relation to poor outcomes in humans. Most house cats get very little exercise compare to free-range cats. If I take my cats out for a half hour - on leads - they sleep like logs for the rest of the day, they also tend not to fight nearly as much. Apparently just being out side, watching birds and stuff, really fires up their brains. Also, as noted by many others, water intake among house cats is relatively low compared to a wild diet. I keep four water bowls - all with wide mouths for my two cats. Each is changed daily. Cats generally do not like to drink out of clear bowls - well, mine don't. I use big cottage cheese containers and a large ceramic dog bowl for water. Five to six inch diameter seems to be the minimum tolerated. They also drink out of water buckets, aquaria *this is apparently the BEST, puddles, my water glass (which breaks the wide container rule), etc. The tricks with cat diets are getting them to eat, satisfying essential amino-acid requirements especially taurine, adequate water intake (clumping litter helps you visualize water intake) limiting carbohydrates (the main constituent of dry foods), high-quality animal fat (rancidity is a real problem), and controlling phophorus / phytates. My critters generally like Fromm wet / dry foods, and nearly any grocery store wet foods (Beyond is the current favorite) - although it makes me cringe to buy the junk. They all stink. The boutique brands at Petsmart and Petco - not so much. Keep an eye out for recalls too. While wet food might be higher in protein than kibble, the quality of the proteins is almost always better, and with bird and seafood fish diets it's more available. I stay away from farm terrestrial food sources on cats unless you can find a mouse diet. Cow, pig, lamb, not well balanced for cats. Freshwater fish, also not good food sources for cats. Soy is a kat-killer.
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Reply to Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal by ILikeNeurons
And farm subsidies, hell tax credits in general, and the interest deduction, and at least half the military industrial complex (just corporate welfare anyway), NASA - welfare for eggheads. Sorry folks there is never going to be interstellar travel. Perhaps then we could have universal healthcare, fully funded public schools / universities, public transportation, clean water, decent housing, blah, blah, blah. nah.