BACKGROUND: Psychostimulant abuse is a major societal burden. Stimulants such as amphetamine (AMPH) act on the monoaminergic systems, including the serotonin transporter (SERT). Serotonin (5- hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) has ...

An action recognition system has many applications, ranging from security to sign language interpretation. If a subject's body pose can be tracked in streams of video, a wealth of information about possible actions can ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating disorder that affects approximately 8% of the population. It can be caused by experiencing a traumatic event and is characterized by symptoms like insomnia, hypervigilance ...

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Brain oscillations are known to re ect uctuations of low and high excitability states in neuronal populations. These oscillations can adjust to the surrounding environment such that high excitability states co-occur ...

Humans often stabilize objects by co-contraction, also known as the activation of opposing muscles. With more muscle activation there is also more limb stiffness. More muscle activation requires more energy. Several ...

Today, more and more cities are adopting the ‘smart city’ trend by deploying new smart devices, trackers and sensors in public spaces. They gather data about the city life dynamics in order to make city planning and ...

Psychometric models have been used to parametrize a relevant model capturing the behavioral response of the user in a yes/no or 2AFC task. The obtained model would be analyzed in order to evaluate the performance of the ...

Diabetes type 2 (DM2) is a common lifestyle disease caused by an insufficient amount of physical activity, bad eating habits and possibly some genetic factors. Coaching people on their eating habits and physical activity ...

In the rod-and-frame task human subjects are asked to judge the orientation of a rod in a frame (clock or counter clockwise) relative to the subjects perceived gravity. The orientations of both the frame and the rod are ...