Elsevier,
New Aspects of Meat Quality (Second Edition): From Genes to Ethics, Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition, 2022, Pages 533-557
Insects are becoming an increasingly attractive option as a sustainable food source, both for humans and animals. This chapter covers this growing area of interest in the research community as well as the challenges of farming and harvesting insects for food.
In this study, ornamental tobacco floral nectar was found to be the source of numerous peptides, some showing antifungal or antibacterial activities. The characterization of these peptides could open new roads of research with potential applications in crop protection and pollination, public health and, more generally, biotechnologies.
How creatives were able to adapt their skills to maintain good mental health during the COVID pandemic.
Journal of Creativity, Volume 31, December 2021, article 100008
The importance of developing play skills for good mental health in children
Authors discuss the ExTRAPPOLATE project, which applied the principles of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in the development of an automated feedback system for psychological therapists, ‘AutoCICS’. Suggest that RRI has the potential to address earlier problems of machine learning applications when applied to healthcare.
Authors introduce a form of analysis that not only has a high accuracy in speech emotion recognition but is also accurate for depression recognition.
Understanding which cognitive domains have the potential to change with management of depression and anxiety symptoms (or vice versa) provides important clinical information for patients with systematic lupus and their doctors.
Sex-specific immune, endocrine, vascular and transcriptional-mediated changes can affect neurovascular integrity and possibly contribute to the pathogenesis of mental disorders. Better understanding of how these adaptations can contribute to mental health status is essential.
The research demonstrates clear links between stress at distinct phases of the lifespan, changes in measures of brain microstructure, impairments in cognitive abilities and negative mental health outcomes.
The review provides an overview of the findings of genome-wide association studies for PTSD, depression and ANX - a clear genetic overlap is observed between these three diagnostic categories.
