Dynamic Functional Connectivity in Adolescence-Onset Major Depression: Relationships With Severity and Symptom Dimensions.

Background: The spatial functional chronnectome is an innovative mathematical model designed to capture dynamic features in the organization of brain function derived from resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Measurements of dynamic functional connectivity have been developed from this model to quantify the brain dynamical self-reconfigurations at different spatial and temporal scales. This study examined whether two spatiotemporal dynamic functional connectivity quantifications were linked to late adolescence-onset major depressive disorder (AO-MDD), and scaled with depression and symptom severity measured with the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale.

[Malignant catatonia in dementia with Lewy Body successfully treated with sismotherapy: A case report].

Malignant catatonia is a life-threatening syndrome, associated mostly with psychiatric diseases but also with neurological and neurodegenerative syndromes. We report the case of a 72-year-old patient, hospitalized for a major depressive episode with delusional symptoms, who presented a malignant catatonia. The patient had been transferred to an intensive care unit and treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) leading to a rapid disappearance of the catatonic syndrome associated with a remission of the depressive symptoms.

Efficient human pose estimation from single depth images.

We describe two new approaches to human pose estimation. Both can quickly and accurately predict the 3D positions of body joints from a single depth image without using any temporal information. The key to both approaches is the use of a large, realistic, and highly varied synthetic set of training images.

A month at the Hôtel-Dieu: a reversal of perspectives.

International medical graduates (IMGs) account for more than 30% of the first-year positions filled in US psychiatric residencies (Nation Residency Match Program, 2007). At the time of writing, the first author was 4 months away from finishing his residency at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) when the opportunity arose to turn the tables and use his fluency in French to complete a month-long elective in France. During this period, he spent time as an observer in the psychiatric service of a Parisian hospital, l'Hôtel-Dieu.