Publications by authors named "J Merrer"

Cardiotocography (CTG) is the main tool available to detect neonatal acidemia during delivery. Presently, obstetricians and midwives primarily rely on visual interpretation, leading to a significant intra-observer variability. In this paper, we build and evaluate a convolutional neural network to detect neonatal acidemia from the CTG signals during delivery on a multicenter database with 27662 cases in five centers, including 3457 and 464 cases of moderate and severe neonatal acidemia respectively (defined by a fetal pH at birth between 7.

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Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders whose diagnosis relies on deficient social interaction and communication together with repetitive behaviours. Multiple studies have highlighted the potential of oxytocin (OT) to ameliorate behavioural abnormalities in animal models and subjects with ASD. Clinical trials, however, yielded disappointing results.

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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are complex neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by deficient social communication and interaction together with restricted, stereotyped behaviors. Currently approved treatments relieve comorbidities rather than core symptoms. Since excitation/inhibition balance and synaptic plasticity are disrupted in ASD, molecules targeting excitatory synaptic transmission appear as highly promising candidates to treat this pathology.

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Background: While the effectiveness of cardiotocography in reducing neonatal morbidity is still debated, it remains the primary method for assessing fetal well-being during labor. Evaluating how accurately professionals interpret cardiotocography signals is essential for its effective use. The objective was to evaluate the accuracy of fetal hypoxia prediction by practitioners through the interpretation of cardiotocography signals and clinical variables during labor.

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