Publications by authors named "M H B Kiss"

Background/objectives: Nowadays, body weight management has gained significant consumer attention due to the health megatrend. It plays a key role in preventing diseases, maintaining health, and creating a balanced diet, as well as in mental and physical health. Overweight and obesity are serious problems that can result in various non-communicable diseases; thus, managing the body weight of those who are overweight or obese without pathological changes would help reduce the prevalence of these diseases.

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  • * Research from animal studies to large human populations reveals that insufficient or inconsistent sleep harms cardiovascular wellness by disturbing vital body systems.
  • * Ongoing studies are uncovering the connections between sleep and factors like the autonomic nervous, metabolic, and immune systems that contribute to cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis.
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  • Sleep plays a crucial role in heart health, especially after a heart attack (myocardial infarction), by influencing inflammatory responses and healing processes.
  • After a heart attack, certain immune cells (monocytes) are recruited to the brain to promote sleep, which helps reduce harmful stress on the heart and supports recovery.
  • Disruption of sleep can worsen heart function and increase the risk of further cardiovascular issues, as poor sleep can reprogram immune cells in a way that enhances inflammation and hinders the healing process.
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Transfer learning, the reuse of newly acquired knowledge under novel circumstances, is a critical hallmark of human intelligence that has frequently been pitted against the capacities of artificial learning agents. Yet, the computations relevant to transfer learning have been little investigated in humans. The benefit of efficient inductive biases (meta-level constraints that shape learning, often referred as priors in the Bayesian learning approach), has been both theoretically and experimentally established.

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Atherosclerosis is a chronic disease of the vascular wall driven by lipid accumulation and inflammation in the intimal layer of arteries, and its main complications, myocardial infarction and stroke, are the leading cause of mortality worldwide [1], [2]. Recent studies have identified Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM2), a lipid-sensing receptor regulating myeloid cell functions [3], to be highly expressed in macrophage foam cells in experimental and human atherosclerosis [4]. However, the role of TREM2 in atherosclerosis is not fully known.

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