Publications by authors named "Vishnu Pradeep"
Seeking the Psilocybiome: Psychedelics meet the microbiota-gut-brain axis.
Int J Clin Health Psychol
December 2022
Moving towards a systems psychiatry paradigm embraces the inherent complex interactions across all levels from micro to macro and necessitates an integrated approach to treatment. Cortical 5-HT receptors are key primary targets for the effects of serotonergic psychedelics. However, the therapeutic mechanisms underlying psychedelic therapy are complex and traverse molecular, cellular, and network levels, under the influence of biofeedback signals from the periphery and the environment.
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- The article discusses the importance of semantic segmentation in understanding environments for smart mobility, particularly for autonomous vehicles on roads.
- The authors introduce a new dataset specifically designed for autonomous mobile systems like Electric Wheelchairs, containing exterior images of sidewalk scenes from a 3D virtual environment called CARLA.
- They also present an adapted convolutional neural network (CNN) that improves accuracy by processing image sequences and emphasizes the significance of viewpoint in semantic segmentation with a subset of paired images taken from different locations.
The real-time segmentation of sidewalk environments is critical to achieving autonomous navigation for robotic wheelchairs in urban territories. A robust and real-time video semantic segmentation offers an apt solution for advanced visual perception in such complex domains. The key to this proposition is to have a method with lightweight flow estimations and reliable feature extractions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 13-year-old girl with moderate intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was admitted to the paediatric high-dependency unit following an 8-week history of altered mental status and motor behaviour. Her symptoms emerged followed shortly after discontinuation of risperidone, an atypical antipsychotic previously commenced to manage disruptive behaviour associated with ASD. On physical examination, the patient presented with negativism, grimacing, automatic obedience, waxy flexibility and ambitendency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the demographic, clinical characteristics and outcomes for those prisoners referred to secondary mental healthcare in a regional Irish prison and the proportion of individuals diverted subsequently from prison to psychiatric settings.
Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a retrospective review of 130 successive psychiatric assessment case records at a regional mixed gender prison serving six southern Irish counties. The authors analysed demographics, clinical characteristics and outcomes.