Dr Suchitra Kataria

How Memories Might Be Used to Help Heal the Brain

In a new book, Steve Ramirez explores the potential of memory manipulation to ease depression and other afflictions.

Computers are getting much better at learning to “see” The machine-learning programs that underpin image-recognition still have blind spots, but will they for much longer?

Computer vision is getting much, much better

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Understanding the tech oligarchy and its gilded rage with Jacob Silverman Why did Silicon Valley's most powerful figures lurch right and embrace authoritarianism? Why are they so angry? How do we push back? Plus, some great luddite horror films and a riff on Frankenstein.

Understanding the tech oligarchy and its gilded rage with Jacob Silverman

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Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’ Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’

Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.

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Message-Based vs Video-Based Psychotherapy for Depression This randomized clinical trial compares message-based psychotherapy with video-based psychotherapy on a commercial digital mental health platform and tests combinations of modalities for participants ...

Message-Based vs Video-Based Psychotherapy for Depression
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Brief Digital Interventions for Psychological Distress This randomized clinical trial compares the effectiveness of 3 brief smartphone app–based interventions (physical activity, mindfulness, and sleep hygiene) or an active control (ecological momentary a...

Brief Digital Interventions for Psychological DistressAn
AI-Enhanced Response-Adaptive Randomized Clinical Trial
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Teenage boys using ‘personalised’ AI for therapy and romance, survey finds Male Allies UK worries rise in chatbot ‘girlfriends’ will leave boys unable to socialise and respect boundaries

Teenage boys using ‘personalised’ AI for therapy and romance, survey finds
Male Allies UK worries rise in chatbot ‘girlfriends’ will leave boys unable to socialise and respect boundaries

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World’s smallest 3D bioprinter could rebuild tissue during surgery Flexible device inspired by an elephant’s trunk can deliver healing hydrogels.

World’s smallest 3D bioprinter could rebuild tissue during surgery

Flexible device inspired by an elephant’s trunk can deliver healing hydrogels.

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Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?

Will A.I. Destroy the Planet?

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid

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How pig-organ transplants might soon save lives After a man lives nearly nine months with a pig kidney, two American firms are preparing clinical trials

Xenotransplants - How pig-organ transplants might soon save lives
After a man lives nearly nine months with a pig kidney, two American firms are preparing clinical trials
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Mind, Machine, and Medicine This Viewpoint summarizes the presidential address of the president of the American Head and Neck Society.

Mind, Machine, and Medicine

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Scaling Remote Patient Care: The Mechanics of a Paradigm Shift in Chronic Disease Management A health system’s integration of comprehensive remote patient monitoring through a partnership with a specialized remote care delivery program is associated with improved clinical outcomes and redu...

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‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health? Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis

‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?

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Learning as a missing component of digital health, environment and climate change - npj Digital Medicine Despite its rapid advancement, digital health has little considered issues of climate change or environmental degradation. As the digital health community begin to engage with this critical issue scho...

Learning as a missing component of digital health, environment and climate change

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Gizmodo's Best Tech of 2025 Awards: Meet The Winners From the best in smartphones to great headphones, the Gizmodo's Best Tech of 2025 Awards highlight the most innovative hardware of the year.

Gizmodo’s Best Tech of 2025 Awards: Our Favorite Phones, Laptops, Gaming Gear, and More

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The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)

Maximilian Kasy Univ. Chicago Press (2025)

How to Communicate Medical Numbers This JAMA Insights provides evidence-based recommendations for communicating numerical information to patients.

How to Communicate Medical Numbers

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Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.

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AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.

AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it’s harming science

Nature asked researchers who use artificial intelligence how its propensity for people-pleasing affects their work — and what they are doing to mitigate it.

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An AI-Powered Lifestyle Intervention vs Human Coaching in the Diabetes Prevention Program This randomized trial examines whether referral to an artificial intelligence–led lifestyle intervention based on the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) is noninferior to referral to a human-led DPP in...

An AI-Powered Lifestyle Intervention vs Human Coaching in the Diabetes Prevention Program

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Training AI on "Brain Rot" Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds Researchers found AI models trained on shortform, clickbait-y content experienced irreversible cognitive decline.

LAZY LANGUAGE MODEL
Training AI on “Brain Rot” Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds

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This AI method could turbocharge the hunt for new medicines A deep-learning design sidesteps the need for time-consuming drug-screening.

This AI method could turbocharge the hunt for new medicines

A deep-learning design sidesteps the need for time-consuming drug-screening.

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Sora 2 and the Limits of Digital Narcissism What we enjoy about generative A.I. may also be its ultimate limitation: we want to see ourselves.

Sora 2 and the Limits of Digital Narcissism

What we enjoy about generative A.I. may also be its ultimate limitation: we want to see ourselves.

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Digital Emotion Regulation Interventions for Patients With Congenital Heart Disease This randomized clinical trial evaluates tailored and general digital emotion regulation interventions compared with usual care for psychosocial outcomes among patients with congenital heart disease.

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Smartphone use in a large US adult population: Temporal associations between objective measures of usage and mental well-being | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...?

How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again) | Quanta Magazine Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states, which help explain the sleep disorders that can result when sleep transitions go wrong.

How the Brain Moves From Waking Life to Sleep (and Back Again)

Neuroscientists probing the boundary between sleep and awareness are finding many types of liminal states.

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Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly The digital habits that defined youth are transforming old age

Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

The digital habits that defined youth are transforming old age

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Machine learning-based phenotyping and assessment of treatment responses in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction Machine learning-based algorithm identifies HFpEF phenogroups with distinct clinical features and treatment responses. This study suggests that SGLT2i and ARNI have a role in improving the outcomes in...

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AI supported diagnostic innovations for impact in global women’s health Nina Linder and colleagues examine how artificial intelligence could be applied to diagnostic methods that rely on highly trained experts, such as cytological screening for cervical cancer, enabling i...

AI supported diagnostic innovations for impact in global women’s health

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How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.

How to spot fake scientists and stop them from publishing papers

Journals are considering doing identity checks to expose fake authors — but there are downsides.

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