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It is reported that adequate supply of nutrients which are the source of methyl groups to the brain is necessary for proper functioning [93]. Vitamin B12 is an important modifier of epigenetics being involved as a cofactor in the one-carbon cycle. It has been indicated that omega-3 fatty acids are also known to influence epigenetic mechanisms regulating gene expression [94]. We have demonstrated altered global methylation patterns in the brain of the offspring as a consequence of imbalanced (excess folate and vitamin B12 deficient) maternal micronutrients in animals. We also demonstrate the important role of prenatal omega-3 fatty acids in reversing methylation patterns thereby highlighting its contribution in neuroprotection and cognition [95].
Numerous studies have examined the effects of maternal seafood and omega-3 intakes on infant birth weight, length of gestation, visual and cognitive development, and other infant health outcomes. High concentrations of DHA are present in the cellular membranes of the brain and retina [5], and DHA is important for fetal growth and development. The accumulation of DHA in the retina is complete by birth, whereas accumulation in the brain continues throughout the first 2 years after birth.
The authors of a systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials concluded that the evidence neither supports nor refutes the benefits of LC omega-3 supplementation during pregnancy for cognitive or visual development in infants [103]. Another systematic review and meta-analysis that included two randomized controlled trials in women with a previous preterm birth found no significant differences in rates of recurrent preterm birth between women who took omega-3 supplements during pregnancy and those who did not [103]. Omega-3 supplementation did, however, increase latency (time from randomization to birth) by about 2 days and mean birth weight by about 103 g.
Several clinical trials, many conducted in the 1990s, have examined the use of LC omega-3 supplementation in patients with RA. These trials have generally shown that omega-3 supplements reduce patients' use of anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids, but that they do not have consistent effects on painful and/or tender joints, joint swelling, or morning stiffness [9,173-176]. For example, fish oil supplementation significantly reduced NSAID use in a controlled trial in Sweden [177]. In this study, 43 patients with RA received either 10 g/day fish oil (containing 1.8 g EPA and 1.2 g DHA) or placebo along with their usual RA medications. NSAID use decreased in the treatment group at 3 and 6 months, and global arthritic activity assessed by physicians improved relative to placebo at 3 months. However, patient assessments of pain, morning stiffness, and functional capacity did not differ between groups. In a 2013 clinical trial in South Korea, 81 patients with RA received either LC omega-3s (2.1 g EPA and 1.2 g DHA) or a sunflower oil placebo daily for 16 weeks [172]. Patients were allowed to continue taking NSAIDs, glucocorticoids, and/or antirheumatic drugs throughout the study. Compared to placebo, omega-3 supplementation had no significant effects on clinical symptoms of RA, including pain and morning stiffness. In post-hoc analysis, the researchers found that the supplements reduced the amount of NSAIDs needed, but only in patients weighing more than 55 kg. In a similar study in Denmark, 51 patients received either LC omega-3s (2.0 g EPA and 1.2 g DHA from fish oil) or placebo daily for 12 weeks, and they continued taking RA medications [178]. Compared to placebo, morning stiffness, joint tenderness, and visual pain score decreased significantly in the treatment group. However, there were no significant differences between groups in grip strength, daily activity score, or joint swelling. The amounts of NSAIDs, aspirin, and acetaminophen that patients needed did not change in either group.
Each of the individual wave is described with four parameters: \((A,\alpha ,\beta ,\omega )\). The parameter A measures the wave amplitude; a zero value indicating that the corresponding wave is not present. The parameter \(\alpha \) is a location parameter. In addition, \(\beta \) and \(\omega \) measure skewness and kurtosis, respectively; and they are useful to describe the shape of the waves, in particular if they are crest or troughs. More specifically, assuming \(\alpha =0\), the values for parameter \(\beta \) close to \(\pi \) (or \(2\pi \)) represent a unimodal symmetric wave (or an inverse unimodal symmetric wave); as \(\beta \) moves away from these values, the patterns are more asymmetric and the values of \(\beta \) equal to \(\pi /2\) or \(3\pi /2\) describe a wave with both crest and trough with completely asymmetric patterns. The parameter \(\omega \) measures the sharpness of the peak, \(\omega =1\) corresponds to an exact sinusoidal shape and, as \(\omega \) approaches zero, the sharpness becomes more pronounced (see29 for more detail in parameter interpretation).
On the other hand, the potential of the \(FMM_ecg\) parameters to solve the problem of subject identification is also shown. A Fisher LDA is applied, using as predictors: \( A_J, \omega _J, \beta _j; J=P,Q,R,S,T\) (where missing values are replaced with the median value of the corresponding patient) and the one-leave-out rule to estimate the error rate which is 8.6%. Considering the difficulty of the task to discriminate among 105 classes, some of them with apparently very similar ECG patterns, an error rate of 8.6% is quite good. The comparison with other studies in the literature is not feasible since the selection of heartbeats, patients, or the classes to discriminate differs from one paper to another, in many of them, the choice seems to be made ad hoc. As far as we know, this is the first time that this milestone has been achieved for the QT database, since other authors consider specifically selected sets of patients of a much smaller size (see27,32 and references therein). Moreover, a complete analysis is provided in the Supplementary Information including, specific-patient plots and statistics for the main \(FMM_ecg\) parameters. Separately, by QT subgroups defined by the source of the data, Fisher LDA analyses have been performed. Confusion matrices are shown.
Margin setting algorithm (MSA) is a novel machine learning algorithm that is proposed by Caulfield et al. [17] for pattern recognition. It has been applied in many fields, including segmentation analysis in hyperspectral images and impulse noise removal in color images [18,19,20,21]. Recently, it has been applied for anomaly detection for false data injection attack in smart grids and human activity learning [22, 23]. However, MSA still leaves a room for improvement in computational efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that MSA algorithm is improved with parallel implementation. Due to the multiple applications of MSA, its massive parallelization is a relevant contribution. Multicore processor is a suitable platform to implement MSA in terms of its flexibility, high performance, and energy-efficiency. The proposed parallel MSA, called PMSA, can significantly reduce the execution time.
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Researchers found that in patients with VSS there were particular differences in the activity of glutamate and serotonin networks in specific areas of the brain. There was less synchronised activity (or functional connectivity) in the glutamate networks in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in those with VCC compared to healthy controls and those with migraine. The ACC is a hub for thinking and top-down control over sensory inputs and the different pattern of activity could represent an interruption in the filtering and integration of visual information.
Purpose: Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for normal development and function of the retina and brain, where they are present at very high levels in the form of docosahexanoic acid (DHA). Monkey and human infants with low intake show delayed visual acuity development, and lack of these lipids has also been linked to changes in behavior and cognitive function. Using resting-state functional connectivity MRI (rs-fcMRI), we mapped large-scale functional brain organization in monkeys differing in life-long intake of omega-3 fatty acids. We hypothesized that low dietary levels would decrease functional connectivity within the visual system, and more generally throughout the brain.
Conclusions: These findings add to the known effects of omega-3 fatty acid deficiency on the visual system and brain function. They may have arisen developmentally, over the lifespan, or in relation to aging. We found novel evidence that DHA consumption enhances functional cortical relationships and is associated with brain organization more closely resembling the healthy human brain. These results point to a role for DHA in maintaining key distributed systems involved in visual and higher-order processing.
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