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Analyzing the functional connectivity of different brain networks, researchers found that, compared to a healthy aging brain, Alzheimer’s disease disrupts areas of the brain beyond those relating to ...

Zdenka Kuncic owns shares in Emergentia, Inc. Alon Loeffler does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has ...

Recurrent neural networks are a classification of artificial neural networks used in artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and machine learning. They process ...