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s which can also serve as propaedeutic or, in some cases, complementary ground to address a robust measurement of several HRSDG patterns.Schizophrenia patients exhibit subtle and non-localizing neurological abnormalities, known as neurological soft signs (NSS). Life-span evidence suggests that NSS vary along the course of schizophrenia. An association between NSS and treatment response has been proposed, suggesting that NSS reflect the underlying neuropathology development in schizophrenia. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between NSS and treatment resistance in first-episode schizophrenia patients. We conducted a longitudinal study on 52 first-episode schizophrenia patients, who were assessed at baseline, the sixth month, and the fifth year using the abridged version of the Cambridge Neurological Inventory. The trajectories of NSS between 29 treatment-responsive patients (with full symptomatic remission) and 23 treatment-resistant patients (who received clozapine) were compared using mixed model ANOVA. We also controlled for the effect of age and estimated IQ, using a mixed ANCOVA model. Although the two schizophrenia groups had comparable NSS at the baseline, their trajectories of NSS differed significantly. Compared with their treatment-responsive counterparts, treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients had worsening of NSS over time. Our findings support the potential utility of NSS in identifying treatment resistance in first-episode schizophrenia. Progressive worsening of NSS in treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients may reflect the development of underlying neuropathology. Further studies using large samples of treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients are needed.Type-2 diabetic (T2D) and osteoporosis (OP) suffered patients are more prone to fragile fracture though the nature of alteration in areal bone mineral density (aBMD) in these two cases are completely different. Therefore, it becomes crucial to compare the effect of T2D and OP on alteration in mechanical and structural properties of femoral trabecular bone. selleck chemicals This study investigated the effect of T2D, OP, and osteopenia on bone structural and mechanical properties using micro-CT, nanoindentation and compression test. Further, a nanoscale finite element model (FEM) was developed to predict the cause of alteration in mechanical properties. Finally, a damage-based FEM was proposed to predict the pathological related alteration of bone's mechanical response. The obtained results demonstrated that the T2D group had lower volume fraction (-18.25%, p = 0.023), young's modulus (-23.47%, p = 0.124), apparent modulus (-37.15%, p = 0.02), and toughness (-40%, p = 0.001) than the osteoporosis group. The damage-based FE results were found in good agreement with the compression experiment results for all three pathological conditions. Also, nanoscale FEM results demonstrated that the elastic and failure properties of mineralised collagen fibril decreases with increase in crystal size. This study reveals that T2D patients are more prone to fragile fracture in comparison to OP and osteopenia patients. Also, the proposed damage-based FEM can help to predict the risk of fragility fracture for different pathological conditions.This perspective article provides a brief review of our understanding of how center of pressure (CoP) and center of mass (CoM) are traditionally utilized to measure quiet standing and how technological advancements are allowing for measurements to be derived outside the confines of a laboratory setting. Furthermore, this viewpoint provides descriptions of what CoP and CoM outcomes may reflect, a discussion of recent developments in selected balance outcomes, the importance of measuring instantaneous balance outcomes, and directions for future questions/research. Considering the enormous number and cost of falls annually, conclusions drawn from this perspective underscore the need for more cohesive efforts to advance our understanding of balance performance. As we refine the technology and algorithms used to portably assess postural stability, the question of which measurement (i.e. CoP or CoM) to utilize seems to be highly dependent on the question being asked. Further, the complexity of the question appears to span multiple disciplines and cultivate exploration of the intrinsic mechanisms of stability. Recently developed multi-dimensional methods for assessing balance performance may provide additional insight into balance, improving our ability to predict balance impairments and falls outside the laboratory and in the clinic. However, additional work will be necessary to understand the clinical significance and predictive capacity of these outcomes in various fall-prone populations.Joint contact and muscle forces estimated with musculoskeletal modeling techniques offer useful metrics describing movement quality that benefit multiple research and clinical applications. The expensive processing of laboratory data associated with generating these outputs presents challenges to researchers and clinicians, including significant time and expertise requirements that limit the number of subjects typically evaluated. The objective of the current study was to develop and compare machine learning techniques for rapid, data-driven estimation of musculoskeletal metrics from derived gait lab data. OpenSim estimates of patient joint and muscle forces during activities of daily living were simulated using laboratory data from 70 total knee replacement patients and used to develop 4 different machine learning algorithms. Trained machine learning models predicted both trend and magnitude of estimated joint contact (mean correlation coefficients ranging from 0.93 to 0.94 during gait) and muscle forces (mean correlation coefficients ranging from 0.83 to 0.91 during gait) based on anthropometrics, ground reaction forces, and joint angle data. Patient mechanics were accurately predicted by recurrent neural networks, even after removing dependence on key subsets of predictor features. The ability to quickly estimate patient mechanics from derived measurements of movement has the potential to broaden the impact of musculoskeletal modeling by enabling faster assessment in both clinical and research settings.