Pharmacological Research,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 107633 - 107633
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
There
is
an
urgent
need
for
mechanistically
novel
and
more
efficacious
treatments
schizophrenia,
especially
those
targeting
negative
cognitive
symptoms
with
a
favorable
side-effect
profile.
Drug
repurposing-the
process
of
identifying
new
therapeutic
uses
already
approved
compounds-offers
promising
approach
to
overcoming
the
lengthy,
costly,
high-risk
traditional
CNS
drug
discovery.
This
review
aims
update
our
previous
findings
on
clinical
repurposing
pipeline
in
schizophrenia.
We
examined
studies
conducted
between
2018
2024,
61
trials
evaluating
40
unique
repurposed
candidates.
These
encompassed
broad
range
pharmacological
mechanisms,
including
immunomodulation,
enhancement,
hormonal,
metabolic,
neurotransmitter
modulation.
A
notable
development
combination
muscarinic
modulators
xanomeline,
compound
antipsychotic
properties,
trospium,
included
mitigate
peripheral
side
effects,
now
by
FDA
as
first
decades
fundamentally
mechanism
action.
Moving
beyond
dopaminergic
paradigm
such
highlight
opportunities
improve
treatment-resistant
alleviate
adverse
effects.
Overall,
evolving
landscape
illustrates
significant
shift
rationale
schizophrenia
development,
highlighting
potential
silico
strategies,
biomarker-based
patient
stratification,
personalized
that
align
underlying
pathophysiological
processes.
Global Challenges,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
8(1)
Published: Nov. 20, 2023
The
explosive
growth
of
biomedical
Big
Data
presents
both
significant
opportunities
and
challenges
in
the
realm
knowledge
discovery
translational
applications
within
precision
medicine.
Efficient
management,
analysis,
interpretation
big
data
can
pave
way
for
groundbreaking
advancements
However,
unprecedented
strides
automated
collection
large-scale
molecular
clinical
have
also
introduced
formidable
terms
analysis
interpretation,
necessitating
development
novel
computational
approaches.
Some
potential
include
curse
dimensionality,
heterogeneity,
missing
data,
class
imbalance,
scalability
issues.
This
overview
article
focuses
on
recent
progress
breakthroughs
application
Key
aspects
are
summarized,
including
content,
sources,
technologies,
tools,
challenges,
existing
gaps.
Nine
fields-Datawarehouse
electronic
medical
record,
imaging
informatics,
Artificial
intelligence-aided
surgical
design
surgery
optimization,
omics
health
monitoring
graph,
public
security
privacy-are
discussed.
npj Digital Medicine,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
7(1)
Published: April 23, 2024
Reliably
processing
and
interlinking
medical
information
has
been
recognized
as
a
critical
foundation
to
the
digital
transformation
of
workflows,
despite
development
ontologies,
optimization
these
major
bottleneck
medicine.
The
advent
large
language
models
brought
great
excitement,
maybe
solution
medicines'
'communication
problem'
is
in
sight,
but
how
can
known
weaknesses
models,
such
hallucination
non-determinism,
be
tempered?
Retrieval
Augmented
Generation,
particularly
through
knowledge
graphs,
an
automated
approach
that
deliver
structured
reasoning
model
truth
alongside
LLMs,
relevant
structuring
therefore
also
decision
support.
Communications Medicine,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
4(1)
Published: March 28, 2024
Abstract
Background
Discovering
potential
drug-drug
interactions
(DDIs)
is
a
long-standing
challenge
in
clinical
treatments
and
drug
developments.
Recently,
deep
learning
techniques
have
been
developed
for
DDI
prediction.
However,
they
generally
require
huge
number
of
samples,
while
known
DDIs
are
rare.
Methods
In
this
work,
we
present
KnowDDI,
graph
neural
network-based
method
that
addresses
the
above
challenge.
KnowDDI
enhances
representations
by
adaptively
leveraging
rich
neighborhood
information
from
large
biomedical
knowledge
graphs.
Then,
it
learns
subgraph
each
drug-pair
to
interpret
predicted
DDI,
where
edges
associated
with
connection
strength
indicating
importance
or
resembling
between
whose
unknown.
Thus,
lack
implicitly
compensated
enriched
propagated
similarities.
Results
Here
show
evaluation
results
on
two
benchmark
datasets.
obtains
state-of-the-art
prediction
performance
better
interpretability.
We
also
find
suffers
less
than
existing
works
given
sparser
graph.
This
indicates
similarities
play
more
important
role
compensating
when
enriched.
Conclusions
nicely
combines
efficiency
prior
As
an
original
open-source
tool,
can
help
detect
possible
broad
range
relevant
interaction
tasks,
such
as
protein-protein
interactions,
drug-target
disease-gene
eventually
promoting
development
biomedicine
healthcare.
Frontiers in Digital Health,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
6
Published: Jan. 26, 2024
Introduction
A
digital
twin
is
a
virtual
representation
of
patient's
disease,
facilitating
real-time
monitoring,
analysis,
and
simulation.
This
enables
the
prediction
disease
progression,
optimization
care
delivery,
improvement
outcomes.
Methods
Here,
we
introduce
framework
for
type
2
diabetes
(T2D)
that
integrates
machine
learning
with
multiomic
data,
knowledge
graphs,
mechanistic
models.
By
analyzing
substantial
clinical
dataset,
constructed
predictive
models
to
forecast
progression.
Furthermore,
graphs
were
employed
elucidate
contextualize
multiomic–disease
relationships.
Results
discussion
Our
findings
not
only
reaffirm
known
targetable
components
but
also
spotlight
novel
ones,
unveiled
through
this
integrated
approach.
The
versatile
presented
in
study
can
be
incorporated
into
system,
enhancing
our
grasp
diseases
propelling
advancement
precision
medicine.
Brain‐X,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
2(2)
Published: April 26, 2024
Abstract
This
comprehensive
review
aims
to
clarify
the
growing
impact
of
Transformer‐based
models
in
fields
neuroscience,
neurology,
and
psychiatry.
Originally
developed
as
a
solution
for
analyzing
sequential
data,
Transformer
architecture
has
evolved
effectively
capture
complex
spatiotemporal
relationships
long‐range
dependencies
that
are
common
biomedical
data.
Its
adaptability
effectiveness
deciphering
intricate
patterns
within
medical
studies
have
established
it
key
tool
advancing
our
understanding
neural
functions
disorders,
representing
significant
departure
from
traditional
computational
methods.
The
begins
by
introducing
structure
principles
architectures.
It
then
explores
their
applicability,
ranging
disease
diagnosis
prognosis
evaluation
cognitive
processes
decoding.
specific
design
modifications
tailored
these
applications
subsequent
on
performance
also
discussed.
We
conclude
providing
assessment
recent
advancements,
prevailing
challenges,
future
directions,
highlighting
shift
neuroscientific
research
clinical
practice
towards
an
artificial
intelligence‐centric
paradigm,
particularly
given
prominence
most
successful
large
pre‐trained
models.
serves
informative
reference
researchers,
clinicians,
professionals
who
interested
harnessing
transformative
potential
Scientific Data,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: Dec. 6, 2023
Abstract
Drug
repositioning
is
a
faster
and
more
affordable
solution
than
traditional
drug
discovery
approaches.
From
this
perspective,
computational
using
knowledge
graphs
very
promising
direction.
Knowledge
constructed
from
data
information
can
be
used
to
generate
hypotheses
(molecule/drug
-
target
links)
through
link
prediction
machine
learning
algorithms.
However,
it
remains
rare
have
holistically
graph
the
broadest
possible
features
characteristics,
which
freely
available
community.
The
OREGANO
aims
at
filling
gap.
purpose
of
paper
present
graph,
includes
natural
compounds
related
data.
was
developed
scratch
by
retrieving
directly
sources
integrated.
We
therefore
designed
expected
model
proposed
method
for
merging
nodes
between
different
sources,
finally,
were
cleaned.
as
well
source
codes
ETL
process,
are
openly
on
GitHub
project
(
https://gitub.u-bordeaux.fr/erias/oregano
).