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For example, a chemical system can be metastable for extended periods of time, when it becomes trapped in a high energy state, until outside influences are sufficient to perturb and disrupt the stability of the trapped species.

"The tool uses a technique of adversarial AI that was originally part of the cybercriminals' toolbox, but now we're using it to defend against them. We mess up the recorded audio signal just a little bit, distort or perturb it just enough that it still sounds right to human listeners, but it's completely different to AI."

John Krystal, MD, Editor of Biological Psychiatry, commented, "The biology of schizophrenia is very complex and yet two themes represented by these two studies seem to be very important: the increased rate of elimination of glutamatergic synapses during development, and disturbances in the signaling properties of these glutamate synapses. These two disturbances could perturb circuit function in ways that are critical to development of symptoms and cognitive impairments associated with schizophrenia."

As he notes, this research took place under artificial laboratory conditions, which could “perturb” the animals’ natural behavior.

"This observation is different from previous models where boundaries were assumed to perturb the order," he continues.