10 articles in this issue
Khushi Patel and Maureen Reed
Visual perception is constructive in nature; that is, a coherent whole is generated from ambiguous fragments that are encountered in dynamic visual scenes. Creating this coherent whole from fragmented sensory inputs requires one to detect, identify, disti... see more
David A. Geier, Janet K. Kern, Brian S. Hooker, Lisa K. Sykes and Mark R. Geier
(1) Background: Hyperkinetic syndrome of childhood (HKSoC) is an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9) category in which the majority of the children are also diagnosed under the Diagnostic and Statistical... see more
Laura D. Ellingson, Aaron J. Stegner, Isaac J. Schwabacher, Kelli F. Koltyn and Dane B. Cook
To begin to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the benefits of exercise for chronic pain, we assessed the influence of exercise on brain responses to pain in fibromyalgia (FM). Complete data were collected for nine female FM patients and nine pain-free c... see more
Ronald C. Whiteman and Jennifer A. Mangels
Rumination is a trait response to blocked goals that can have positive or negative outcomes for goal resolution depending on where attention is focused. Whereas “moody brooding” on affective states may be maladaptive, especially for females, “reflective p... see more
Gatambwa Mukandala, Ronan Tynan, Sinead Lanigan and John J. O’Connor
Normal brain function is highly dependent on oxygen and nutrient supply and when the demand for oxygen exceeds its supply, hypoxia is induced. Acute episodes of hypoxia may cause a depression in synaptic activity in many brain regions, whilst prolonged ex... see more
Jun Kohyama
There is a wealth of evidence that disrupted sleep and circadian rhythms, which are common in modern society even during the early stages of life, have unfavorable effects on brain function. Altered brain function can cause problem behaviors later in life... see more
Anu Sharma and Hannah Glick
We review evidence for cross-modal cortical re-organization in clinical populations with hearing loss. Cross-modal plasticity refers to the ability for an intact sensory modality (e.g., vision or somatosensation) to recruit cortical brain regions from a d... see more
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Steven G. Greening, Tae-Ho Lee and Mara Mather
Anxiety is associated with an exaggerated expectancy of harm, including overestimation of how likely a conditioned stimulus (CS+) predicts a harmful unconditioned stimulus (US). In the current study we tested whether anxiety-associated expectancy of harm ... see more
Médhi Gilson, Gaétane Deliens, Rachel Leproult, Alice Bodart, Antoine Nonclercq, Rudy Ercek and Philippe Peigneux
Emerging evidence suggests that emotion and affect modulate the relation between sleep and cognition. In the present study, we investigated the role of rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep in mood regulation and memory consolidation for sad stories. In a counte... see more