19 articles in this issue
Rashad Hussain, Hira Zubair, Sarah Pursell and Muhammad Shahab
Regeneration refers to regrowth of tissue in the central nervous system. It includes generation of new neurons, glia, myelin, and synapses, as well as the regaining of essential functions: sensory, motor, emotional and cognitive abilities. Unfortunately, ... see more
Shervin Assari
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Wajana L. Labisso, Ana-Caroline Raulin, Lucky L. Nwidu, Artur Kocon, Declan Wayne, Amaia M. Erdozain, Benito Morentin, Daniela Schwendener, George Allen, Jack Enticott, Henry K. Gerdes, Laura Johnson, John Grzeskowiak, Fryni Drizou, Rebecca Tarbox, Natalia A. Osna, Kusum K. Kharbanda, Luis F. Callado and Wayne G. Carter
Dimitrios Poulimeneas, Mary Yannakoulia, Costas A. Anastasiou and Nikolaos Scarmeas
Even though obese individuals often succeed with weight loss, long-term weight loss maintenance remains elusive. Dietary, lifestyle and psychosocial correlates of weight loss maintenance have been researched, yet the nature of maintenance is still poorly ... see more
Jocelyn M. Powers, Gabriela Ioachim and Patrick W. Stroman
A comprehensive review of the literature-to-date on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the spinal cord is presented. Spinal fMRI has been shown, over more than two decades of work, to be a reliable tool for detecting neural activity. We discu... see more
Jorge Bosch-Bayard, Valeria Peluso, Lidice Galan, Pedro Valdes Sosa and Giuseppe A. Chiarenza
Reading is essentially a two-channel function, requiring the integration of intact visual and auditory processes both peripheral and central. It is essential for normal reading that these component processes go forward automatically. Based on this model, ... see more
Sergio Melogno, Maria Antonietta Pinto, Margherita Orsolini and Luigi Tarani
Literature on children with Klinefelter Syndrome (KS) points to general linguistic difficulties in both comprehension and production among other cognitive functions, and in the majority of cases, these coexist with an intellectual level within the norms. ... see more
Paolo Frisoni, Erica Bacchio, Sabrine Bilel, Anna Talarico, Rosa Maria Gaudio, Mario Barbieri, Margherita Neri and Matteo Marti
Background: New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) constitute a broad range of hundreds of natural and synthetic drugs, including synthetic opioids, synthetic cannabinoids, synthetic cathinones, and other NPS classes, which were not controlled from 1961 to 197... see more
Markus Christiner and Susanne Maria Reiterer
Musical aptitude and language talent are highly intertwined when it comes to phonetic language ability. Research on pre-school children’s musical abilities and foreign language abilities are rare but give further insights into the relationship betwe... see more
Rikinkumar S. Patel, Sanya Virani, Hina Saeed, Sai Nimmagadda, Jupi Talukdar and Nagy A. Youssef
Background: Past studies have evaluated the association of various comorbidities with bipolar disorder. This study analyzes differences in the prevalence and association of medical and psychiatric comorbidities in bipolar patients by gender. Methods: A re... see more
Yoshiki Nakashima, Chika Miyagi-Shiohira, Hirofumi Noguchi and Takeshi Omasa
We searched for drugs that alleviate the reduction of dopaminergic neurons caused by the administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to the substantia nigra of the rat brain. Human milk fat globule-EGF factor 8 protein (MFG-E8) is similar to MFG-E8-S, a sh... see more
Marc Cavazza
Several researchers have proposed a new application for human augmentation, which is to provide human supervision to autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In this paper, we introduce a framework to implement this proposal, which consists of usi... see more
Stephen D. Smith, Tiffany A. Kolesar and Jennifer Kornelsen
Previous research has delineated the networks of brain structures involved in the perception of emotional auditory stimuli. These include the amygdala, insula, and auditory cortices, as well as frontal-lobe, basal ganglia, and cerebellar structures involv... see more
Soonhyun Lee, Kyeongjin Lee and Changho Song
Caroline Gurvich, Kate Hoy, Natalie Thomas and Jayashri Kulkarni
Hormones of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis that regulate reproductive function have multiple effects on the development, maintenance and function of the brain. Sex differences in cognitive functioning have been reported in both health and d... see more
Rubayat Islam Khan, Saif Shahriar Rahman Nirzhor and Barnaly Rashid
One of the most commonly known chronic neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), manifests the common type of dementia in 60–80% of cases. From a clinical standpoint, a patent cognitive decline and a severe change in personality, ... see more
Elisa Unti, Sonia Mazzucchi, Daniela Frosini, Cristina Pagni, Gloria Tognoni, Lionella Palego, Laura Betti, Fabiana Miraglia, Gino Giannaccini and Roberto Ceravolo
Lauren C. Shuffrey, Lisa Levinson, Alexis Becerra, Grace Pak, Dayna Moya Sepulveda, Alicia K. Montgomery, Heather L. Green and Karen Froud
High-density electroencephalography (EEG) was used to examine the utility of the P1 event-related potential (ERP) as a marker of visual motion sensitivity to luminance defined low-spatial frequency drifting gratings in 16 children with autism and 16 neuro... see more
Abhimanyu Mahajan, Andrew Zillgitt, Abdullah Alshammaa, Neepa Patel, Christos Sidiropoulos, Peter A. LeWitt and Susan Bowyer
Background: Cervical dystonia (CD) patients have impaired working memory, processing speed and visual-motor integration ability. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate changes in cerebral oscillations in CD patients during an executive functi... see more