23 articles in this issue
Ludovica Annarumma, Aurora D’Atri, Valentina Alfonsi and Luigi De Gennaro
Transcranial Current Stimulations (tCSs) are non-invasive brain stimulation techniques which modulate cortical excitability and spontaneous brain activity by the application of weak electric currents through the scalp, in a safe, economic, and well-tolera... see more
Peter Hedera, Paolo Moretti, Jane Howard and Jiali Zhao
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is one of the most genetically heterogeneous neurological disorders. HSP is classified as pure when only a spastic weakness of the lower extremities is present. Complex HSP comes with additional neurological or systemic... see more
Terence D. Sanger, Mark Liker, Enrique Arguelles, Ruta Deshpande, Arash Maskooki, Diana Ferman, Aprille Tongol and Aaron Robison
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for secondary (acquired, combined) dystonia does not reach the high degree of efficacy achieved in primary (genetic, isolated) dystonia. We hypothesize that this may be due to variability in the underlying injury, so that diff... see more
Daniel J. Blackburn, Yifan Zhao, Matteo De Marco, Simon M. Bell, Fei He, Hua-Liang Wei, Sarah Lawrence, Zoe C. Unwin, Michelle Blyth, Jenna Angel, Kathleen Baster, Thomas F. D. Farrow, Iain D. Wilkinson, Stephen A. Billings, Annalena Venneri and Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis
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Stefania Bonaccorso, Antonio Metastasio, Angelo Ricciardi, Neil Stewart, Leila Jamal, Naasir-Ud-Dinn Rujully, Christos Theleritis, Stefano Ferracuti, Giuseppe Ducci and Fabrizio Schifano
Background: Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) are a heterogeneous class of synthetic molecules including synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRAs). Psychosis is associated with SCRAs use. There is limited knowledge regarding the structured assessm... see more
Giovanni Ferrati, Emanuele Brai, Skye Stuart, Celia Marino and Susan A. Greenfield
The basal forebrain has received much attention due to its involvement in multiple cognitive functions, but little is known about the basic neuronal mechanisms underlying its development, nor those mediating its primary role in Alzheimer’s disease. ... see more
Shervin Assari, Ritesh Mistry and Cleopatra Howard Caldwell
Although perceived discrimination in Black youth is a risk factor for a wide range of negative mental health outcomes, recent research has suggested some gender differences in these associations. Gender differences in vulnerability to perceived discrimina... see more
Hooman Nezamfar, Seyed Sadegh Mohseni Salehi, Matt Higger and Deniz Erdogmus
Even with state-of-the-art techniques there are individuals whose paralysis prevents them from communicating with others. Brain–Computer-Interfaces (BCI) aim to utilize brain waves to construct a voice for those whose needs remain unmet. In this pap... see more
Marco Grados, Rachel Huselid and Laura Duque-Serrano
Background. Tourette syndrome (TS) is a childhood-onset neuropsychiatric disorder consisting of impairing motor and vocal tics which often persists adolescent and adult years. In this older refractory group, standard treatments such as pharmacotherapy and... see more
Elena Bilevicius, Tiffany A. Kolesar, Stephen D. Smith, Paul D. Trapnell and Jennifer Kornelsen
Emotional empathy is the ability to experience and/or share another person’s emotional states and responses. Although some research has examined the neural correlates of emotional empathy, there has been little research investigating whether this co... see more
Yuelong Ji, Anne W. Riley, Li-Ching Lee, Xiumei Hong, Guoying Wang, Hui-Ju Tsai, Noel T. Mueller, Colleen Pearson, Jessica Thermitus, Anita Panjwani, Hongkai Ji, Tami R. Bartell, Irina Burd, M. Daniele Fallin and Xiaobin Wang
Previous studies have suggested a positive association between self-reported maternal acetaminophen use during pregnancy and risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in offspring. We sought to examine the prospective association between mat... see more
Alessandro Tonin, Niels Birbaumer and Ujwal Chaudhary
Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) enables people with motor impairments to communicate using their brain signals by selecting letters and words from a screen. However, these spellers do not work for people in a complete locked-in state (CLIS). For these pa... see more
Giuseppe Roberto Giammalva, Domenico Gerardo Iacopino, Giorgio Azzarello, Claudia Gaggiotti, Francesca Graziano, Carlo Gulì, Maria Angela Pino and Rosario Maugeri
High-grade gliomas (HGGs) are the most frequently diagnosed primary brain tumors. Even though it has been demonstrated that combined surgical therapy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy improve survival, HGGs still harbor a very poor prognosis and limited ove... see more
Shervin Assari
Cristina Miliano, Giulia Margiani, Liana Fattore and Maria Antonietta De Luca
In the last decade, the trend of drug consumption has completely changed, and several new psychoactive substances (NPS) have appeared on the drug market as legal alternatives to common drugs of abuse. Designed to reproduce the effects of illegal substance... see more
Shervin Assari, Brianna Preiser and Marisa Kelly
Anna Schroeder, Michael Notaras, Xin Du and Rachel A. Hill
Stress, and the chronic overactivation of major stress hormones, is associated with several neuropsychiatric disorders. However, clinical literature on the exact role of stress either as a causative, triggering, or modulatory factor to mental illness rema... see more
Liegelin Kavitha Bernhardt, K. Lakshminarayana Bairy and Sampath Madhyastha
Sucharita S. Somkuwar, Leon W. Quach, Jacqueline A. Quigley, Dvijen C. Purohit, McKenzie J. Fannon, George F. Koob and Chitra D. Mandyam
Lower impulse control is a known risk factor for drug abuse vulnerability. Chronic experience with illicit drugs is suggested to enhance impulsivity and thereby perpetuate addiction. However, the nature of this relationship (directionality, causality) wit... see more
Anna Schroeder, Maarten Van den Buuse and Rachel A. Hill
Imke Galazky, Christian Kluge, Friedhelm C. Schmitt, Klaus Kopitzki, Tino Zaehle, Jürgen Voges, Lars Büntjen, Andreas Kupsch and Hermann Hinrichs
Background: In advanced Parkinson’s disease, the pedunculopontine nucleus region is thought to be abnormally inhibited by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) ergic inputs from the over-active globus pallidus internus. Recent attempts to boost pedunculopo... see more
Jennifer A. Ciarochi, Jingyu Liu, Vince Calhoun, Hans Johnson, Maria Misiura, H. Jeremy Bockholt, Flor A. Espinoza, Arvind Caprihan, Sergey Plis, Jessica A. Turner, Jane S. Paulsen and The PREDICT-HD Investigators and Coordinators of the Huntington Study Group
Warren Boling