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Brain Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 6

June 2021 - 153 articles

Cover Story: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated, inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. The health-related quality of life of persons with MS (PwMS) is often reduced. Fatigue and depression contribute to the impaired health-related quality of life of PwMS. Beyond that, fatigue, depression and health-related quality of life overlap, and their interrelations are complex and have been rarely examined together up to now. In this longitudinal study, we apply path analysis and show that the effect of non-somatic depressive symptomatology on health-related quality of life is fully mediated and, therefore, explainable by an indirect effect via fatigue in PwMS. All three fatigue subscales (physical, psychosocial and cognitive fatigue) mediate this relation between depression and health-related quality of life. View this paper
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Articles (153)

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,853 Views
32 Pages

Self-Boundary Dissolution in Meditation: A Phenomenological Investigation

  • Ohad Nave,
  • Fynn-Mathis Trautwein,
  • Yochai Ataria,
  • Yair Dor-Ziderman,
  • Yoav Schweitzer,
  • Stephen Fulder and
  • Aviva Berkovich-Ohana

A fundamental aspect of the sense of self is its pre-reflective dimension specifying the self as a bounded and embodied knower and agent. Being a constant and tacit feature structuring consciousness, it eludes robust empirical exploration. Recently,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,655 Views
21 Pages

Body odours and their importance for human chemical communication, e.g., in the mother–child relationship, are an increasing focus of recent research. Precise examination of sampling methods considering physiology and feasibility aspects in order to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,716 Views
14 Pages

Predicting others’ actions is an essential part of acting in the social world. Action kinematics have been proposed to be a cue about others’ intentions. It is still an open question as to whether adults can use kinematic information in naturalistic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,197 Views
12 Pages

Relationship Satisfaction in People with Parkinson’s Disease and Their Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

  • Johanne Heine,
  • Hannah von Eichel,
  • Selma Staege,
  • Günter U. Höglinger,
  • Florian Wegner and
  • Martin Klietz

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, which leads to reduced health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and autonomy in advanced stages of the disease. Hence, people with PD (PwPD) are in need of help, which is often provided by info...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,374 Views
18 Pages

The Paternal Brain in Action: A Review of Human Fathers’ fMRI Brain Responses to Child-Related Stimuli

  • Livio Provenzi,
  • Johanna Lindstedt,
  • Kris De Coen,
  • Linda Gasparini,
  • Denis Peruzzo,
  • Serena Grumi,
  • Filippo Arrigoni and
  • Sari Ahlqvist-Björkroth

As fathers are increasingly involved in childcare, understanding the neurological underpinnings of fathering has become a key research issue in developmental psychobiology research. This systematic review specifically focused on (1) highlighting meth...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,162 Views
14 Pages

Influence of Heart Rate Variability on Abstinence-Related Changes in Brain State in Everyday Drinkers

  • Hope Peterson,
  • Rhiannon E. Mayhugh,
  • Mohsen Bahrami,
  • Walter Jack Rejeski,
  • Sean L. Simpson,
  • Keri Heilman,
  • Stephen W. Porges and
  • Paul J. Laurienti

Alcohol consumption is now common practice worldwide, and functional brain networks are beginning to reveal the complex interactions observed with alcohol consumption and abstinence. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) has a well-documented relationsh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,265 Views
17 Pages

Foam Rolling Elicits Neuronal Relaxation Patterns Distinct from Manual Massage: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  • Yann Kerautret,
  • Aymeric Guillot,
  • Sébastien Daligault and
  • Franck Di Rienzo

The present double-blinded, randomized controlled study sought to compare the effects of a full-body manual massage (MM) and a foam rolling (FR) intervention on subjective and objective indexes of performance and well-being. A total of 65 healthy ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,192 Views
11 Pages

Mediating Effect of Burnout on the Association between Work-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health Symptoms

  • Henrique Pereira,
  • Gergely Feher,
  • Antal Tibold,
  • Vítor Costa,
  • Samuel Monteiro and
  • Graça Esgalhado

The purpose of this study was: (1) to assess levels of burnout, work-related quality of life (WRQoL) and mental health symptoms among a sample of active workers living in Portugal; (2) to analyze differences in burnout, WRQoL and mental health sympto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,010 Views
19 Pages

The Influence of Stimuli Valence and Arousal on Spatio-Temporal Representation of a Route

  • Francesco Ruotolo,
  • Filomena L. Sbordone and
  • Ineke J. M. van der Ham

This study assesses the influence of valence and arousal of element/landmarks along a route on the spatio-temporal representation of the route itself. Participants watched a movie of a virtual route containing landmarks with high arousal and positive...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,584 Views
12 Pages

Diagnosis of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is essentially based on the identification of progressive impairment of language abilities while other cognitive functions are preserved. The three variants of PPA are characterized by core and supportiv...

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