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Brain Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 1

January 2022 - 122 articles

Cover Story: Hypnosis has proven a powerful method in indications such as pain control and anxiety reduction. As recently discussed, it has been yielding increased attention from medical/dental perspectives. This systematic review (PROSPERO-registration-ID-CRD42021259187) aimed to critically evaluate and discuss functional changes in brain activity using hypnosis by means of different imaging techniques. View this paper
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Articles (122)

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
13,767 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2022

Research on traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a result of domestic violence has greatly increased in the past decade, with publications addressing the prevalence, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. Although TBI due to domestic violence has recently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,424 Views
18 Pages

17 January 2022

The use of pronouns has been shown to change pathologically in the early phases of Alzheimer’s Dementia (AD). So far, the findings have been of a quantitative nature. Little is known, however, about the developmental path of the change, its ons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,461 Views
11 Pages

17 January 2022

Background: Standard treatment of epileptic seizures involves the use of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs). Both AEDs themselves and treatment duration may influence the levels of biochemical parameters, e.g., lipids or homocysteine (HCys), that may increas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,969 Views
10 Pages

Finding the Way to Improve Motor Recovery of Patients with Spinal Cord Lesions: A Case-Control Pilot Study on a Novel Neuromodulation Approach

  • Antonino Naro,
  • Luana Billeri,
  • Tina Balletta,
  • Paola Lauria,
  • Maria Pia Onesta and
  • Rocco Salvatore Calabrò

17 January 2022

Robot-assisted rehabilitation (RAR) and non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) are interventions that, both individually and combined, can significantly enhance motor performance after spinal cord injury (SCI). We sought to determine whether repetitiv...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,258 Views
8 Pages

Restless Legs Syndrome: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns

  • Elena Antelmi,
  • Lorenzo Rocchi,
  • Anna Latorre,
  • Daniele Belvisi,
  • Francesca Magrinelli,
  • Kailash P. Bhatia and
  • Michele Tinazzi

16 January 2022

Although restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common neurological disorder, it remains poorly understood from both clinical and pathophysiological perspectives. RLS is classified among sleep-related movement disorders, namely, conditions characterized b...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,653 Views
8 Pages

Decreased Balance Function in School-Aged Children with Behavioral Problems

  • Naomichi Matsunaga,
  • Tadashi Ito,
  • Yuji Ito,
  • Jun Mizusawa,
  • Yingzhi Gu,
  • Shota Sanada,
  • Yuya Shirai,
  • Daiki Takahashi,
  • Nobuhiko Ochi and
  • Koji Noritake
  • + 1 author

16 January 2022

Children with behavioral problems have a high risk of impaired motor performance. However, the characteristics of balance functions and their associations with behavioral traits are unclear in this population. This study aimed to evaluate balance fun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,635 Views
12 Pages

The Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown: A Comparison between Caregivers of Autistic and Non-Autistic Individuals in Italy

  • Laura Fusar-Poli,
  • Miriam Martinez,
  • Teresa Surace,
  • Valeria Meo,
  • Federica Patania,
  • Chiara Avanzato,
  • Maria Salvina Signorelli and
  • Eugenio Aguglia

15 January 2022

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the daily routine of the population worldwide, including autistic people and their caregivers, with severe consequences on mental health. On one hand, the reduced social contacts and the interruption of outpatient...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,503 Views
9 Pages

Increased Pupil Size during Future Thinking in a Subject with Retrograde Amnesia

  • Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière,
  • Estelle Lamy and
  • Mohamad El Haj

15 January 2022

Recent research has assessed pupil size during past thinking in patients with retrograde amnesia. Building on this research, we assessed pupil size during future thinking in a retrograde amnesia patient. To this end, we measured pupil size during pas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,187 Views
22 Pages

Validating EEG, MEG and Combined MEG and EEG Beamforming for an Estimation of the Epileptogenic Zone in Focal Cortical Dysplasia

  • Frank Neugebauer,
  • Marios Antonakakis,
  • Kanjana Unnwongse,
  • Yaroslav Parpaley,
  • Jörg Wellmer,
  • Stefan Rampp and
  • Carsten H. Wolters

14 January 2022

MEG and EEG source analysis is frequently used for the presurgical evaluation of pharmacoresistant epilepsy patients. The source localization of the epileptogenic zone depends, among other aspects, on the selected inverse and forward approaches and t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,276 Views
16 Pages

Revisiting Hemispheric Asymmetry in Mood Regulation: Implications for rTMS for Major Depressive Disorder

  • Benjamin C. Gibson,
  • Andrei Vakhtin,
  • Vincent P. Clark,
  • Christopher C. Abbott and
  • Davin K. Quinn

14 January 2022

Hemispheric differences in emotional processing have been observed for over half a century, leading to multiple theories classifying differing roles for the right and left hemisphere in emotional processing. Conventional acceptance of these theories...

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