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Brain Sciences, Volume 14, Issue 4

April 2024 - 111 articles

Cover Story: Knowledge of the cognitive and motor contributions during learning phases can be helpful in developing effective and targeted interventions for healthy aging. Eighty-six healthy older participants underwent an extensive cognitive, motoric, and musical test battery. Within one session, one piano-related and one music-independent movement sequence were both learned. We tested the associations between skill performance and cognito-motor abilities with Bayesian mixed models accounting for individual learning rates. Results showed that performance was positively associated with all cognito-motor abilities. Learning a piano-related task was characterized by relatively strong initial associations between performance and abilities. These associations then weakened considerably before increasing exponentially from the second trial onwards, approaching a plateau. View this paper
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Articles (111)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,118 Views
13 Pages

Cerebral and Peripheral Immune Cell Changes following Rodent Juvenile Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Allie M. Smith,
  • Erin B. Taylor,
  • Ruth J. Brooks,
  • Christiano Dos Santos e Santos and
  • Bernadette E. Grayson

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability. TBI is associated with neuroinflammation, but temporal changes in immune and inflammatory signaling following TBI have not been fully elucidated. Furthermore, there ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,261 Views
16 Pages

The Impact of Fatigue on Sleep and Other Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease

  • Stefania Diaconu,
  • Vlad Monescu,
  • Rafaela Filip,
  • Laura Marian,
  • Cristian Kakucs,
  • Iulia Murasan,
  • K. Ray Chaudhuri,
  • Dragos Catalin Jianu,
  • Cristian Falup-Pecurariu and
  • Bianca Opritoiu

Fatigue is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but even so, it may still be underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed in current practice due to its non-specific manifestations. The aims of this study were to investigate the prevalence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,902 Views
19 Pages

In the past few years, significant advancements in microscopic imaging technology have led to the production of numerous high-resolution images capturing brain neurons at the micrometer scale. The reconstructed structure of neurons from neuronal imag...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,958 Views
16 Pages

The present meta-analysis summarizes brain activation for social cognition and emotion-processing tasks in borderline personality disorder (BPD). We carried out two meta-analyses to elaborate on commonalities and potential differences between the two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,734 Views
9 Pages

Racial and Socioeconomic Status among a Patient Population Presenting with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage versus Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm: A Single-Center Study

  • Ashia M. Hackett,
  • Christopher O. Adereti,
  • Ariel P. Walker,
  • Elsa Nico,
  • Lea Scherschinski,
  • Emmajane G. Rhodenhiser,
  • Adam T. Eberle,
  • Anant Naik,
  • Juan P. Giraldo and
  • Joelle N. Hartke
  • + 4 authors

Racial and socioeconomic health disparities are well documented in the literature. This study examined patient demographics, including socioeconomic status (SES), among individuals presenting with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) and unruptu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,107 Views
9 Pages

Objectives: To study sociodemographic and clinical variables, including psychiatric co-morbidities, in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Methods: A total of 158 patients attending a medical gastroenterology clinic in a tertiary care center in N...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,692 Views
24 Pages

Decades of research has revealed a relationship between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and brain development at the structural and functional levels. Of particular note is the distinction between income and maternal education, two highly correl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,305 Views
16 Pages

Home-Based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Primary Progressive Aphasia: A Pilot Study

  • Kyriaki Neophytou,
  • Kelly Williamson,
  • Olivia Herrmann,
  • Alexandros Afthinos,
  • Jessica Gallegos,
  • Nadine Martin,
  • Donna C. Tippett and
  • Kyrana Tsapkini

Background: This study aims to determine (a) if home-based anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (a-tDCS) delivered to the left supramarginal gyrus (SMG) coupled with verbal short-term memory/working memory (vSTM/WM) treatment (“RAM&rd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,269 Views
21 Pages

Our study examined the complex relationships among reading performance (decoding, comprehension) and language, visuo-spatial, and attentional control abilities in 115 Italian-speaking children. Latent profile analysis was used to identify distinct cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,744 Views
15 Pages

A Four-Week High-Fat Diet Induces Anxiolytic-like Behaviors through Mature BDNF in the mPFC of Mice

  • Huixian Huang,
  • Jia Huang,
  • Wensi Lu,
  • Yanjun Huang,
  • Ran Luo,
  • Luqman Bathalian,
  • Ming Chen and
  • Xuemin Wang

The effect of a high-fat diet (HFD) on mood is a widely debated topic, with the underlying mechanisms being poorly understood. This study explores the anxiolytic effects of a four-week HFD in C57BL/6 mice. Five-week-old mice were exposed to either an...

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Brain Sci. - ISSN 2076-3425