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Brain Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 3

March 2025 - 110 articles

Cover Story: Sleep appears to have a central role in Freud’s original model, since dreaming is considered the guardian of sleep. The function of dreaming is to protect sleep from disruption, thereby preserving its biological integrity. Freud also recognized sleep as an active process, given that human beings voluntarily withdraw from the external world to sleep. The discovery of REM sleep in the 1950s led psychoanalysts to view sleep as the necessary backdrop against which dreaming occurs. Although Freud dismissed the clinical importance of sleep disturbances, authors have since suggested that sleep disturbances might have specific psychological significance. Thanks to Freud’s work, the desire to sleep assumes an important role as a psychological, active factor that contributes to the occurrence and function of sleep. View this paper
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Articles (110)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,328 Views
11 Pages

Enhancing Grip Strength and Manual Dexterity in Unilateral Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized Trial of Mirror Visual Feedback vs. Modified Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy

  • Mohamed A. Abdel Ghafar,
  • Osama R. Abdelraouf,
  • Nouf H. Alkhamees,
  • Mariam E. Mohamed,
  • Eman M. Harraz,
  • Mohamed K. Seyam,
  • Zizi M. Ibrahim,
  • Amani Alnamnakani,
  • Amal A. Elborady and
  • Rafik E. Radwan

Background/Objectives: Manual dexterity and hand strength are common challenges in children with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP), limiting the use of their affected upper limb and impacting daily activities. The efficacy of a long-duration Mirror Vis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,549 Views
14 Pages

Sleep health is a multidimensional construct encompassing sleep quality, duration, efficiency, regularity, and alignment with circadian rhythms, playing a crucial role in overall well-being. Sleep health remains inconsistently defined across research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,594 Views
10 Pages

Infarct Growth Rate Predicts Early Neurological Improvement in Ischemic Stroke After Endovascular Thrombectomy

  • Zhihang Huang,
  • Shuaiyu Chen,
  • Bin Wei,
  • Yan E,
  • Jingwen Qi,
  • Xiaohao Zhang and
  • Teng Jiang

Background and Purpose: The infarct growth rate (IGR) is a major modifier of the therapeutic effect of endovascular thrombectomy. The objective of this paper was to explore the utility of the IGR measured by perfusion the imaging in predicting early...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1,333 Views
10 Pages

Treatment of Insomnia in Forensic Psychiatric Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

  • Maaike Marina Van Veen,
  • Gretha Johanna Boersma,
  • Julie Karsten and
  • Marike Lancel

Background: Insomnia is common in forensic psychiatric patients. Not only does insomnia severely impair general mental health, but it has specifically been associated with poor emotion regulation and self-control, potentially leading to problems in i...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,395 Views
9 Pages

QEVO®-Assisted Anatomical Inspection of Adjacent Perforators in Microsurgical Clipping—Technical Note

  • Adi Ahmetspahic,
  • Eldin Burazerovic,
  • Hana Rizvanovic,
  • Ema Selimovic,
  • Eleonora Kujaca,
  • Mirza Pojskic,
  • Alberto Feletti and
  • Kenan Arnautovic

Introduction: Aneurysms of brain vessels are life-threatening conditions with various adverse outcomes, some stemming from microsurgical intervention, particularly when major vessel perforators are inadequately protected. The use of endoscopes enhanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,688 Views
16 Pages

Background/Objectives: Emerging adults live in a time of rapid technological change, with social media playing a central role in their daily lives. While frequent use of social media is linked to reduced well-being, it also supports personal growth a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,298 Views
14 Pages

I Got Rhythm and Executive Function, Memory, and More: The Automated Test of Embodied Cognition (ATEC)

  • Morris D. Bell,
  • Yarani Gonzalez,
  • Andrea J. Weinstein,
  • David Ciosek,
  • Yan Wang and
  • Gihyun Yoon

Background: The Automated Test of Embodied Cognition (ATEC) is a new system for measuring cognition in action that uses cognitively demanding physical tasks and motion capture technology. Rhythm is one of the domains assessed by the ATEC across a num...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,340 Views
13 Pages

Phonemic–Phonological Profile of People with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: A Pilot Study

  • Esther Moraleda-Sepúlveda,
  • María Rubio-Lorca,
  • Noelia Pulido-García,
  • Noelia Santos-Muriel and
  • Javiera Espinosa-Villarroel

Background: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is considered as a rare disease. It is considered one of the most prevalent genetic disorders with multiple systemic and neuropsychological alterations. At present, there are few studies that define the linguisti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,545 Views
17 Pages

Background: Sleep disturbances are a core feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), affecting up to 90% of patients and often persisting after standard PTSD treatment. As all the current interventions have limitations, amygdala-targeted neuro...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1,441 Views
9 Pages

Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and End-Stage Renal Failure: A Case Report and a Literature Review

  • Konstantinos Paterakis,
  • Alexandros Brotis,
  • Adamantios Kalogeras,
  • Maria Karagianni,
  • Theodosios Spiliotopoulos,
  • Christina Arvaniti,
  • Argiro Petsiti,
  • Marianna Vlychou,
  • Efthimios Dardiotis and
  • Eleni Arnaoutoglou
  • + 1 author

Background and Objectives: End-stage renal failure (ESRF) patients are at an increased risk of various neurological complications, particularly after hemodialysis. The current case report describes a rare presentation of spontaneous intracranial hypo...

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