2026 June - 113 articles
Background/Objectives: Emotion recognition is a fundamental component of mammalian social cognition, enabling animals such as rodents to detect the emotional states of conspecifics and guide prosocial or avoidance behaviors. However, natural social l...
Objective: Hemispherotomy is an effective treatment for select forms of drug-resistant hemispheric epilepsy, including perinatal stroke, Rasmussen’s encephalitis, and Sturge–Weber syndrome. Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) has been reported...
Neurological disorders remain among the leading causes of long-term disability, care dependency and loss of healthy life worldwide [...]
Background: Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a clinical state between normal aging and dementia. It may involve impairment in one or several cognitive domains. MCI offers a key window for maintaining cognitive function and studying how deficits dev...
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the utility of MRI-based morphometric and qualitative parameters in identifying patients with suspected normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) associated with shunt surgery selection following clinical and lumbar...
Background/Objectives: Verb anomia is a common symptom of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), particularly in the logopenic variant (lvPPA). Despite the central role of verbs in sentence construction, interventions specifically targeting verb anomia r...
Background/Objectives. Automated lateral ventricle volumetry is increasingly used in population-based neuroimaging, but correlation between methods does not establish agreement of absolute volumes. We quantified agreement and calibration between Free...
Background/Objectives: Emotion processing has increasingly been conceptualized as a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying psychological adaptation and psychopathology. From an attachment perspective, individual differences in emotion perception may be...
Obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges worldwide and has reached the scale of a global epidemic. Its etiology is multifactorial and includes genetic, environmental, hormonal, and neurobiological factors. In recent years, increasi...
Background/Objectives: Advancements in neuroscience and machine learning have increasingly enabled brain pattern recognition based on bio-signal measurements, such as electroencephalography (EEG). These developments support next-generation technologi...
Background: Frequent consumption of foods high in fat and sugar (HFS) has been linked to disrupted appetite regulation (via hippocampal dysfunction) and an increased tendency to continue desiring palatable foods, even when physiologically full. While...
Background: Acute carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning can cause delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae (DNS) after a latent period, yet its pathophysiology remains poorly understood because of the lack of reproducible experimental models. Methods: We establish...
Introduction: The significant impact of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on health in adult life has been widely recognized. Among the comorbidities of this disorder in later life, dementia is one of the most relevant ones. We performe...
Background/Objectives: A current debate addresses where syntactic Merge primarily resides: the left-hemisphere posterior inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) or the temporo-parietal cortex. For proponents of the former, the temporo-parietal cortex supports m...
Background: Tinnitus is a prevalent auditory disorder associated with maladaptive cortical plasticity and aberrant neural synchronization across auditory and non-auditory brain networks. Acoustic desynchronization-based sound therapies, such as coord...
Background: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by reduced survival motor neuron (SMN) protein levels due to SMN1 gene mutations. The natural history of SMA has dramatically changed since innovative therapies were appr...
Background/Objectives: Assessing inhibitory function and error detection is crucial for the early detection of age-related cognitive decline. This study aimed to investigate the neural network dynamics underlying these functions in younger and older...
Visual working memory (VWM) declines with age and has been explained by multiple mechanisms, including reduced precision, capacity limitations, binding deficits, and altered attentional control. However, these accounts are typically framed within a u...
Hearing impairment is among the most prevalent sensory disorders worldwide, affecting far more than just auditory thresholds [...]
Background: While region-based models have informed pain neuroscience, chronic pain is now increasingly conceptualized as a network disorder. This narrative review aimed to critically examine the conceptual evolution of chronic pain models from regio...
Background/Objectives: Ganglion cells are the projection neurons of the retina, and there are multiple types that differ in their morphology, light responses and central projections. Parasol cells are one of the major retinal ganglion cell types in p...
Objective: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is disproportionately prevalent in incarcerated populations, yet the potential impact on cognitive functioning remains underexplored. This study examined the relationship between TBI history and cognitive perfo...
Background: RIDInet-Reading Trainer 2 (RT-2) is a web-platform for the remote treatment of developmental dyslexia (DD) which has been shown to improve reading performance. However, no previous studies have investigated stability in reading improvemen...
Background: In rodent models of intracranial tumor development, evaluating the actual burden experienced by animals beyond procedural severity is essential for ethical and legal compliance. This study examined whether voluntary wheel running (VWR) co...
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease, involves peripheral immune activation followed by CNS inflammation in a compartmentalized manner. Although high-efficacy disease-modifying therapies (HE-DMTs) have been effective in suppress...
Background: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) commonly exhibit impairments in executive functioning, which can affect their cognitive and adaptive functioning. Play-based neurohabilitation approaches have been proposed as complementary str...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a complex and heterogeneous psychiatric disorder with a high prevalence. Neuroinflammation may define biologically distinct patient subgroups with different mechanisms, clinical phenotypes, and treatment responses....
Background/Objectives: Assisted verticalization and supported upright activity are relevant components of rehabilitation in adults with severe acquired brain injury (sABI), although patient selection and implementation remain challenging. This retros...
Background/Objectives: Although early institutionalization has been linked to socioemotional difficulties, its relationship with interoception in early childhood remains unclear. This study examined differences in interoception, emotion regulation, a...
Background: Action observation (AO) and motor imagery (MI) are widely used cognitive training strategies. Recent evidence suggests that their combination may enhance motor simulation through synergistic neural mechanisms. However, the effects of this...
Neonatal seizures represent the most common neurological emergency in the neonatal period and arise within a uniquely immature and highly dynamic brain. Their recognition is challenging due to frequent electroclinical dissociation, with many seizures...
Extensive explorations in neuroscience, psychology, and psychotherapy increasingly recognized the embodied and relational foundations of selfhood, underscoring the need for an integrated framework spanning development, psychopathology, and therapeuti...
Background/Objective: Intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are high-flow cerebrovascular lesions associated with a significant risk of intracranial hemorrhage, neurological morbidity, and mortality. Current management strategies, including...
Background/Objectives: The oscillatory dynamics underlying stage-specific processing in working memory (WM) remain incompletely characterized, particularly under varying memory loads. We examined the load-dependent modulation of theta (4–7 Hz),...
Background: Sport-related injuries are common, and often recurrent, among female college soccer players. This exploratory cohort study investigated whether perceptual decision efficiency and sleep quality could discriminate between injured and uninju...
Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is traditionally described as a post-traumatic blood collection within the subdural space; however, both its anatomical localization and pathophysiology have been increasingly questioned. Ultrastructural and histopath...
The present Special Issue brings together five contributions that reflect the evolving landscape of modern neurosurgery, where technological innovation, multidisciplinary integration, and individualized patient care increasingly define clinical decis...
Informed consent is a core ethical and legal requirement in clinical practice. For individuals with aphasia, language impairments can hinder communication during consent processes. However, aphasia is primarily a language disorder and does not inhere...
Background: Adolescence and emerging adulthood are periods of heightened risk for the onset of psychopathology. Emotion dysregulation (ED), impulsiveness, and rumination are transdiagnostic processes implicated across symptom domains, but their relat...
Background: Spatial cognition, a skill paramount to survival, is impaired in Parkinson’s disease (PD) but has been little researched. Spatial cognition is utilized during motor–cognitive integration, which impacts daily functioning and qu...
The comorbidity of obesity and anxiety represents a complex condition with substantial health implications, exacerbating metabolic burden while compromising psychological well-being. Neurons in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) synthesize orexin-A and or...
Background: Insomnia is common among people with mental health conditions and can exacerbate symptoms, impair functioning and negatively impact treatment outcomes. Community mental health services require practical data to quantify the burden of inso...
Objective: To describe the surgical technique and early clinical outcomes of prone-transpsoas single-position corpectomy (PTP-corpectomy) for the management of complex thoracolumbar spinal pathology. Background: PTP-corpectomy is an emerging techniqu...
Background: Oral health is increasingly recognized as a potentially modifiable factor in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), although its influence on cognitive outcomes remains uncertain. Methods: This scoping review followed the Arksey and O’Mall...
The question “what is an emotion” is as old as the study of the mind and brain. Scientists from Western, English-speaking, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) nations tend to adopt certain definitions, but these definitions do no...
Traumatic injury is one of the most common causes of disorders of consciousness (DoC) worldwide, but the management and prognosis of DoC remain enigmatic. The uncertainty surrounding the natural course of DoC, the tendency of consciousness to wax and...
Neuroticism, a Big Five trait characterized by emotional instability and susceptibility to negative affect, is a robust transdiagnostic predictor for the onset, severity, and persistence of anxiety disorders, major depressive disorder (MDD), and othe...
Background/Objectives: Spirituality is increasingly recognised as a core dimension of holistic and palliative care. Neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease involve prolonged trajectorie...
Background/Objectives: Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) remains one of the most urgent unmet needs in psychiatry, while its therapeutic pipeline is evolving rapidly. To characterize current development trajectories, we conducted a registry-anchor...
Background/Objectives: Response inhibition is the capacity to restrain impulsive actions, representing a pivotal facet of cognitive control. Although several studies report a dynamic relationship between impulsivity and inhibitory control, the neural...
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