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Brain Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 4

2017 April - 12 articles

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Articles (12)

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,117 Views
14 Pages

Diverse ‘-omics’ technologies permit the comprehensive quantitative profiling of a variety of biological molecules. Comparative ‘-omics’ analyses, such as transcriptomics and proteomics, are powerful and useful tools for unraveling the molecular path...

  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
15,305 Views
21 Pages

In recent years, two separate research streams have focused on information sharing between the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and hippocampus (HC). Research into spatial working memory has shown that successful execution of many types of behaviors r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interaction Between the Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus in Memory Storage and Retrieval)
  • Article
  • Open Access
209 Citations
19,515 Views
21 Pages

Virtual Reality for Research in Social Neuroscience

  • Thomas D. Parsons,
  • Andrea Gaggioli and
  • Giuseppe Riva

The emergence of social neuroscience has significantly advanced our understanding of the relationship that exists between social processes and their neurobiological underpinnings. Social neuroscience research often involves the use of simple and stat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Best Practices in Social Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
16,266 Views
9 Pages

How Hyperarousal and Sleep Reactivity Are Represented in Different Adult Age Groups: Results from a Large Cohort Study on Insomnia

  • Ellemarije Altena,
  • Ivy Y. Chen,
  • Yannick Daviaux,
  • Hans Ivers and ,
  • Pierre Philip and
  • Charles M. Morin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Hyperarousal is a 24-h state of elevated cognitive and physiological activation, and is a core feature of insomnia. The extent to which sleep quality is affected by stressful events—so-called sleep reactivity—is a vulnerability factor for developing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Research in Insomnia)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,178 Views
9 Pages

A subset of patients with a demyelinating disease suffer from concurrent cervical spondylotic myelopathy, both of which evince similar symptomatology. Differentiating the cause of these symptoms is challenging, and little research has been done on pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathophysiology and Imaging Diagnosis of Demyelinating Disorders)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,343 Views
14 Pages

Hippocampal Neuronal Loss in Infant Macaques Orally Infected with Virulent Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)

  • Heather Carryl,
  • Koen K. A. Van Rompay,
  • Kristina De Paris and
  • Mark W. Burke

The neurological impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) on children includes loss of brain growth, motor abnormalities and cognitive dysfunction. Despite early antiretroviral treatment (ART) intervention to suppress viral load, neurological con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,918 Views
22 Pages

Seed Location Impacts Whole-Brain Structural Network Comparisons between Healthy Elderly and Individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Lauren Zajac,
  • Bang-Bon Koo,
  • Corinna M. Bauer,
  • Ron Killiany and
  • Behalf of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Whole-brain networks derived from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data require the identification of seed and target regions of interest (ROIs) to assess connectivity patterns. This study investigated how initiating tracts from gray matter (GM) or whi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
13,165 Views
17 Pages

The Role of HIV Infection in Neurologic Injury

  • Rossana Scutari,
  • Claudia Alteri,
  • Carlo Federico Perno,
  • Valentina Svicher and
  • Stefano Aquaro

The central nervous system (CNS) is a very challenging HIV-1 sanctuary, in which HIV-1 replication is established early on during acute infection and can persist despite potent antiretroviral treatments. HIV-1 infected macrophages play a pivotal role...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
10,804 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Mental Spelling Application Based on Eye Tracking and SSVEP-Based BCI

  • Piotr Stawicki,
  • Felix Gembler,
  • Aya Rezeika and
  • Ivan Volosyak

Steady state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs)-based Brain-Computer interfaces (BCIs), as well as eyetracking devices, provide a pathway for re-establishing communication for people with severe disabilities. We fused these control techniques into a n...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,076 Views
4 Pages

Identifying, recruiting, and enrolling persons in clinical trials of dementia treatments is extremely difficult. One approach to first-wave screening of potential participants is the use of online assessment tools. Initial studies using the Dementia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Factors for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI))
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
13,334 Views
41 Pages

Schizophrenia patients are waiting for a treatment free of detrimental effects. Psychotic disorders are devastating mental illnesses associated with dysfunctional brain networks. Ongoing brain network gamma frequency (30–80 Hz) oscillations, naturall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,153 Views
11 Pages

Intensive Sleep Re-Training: From Bench to Bedside

  • Leon Lack,
  • Hannah Scott,
  • Gorica Micic and
  • Nicole Lovato

Intensive sleep re-training is a promising new therapy for chronic insomnia. Therapy is completed over a 24-h period during a state of sleep deprivation. Improvements of sleep and daytime impairments are comparable to the use of stimulus control ther...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Research in Insomnia)
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