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Brain Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 7

July 2017 - 23 articles

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Articles (23)

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,377 Views
10 Pages

Coagulopathy in the Setting of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Truths and Consequences

  • Joseph P. Herbert,
  • Andrew R. Guillotte,
  • Richard D. Hammer and
  • N. Scott Litofsky

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a common, although poorly-defined clinical entity. Despite its initially mild presentation, patients with mTBI can rapidly deteriorate, often due to significant expansion of intracranial hemorrhage. TBI-associate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,964 Views
11 Pages

Transgenerational Social Stress Alters Immune–Behavior Associations and the Response to Vaccination

  • Alexandria Hicks-Nelson,
  • Gillian Beamer,
  • Kursat Gurel,
  • Rachel Cooper and
  • Benjamin C. Nephew

Similar to the multi-hit theory of schizophrenia, social behavior pathologies are mediated by multiple factors across generations, likely acting additively, synergistically, or antagonistically. Exposure to social adversity, especially during early l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,007 Views
13 Pages

Brain Interaction during Cooperation: Evaluating Local Properties of Multiple-Brain Network

  • Nicolina Sciaraffa,
  • Gianluca Borghini,
  • Pietro Aricò,
  • Gianluca Di Flumeri,
  • Alfredo Colosimo,
  • Anastasios Bezerianos,
  • Nitish V. Thakor and
  • Fabio Babiloni

Subjects’ interaction is the core of most human activities. This is the reason why a lack of coordination is often the cause of missing goals, more than individual failure. While there are different subjective and objective measures to assess the lev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,362 Views
24 Pages

Using Machine Learning to Discover Latent Social Phenotypes in Free-Ranging Macaques

  • Seth Madlon-Kay,
  • Lauren Brent,
  • Michael Montague,
  • Katherine Heller and
  • Michael Platt

Investigating the biological bases of social phenotypes is challenging because social behavior is both high-dimensional and richly structured, and biological factors are more likely to influence complex patterns of behavior rather than any single beh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,022 Views
7 Pages

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is increasingly recognized as a significant public health problem which warrants additional research. Part of the effort to understand mTBI and concussion includes modeling in animals. Controlled cortical impact (CC...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,609 Views
12 Pages

During corticogenesis, neuronal migration is an essential step for formation of a functional brain, and abnormal migration is known to cause various neurological disorders. Neuronal migration is not just a simple movement of the cell body, but a cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,536 Views
21 Pages

The present study investigates a possible working memory (WM) difference between monolingual and bilingual groups and explores the relationship between their WM advantage and language practices. A mixed methods design was employed for the study. To m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,329 Views
13 Pages

Recent research into difficulties in figurative language in children with ASD highlighted that it is possible to devise training interventions to overcome these difficulties by teaching specific strategies. This study describes how children with ASD...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
11,340 Views
30 Pages

Patients with Lewy body disease (LBD) frequently experience visual hallucinations (VH), well-formed images perceived without the presence of real stimuli. The structural and functional brain mechanisms underlying VH in LBD are still unclear. The pres...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,367 Views
20 Pages

The dominantly-inherited ataxias characterised by expanded polyglutamine tracts—spinocere bellar ataxias (SCAs) 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 17, dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) and, in part, SCA 8—have all been shown to result in various degrees of c...

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