Medical Sciences Forum, Volume 8, Issue 1

The genus Asplenium L. comprises about 700 species of terrestrial, epiphytic, and saxicolous habits distributed in temperate and tropical regions around the world, exhibiting a high chemical richness with variable biological activity. In this review,...

The aim of this work was to assess the brain responses of expert cellists during a real (real-INT) or imagined (imag-INT) interpretation of two musical styles with different learning/training cognitive roots. EEGs of 12 cellists were recorded while t...

Background: Intraoperative ultrasound (ioUS) images of brain tumors contain information that has not yet been exploited. The present work aims to analyze images in both B-mode and strain-elastography using techniques based on artificial intelligence...

Background: Migraine is one of the most prevalent neurological disorders worldwide [1]. A large number of studies suggest that migraines are associated with the mental state of the patients, and especially with negative emotions [2]. One option to re...

This study investigated the effect of educational level and of the syntactic representation of numbers in Arabic on the task of transcoding two-digit numbers from dictation. The participants were primary, junior-high, and high school pupils and highe...

Nesting behavior in rodents, used to assess animal welfare/illness and instrumental tasks, is also proposed as valuable for disease monitoring, evaluating potential risk factors and interventions. The reliability of Deacon’s 5-point ordinal sca...

When it comes to neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the main causes of dementia in older people. Until now, studies have focused on alterations occurring in the brain. However, it has been shown that along with the...

Pomegranate juice (PJ) is a rich source of ellagitannins, precursors of the colonic metabolite urolithin A believed to contribute to pomegranate’s neuroprotective effect. While many experimental studies involving PJ’s role in Alzheimer&rs...

The impact of isolation has become a critical worldwide issue since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In nursing homes, the physical distance measures forced the separation of old patients in restricted areas and rooms to avoid the spread of the...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor dysfunction associated with a loss of dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and the presence of Lewy bodies, mainly composed o...