Background: The thalamus has been reported to be associated with pain modulation and processing. However, the functional changes that occur in the thalamus of vestibular migraine (VM) patients remain unknown. Methods: In total, 28 VM patients and 28...
Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a challenging entity with complicated symptoms for treatment in the male crowd. Accumulating evidence revealed the dysfunction in the central system should be a critical factor for the pat...
The goal of this paper is to investigate the baseline brain activity in euthymic bipolar disorder (BD) patients by comparing it to healthy controls (HC) with the use of a variety of resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) analys...
Linguistic deficits are frequent symptoms among stroke survivors. The neural mechanism of post-stroke aphasia (PSA) was incompletely understood. Recently, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) was widely used among several neu...
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) was used to investigate the effects of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) causing brain function changes in adolescents who suffered from depression and suicidal ideation (SI). A total of 30...
Background: In temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), locally reduced glucose metabolism (i.e., hypometabolism) is indicative of the epileptogenic onset zone (EZ). Here, we investigate the potential value of resting-state fMRI (rs-fMRI) for localizing the EZ...
Objects: The efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the treatment of adolescents with treatment-refractory depression is still unsatisfactory, and the individual differences are large. It is not clear which factors are related to the treatmen...
Background: Anxiety and depression symptoms are prevalent and persistent in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Most neuroimaging studies have examined PD patients presenting with isolated anxiety or depression, whereas few studies have spe...
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a safe, well-tolerated method of non-invasively eliciting cortical neuromodulation. It has gained recent interest, especially for its positive clinical outcomes in neurodegenerative diseases such as m...
Continuation of experience-dependent neural activity during offline sleep and wakefulness episodes is a critical component of memory consolidation. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), offline consolidation effects have been evidenced...
This study aimed to investigate whole-brain spontaneous activities changes in patients with vascular mild cognitive impairment (VaMCI), and to evaluate the relationships between these brain alterations and their neuropsychological assessments. Thirty...
To establish the characteristics of spontaneous neural activity during learning football juggling. We used fMRI to see which parts of the brain were changed by learning football juggling. Through recruitment, 111 college students (37 females and 74 m...
Background: Although it has been noticed that depressed patients show differences in processing emotions, the precise neural modulation mechanisms of positive and negative emotions remain elusive. FMRI is a cutting-edge medical imaging technology ren...
Background: Cataracts are associated with progressive blindness, and despite the decline in prevalence in recent years, it remains a major global health problem. Cataract extraction is reported to influence not only perception, attention and memory b...
In this paper, the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in the form of Convolutional Neural Networks (AlexNET) for the fast and energy-efficient fitting of the Dynamic Memdiode Model (DMM) to the conduction characteristics of bipolar-type resisti...
This essay argues that Jeremy Bentham’s experience of the 1780 Gordon Riots and 1787 sojourn to White Russia inspired his conception of several projects for managing unruly populations. Bentham’s devotion to speculative enterprise informs...
Memristor-based configuration memory offers an alternative solution to the volatility and large area overhead of conventional Static Random Access Memory (SRAM)-based FPGA configuration memory. Their non-volatile nature and the possibility of stackin...
Migration, whether triggered by single events, such as violent conflict, or by long term pressures related to environmental change or food insecurity is altering sustainable development in societies. Although there is a large amount of literature, th...
Individuals with schizophrenia (SZ) show impairment in social functioning. The reward network and the emotional salience network are considered to play important roles in social interaction. The current study investigated alterations in the resting-s...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been widely reported to cause abnormalities in brain structure and function, but the genetic mechanisms behind these changes remain largely unexplored. Our research aims to investigate the relationship between sleep...
Objective: Anxiety symptoms are persistent in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but the underlying neural substrates are still unclear. In the current study, we aimed to explore the underlying neural mechanisms in PD patients with anxiety symptoms. Met...
Neuropathic pain (NP) following spinal cord injury (SCI) is refractory to pain control strategies, and the underlying neuronal mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study aimed to determine the brain regions engaged in maintaining a spontaneous r...
Apathy is a common neuropsychiatric disease after stroke and is linked to a lower quality of life while undergoing rehabilitation. However, it is still unknown what are the underlying neural mechanisms of apathy. This research aimed to explore differ...
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners assess body constitution (BC) as a treatment basis for maintaining body homeostasis. We investigated patterns in spontaneous brain activity in different BC groups using resting-state functional magneti...
Introduction: Transcranial photobiomodulation (t-PBM) is a non-invasive metabolic neuromodulation technique intended to enhance cerebral bioenergetics by stimulating mitochondrial activity. To characterize both baseline metabolic vulnerability and re...
Aging is a significant risk factor for several neurodegenerative diseases. Understanding brain aging processes is a fundamental step in identifying the early signs of pathological dysfunction. Nonetheless, regional functional changes are still poorly...
The presence of different clinical symptoms in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) of different sexes may be related to different neuropathological mechanisms. A total of 16 male patients with TRD, 18 female patients with TRD, 18 male...
Background: Modulating spontaneous neuronal activity is critical for understanding and potentially treating neurological disorders, yet the comparative effects of different non-invasive brain stimulation techniques remain underexplored. Objective: Th...
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Background: Previous Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have mainly focused on cerebral functional alteration in processing different emotional stimuli in patients with narcolepsy type 1 (NT1), but were short of explor...
Self-ambivalence, a prevalent phenomenon in daily life, has been increasingly substantiated by research. It refers to conflicting self-views and evaluations, primarily concerning self-worth and morality. Previous behavioral research has distinguished...
Resting-state fMRIs (rs-fMRIs) have been widely used for investigation of diverse brain functions, including brain cognition. The rs-fMRI has easily elucidated rs-fMRI metrics, such as the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF), re...
Purpose: Brain areas frequently implicated in language recovery after stroke comprise perilesional sites in the left hemisphere and homotopic regions in the right hemisphere. However, the neuronal mechanisms underlying language restoration are still...
Damage to the visual cortex structures after high altitude exposure has been well clarified. However, changes in the neuronal activity and functional connectivity (FC) of the visual cortex after hypoxia/reoxygenation remain unclear. Twenty-three sea-...
Intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) is a high-efficiency transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) paradigm that has been applied to post-stroke aphasia (PSA). However, its efficacy mechanisms have not been clarified. This study aimed to explor...
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (L-DLPFC) is commonly used for the clinical treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). The neuroimaging biomarkers and mechanisms of rTMS are still not...
Functional abnormalities in brain areas within the fronto-limbic network have been widely reported in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). However, region- and network-level brain activities of the fronto-limbic network at rest have not been si...
Object detection in remote sensing images faces the challenges of a complex background, large object size variations, and high inter-class similarity. To address these problems, we propose an adaptive adjacent layer feature fusion (AALFF) method, whi...
Male and female patients with schizophrenia show significant differences in a number of important clinical features, yet the neural substrates of these differences are still poorly understood. Here we explored the sex differences in the brain functi...
The self-to-other model of empathy (SOME) states that a key reason for the empathic deficiency in autistic individuals is the imbalance of the self–other switch. The existing interventions of theory of mind contain training of self–other...
Background: Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is the most common etiological cause of low back pain (LBP). Objective and precise pain evaluation is of significant clinical value. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) as a noninvasive neuroimaging...
Background: Unhealthy food compensation following exercise contributes to the failure of exercise for weight loss. Autonomous exercise motivation is a protective factor against exercise-induced unhealthy foods licensing (EUFL). However, the neural me...
(1) Background: This study investigates the resting-state brain characteristics of skeleton athletes compared to healthy age-matched non-athletes, using resting-state fMRI to investigate long-term skeleton-training-related changes in the brain. (2) M...
Objectives: To explore the brain imaging correlates of the association between chess skill level and visual spatial working memory (VSWM) in school-aged children. Methods: This study analyzed a final sample of 20 school-aged children (aged 10–1...
Heterogeneity has been one of the main barriers to understanding and treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Previous studies have identified several subtypes of ASD through unsupervised clustering analysis. However, most of them primarily depic...
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) can be used to monitor and provide real-time feedback on brain signals, directly influencing external systems, such as virtual environments (VE), to support self-regulation. We piloted a novel immersive, first-p...
Objective: Schizophrenia (SZ) is a functional mental condition that has a significant impact on patients’ social lives. As a result, accurate diagnosis of SZ has attracted researchers’ interest. Based on previous research, resting-state f...
Breast cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide, and breast cancer accounts for 30% of female cancers. Of all the treatment modalities, breast cancer survivors who have undergone chemotherapy might complain about cognitive impairment during...
Background/Objectives: The cerebellum contributes to both motor and cognitive functions. As basketball requires the integration of these abilities, basketball athletes provide an ideal model for exploring cerebellar adaptations. This study aimed to e...
Long-term physical training is known to induce brain plasticity, yet how these neural adaptations evolve across different stages of training remains underexplored. This two-year longitudinal study investigated the stage-dependent effects of endurance...
Background: Frequent nocturnal arousals are a core feature of comorbid insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea (COMISA), yet the underlying central mechanisms remain unclear. Identifying brain functional correlates of nocturnal awakenings may help clari...
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