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David D. Aguilar, Robert E. Strecker, Radhika Basheer et al. · 2019 · Journal of Neurophysiology
The type 5 metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR5) represents a novel therapeutic target for schizophrenia and other disorders. Schizophrenia is associated with progressive abnormalities in cortical oscillatory processes including reduced…
View details →Annika Melinder, Svein Magnussen · 2014 · Psychology Crime and Law
Expert witnesses have various tasks that frequently include issues of memory. We tested if expert witnesses outperform other practitioners on memory issues of high relevance to clinical practice. We surveyed psychiatrists and psychologists…
View details →Christian Kieling, Mara Helena Hutz, Júlia Pasqualini Genro et al. · 2012 · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: The study of gene-environment interactions (G × E) is one of the most promising strategies to uncover the origins of mental disorders. Replication of initial findings, however, is essential because there is a strong possibility…
View details →Logan A. Pendergrast, L Lundell, Amy M. Ehrlich et al. · 2023 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The circadian clock is a cell-autonomous transcription–translation feedback mechanism that anticipates and adapts physiology and behavior to different phases of the day. A variety of factors including hormones, temperature, food-intake,…
View details →Anna Maria Matziorinis, Christian Gaser, Stefan Koelsch · 2022 · Brain Structure and Function
Music-making and engagement in music-related activities have shown procognitive benefits for healthy and pathological populations, suggesting reductions in brain aging. A previous brain aging study, using Brain Age Gap Estimation (BrainAGE), showed that professional and amateur-musicians had younger appearing brains than non-musicians. Our study sought to replicate those findings and analyze if musical training or active musical engagement was necessary to produce an age-decelerating effect in a cohort of healthy individuals. We scanned 125 healthy controls and investigated if musician status,
View details →Sook-Lei Liew, Tziporah Thompson, Joel Ramirez et al. · 2018 · Frontiers in Neuroscience
We routinely make fine motor adjustments to maintain optimal motor performance. These adaptations have been attributed to both implicit, error-based mechanisms, and explicit, strategy-based mechanisms. However, little is known about the neural basis of implicit vs. explicit learning. Here, we aimed to use anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to probe the relationship between different brain regions and learning mechanisms during a visuomotor adaptation task in humans. We hypothesized that anodal tDCS over the cerebellum (CB) should increase implicit learning while anodal tDCS
View details →Tao Yu, Hui Gao, Benjamin Ackerman et al. · 2016 · BMC Genomics
BACKGROUND: Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors (RRB), one of the core symptom categories for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), comprises heterogeneous groups of behaviors. Previous research indicates that there are two or more factors (subcategories) within the RRB domain. In an effort to identify common variants associated with RRB, we have carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE) dataset (n = 1,335, all ASD probands of European ancestry) for each identified RRB subcategory, while allowing for comparisons of associated single nucleot
View details →Kevin van Schie, Arne Leer · 2019 · Clinical Psychological Science
In this direct replication of Houben, Otgaar, Roelofs, and Merckelbach ( Clinical Psychological Science, 6, 610–616, 2018), we tested whether making eye movements during memory recall increases susceptibility to creating false memories.…
View details →Simon Ruch, Flavio Jean Schmidig, Leona Knüsel et al. · 2022 · NeuroImage
Slow-wave sleep is the deep non-rapid eye-movement (NREM) sleep stage that is most relevant for the recuperative function of sleep. Its defining property is the presence of slow oscillations (<2 Hz) in the scalp electroencephalogram (EEG). Slow oscillations are generated by a synchronous back and forth between highly active UP-states and silent DOWN-states in neocortical neurons. Growing evidence suggests that closed-loop sensory stimulation targeted at UP-states of EEG-defined slow oscillations can enhance the slow oscillatory activity, increase sleep depth, and boost sleep's recuperative fun
View details →Kenia Martínez, Sarah K. Madsen, Anand A. Joshi et al. · 2015 · Human Brain Mapping
People differ in their cognitive functioning. This variability has been exhaustively examined at the behavioral, neural and genetic level to uncover the mechanisms by which some individuals are more cognitively efficient than others.…
View details →Joost de Winter, Sebastiaan M. Petermeijer, Lars Kooijman et al. · 2021 · International Journal of Psychophysiology
Several papers by Eckhard Hess from the 1960s and 1970s report that the pupils dilate or constrict according to the interest value, arousing content, or mental demands of visual stimuli. However, Hess mostly used small sample sizes and undocumented luminance control. In a first experiment (N = 182) and a second preregistered experiment (N = 147), we replicated five studies of Hess using modern equipment. Our experiments (1) did not support the hypothesis of gender differences in pupil diameter change with respect to baseline (PC) when viewing stimuli of different interest value, (2) showed tha
View details →Fanxing Meng, Cristy Ho, Rob Gray et al. · 2014 · Ergonomics
Three experiments were conducted to assess the effectiveness of dynamic vibrotactile warning signals with different spatial patterns and to compare dynamic towards-torso and towards-head vibrotactile warnings in a simulated driving task.…
View details →Tomer Fekete, Andrey R. Nikolaev, Floris De Knijf et al. · 2018 · Frontiers in Neuroscience
Transcranial alternating-current stimulation (tACS) for entraining alpha activity holds potential for influencing mental function, both in laboratory and clinical settings. While initial results of alpha entrainment are promising, questions remain regarding its translational potential-namely if tACS alpha entrainment is sufficiently robust to context and to what extent it can be upscaled to multi-electrode arrangements needed to direct currents into precise brain loci. We set out to explore these questions by administering alternating current through a multi-electrode montage (mtACS), while va
View details →William H.B. McAuliffe · 2018 · Thinking & Reasoning
The past few decades of moral psychology research have yielded empirical anomalies for rationalist theories of moral judgments. An increasing number of psychologists and philosophers argue that these anomalies are explained well by…
View details →Ashley M. Brouillette, Gülin Öz, Christopher M. Gómez · 2015 · Disease Markers
Neurodegenerative diseases, including the spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA), would benefit from the identification of reliable biomarkers that could serve as disease subtype-specific and stage-specific indicators for the development and monitoring of treatments. We analyzed the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) level of tau, α-synuclein, DJ-1, and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), proteins previously associated with neurodegenerative processes, in patients with the autosomal dominant SCA1, SCA2, and SCA6, and the sporadic disease multiple system atrophy, cerebellar type (MSA-C), compared with age-ma
View details →Susan G. Brown, Ryan K.M. Ikeuchi, Daniel R. Lucas · 2014 · Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
The interaction between the behavioral and physiological immune systems provides fertile ground for research. Here, we examine the interactions between fear of disease, collectivism/individualism, disgust, visual perception and salivary…
View details →Anja Achtziger, Carlos Alós‐Ferrer, Sabine Hügelschäfer et al. · 2015 · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Standard economic thinking postulates that increased monetary incentives should increase performance. Human decision makers, however, frequently focus on past performance, a form of reinforcement learning occasionally at odds with rational…
View details →So-Yeon Kim, Kelly S. Giovanello · 2011 · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Numerous studies have documented that older adults (OAs) do not perform as well as young adults (YAs) when task demands require the establishment or retrieval of a novel link between previously unrelated information (relational memory:…
View details →Fabian A. Soto · 2018 · Journal of Experimental Psychology General
In a recent article, Maes et al. (2016) report the results from 15 experiments in the blocking effect, all of which failed to replicate the basic phenomenon. Whereas Maes et al. did not dispute the reality of the blocking effect, they…
View details →Alejandro Gella, Mònica Segura, Núria Durany et al. · 2011 · BMC Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: Genome wide association studies reported two single nucleotide polymorphisms in ANK3 (rs9804190 and rs10994336) as independent genetic risk factors for bipolar disorder. Another SNP in ANK3 (rs10761482) was associated with schizophrenia in a large European sample. Within the debate on common susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, we tried to investigate common findings by analyzing association of ANK3 with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and unipolar depression. METHODS: We genotyped three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ANK3 (rs9804190, rs10994336,
View details →John D. Tompkins, Todd A. Clason, Jean C. Hardwick et al. · 2016 · American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology
Pituitary adenylate cyclase (PAC)-activating polypeptide (PACAP) peptides ( Adcyap1) signaling at the selective PAC1 receptor ( Adcyap1r1) participate in multiple homeostatic and stress-related responses, yet the cellular mechanisms…
View details →Harrison E. Vieth, Katie L. McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray · 2014 · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
How does the presence of a categorically related word influence picture naming latencies? In order to test competitive and noncompetitive accounts of lexical selection in spoken word production, we employed the picture-word interference…
View details →Huaxin Fan, Hewei Wang, Zhengxu Lian et al. · 2026 · Journal of Stroke
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Therapeutic target selection in noninvasive brain stimulation for poststroke motor recovery typically relies on the interhemispheric inhibition model, which is effective for mildly affected patients but offers…
View details →Tong He, Ru Kong, Avram J. Holmes et al. · 2018
In recent years, deep learning has transformed the field of machine learning. In the field of neuroimaging, there are increasing interests in adopting deep learning techniques. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) usually need large…
View details →Alba Di Pardo, Elena Ciaglia, Monica Cattaneo et al. · 2020 · Cell Death and Disease
Abstract The longevity-associated variant (LAV) of the bactericidal/permeability-increasing fold-containing family B member 4 (BPIFB4) has been found significantly enriched in long-living individuals. Neuroinflammation is a key player in Huntington’s disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disorder caused by neural death due to expanded CAG repeats encoding a long polyglutamine tract in the huntingtin protein (Htt). Herein, we showed that striatal-derived cell lines with expanded Htt (STHdh Q 111/111 ) expressed and secreted lower levels of BPIFB4, when compared with Htt expressing cells (STHdh Q 7/
View details →Annelies Spek, Evert Scholte, Ina A. van Berckelaer‐Onnes · 2010 · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
Local information processing in 42 adults with high functioning autism, 41 adults with Asperger syndrome and 41 neurotypical adults was examined. Contrary to our expectations, the disorder groups did not outperform the neurotypical group…
View details →Recep A. Ozdemir, Sofia Kirkman, Justine R. Magnuson et al. · 2022 · Neuroimage Reports
Prior studies have suggested that oscillatory activity in cortical networks can modulate stimulus-evoked responses through time-varying fluctuations in neural excitation-inhibition dynamics. Studies combining transcranial magnetic…
View details →Jack Dempsey, Qiawen Liu, Kiel Christianson · 2020 · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
Previous work has ostensibly shown that readers rapidly adapt to less predictable ambiguity resolutions after repeated exposure to unbalanced statistical input (e.g., a high number of reduced relative-clause garden-path sentences), and…
View details →Julia D. Hur, Loran F. Nordgren · 2016 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
The current research examines how exposure to performance incentives affects one's desire for the reward object. We hypothesized that the flexible nature of performance incentives creates an attentional fixation on the reward object (e.g.,…
View details →Mark Alfano · 2018 · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation)
Virtues are dispositions that make their bearers admirable. Dispositions can be studied scientifically by systematically varying whether their alleged bearers are in (or take themselves to be in) the dispositions' eliciting conditions. In…
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