The human reward system encodes the subjective value of ideas during creative thinking by Sarah Moreno-Rodriguez, Benoît Béranger, Emmanuelle Volle, Alizée Lopez-Persem

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Searching for the cellular underpinnings of the selective vulnerability to tauopathic insults in Alzheimer’s disease by Justin Torok, Pedro D. Maia, Chaitali Anand, Ashish Raj

“…Abstract Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease exhibit pathological changes in the brain that proceed in a stereotyped and regionally specific fashion. …”
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From Uncertainty to Anxiety: How Uncertainty Fuels Anxiety in a Process Mediated by Intolerance of Uncertainty by Yuanyuan Gu, Simeng Gu, Yi Lei, Hong Li

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Retinal Electrophysiology Is a Viable Preclinical Biomarker for Drug Penetrance into the Central Nervous System by Jason Charng, Zheng He, Algis J. Vingrys, Rebecca L. Fish, Rachel Gurrell, Bang V. Bui, Christine T. Nguyen

“…Local injections into the eye/brain bypassed the blood neural barriers and produced changes in retinal/brain responses for both drugs. …”
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Infant neural processing of mother’s face is associated with falling reactivity in the first year of life by Silvia Rigato, Manuela Stets, Henrik Dvergsdal, Karla Holmboe

“…It is well established that faces evoke a distinct neural response in the adult and infant brain. Past research has focused on how the infant face-sensitive ERP components (N290, P400, Nc) reflect different aspects of face processing, however there is still a lack of understanding of how these components reflect face familiarity and how they change over time. …”
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Unexpected events trigger task-independent signaling in VIP and excitatory neurons of mouse visual cortex by Farzaneh Najafi, Simone Russo, Jérôme Lecoq

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Task difficulty modulates the effect of eye contact on word memory in females by Xinghe Feng, Qiqi Hu, Chaoxiong Ye, Zhonghua Hu

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Impaired Emotion Recognition after Left Hemispheric Stroke: A Case Report and Brief Review of the Literature by Hugo P. Aben, Yael D. Reijmer, Johanna M. A. Visser-Meily, Jacoba M. Spikman, Geert Jan Biessels, Paul L. M. de Kort, PROCRAS Study Group

“…Our case supports the notion that emotion recognition, including fear recognition, is regulated by a network of interconnected brain regions located in both hemispheres. We conclude that impaired emotion recognition is not uncommon after stroke and can be caused by dysfunction of this emotion-network.…”
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Reward signals in the motor cortex: from biology to neurotechnology by Gerard Derosiere, Solaiman Shokur, Pierre Vassiliadis

“…Abstract Over the past decade, research has shown that the primary motor cortex (M1), the brain’s main output for movement, also responds to rewards. …”
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The Many Forms and Functions of Long Term Plasticity at GABAergic Synapses by Arianna Maffei

“…While LTP and LTD are extensively studied and their relevance to brain function is widely accepted, new experimental and theoretical work recently demonstrates that brain development and function relies on additional forms of plasticity, some of which occur at nonglutamatergic synapses. …”
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Structural, Synaptic, and Epigenetic Dynamics of Enduring Memories by Ossama Khalaf, Johannes Gräff

“…In this review, we highlight three of the greatly addressed mechanisms that play a central role for a given memory to endure: the allocation of the memory to a given neuronal population and what brain areas are recruited for its storage; the structural changes that underlie memory persistence; and finally the epigenetic control of gene expression that might regulate and support memory perseverance. …”
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Nucleic Acid-Based Therapy Approaches for Huntington's Disease by Tatyana Vagner, Deborah Young, Alexandre Mouravlev

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Nest Relocation and Colony Founding in the Australian Desert Ant, Melophorus bagoti Lubbock (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Patrick Schultheiss, Sebastian Schwarz, Antoine Wystrach

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Neurological and psychiatric symptoms caused by congenital venous anomaly: clinical case and literature review by M. Gataveckaitė, R. Burbienė, R. Mameniškienė

“… One of the most common vascular brain malformations is developmental venous anomaly (DVA). …”
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Involvement of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Learning and Forgetting by Suk-yu Yau, Ang Li, Kwok-Fai So

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Endogenous 17β-estradiol regulates sexually dimorphic anxiety responses in zebrafish via the HPI axis and 5-HT/DA pathways by Hong Tao, Hong Tao, Ying–Ying Zhang, Ying–Ying Zhang, Yan–Jun Shen, Yan–Jun Shen, Qi–Liang Chen, Qi–Liang Chen, Zhi–Hao Liu, Zhi–Hao Liu

“…Females (C-F) showed significantly higher anxiety responses, along with elevated E2 and cortisol levels in plasma and brain, and reduced brain serotonin (5-HT) and dopamine (DA) levels compared to males (C-M). …”
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The REpeated ASSEssment of SurvivorS in intracerebral haemorrhage: protocol for a multicentre, prospective observational study by Daniel Woo, Richard Thompson, Carl D Langefeld, Nichol McBee, Daniel Hanley, Matthew L Flaherty, Lauren Sansing, Karen Lane, Lee A Gilkerson, Achala Vagal, Nathan Walborn, Wendy Ziai, Noeleen Ostapkovich, Kevin Triene, Timothy David Howard

“…Background The REpeated ASSEssment of SurvivorS (REASSESS) study will conduct long-term cognitive, functional and neuropsychiatric performance assessments to determine whether evacuation of spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) reduces the risk of later cognitive decline in the ageing brain.Methods and analysis This study will compare rates of cognitive decline under two treatment strategies for ICH. …”
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Altered Topological Properties of Grey Matter Structural Covariance Networks in Complete Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury Patients: A Graph Theoretical Network Analysis by Wen-Li Wang, Yu-Lin Li, Mou-Xiong Zheng, Xu-Yun Hua, Jia-Jia Wu, Fei-Fei Yang, Nan Yang, Xia He, Li-Juan Ao, Jian-Guang Xu

“…This study is aimed at investigating brain structural changes and structural network properties in complete spinal cord injury (SCI) patients, as well as their relationship with clinical variables. …”
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Is Lipid Profile Associated with Bone Mineral Density and Bone Formation in Subjects with Spinal Cord Injury? by Hadis Sabour, Abbas Norouzi Javidan, Sahar Latifi, Mohammad Reza Hadian, Seyed-Hassan Emami Razavi, Farzad Shidfar, Mohammad Reza Vafa, Hamidreza Aghaei Meybodi

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Distinct neural bases of visual art- and music-induced aesthetic experiences by Youjing Luo, Qianqian Yu, Shuyi Wu, Yue-jia Luo

“…Additionally, task-independent Resting-state Functional Connectivity (RSFC), task-dependent Meta-analytical Connectivity Modelling (MACM) analyses, as well as Activation Network Modeling (ANM) further showed that visual art and music engaged quite distinct brain networks. Our findings support the domain-specific view of aesthetic appreciation and challenge the notion that there is a general “common neural currency” for aesthetic experiences across domains.…”
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