Pilot study of a ketogenic diet in bipolar disorder: a process evaluation by Benjamin P. Rigby, Nicole Needham, Helen Grossi, Ivana Kamenska, Iain H. Campbell, Ben Meadowcroft, Frances Creasy, Cheryl Fisher, Pankaj Bahuguna, John Norrie, Gerard Thompson, Melissa C. Gibbs, Maja Mitchell-Grigorjeva, Ailsa McLellan, Tessa Moses, Karl Burgess, Rachel Brown, Michael J. Thrippleton, Harry Campbell, Daniel J. Smith, Sharon A. Simpson

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Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints by Gabriel Béna, Dan F. M. Goodman

“…Abstract The brain is structurally and functionally modular, although recent evidence has raised questions about the extent of both types of modularity. …”
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Cerebral Cystic Echinococcosis by Abolghasem Siyadatpanah, Enrico Brunetti, Amir Emami Zeydi, Yousef Dadi Moghadam, Nelson Iván Agudelo Higuita

“…CE can affect any organ with the liver and lungs being most commonly involved. The brain is involved in less than 2% of the cases. We report a case of a CE1 echinococcal cyst of the brain in an Iranian patient.…”
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La Dieta y la Salud del Cerebro by Wendy J Dahl, Alexa Barad, Pooja Tolani

“…This is the Spanish-language version of FSHN17-9/FS304, Diet and Brain Health. This 4-page document provides tips for healthful eating that may help to maximize brain health in older adults. …”
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Bilateral Glaucoma as Possible Additional Feature for PGAP3-Associated Hyperphosphatasia by Osama Obaid, Reem Batawi, Heba Alqurashi, Thana Ewis, Ahmad A. Obaid

“…Seven-month-old boy diagnosed with bilateral glaucoma had a cleft palate, facial dysmorphism, hypertelorism, a broad nasal bridge, and large fleshy earlobes. A brain MRI scan also revealed brain abnormalities. …”
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Erasing Synapses in Sleep: Is It Time to Be SHY? by Marcos Gabriel Frank

“…Converging lines of evidence strongly support a role for sleep in brain plasticity. An elegant idea that may explain how sleep accomplishes this role is the “synaptic homeostasis hypothesis (SHY).” …”
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Clinical case – medulloblastoma by A. Kablytė, R. Gleiznienė

“…Also, it is useful to evaluate postoperative brain tissue, whether the tumor resection was radical or not. …”
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The Role of C1-Esterase Inhibitors in the Management of Vasogenic Edema in Glioblastoma by Gillian R. Naro, Nicholas Noverati, Timothy Craig

“…Glioblastoma (GB) is one of the most common adult primary brain tumors, classified as a grade IV astrocytoma and highly malignant in nature. …”
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Pathological investigations on theileriosis caused by theileria annulata in brown calves by Nazır Dumanlı, M. Kemal Çiftçi

“…<p> In the histopathological examination, the following findings were seen; hemorrgahes and necrosis with inflamatory reactions in lymph nodes, necrosis and ulcers in the abomasum, bronchopnumonia and oedema in the lung, interstitial nephritis in the kidneys, increase in the number of lymphocytes in the bone marrow and brain vessels, slight hemorrhages and hypremia in the brain and menings, cell filtration and hemorrhages in the tymus.…”
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Paradoxical Facilitation of Attention in Healthy Humans by Shirley Fecteau, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Hugo Théoret

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The Processing of Global and Local Visual Information in Alzheimer’s Disease by Eriko Matsumoto, Yoshitaka Ohigashi, Misato Fujimori, Etsuro Mori

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Review of Neurobiologically Based Mobile Robot Navigation System Research Performed Since 2000 by Peter J. Zeno, Sarosh Patel, Tarek M. Sobh

“…In an attempt to better understand how the navigation part of the brain works and to possibly create smarter and more reliable navigation systems, many papers have been written in the field of biomimetic systems. …”
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Schizophrenia and Hyperostosis Frontalis Interna with History of Head Injury by Fatima Elghazouani

“…At the age of 3 years, she had a head injury that could be classified as mild traumatic brain injury. She presents a family history of schizophrenia. …”
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Using the Neurofibromatosis Tumor Predisposition Syndromes to Understand Normal Nervous System Development by Cynthia Garcia, David H. Gutmann

“…Herein, we review the processes governing normal brain development, discuss how brain cancer represents a disruption of these normal processes, and highlight insights into both normal development and cancer made possible by the study of tumor predisposition syndromes.…”
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Mixed Germ Cell Testicular Cancer with Left Ventricular Metastasis Presenting with Embolic Stroke and Small Bowel Tumor Seeding by Srinath Sundararajan, Beth Braunhut, Frederick Ahmann, Amit Agarwal

“…Testicular germ cell tumors (GCTs) metastasize in a very predictable fashion involving the retroperitoneal nodes first followed by hematogenous spread to distant organs like lungs, liver, and brain. Metastasis to heart is an extremely rare entity for GCT and fewer than 20 cases have been reported in the literature so far. …”
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Advances in neuromodulation for treatment of prolonged disorders of consciousness by HE Chen, SONG Ming, XU Long

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Identification of Molecular Signatures in Neural Differentiation and Neurological Diseases Using Digital Color-Coded Molecular Barcoding by Debora Salerno, Alessandro Rosa

“…We will also describe relevant examples of the use of this technique for the characterization of the heterogeneous composition of the brain tumor glioblastoma multiforme.…”
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Pharmacotherapy of Posttraumatic Cognitive Impairments by David B. Arciniegas, Jonathan M. Silver

“…This article reviews first the neurobiological consequences of traumatic brain injury with a particular emphasis on acute and long-term posttraumatic neurochemical disturbances. …”
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Epilepsy: The Quintessential Pathology of Consciousness by Andrea Eugenio Cavanna, Fizzah Ali

“…In addition, clinical and experimental models for the study of the brain correlates of ictal alterations of consciousness are discussed. …”
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Effects of Dual-Site Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Attention, Decision-Making, and Working Memory during Sports Fatigue in Elite Soccer Athletes by Fengxue Qi, Na Zhang, Michael A. Nitsche, Longyan Yi, Yingqiu Zhang, Tian Yue

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