Associations of Plasma BDNF and BDNF Gene Polymorphism with Cardiometabolic Parameters in Thai Children: A Pilot Study by Kanjana Suriyaprom, Banchamaphon Pheungruang, Somchai Pooudong, Pumpath Putpadungwipon, Chutima Sirikulchayanonta

“…Childhood obesity is an important public health crisis worldwide. The brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been demonstrated to play a role in controlling energy homeostasis and cardiovascular regulation. …”
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Metastatic Cerebellar Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor with Obstructive Hydrocephalus Arising from the Small Intestine: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Kunitomo Sato, Toshihide Tanaka, Naoki Kato, Takuya Ishii, Toru Terao, Yuichi Murayama

“…Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) is defined as a c-kit-positive gastrointestinal, mesenteric, or omental mesenchymal tumor that very rarely metastasizes to the brain. Metastasis to the cerebellum is particularly rare. …”
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Enhancing Plasticity of the Central Nervous System: Drugs, Stem Cell Therapy, and Neuro-Implants by Alice Le Friec, Anne-Sophie Salabert, Carole Davoust, Boris Demain, Christophe Vieu, Laurence Vaysse, Pierre Payoux, Isabelle Loubinoux

“…Biomaterials should ideally resemble lesioned brain structures in architecture and must be proven to increase functional reconnections within host tissue before clinical testing.…”
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Gender differences in the influencing factors of violent behavior in patients with schizophrenia by Xiaolei Qiu, Lu Wen, Wenqi Jiang, Rongrong Zhang, Hongjun Mao, Shiping Xie

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The TRPV1-PKM2-SREBP1 axis maintains microglial lipid homeostasis in Alzheimer’s disease by Xudong Sha, Jiayuan Lin, Kexin Wu, Jia Lu, Zhihua Yu

“…Lipid-droplet-accumulating microglia were identified in the aging mouse and human brain; however, little is known about the formation and role of lipid droplets in microglial neuroinflammation of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). …”
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EEG as a neural measure of hypoxia-related impairment by Stephanie R. Otto, Stephanie R. Otto, Cammi K. Borden, Cammi K. Borden, Daniel G. McHail, Kara J. Blacker

“…Here we review studies that have explored how hypoxia affects prominent EEG brain rhythms as well as responses to specific events or stimuli in the time and frequency domains. …”
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Movement in the Shadow of Sadness: How Physical Activity Supports the Fight Against Depression by Agata Ossolińska, Patrycja Marta, Filip Huzarski, Gabriela Ferfecka, Klaudia Pawełek, Lucyna Stolarska, Magdalena Rosa-Bończak, Natalia Morawiecka, Olivier Carlton, Weronika Kłosowicz

“…Additionally, physical effort reduces inflammation and oxidative stress, supporting brain health and countering neurodegenerative processes. …”
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Synchronization-based graph spatio-temporal attention network for seizure prediction by Jie Xiang, Yanan Li, Xubin Wu, Yanqing Dong, Xin Wen, Yan Niu

“…Abstract Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder in which abnormal brain waves propagate rapidly in the brain in the form of a graph network during seizures, and seizures are extremely sudden. …”
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Ammonia and hydrogen sulfide - new insights into gut microbiota and male infertility through meta-analysis by Yanan Hao, Yanan Hao, Yanan Hao, Xin Du, Chang Cai, Yong Zhao, Yonglin Ren

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Genetic approaches to the investigation of serotonergic neuron functions in animals by U. S. Drozd, E. V. Shaburova, N. N. Dygalo

“…In particular, genetic knockouts of serotonin genes sert, pet1, and tph2 promoted the determination of their contribution to the development and functioning of the brain. In addition, the review describes inducible models that allow gene expression to be controlled at various developmental stages. …”
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Pathophysiology of Penetrating Captive Bolt Stunning in Horned and Polled Sheep and Factors Determining Incomplete Concussion by Troy John Gibson, Anne Lisa Ridler, Georgina Limon, Christopher Lamb, Alun Williams, Neville George Gregory

“…MRI provided detailed insights into brain injuries, aligning well with gross pathological findings. …”
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Lexical-Semantic Variables Affecting Picture and Word Naming in Chinese: A Mixed Logit Model Study in Aphasia by Davide Crepaldi, Wei-Chun Che, I.-Fan Su, Claudio Luzzatti

“…We found that grammatical class interacts consistently across tasks with morphological structure: all participants, both healthy and brain-damaged, found simple nouns significantly easier to read and name than complex nouns, whereas simple and complex verbs were of comparable difficulty. …”
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Evaluating CNN Architectures and Hyperparameter Tuning for Enhanced Lung Cancer Detection Using Transfer Learning by Mohd Munazzer Ansari, Shailendra Kumar, Umair Tariq, Md Belal Bin Heyat, Faijan Akhtar, Mohd Ammar Bin Hayat, Eram Sayeed, Saba Parveen, Dustin Pomary

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Sports participation & childhood neurocognitive development by Fu-Miao Tan, Junhong Yu, Alicia M. Goodwill

“…We investigated the impact of different organised sports on neurocognitive development in children (N = 11,878; aged 9–11) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. Participants were classified into four categories based on their sports involvement at baseline and two years later: none, individual-based, team-based, or both. …”
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Role of insulin-like growth factor-2 in Alzheimer’s disease induced memory impairment and underlying mechanisms by Ruiqi Chen, Xing Lu, Anqi Xiao, Junpeng Ma, Junpeng Ma

“…Treatments for AD do not reverse the loss of brain function; rather, they decrease the rate of cognitive deterioration. …”
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Frontotemporal Dementia, Manifested as Schizophrenia, with Decreased Heterochromatin on Chromosome 1 by Philippos Gourzis, Maria Skokou, Panagiotis Polychronopoulos, Evanthia Soubasi, Irene-Eva Triantaphyllidou, Christos Aravidis, Antonia-Ioanna Sarela, Zoe Kosmaidou

“…Focal atrophy of frontal and anterior temporal structures bilaterally was found on brain MRI, as well as bifrontal hypo perfusion of the brain on SPECT scan. …”
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Imagined and Actual Acupuncture Effects on Chronic Low Back Pain: A Preliminary Study by Jin Cao, Scott P. Orr, Georgia Wilson, Jian Kong

“…Research suggests that imagined experiences can produce brain responses similar to those produced by actual experiences. …”
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The temporal structure of multiple visuomotor processes in baseball batting: insights from a virtual reality system by Naoki Saijo, Takehiro Fukuda, Makio Kashino

“…These findings suggest a temporal structure in the brain’s processing: After the start of pitching, the batter’s brain first handles the computations for swing timing adjustment, followed by swing decision-making, and finally swing trajectory adjustment. …”
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Ablation of lipocalin-2 reduces neuroinflammation in a mouse model of Krabbe disease by Jacob Favret, Malabika Maulik, Rayan Masoom, Meghana Kushwaha, Devin Thompson, Richard Browne, Daesung Shin

“…Pro-inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α, MMP3, and MCP-1 were significantly downregulated in the brain of the double KO mice compared to Galc-KO. …”
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Combined Supplementation of Choline and Docosahexaenoic Acid during Pregnancy Enhances Neurodevelopment of Fetal Hippocampus by Huban Thomas Rajarethnem, Kumar Megur Ramakrishna Bhat, Malsawmzuali Jc, Siva Kumar Gopalkrishnan, Ramesh Babu Mugundhu Gopalram, Kiranmai Sesappa Rai

“…Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is a polyunsaturated fatty acid, highly enriched in cell membranes of the brain. Dietary intake of choline or DHA alone by pregnant mothers directly affects fetal brain development and function. …”
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