Functional dyspepsia and gastroparesis: are they distinct disorders, a spectrum of diseases or one disease? by Simon Keely, Nicholas J Talley, Michael Potter, Kerith Duncanson, Stella-Maris Egboh

“…FD is a common disorder of gut–brain interaction that negatively impacts quality of life, while GP is considered a rare disease exclusively defined by delayed gastric emptying and symptoms. …”
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The Simplified Reference Tissue Model with F-Fallypride Positron Emission Tomography: Choice of Reference Region by Kenji Ishibashi, Chelsea L. Robertson, Mark A. Mandelkern, Andrew T. Morgan, Edythe D. London

“…The development of high-affinity radiotracers for positron emission tomography (PET) has allowed for quantification of dopamine receptors in extrastriatal and striatal regions of the brain. As these new radiotracers have distinctly different kinetic properties than their predecessors, it is important to examine the suitability of kinetic models to represent their uptake, distribution, and in vivo washout. …”
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Legionnaires' Disease with Facial Nerve Palsy by Shailesh R. Basani, Salwa Mohamed Ahmed, Eyassu Habte-Gabr

“…The most common manifestation is encephalopathy suggesting a generalized brain dysfunction but focal neurological manifestations have been reported. …”
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Astrocyte and Neuronal Plasticity in the Somatosensory System by Robert E. Sims, John B. Butcher, H. Rheinallt Parri, Stanislaw Glazewski

“…However, in recent years, increasing evidence has emerged on the role of astrocytes in brain function, including plasticity. Indeed, astrocytes appear as necessary partners of neurons at the core of the mechanisms of coding and homeostatic plasticity recorded in neurons. …”
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Progression and diagnostic challenges of desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma in a non-infant: a case report with 5-year follow-up by Yan Yang, Xuzhu Chen, Xin Liu, Shiguang Li

“…A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain 2 years later revealed that the area of abnormal enhancement in the surgical site was approximately the same as before, and follow-up was continued. …”
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A Case of Persistent Generalized Retrograde Autobiographical Amnesia Subsequent to the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 by Yuji Odagaki

“…No abnormalities were detected by biochemical test and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Physicians and other professionals who take care of victims of disaster should be aware of dissociative spectrum disorders, such as psychogenic amnesia.…”
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Neural correlates of facial recognition deficits in autism spectrum disorder: a comprehensive review by Jianmei Liu, Jianmei Liu, Huihui Chen, Haijing Wang, Zhidan Wang

“…This review explores the neural mechanisms underlying these deficits, focusing on both functional anomalies and anatomical differences in key brain regions such as the fusiform gyrus (FG), amygdala, superior temporal sulcus (STS), and prefrontal cortex (PFC). …”
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Removal of Muscle Artifacts from Single-Channel EEG Based on Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition and Multiset Canonical Correlation Analysis by Xun Chen, Chen He, Hu Peng

“…This disturbing muscular activity strongly affects the visual analysis of EEG and impairs the results of EEG signal processing such as brain connectivity analysis. If multichannel EEG recordings are available, then there exist a considerable range of methods which can remove or to some extent suppress the distorting effect of such artifacts. …”
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Therapeutic Approaches for Peripheral and Central Neuropathic Pain by Délia Szok, János Tajti, Aliz Nyári, László Vécsei

“…Central chronic neuropathic pain can develop as a result of spinal cord or brain injury, stroke, or multiple sclerosis. As first-line pharmacological treatment options, tricyclic antidepressants, serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, and gabapentinoids are recommended. …”
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Specificity of Cognitive Impairment in Neurological Disease: A Methodological Critique of Parkinson’s Disease by H. J. Sagar

“…This critique presents some methodological issues relevant to the study of brain-behaviour and drug-behaviour relationships in syndromes of multiple cognitive deficit, using Parkinson's disease as the model. …”
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Adaptive Neuroplastic Responses in Early and Late Hemispherectomized Monkeys by Mark W. Burke, Ron Kupers, Maurice Ptito

“…Here we present a 20-year culmination of data on our nonhuman primate model (Chlorocebus sabeus) of early-life hemispherectomy in which behavioral recovery is interpreted in light of plastic processes that lead to the anatomical reorganization of the early-damaged brain. The model presented here suggests that significant functional recovery occurs after the removal of one hemisphere in monkeys with no preexisting neurological dysfunctions. …”
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Rational Suicide, Euthanasia, and the Very Old: Two Case Reports by Anne Pamela Frances Wand, Carmelle Peisah, Brian Draper, Carolyn Jones, Henry Brodaty

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PERANCANGAN PROTOTYPE MEKANISME GERAKAN JARI JEMPOL UNTUK ROBOT TERAPI STROK by Nur Abdi Abdillah Riyas, Gaguk Jatisukamto, Aris Zainul Muttaqin, Santoso Mulyadi, Hary Sutjahjono

“…Stroke is a functional disorder of the nervous system due to obstruction of blood flow to the brain. Rehabilitation is an effort to restore the function of the nervous system to a better condition than its current condition. …”
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An Interview Regarding Enactivism by Ralph D. Ellis

“…Partly as a result of those experiences, as well as being a life-long practitioner of Gene Gendlin’s focusing method, he gravitated toward emotion research and the intersection of philosophy, psychology and the brain sciences from the enactivist perspective, arguing that action, as opposed to mere reaction, has to be emotionally motivated, and that the understanding of all modalities of consciousness should include that perspective. …”
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SYSTEMIC GENERATION OF SOLVING NECESSARY PROFESSIONAL THE TASKS by Vladimir M. Nesterenko

“…It is argued, that if the information is represented in the form of parametric networks based on the principles of the brain, then the student will be much faster to process and evaluate such information. …”
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Iron Homeostasis Dysregulation, Oro-Gastrointestinal Microbial Inflammatory Factors, and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Narrative Review by Agata Kuziak, Piotr Heczko, Agata Pietrzyk, Magdalena Strus

“…Additionally, inflammatory agents produced by pathogenic bacteria may enter the body via two primary pathways: directly through the gut or indirectly via the oral cavity, entering the bloodstream and reaching the brain. This infiltration disrupts cellular homeostasis, induces neuroinflammation, and exacerbates AD-related pathology. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Gradient Descent Learning Algorithms in Artificial Neural Networks for Forecasting Indonesian Rice Prices by Rica Ramadana, Agus Perdana Windarto, Dedi Suhendro

“…Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are a field of computer science that mimics the way the human brain processes data. ANNs can be used to classify, estimate, predict, or simulate new data from similar sources. …”
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An Optimal Algorithm for Determining Risk Factors for Complex Diseases: Depressive Disorder, Osteoporosis, and Fracture in Young Patients with Breast Cancer Receiving Curative Surg... by Chieh-Yu Liu, Chun-Hung Chang

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Physical embodiment and anthropomorphism of AI tutors and their role in student enjoyment and performance by Helene Ackermann, Anja Henke, Johann Chevalère, Hae Seon Yun, Verena V. Hafner, Niels Pinkwart, Rebecca Lazarides

“…Data from 56 students (M = 17.75 years, SD = 2.63 years; 30.4% female), working with an emotionally-adaptive version of the ITS “Betty’s Brain”, were analyzed. The ITS’ agents were either depicted as on-screen robots (condition A) or as both on-screen avatars and physical robots (condition B). …”
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Neurocranial Pharmacodialysis Device for subarachnoid hemorrhage treatment—a perspective by Nandor Ludvig

“…The RESULTS showed the following four facts: (1) high-grade SAH requiring decompressive craniectomy readily offers, as the last step of the neurosurgical procedure, the safe closure of the opened cranium with the NPD while leaving the efficacy of the decompressive intervention intact. (2) The neurocranially attached NPD can automatically execute, as long as it is necessary, subarachnoid polypharmacy to prevent post-SAH vasospasm, reduce the risk of rebleeding, and provide neuroprotection in delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI), bypassing the blood-brain barrier (BBB) via connected subarachnoid strips. (3) These effects of drug delivery can be optimized with NPD-controlled long-term cleaning of the CSF and drainage of cellular debris, hydrocephalus, and interstitial edema accompanied by the subarachnoid dialysis of potentially neurotoxic extracellular molecules. (4) Safety and efficacy of these NPD operations are monitored, and possible epileptiform EEG is detected, via the wireless EEG system of the device. …”
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