Advances in Stem Cell Therapy for Huntington’s Disease: A Comprehensive Literature Review by Siddharth Shah, Hadeel M. Mansour, Brandon Lucke-Wold

“…NSCs have been generated and extracted from a variety of sources, including HD patients’ somatic cells and the brain itself. There is strong evidence supporting the transplantation of stem cells or their derivatives in HD animal models, even if stem-cell-based preclinical and clinical trials are still in their early stages. …”
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Cerebral Blood Flow in Orthostatic Intolerance by Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Amanda J. Miller, Arooba Ejaz, Jeroen Molinger, Parag Goyal, David B. MacLeod, Ashley Swavely, Elyse Wilson, Meghan Pergola, Harikrishna Tandri, Camille Frazier Mills, Satish R Raj, Marat Fudim

“…Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is vital for delivering oxygen and nutrients to the brain. Many forms of orthostatic intolerance (OI) involve impaired regulation of CBF in the upright posture, which results in disabling symptoms that decrease quality of life. …”
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Non-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnosing Pituitary Micro-Adenoma, Taking Histopathology as Gold Standard by Sehar Sarfraz, Tayyaba Ali, Pakeeza Shafiq, Zartashia Khan, Waqar Azeem, Ghazala Rasool, Ehsan Ul Haq

“…IRB/18/2024/01) included 121 patients presenting with severe headaches and focal brain lesions on CT scans at Doctors Hospital, Lahore from September 2024 to November 2024. …”
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The relationship between psychological distress and neurotrophins in patients with alopecia areata: A crosssectional study by Hatice Parlak Subaşı, Hilal Kaya Erdoğan, Ersoy Acer, Evin Kocatürk, Ali Ercan Altınöz, Zeynep Nurhan Saraçoğlu, Muzaffer Bilgin

“…The Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS) and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) were used in the evaluation of psychological distress. Serum levels of NTs [brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), nerve growth factor (NGF), neurotrophin-3 (NT-3), and neurotrophin-4 (NT-4)] were measured. …”
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Preface by Susanne Ditlevsen, Petr Lansky

“…Understanding how the brain processes information is one of the mostchallenging subjects in neuroscience. …”
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Hydrolase-Treated Royal Jelly Attenuates H2O2- and Glutamate-Induced SH-SY5Y Cell Damage and Promotes Cognitive Enhancement in a Rat Model of Vascular Dementia by Nualpun Sirinupong, Worrapanitch Chansuwan, Pratchaya Kaewkaen

“…Therefore, we hypothesized that royal jelly, a well-known traditional medicine, could attenuate memory impairment and brain damage in vascular dementia. This study determined the effects of royal jelly hydrolysate (RJH) and possible mechanism of cell damage and cognitive-enhancing effect in animal study. …”
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Pre-therapeutic efficacy of the CDK inhibitor dinaciclib in medulloblastoma cells by Marta Buzzetti, Sonia Morlando, Dimitrios Solomos, Ammara Mehmood, Alexander W. I. Cox, Mattia Chiesa, Yuri D’Alessandra, Michela Garofalo, Caroline H. Topham, Gianpiero Di Leva

“…Abstract Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common aggressive paediatric brain tumour and, despite the recent progress in the treatments of MB patients, there is still an urgent need of complementary or alternative therapeutic options for MB infants. …”
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Combined balloon plus stent technique for treatment of intracranial aneurysm: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mohammad Amin Habibi, Mohammad Reza Arshadi, Hossein Gharedaghi, Farhang Rashidi, Ali Asgarzadeh

“…Abstract Background Intracranial aneurysms are weak spots in brain vessels that are at a higher risk of rupture and hemorrhage. …”
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Physical activity for children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ole Jakob Storebø, Marie-Louise Jensen, Merete Bender Bjerrum, Marianne Vamosi

“…Physical activity is thought to alter the physiology of ADHD by affecting the same catecholaminergic system in the brain which is targeted by medication.Methods and analysis This protocol is written in accordance with the ‘Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols’ guideline. …”
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Peculiarities of identification of persons who died during martial law (literature review) by A.M. Biliakov, N.M. Erhard

“…The features of identification of putrefied persons are characterized, which consist in the possibility of DNA extraction from smears from the wall of the aorta, the wall of the urinary bladder, brain tissue and intact teeth. It is proven that the identification of dead persons during the martial law is complicated by the influence of the thermal factor, as well as pronounced putrefactive changes. …”
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Epilepsy and Child History in Dr. Jamal Ahmad Rashid Pediatric Teaching Hospital Sulaymaniyah /Iraq by Awayi Ghazy Abdulkareem

“…Epilepsy is a chronic neurological illness that is the most prevalent severe brain problem worldwide .The purpose of this research is to determine the importance of certain risk variables for epilepsy in children in Sulaimani City, such as age, gender, head trauma, nervous system infectious diseases including meningitis and unusual perinatal history, low birth weight, neonate respiratory failure, neonatal seizure, socioeconomic status, as well as parent consanguinity. …”
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The Processing of Phi-features in Sentences with Third-person Pronoun: An ERP Study in Turkish by Mehmet AYGÜNEŞ

“…The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a difference in the processing of Person and Number features in sentences with third-person pronouns in Turkish using Event-related Brain Potentials (ERPs). In this study, three conditions, namely Grammatical, Person Mismatch and Number Mismatch, were presented visually in words to 33 participants. …”
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Pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding experience of women with epilepsy in Me’enit community, South West Ethiopia by Rahel Yaekob, Tefera Belachew

“…Abstract Introduction Poor obstetric care leading to prenatal brain injury is thought to be one potential cause of epilepsy. …”
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Acrylamide exposure promotes the progression of depression-like behavior in mice with CUMS via GSDMD-mediated pyroptosis by JianFeng Liu, Chenyang Han, Jian Shen, Yingcong Lin, Heping Shen, Genghuan Wang

“…Results: AM can exacerbate CUMS-like depression in mice, increase the levels of inflammatory factors in brain tissue, and worsen neuronal damage, with upregulation of IBA-1 expression, and can increase the expression of NLRP3, GSDMD, and GSDMD-NT. …”
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Postrema area syndrome in the context of systemic lupus erythematosus: Case report by Jose Ricardo Muñoz-Zúñiga, Andrea del Mar Tamayo-Delgado, Alberto Masaru Shinchi-Tanaka, Juan Camilo Márquez, Alex Echeverri-García, Santiago Lopez Garcia

“…Initial tests suggested acute pancreatitis and a lupus flare, but imaging of the gastrointestinal tract showed no abnormalities. Brain MRI revealed a lesion in the area postrema, indicating area postrema syndrome (APS). …”
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Altered interactions between attentional networks in older adults with mild cognitive impairment by Ling Ma, Hao He, Yuehong Qiu, Yiqi Chen, Qing Guan

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Plastic harmful ingredients reduce the level of neurofilament light chain protein by Long Li, Xiaoxiu Ma, Junwei Liu, Yongli Wu

“…However, patterns of exposure to harmful ingredients of plastics and their effects on neurofilament light chain (NFL), a marker of active brain pathology, are currently inconclusive. Herein, we employed a range of statistical methods to thoroughly investigate the impact of 24 plastic hazardous ingredients and their varying exposure patterns on NFL concentrations in the blood of the general population in 533 participants. …”
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Detection and identification of Naegleria species along with Naegleria fowleri in the tap water samples by Muhammad Aurongzeb, Syeda Zehratul Fatima, Syed Ikhlaq Hussain, Yasmeen Rashid, Tariq Aziz, Majid Alhomrani, Walaa F. Alsanie, Abdulhakeem S. Alamri

“…Abstract Naegleria fowleri, the causative agent of Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), is commonly found in warm freshwater environments and can enter the brain through nasal passages during activities like swimming or ablution. …”
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Frequency Modulation and Spatiotemporal Stability of the sCPG in Preterm Infants with RDS by Steven M. Barlow, Mimi Burch, Lalit Venkatesan, Meredith Harold, Emily Zimmerman

“…The nonnutritive suck (NNS) is an observable and accessible motor behavior which is often used to make inference about brain development and pre-feeding skill in preterm and term infants. …”
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An NR2B-Dependent Decrease in the Expression of trkB Receptors Precedes the Disappearance of Dopaminergic Cells in Substantia Nigra in a Rat Model of Presymptomatic Parkinson's Dis... by Eduardo Riquelme, Jorge Abarca, Jorge M. Campusano, Gonzalo Bustos

“…Several data support the proposition that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) could play a role in these plastic changes. …”
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