A concise review on sensor signal acquisition and transformation applied to human activity recognition and human–robot interaction by Lourdes Martínez-Villaseñor, Hiram Ponce

“…Moreover, it plays an important role in human interaction, human–robot interaction, and brain–computer interaction. When these approaches have to be developed, different efforts from signal processing and artificial intelligence are considered. …”
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Intraoperative Pontine Infarction: A Hidden Challenge by Nicholas Marcanthony, Ehab Farag

“…These clinical changes are often associated with pontine trauma as it is the core pneumotaxic center in the brain stem. We describe the airway management of a patient with an acute, occult pontine infarct status post craniectomy and cervical laminectomy for decompression of known Chiari malformation in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU).…”
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DESCARTES’ ONTOLOGY AND THE IDEA OF NATURE CONTROL by Česlovas Kalenda

“… The idea of nature control in Western civilisation is not only connected with ecological-climatic conditions as well as with social conditions but also with the nature of people and the properties of thinking, which are only typical to the human brain’s functional asymmetry. It was decisive in the West, differently from the East, that a rational, analytic rudiment was developed which legalized the antipode between subject and object, nature and spirit. …”
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Case of Chronic Otitis Media with Intracranial Complication and Contralateral Extracranial Presentation by X. Y. Yeoh, P. S. Lim, K. C. Pua

“…Septic thrombosis of the sigmoid sinus is rarer compared to commoner complications such as otogenic brain abscesses and meningitis. This patient presented with recurrent infection after left mastoidectomy secondary to cholesteatoma and a contralateral internal jugular vein thrombosis with parapharyngeal abscess, which was drained. …”
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A Rare Case of Tolosa-Hunt-Like Syndrome in a Poorly Controlled Diabetes Mellitus by Glenmore Lasam, Sakshi Kapur

“…Diagnostic investigation revealed hyperglycemic state, and brain imaging showed a right cavernous sinus enhancement suggestive of and consistent with Tolosa-Hunt syndrome. …”
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Genetic assimilation in the evolution of hominin neuroplasticity by Luiz do Valle Miranda

“…In this work, I explored how genetic assimilation may have played a role in human evolution, more specifically the evolution of our brains. The results indicate that human brain evolution concerning neuroplasticity fits within a context of genetic assimilation. …”
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Facts About Iron by Linda B. Bobroff, Jennifer Hillan

“…Iron also is needed to keep the immune system healthy and help brain cells work normally. This 2-page fact sheet is a minor revision written by Linda B. …”
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THE HEALING POWER OF MUSIC. MUSIC IN PRACTICE by Szilvia TÖRÖK

“…Their knowledge is indispensable in order to be able to approach the psychology of hearing, of sound and music psychology. The brain research conducted in the second half of the 20th century has demonstrated the fact that the right hemisphere is the one responsible for music: it has the functions of recognizing melody, while the left one to identify rhythm. …”
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Leveraging AlphaFold for innovation and sustainable health research in Africa by Emmanuel Nji, Katharina C. Cramer, Nicolas V. Rüffin, Fatoumata G. Fofana, Walid Heiba, Safiétou Sankhe

“…Without addressing the lack of research infrastructure, funding, and supportive science policies, structural biology capacity-building efforts in Africa will continue to be hindered by the persistent challenge of brain drain.…”
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Diagnosis and Surgical Management of Congenital Intranasal Teratoma in a Newborn: A Rare Case Report by W. X. Yeo, K. K. Tan

“…Considered rare at an incidence of 1 in 20,000 to 40,000 live births, they may occur in the cervical region, nasopharynx, brain, orbit, or oropharynx. Teratoma presenting as an isolated intranasal mass is extremely rare. …”
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LTP in a Culture Dish by J.F. MacDonald, William Ju, Yu Tian Wang

“…Understanding how the human brain encodes and stores information becomes critical in designing required therapeutic strategies.…”
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Transient Crossed Aphasia: A Case Study with SPECT by José M. Ferro, Guilhermina Cantinho, Élia Baeta

“…This report emphasizes the importance of evaluating patients in the acute stage and of coupling “static” and “functional” imaging methods when studying brain-behavior relationships.…”
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Clinical Insight into Congenital Hypothyroidism Among Children by Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz

“…Maternal and fetal hypothyroidism, which can cause psychomotor dysfunction syndromes or low IQ levels, can lead to brain damage, reduced fetal growth and incidental fetal death. …”
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Uniplanar Nystagmus Associated with Perceptual and Cognitive Visual Dysfunction due to Presumed Focal Ischemic Occipital Cortical Atrophy: A Missed Diagnosis and New Observation by Swetha Sara Philip, Gordon N. Dutton, Liam Dorris

“…Uniplanar nystagmus has been described in relation to pathology of the brain stem, retina, optic nerve, sensory visual deprivation, periventricular leucomalacia, and drug toxicity. …”
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INTERROGATING ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES ON RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN SELECTED NIGERIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES by Otega Okinono, Okpan Samuel O.

“…The paper identified inadequate funding, lack of equipment, facilities and materials, lack of awareness, lack of implementation of research results, low rating in human capital indices, brain-drain, underemployment, etc, as challenges of research and human capital development in Nigeria. …”
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A Case of West Nile Encephalitis That Develops into a Disease of Deep White Matter on MRI over a Two-Week Span by Adam Puchalski, Antonio Liu

“…Given that the patient’s clinical picture had worsened during her admission, a repeat MRI was performed, which demonstrated diffuse disease in the deep white matter of the brain. This is a case of West Nice encephalitis presenting as a disease of deep white matter that developed over a two-week span.…”
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Stereotaxis: Its history, generalities and updating. by José Ramón Tejera del Valle, Juan Francisco Piñeiro Martí., Osmany Morales Sabina

“…The brain is considered the human being’s organ rector, it is characterized by its fragility, complexity and fineness, therefore any surgical intervention on him should be precise and sure. …”
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The impact of channel density, inverse solutions, connectivity metrics and calibration errors on OPM-MEG connectivity analysis: A simulation study by Shengjie Qi, Xinda Song, Le Jia, Hongyu Cui, Yuchen Suo, Tengyue Long, Zhendong Wu, Xiaolin Ning

“…A thorough framework for analyzing brain connectivity networks was provided herein.…”
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Muscarinic receptor agonists and positive allosteric modulators in animal models of psychosis: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis [version 2; peer review: 1 approve... by Spyridon Siafis, Johannes Schneider-Thoma, Alexandra Bannach-Brown, Oliver D. Howes, Virginia Chiocchia, Ulf Tölch, Natascha I. Drude, Sabine M. Hölter, Andrea de Bartolomeis, Anthony C. Vernon, Georgia Salanti, Sridhar Natesan, Stefan Leucht, Irene Bighelli, Sameer Jauhar, Ioannis Mantas, Josef Priller, Francesca Tinsdeall, Wulf-Peter Hansen, Fiona J. Ramage, Nobuyuki Nomura, Malcolm R. Macleod

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Chronic cannabis use differentially modulates neural oscillations serving the manipulate versus maintain components of working memory processing by Peihan J. Huang, Jake J. Son, Yasra Arif, Jason A. John, Lucy K. Horne, Mikki Schantell, Seth D. Springer, Maggie P. Rempe, Hannah J. Okelberry, Abraham D. Killanin, Ryan Glesinger, Anna T. Coutant, Thomas W. Ward, Madelyn P. Willett, Hallie J. Johnson, Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham, Tony W. Wilson

“…Research has shown that chronic cannabis use is associated with altered working memory function, however, the brain areas and neural dynamics underlying these affects remain poorly understood. …”
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