Reconstruction of the Occipital and Parietal Congenital Defect with 3D Custom-Made Titanium Prosthesis: A Case Report with Four and a Half Years of Follow-Up and a Brief Review of... by Farnoush Mohammadi, Abbas Azari, Nariman Nikparto, Heliya Ziaei

“…Considering the defect’s location and size, brain protection, and the cosmetic outcome makes such reconstructions challenging. …”
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Exploring the nature of stuttering through a behavioral-neuro-modulation intervention program in bilinguals with stuttering by Chanchal Chaudhary, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Gopee Krishnan

“…Current literature points towards deficits in speech-related motor areas of the brain to abnormalities in linguistic planning and phonological memory playing a role in stuttering. …”
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''Mitigating cancer pain: What else matters?"-A qualitative study into the needs and concerns of cancer patients in Sri Lanka. by N P Edirisinghe, P T R Makuloluwa, A A T D Amarasekara, C S E Goonewardena

“…Noncancerous pain and those with psychological disorders, and brain metastases were excluded. Twenty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted until data saturation using a semi-structured interview guide, each lasting 30-60 minutes. …”
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Prognostic Value of Adrenomedullin and Natriuretic Peptides in Uroseptic Patients Induced by Ureteroscopy by Wei Hu, Pang-hu Zhou, Wei Wang, Lijun Zhang, Xiao-bin Zhang

“…The aim of this paper is to investigate whether urosepsis is related to irrigation pressure of ureteroscopy (URS) and evaluate the prognostic value of adrenomedullin (ADM) and atrial and brain natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP) in URS-induced uroseptic patients. …”
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Novel Pattern of Iron Deposition in the Fascicula Nigrale in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study by Miriam E. Peckham, Khashayar Dashtipour, Barbara A. Holshouser, Camellia Kani, Alex Boscanin, Kayvan Kani, Sheri L. Harder

“…To determine whether the pattern of iron deposition in the fascicula nigrale in patients with Parkinson’s disease would be different from age-matched controls by utilizing quantitative susceptibility mapping to measure susceptibility change. Methods. MRIs of the brain were obtained from 34 subjects, 18 with Parkinson’s disease and 16 age- and gender-matched controls. …”
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Smart In-Cabin Air Monitoring System using IoT Technologies by Falah Y H Ahmed, Jabar H. Yousif, Marwan Alshar’e, Maram El Sheikh, Ehsan Al-Ajmi, Mahmood Al-Bahri

“…Oxygen deprivation and high carbon dioxide intake negatively affect the human brain. …”
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Advances in synaptic PET imaging and intervention with synapse-targeted small-molecular drugs for dementia diagnosis and therapy by Xiuhong Lu, Bin Ji, Gang Huang, Hong Ding

“…Dementia is characterized by synaptic and neuronal dysfunction in disease-specific brain regions. Repeated failure of dementia clinical trials with therapeutic drugs targeting abnormal protein aggregates has caused researchers to shift their focus to synaptic functions and increased the importance of clinically available imaging for synaptic density and the development of synapse-targeted intervention. …”
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A case of kidney graft injury during cesarean section in a pancreas and kidney transplantation recipient by Noriko Aida, Eiji Nishio, Takao Sekiya, Naohiro Aida, Taihei Ito, Takashi Kenmochi, Haruki Nishizawa

“…She had undergone living donor kidney transplantation 11 years earlier and brain-dead donor pancreas transplantation 1 year earlier owing to type 1 diabetes. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Vanilla CNN and Transfer Learning Models for Glaucoma Detection by Brendan Ubochi, Abayomi E. Olawumi, John Macaulay, Oyawoye I. Ayomide, Kayode F. Akingbade

“…Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide and results from high eye pressure-induced damage to the optic nerves, thereby preventing visual information from reaching the brain. While glaucoma is incurable in its advanced stages, its early detection improves the treatment outcome. …”
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The Gilles De La Tourette Syndrome-Quality of Life Scale for Children and Adolescents (C&A-GTS-QOL): Development and Validation of the Italian Version by Andrea E. Cavanna, Chiara Luoni, Claudia Selvini, Rosanna Blangiardo, Clare M. Eddy, Paola R. Silvestri, Paola V. Calì, Stefano Seri, Umberto Balottin, Francesco Cardona, Renata Rizzo, Cristiano Termine

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Recent advances in genetics of aggressive behavior by J. D. Davydova, S. S. Litvinov, R. F. Enikeeva, S. B.  Malykh, E. K. Khusnutdinova

“…An important role in development of aggressive behavior belongs to the hereditary factors that may be linked to abnormal functioning of neurotransmitter systems in the brain yet the underlying genetic mechanisms remain unclear, which is due to a large number of single nucleotide polymorphisms, insertions and deletions in the structure of genes that encode the components of the neurotransmitter systems. …”
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Impact of polyvinyl chloride nano-plastics on the biochemical status of Oreochromis niloticus under a predicted global warming scenario by Ahmed Mohamed Soliman, Ayman S. Mohamed, Amr A. Abdel-Khalek, Shereen R. Badran

“…Additionally, the level of oxidative stress biomarkers in the liver, gills, and brain was found to have a significant increase in malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration and a decrease in glutathione reduced (GSH) concentration and catalase (CAT) activity in all studied groups. …”
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A data-driven cluster analysis to explore cognitive reserve and modifiable risk factors in early phases of cognitive decline by Sara Bernini, Alice Valcarenghi, Elena Ballante, Federico Fassio, Marta Picascia, Elena Cavallini, Matteo Cotta Ramusino, Alfredo Costa, Tomaso Vecchi, Cristina Tassorelli, Sara Bottiroli

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Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation on Multiparametric CT Perfusion Maps Using Deep Neural Network by Ankit Kandpal, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Anup Singh

“…<b>Background:</b> Accurate delineation of lesions in acute ischemic stroke is important for determining the extent of tissue damage and the identification of potentially salvageable brain tissues. Automatic segmentation on CT images is challenging due to the poor contrast-to-noise ratio. …”
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Characterization of Neurogenic Potential of Dental Pulp Stem Cells Cultured in Xeno/Serum-Free Condition: In Vitro and In Vivo Assessment by Jieun Jung, Jong-Wan Kim, Ho-Jin Moon, Jin Young Hong, Jung Keun Hyun

“…The transplanted cells of the NSC group survived well within the normal brain and injured spinal cord of rats and expressed nestin and Sox2. …”
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Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy in a Multiple Sclerosis Patient Diagnosed after Switching from Natalizumab to Fingolimod by Tim Sinnecker, Jalal Othman, Marc Kühl, Imke Metz, Thoralf Niendorf, Annett Kunkel, Friedemann Paul, Jens Wuerfel, Juergen Faiss

“…The PML diagnosis was histopathologically confirmed by brain biopsy. The occurrence of an immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) during fingolimod therapy, elevated measures of JCV antibody indices, and the relevance of milky-way-like lesions detectable by (7 T) MRI are discussed.…”
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Dihydroartemisinin inhibits EphA2/PI3K/Akt pathway-mediated malignant behaviors and vasculogenic mimicry in glioma stem cells by Huangde Fu, Shengtian Wu, Hechun Shen, Kai Luo, Zhongxiang Huang, Nankun Lu, Yaolin Li, Qian Lan, Yishun Xian

“…Gliomas, the most prevalent primary brain tumors, exhibit a poor five-year survival rate despite advances in various treatments, necessitating further studies to understand tumor progression and develop new therapies, particularly targeting EphA2, which is implicated in vasculogenic mimicry and glioma progression. …”
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The Dynamic DNA Demethylation during Postnatal Neuronal Development and Neural Stem Cell Differentiation by Huikang Tao, Pei Xie, Yuhang Cao, Liqi Shu, Liping Li, Junchen Chen, Guangfeng Tian, Yingliang Zhuang, Qiang Shu, Xuekun Li

“…It was found that 5hmC, 5fC, and 5caC were highly enriched in multiple brain regions and aNSCs and displayed temporal and spatial patterns during postnatal neuronal development and the differentiation of aNSCs. …”
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Neuronal BDNF Signaling Is Necessary for the Effects of Treadmill Exercise on Synaptic Stripping of Axotomized Motoneurons by Joey Krakowiak, Caiyue Liu, Chandana Papudesu, P. Jillian Ward, Jennifer C. Wilhelm, Arthur W. English

“…In conditional, neuron-specific brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) knockout mice, a reduction in synaptic contacts onto motoneurons was noted in intact animals which was similar in magnitude to that observed after nerve transection in wild-type controls. …”
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HIV-Associated Vacuolar Myelopathy and HIV-Associated Dementia as the Initial Manifestation of HIV/AIDS by Natalia Wuliji, Matthew J. Mandell, Jason M. Lunt, Adam Merando

“…His exam was significant for hyperreflexia and weakness in bilateral lower extremities, upgoing plantar reflex, dysmetria, and ataxic gait. MRI-brain was notable for nonspecific volume loss and diffusely increased T2 signal throughout the supratentorial white matter. …”
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