Prefronto-Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Sleep Quality in Euthymic Bipolar Patients: A Brief Report by Amedeo Minichino, Francesco Saverio Bersani, Francesco Spagnoli, Alessandra Corrado, Francesco De Michele, Wanda Katharina Calò, Martina Primavera, Baoran Yang, Laura Bernabei, Francesco Macrì, Lucilla Vergnani, Massimo Biondi, Roberto Delle Chiaie

“…Methods. 25 euthymic outpatients with a diagnosis of BD Type I or II have been enrolled in the study. tDCS montage was as follows: cathode on the right cerebellar cortex and anode over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC); the intensity of stimulation was set at 2 mA and delivered for 20 min/die for 3 consecutive weeks. …”
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Targeting of retrovirus-derived Rtl8a/8b causes late-onset obesity, reduced social response and increased apathy-like behaviour by Yoshifumi Fujioka, Hirosuke Shiura, Masayuki Ishii, Ryuichi Ono, Tsutomu Endo, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Yoshikazu Hirate, Hikaru Ito, Masami Kanai-Azuma, Takashi Kohda, Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino, Fumitoshi Ishino

“…An RNAseq study in the cerebral cortex revealed reduced expression of several GABA type A receptor subunit genes in DKO, in particular Gabrb2, which encodes its β2 subunit. …”
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Neuroanatomical and functional substrates of the short video addiction and its association with brain transcriptomic and cellular architecture by Yuanyuan Gao, Ying Hu, Jinlian Wang, Chang Liu, Hohjin Im, Weipeng Jin, Wenwei Zhu, Wei Ge, Guang Zhao, Qiong Yao, Pinchun Wang, Manman Zhang, Xin Niu, Qinghua He, Qiang Wang

“…Structurally, SVA was positively correlated with increased morphological volumes in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and bilateral cerebellum. Functionally, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), cerebellum, and temporal pole (TP) exhibited heightened spontaneous activity, which was positively correlated with SVA severity. …”
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Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study on the Functional Connectivity of Amygdalar Subregions in Patients with Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain by CHEN Xiaolin, LIU Hong, GAO Zhen, WU Mengjiao, FAN Cheng, JIANG Zheng

“…Compared with the healthy control group, functional connectivity between the left CM amygdala and right inferior occipital gyrus, between the left SF amygdala and left anterior cingulate cortex, right calcarine fissure &amp; surrounding cortex and left thalamus in the CNLBP group significantly increased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05), but functional connectivity between the left LB amygdala and right angular gyrus, between the right SF amygdala and right hippocampus significantly decreased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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The impact of chronic intermittent hypoxia on enzymatic activity in memory-associated brain regions of male and female rats by Steve Mabry, Jessica L. Bradshaw, Jennifer J. Gardner, E. Nicole Wilson, Janak Sunuwar, Hannah Yeung, Sharad Shrestha, J. Thomas Cunningham, Rebecca L. Cunningham

“…We quantified protease activity and cleaved spectrin products, along with EGR-1 protein expression in hippocampal subregions (CA1, CA3), cortical regions [entorhinal cortex (ETC), retrosplenial cortex (RSC), cerebellar cortex (CC)], and subcortical regions [raphe nucleus (RN), locus coeruleus (LC)] associated with learning and memory. …”
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Effect of amisulpride on the expression of serotonin receptors, neurotrophic factor BDNF and its receptors in mice with overexpression of the aggregation-prone [R406W] mutant tau p... by E. M. Kondaurova, A. A. Komarova, T. V. Ilchibaeva, A. Ya. Rodnyy, E. A. Zalivina, V. S. Naumenko

“…A decrease in the expression of the Bdnf and Ntrk2 genes in the prefrontal cortex was revealed after administration of AAV-Tau[R406W]. …”
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Memantine Differentially Regulates Tau Phosphorylation Induced by Chronic Restraint Stress of Varying Duration in Mice by Yunsheng Liu, Lan Cao, Xiaoxu Zhang, Yan Liang, Yuxia Xu, Cuiqing Zhu

“…However, the pathological relationship between glutamatergic dysfunction and tau phosphorylation in the cerebral cortex under chronic psychiatric stress is not fully understood. …”
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Situating the salience and parietal memory networks in the context of multiple parallel distributed networks using precision functional mapping by Young Hye Kwon, Joseph J. Salvo, Nathan L. Anderson, Donnisa Edmonds, Ania M. Holubecki, Maya Lakshman, Kwangsun Yoo, B.T. Thomas Yeo, Kendrick Kay, Caterina Gratton, Rodrigo M. Braga

“…., posterior cingulate and lateral parietal cortex) and anterior (medial prefrontal and anterior insular cortex) areas, respectively. …”
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Preservation of Bilateral Corticospinal Projections from Injured Hemisphere After Perinatal Stroke by Cameron P. Casey, Ellen N. Sutter, Alina Grimaldo, Kellie M. Collins, Jose Guerrero-Gonzalez, Ryan M. McAdams, Douglas C. Dean, Bernadette T. Gillick

“…This case provides a unique opportunity to evaluate CST development after loss of the majority of the motor cortex. Methods: Evaluations were conducted when the infant was 4 (Visit-1), 18 (Visit 2), and 25 (Visit 3) months old. …”
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: Mobility-Centric Roadside Units Deployment for Vehicular Networks by Yongping Xiong, Jian Ma, Wendong Wang, Dengbiao Tu

“…Based on the graph model, we transform the gateway deployment problem into a vertex selection problem in a graph. By reducing it into the minimum vertex coverage problem, we show that the RSU deployment problem is NP-complete. …”
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Pipeline FFT Architectures Optimized for FPGAs by Bin Zhou, Yingning Peng, David Hwang

“…This paper presents optimized implementations of two different pipeline FFT processors on Xilinx Spartan-3 and Virtex-4 FPGAs. Different optimization techniques and rounding schemes were explored. …”
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THE DOWNREGULATION OF GENES CONTROLLING VASCULAR TONE IN KIDNEYS OF ISIAH RATS WITH STRESS-INDUCED ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION by O. E. Redina, L. O. Klimov, N. I. Ershov, T. O. Abramova, L. N. Ivanova, L. A. Markel

“…The expression of three genes (Klk1, Klk1c10, and Kng1) related to the kallikrein-kinin system was significant in the WAG renal cortex but was not detected in hypertensive kidneys. …”
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Application of Different Stimulation Targets in the Rehabilitation of Parkinson's Disease Mediated by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation by ZHU Yulian, XI Chong

“…In this review, we summarized the stimulation targets used by tDCS in PD rehabilitation, which include primary motor cortex (M1), dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), cerebellum and supplementary motor area (SMA). …”
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Distinct cortico-striatal compartments drive competition between adaptive and automatized behavior. by William H Barnett, Alexey Kuznetsov, Christopher C Lapish

“…These striatal subregions each operate on unique cortical input: the DMS receives input from the prefrontal cortex (PFC) which represents outcomes, and the DLS receives input from the premotor cortex which determines action selection. …”
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Exploration of the Power-Performance Tradeoff through Parameterization of FPGA-Based Multiprocessor Systems by Diana Göhringer, Jonathan Obie, André L. S. Braga, Michael Hübner, Carlos H. Llanos, Jürgen Becker

“…The FPGAs used for these explorations were Xilinx Virtex-4 and Xilinx Virtex-5. The performance results were measured on the FPGA while the power consumption was estimated using the Xilinx XPower Analyzer tool. …”
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Maturation, Refinement, and Serotonergic Modulation of Cerebellar Cortical Circuits in Normal Development and in Murine Models of Autism by Eriola Hoxha, Pellegrino Lippiello, Bibiana Scelfo, Filippo Tempia, Mirella Ghirardi, Maria Concetta Miniaci

“…The regularity of the cellular and synaptic organization of the cerebellar cortex allowed detailed studies of the structural plasticity mechanisms underlying the formation of new synapses and retraction of redundant ones. …”
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A Case of Anorexia Nervosa with Focal Cortical Dysplasia by Hiroki Nemoto, Kazuo Imagawa, Takashi Enokizono, Yosuke Masuda, Masayuki Ide, Takuma Deguchi, Monami Hara, Atsushi Morita, Takahiro Kido, Mai Tanaka, Tatsuyuki Ohto, Hidetoshi Takada

“…Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is characterized by dysplasia of the cerebral cortex and is a common cause of pharmacoresistant epilepsy. …”
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On Super Mean Labeling for Total Graph of Path and Cycle by Nur Inayah, I. Wayan Sudarsana, Selvy Musdalifah, Nurhasanah Daeng Mangesa

“…Let G(V,E) be a graph with the vertex set V and the edge set E, respectively. By a graph G=(V,E) we mean a finite undirected graph with neither loops nor multiple edges. …”
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Modulation of CREB in the Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus of Dark-Reared Mice by Thomas E. Krahe, Tania A. Seabrook, Ching-Kang J. Chen, Michael A. Fox, William Guido

“…Similar to findings in visual cortex, CREB is upregulated in dLGN after CDR and DDR. …”
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Coupled variable‐input LCG and clock divider‐based large period pseudo‐random bit generator on FPGA by Mangal D. Gupta, Rajeev K. Chauhan

“…The proposed architecture is implemented using Verilog HDL and further prototyped on commercially available field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices Virtex‐5, Virtex‐7, and Artix‐7. The realisation of the proposed architecture in these FPGA devices accomplishes an improved data throughput and utilises minimum FPGA resources (in terms of look‐up‐tables and flip‐flops) which are compared with the existing techniques. …”
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