Generalized Extension of Referred Trigeminal Pain due to Greater Occipital Nerve Entrapment by Jung-woo Hyung, Byung-chul Son

“…A 42-year-old female patient presented with chronic pain in her gums, jaw angle, submandibular region, retro-auricular suboccipital, and temporo-occipital vertex that had been ongoing for four years. As the patient’s head pain and facial pain became severe, severe spontaneous pain occurred in the arm, waist, and both lower extremities. …”
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Evolution of Cerebral Atrophy in a Patient with Super Refractory Status Epilepticus Treated with Barbiturate Coma by Christopher R. Newey, Pravin George, Premkumar Nattanmai, Christine Ahrens, Stephen Hantus, Aarti Sarwal

“…Radiological sequelae of status epilepticus include diffusion weighted abnormalities and T2/FLAIR cortical hyperintensities corresponding to the epileptogenic cortex. However, progressive generalized cerebral atrophy from status epilepticus is underrecognized and may be related to neuronal death. …”
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Asymmetric projection of introspection reveals a behavioural and neural mechanism for interindividual social coordination by Kentaro Miyamoto, Caroline Harbison, Shiho Tanaka, Marina Saito, Shuyi Luo, Sara Matsui, Pranav Sankhe, Ali Mahmoodi, Mingming Lin, Nadescha Trudel, Nicholas Shea, Matthew F. S. Rushworth

“…Metacognitive projection is associated with a specific activity pattern in anterior lateral prefrontal cortex (alPFC47). Manipulation of alPFC47 activity altered metacognitive projection and impaired interpersonal social coordination. …”
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A Novel Algorithm for Estimating the Sand Dune Density of the Taklimakan Desert Based on Remote Sensing Data by Mingyu Wang, Yongqiang Liu, Huoqing Li, Minzhong Wang, Wen Huo, Zonghui Liu

“…Owing to the limitations of estimation methods and data availability, accurately quantifying dune density has posed a significant challenge; in response to this issue, we propose an innovative model to estimate dune density using a dune vertex search combined with four-directional orographic spectral decomposition. …”
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NMDA Receptor Subunits Change after Synaptic Plasticity Induction and Learning and Memory Acquisition by María Verónica Baez, Magalí Cecilia Cercato, Diana Alicia Jerusalinsky

“…In CNS structures involved in cognitive functions as the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, GluN2A and GluN2B are major regulatory subunits; their expression is dynamic and tightly regulated, but little is known about specific changes after plasticity induction or memory acquisition. …”
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Frontiers in Vitamin Research: New Antibodies, New Data by Rafael Coveñas, Arturo Mangas, Dominique Bodet, Sébastien Duleu, Pilar Marcos, Begum Karakas, Michel Geffard

“…Folic acid, thiamine, and riboflavin have only been observed in immunoreactive fibers, vitamin C has only been found in cell bodies (located in the primary somatosensory cortex), and pyridoxal has been found in both fibers and cell bodies. …”
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Epstein-Barr Virus Encephalitis in an Immunocompetent Child: A Case Report and Management of Epstein-Barr Virus Encephalitis by Gulsen Akkoc, Eda Kepenekli Kadayifci, Ayse Karaaslan, Serkan Atici, Nurhayat Yakut, Sevliya Ocal Demir, Ahmet Soysal, Mustafa Bakir

“…Cranial magnetic resonance imaging showed contrast enhancement in the bilateral insular cortex and the right hypothalamus. The diagnosis was made by EBV-DNA amplification in both the blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples. …”
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Targeting Oxidative Stress Injury after Ischemic Stroke in Conscious Rats: Limited Benefits with Apocynin Highlight the Need to Incorporate Long Term Recovery by Robert M. Weston, Bin Lin, Gregory J. Dusting, Carli L. Roulston

“…Apocynin treatment (50 mg/kg i.p.) commencing 1 hour prior to stroke and 24 and 48 hours after stroke significantly reduced infarct volume in the cortex by ~ 60%, but had no effect on striatal damage or neurological deficits. …”
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Murine model evaluation of biochemical and tissue-damage induced by Bothrops asper (Nauyaca) snake venom by Dr. Carlos Gallardo-Casas Ángel Gallardo-Casas, María Teresa Valadez-Omaña, Emmanuel Correa Solís, María del Carmen Castillo-Hernández, Rocio Ortiz-Butron

“…Results: Results: Animals treated with poison (LD25 of 1 mg of protein/kg) had greater activity of AST, ALT and LDH enzymes, structural damage in the cortex and renal medulla, as well as in the liver after 24 hours of administration in the experimental group Conclusion: B. asper venom causes an increase in LDH and transaminase enzymes, as well as renal and hepatic histopathological alterations. …”
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Brain MR Contribution to the Differential Diagnosis of Parkinsonian Syndromes: An Update by Giovanni Rizzo, Stefano Zanigni, Roberto De Blasi, Daniela Grasso, Davide Martino, Rodolfo Savica, Giancarlo Logroscino

“…In this context, changes in pons, middle cerebellar peduncles, and cerebellum suggest the diagnosis of MSA, in midbrain and superior cerebellar peduncles the diagnosis of PSP, and in whole cerebral hemispheres (mainly in frontoparietal cortex with asymmetric distribution) the diagnosis of Corticobasal Syndrome.…”
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On the human nature (following in the steps of Belyaev) by A. L. Markel

“…At the early stages of human evolution, the areas of the cerebral cortex that were responsible for the development of speech expanded and reorganized. …”
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Time series segmentation for recognition of epileptiform patterns recorded via microelectrode arrays in vitro. by Gabriel Galeote-Checa, Gabriella Panuccio, Angel Canal-Alonso, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Teresa Serrano-Gotarredona

“…The algorithms were validated validated against epileptiform activity induced by 4-aminopyridine in mouse hippocampus-cortex (CTX) slices and recorded via microelectrode array, as a case study. …”
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The effect of bilingualism on obligatory components of auditory late responses in young adults: a cross-sectional study by Ali Hajimohammadi, Fatemeh Heidari

“…Obligatory sensory components of the auditory late responses (ALRs) reflect primary and secondary auditory cortex activity, serving as an electrophysiological measure of auditory processing. …”
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Differential affection of the visual information sub-streams in a patient with visual agnosia by Kirstin Lederer, Bruno Fimm, Jorn Munzert, Mathias Reiser, Heiko Maurer, Ferdinand Binkofski, Ferdinand Binkofski, Ferdinand Binkofski, Antonello Pellicano

“…In this study, we presented a new case of a visual agnosic patient (AC) with an extensive lesion of the secondary visual cortex.MethodsWe examined the kinematics of his grasping behavior towards common day-to-day objects compared to a healthy control group. …”
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The effect of space flight on genes expression in brain by A. S. Tsybko, T. V. Ilchibaeva, N. K. Popova

“…We have for the first time revealed dopamine and serotonin microgravityresponsive genes (tyrosine hydroxylase, catechol-Omethyltransferase, and D1 receptor in the nigrostriatal system; D1 and 5-HT2A receptors in the hypothalamus; and monoamine oxidase A in the frontal cortex). Decreased genetic control of the dopamine system may contribute to the spaceflight-induced locomotor impairment and dyskinesia described for both animals and humans. …”
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An Approach to the Geometric-Arithmetic Index for Graphs under Transformations’ Fact over Pendent Paths by Muhammad Asif, Hamad Almohamedh, Muhammad Hussain, Khalid M Alhamed, Abdulrazaq A. Almutairi, Sultan Almotairi

“…Let Γnk,l be the connected graph comprises by k number of pendent path attached with fully connected vertices of the n-vertex connected graph Γ. Let AαΓnk,l and AαβΓnk,l be the transformed graphs under the fact of transformations Aα and Aαβ, 0≤α≤l, 0≤β≤k−1, respectively. …”
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Effects of Edaravone, a Free Radical Scavenger, on Photochemically Induced Cerebral Infarction in a Rat Hemiplegic Model by Satoshi Ikeda, Katsuhiro Harada, Akihiko Ohwatashi, Yurie Kamikawa

“…Edaravone is a free radical scavenger that protects the adjacent cortex during cerebral infarction. We created a hemiparetic model of cerebral thrombosis from a photochemically induced infarction with the photosensitive dye, rose bengal, in rats. …”
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Potentiation of Antidepressant Effects of Agomelatine and Bupropion by Hesperidin in Mice by Jegan Sakthivel Nadar, Pravin Popatrao Kale, Pramod Kerunath Kadu, Kedar Prabhavalkar, Ruchita Dhangar

“…Dopamine and serotonin levels were analysed in hippocampus, cerebral cortex, and whole brain using HPLC with fluorescence detector. …”
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Young Coconut Juice Reduces Some Histopathological Changes Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease through the Modulation of Estrogen Receptors in Orchidectomized Rat Brains by Tatcha Balit, Mosaad A. Abdel-Wahhab, Nisaudah Radenahmad

“…The results showed that the number of NF200- and PV-reactive neurons in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex was significantly reduced in orx rats. However, it restored to normal in orx rats injected with EB or those administrated with YCJ in a dose-related manner. …”
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Functional Connectivity Analysis of NIRS Data under Rubber Hand Illusion to Find a Biomarker of Sense of Ownership by Naoki Arizono, Yuji Ohmura, Shiro Yano, Toshiyuki Kondo

“…This finding suggests that frontal cortex and motor related areas communicate with each other when the sense of ownership is induced. …”
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