Timing of Acupuncture during LTP-Like Plasticity Induced by Paired-Associative Stimulation by Xiao-kuo He, Qian-qian Sun, Hui-hua Liu, Xin-yi Guo, Cheng Chen, Li-dian Chen

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the time-dependent effects of acupuncture on the excitability and long-term potentiation- (LTP-) like plasticity induced by paired-associative stimulation (PAS) over the primary motor cortex (M1). The present examination is the first to report the influence of acupuncture on the motor-evoked potential (MEP) throughout the treatment process, including baseline (before acupuncture), the needle in situ, and the needle removal. …”
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Dissociative experiences alter resting state functional connectivity after childhood abuse by Claudius von Schröder, Richard O. Nkrumah, Traute Demirakca, Gabriele Ende, Christian Schmahl

“…The CTQ revealed negative connectivity between the raMFG and right anterior cingulate cortex. CTQ-N (childhood neglect) indicated that both the right supplementary motor area and right insula related positively to the raMFG. …”
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Variation in Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone and Cognitive Disorders in Unmedicated Middle-Aged Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: A Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study by Hui Zhao, Shunkai Lai, Shuming Zhong, Yiliang Zhang, Hui Yang, Yanbin Jia

“…N-acetyl aspartate (NAA)/creatine (Cr) and choline (Cho)/Cr ratios in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and cerebellum were also obtained via proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS), and the TSH level was measured by chemiluminescence analysis. …”
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Shenfu Injection Protects Brain Injury in Rats with Cardiac Arrest through Nogo/NgR Pathway by Haixia Deng, Zhanhong Tang, Peng Tuo, Ruihua Wu, Si Jia, Xuan Zhao, Deqing Huang, Yuguang Gao, Zhou Lan

“…Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR), western blotting, and immunohistochemistry were used to detect Nogo receptor (NgR) expression in the hippocampus and cerebral cortex, and Nogo–NgR expression in CA/CPR model. Neurological deficits in the model group were severe at 3 hours, 24 hours, 3 days, and 7 days after the recovery of natural circulation, whereas the neurological deficits in CWM, antagonist, and Shenfu group were relatively mild. …”
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Oncocytic Adrenocortical Neoplasm Diagnosed after Robot-Assisted Adrenalectomy by Andrew C. Harbin, Andrew Chen, Siddharth Bhattacharyya, Jasvir S. Khurana, Joshua R. Kaplan, Daniel D. Eun

“…These tumors can occur in the adrenal cortex and are rarely malignant. We report a case of a patient presenting with an incidental adrenal mass which was later diagnosed as a oncocytic adrenocortical neoplasm (OAN). …”
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Exploring Task-Related EEG for Cross-Subject Early Alzheimer’s Disease Susceptibility Prediction in Middle-Aged Adults Using Multitaper Spectral Analysis by Ziyang Li, Hong Wang, Jianing Song, Jiale Gong

“…Similarly, the Sternberg Memory Task demonstrates classification ability with the logistic regression model applied to the PBTST feature set, emphasizing the beta band power spectrum in the prefrontal cortex as a potential marker of AD risk. These findings confirm that task-state EEG provides stronger classification potential compared to resting-state EEG, offering valuable insights for advancing early AD prediction research.…”
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The cognitive critical brain: Modulation of criticality in perception-related cortical regions by Xingyu Liu, Xiaotian Fei, Jia Liu

“…A more fine-grained analysis of the ventral temporal cortex during an object recognition task further revealed that only regions selectively responsive to a specific object category were tuned closer to criticality when processing that object category. …”
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The Effect of Accelerated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Insomnia Severity and Sleep Quality in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression by Hilal Uygur, Rukiye Tekdemir, Hülya Ertekin

“…All patients underwent 50 sessions of intermittent theta burst stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex across 10 days. Results The mean age of the patients was 40.82±12.03 years. …”
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High-density multielectrode arrays bring cellular resolution to neuronal activity and network analyses of corticospinal motor neurons by Christopher A. Quintanilla, Zachary Fitzgerald, Omar Kashow, Mihailo S. Radojicic, Emel Ulupinar, Dila Bitlis, Baris Genc, Pavle Andjus, Wim van Drongelen, P. Hande Ozdinler

“…Abstract Corticospinal motor neurons (CSMN), located in the motor cortex of the brain, are one of the key components of the motor neuron circuitry. …”
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Effects of Chronic Dopamine D2R Agonist Treatment and Polysialic Acid Depletion on Dendritic Spine Density and Excitatory Neurotransmission in the mPFC of Adult Rats by Esther Castillo-Gómez, Emilio Varea, José Miguel Blasco-Ibáñez, Carlos Crespo, Juan Nacher

“…Dopamine D2 receptors (D2R) in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) are key players in the etiology and therapeutics of schizophrenia. …”
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A Triangular Personalized Recommendation Algorithm for Improving Diversity by Biao Cai, Xiaowang Yang, Yusheng Huang, Hongjun Li, Qiang Sang

“…To date, many personalized recommendation algorithms have aimed to improve recommendation accuracy from the perspective of vertex similarities, such as collaborative filtering and mass diffusion. …”
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Amylin: Localization, Effects on Cerebral Arteries and on Local Cerebral Blood Flow in the Cat by Lars Edvinsson, Peter J. Goadsby, Rolf Uddman

“…In vivo studies of amylin, adrenomedullin, and CGRP showed a brisk reproducible increase in local cerebral blood flow as examined using laser Doppler flowmetry applied to the cerebral cortex of the a-chloralose�anesthetized cat. The responses to amylin and CGRP were blocked by CGRP8-37. …”
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The effect of transcranial random noise stimulation on the movement time and components of noise, co-variation, and tolerance in a perceptual-motor task by Fatemeh Salehi, Mohammadreza Doustan, Esmaeel Saemi

“…Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) has been proposed as a potential means of enhancing motor performance by modulating excitability in the motor cortex. This study aimed to examine the role of the concomitant administration of tRNS with training in enhancing the performance measures of movement time, noise, covariation, and tolerance in the acquisition of a perceptual-motor task. …”
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Prior Knowledge of Target Direction and Intended Movement Selection Improves Indirect Reaching Movement Decoding by Hongbao Li, Yaoyao Hao, Shaomin Zhang, Yiwen Wang, Weidong Chen, Xiaoxiang Zheng

“…Previous studies have demonstrated that target direction information presented by the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) during movement planning could be incorporated into neural decoder for achieving better decoding performance. …”
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Electric Source Localization Adds Evidence for Task-Specific CNVs by Ina M. Tarkka, Luis F. H. Basile

“…The previous MEG results showed CNV sources in the prefrontal cortex of the two hemispheres for two tasks used, namely visual pattern recognition and visual spatial recognition tasks. …”
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Treatment Challenges in a Tourette Syndrome Patient with Self-Injurious Behaviour: Case Report and Literature Review by G. Asadauskaitė, G. Jasionytė, M. Karnickas

“…It leads to impaired inhibition in the sensorimotor cortex of the brain, which results in motor and vocal tics. …”
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Postmortem Interval Influences α-Synuclein Expression in Parkinson Disease Brain by Alexandra Dumitriu, Carlee Moser, Tiffany C. Hadzi, Sally L. Williamson, Christopher D. Pacheco, Audrey E. Hendricks, Jeanne C. Latourelle, Jemma B. Wilk, Anita L. DeStefano, Richard H. Myers

“…We examined expression of the full-length SNCA transcript (140 amino acid protein isoform), as well as total SNCA mRNA levels in 165 frontal cortex samples (101 PD, 64 control) using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. …”
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Sildenafil alters biogenic amines and increases oxidative damage in brain regions of insulin-hypoglycemic rats by Guzmán David Calderón, Brizuela Norma Osnaya, Herrera Maribel Ortíz, Peraza Armando Valenzuela, Mejía Gerardo Barragán, Olguín Hugo Juárez, Jiménez Francisca Trujillo

“…On the last day of the treatment, the animals´ brains were extracted to measure the levels of oxidative stress markers [H2O2, Ca2+,Mg2+-ATPase, glutathione and lipid peroxidation (TBARS)], dopamine and 5-HIAA in the cortex, striatum and cerebellum/medulla oblongata by validated methods. …”
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Long-term consequences of adolescent exposure to the synthetic cannabinoid AB-FUBINACA in male and female mice by Cristina Izquierdo-Luengo, María Ponce-Renilla, Marc Ten-Blanco, María Andrea Arnanz, Rosa María Tolón, Inmaculada Pereda-Pérez, Fernando Berrendero

“…In this sense, the administration of this synthetic cannabinoid in female, but not male, mice induced psychotic-like symptoms which were associated with changes in dendritic arborization and density of mature dendritic spines in pyramidal neurons of the prefrontal cortex, as well as with an up-regulation of differentially expressed genes in this brain area. …”
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Sports participation & childhood neurocognitive development by Fu-Miao Tan, Junhong Yu, Alicia M. Goodwill

“…However, participation in any sport at baseline was associated with superior performance in various cognitive domains (i.e. inhibition, processing speed, and others), greater subcortical GM volume (i.e. cerebellum cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, and others), and whole-brain WM integrity compared to non-participants. …”
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