Neuroscientific and neuroanthropological perspectives in music therapy research and practice with patients with disorders of consciousness.

abstract：:L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia (LID) represents one of the major problems of the long-term therapy of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Although, the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying LID are not completely understood, activation of the extracellular signal regulated kinase (ERK) is recognized to play a key role...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Chen G,Nie S,Han C,Ma K,Xu Y,Zhang Z,Papa SM,Cao X

更新日期：2017-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory stream segregation refers to a segregated percept of signal streams with different acoustic features. Different approaches have been pursued in studies of stream segregation. In psychoacoustics, stream segregation has mostly been investigated with a subjective task asking the subjects to report their percept....

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Dolležal LV,Brechmann A,Klump GM,Deike S

更新日期：2014-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromodulation technologies, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), are promising tools for neurorehabilitation, aphasia therapy included, but not yet in common clinical use. Combined with behavioral techniques, in particular treatment-efficient Intensive Language-Action Therapy (ILAT, previously CIAT or CI...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Heikkinen PH,Pulvermüller F,Mäkelä JP,Ilmoniemi RJ,Lioumis P,Kujala T,Manninen RL,Ahvenainen A,Klippi A

更新日期：2019-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum is one of the most consistent sites of abnormality in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and cerebellar damage is associated with an increased risk of ASD symptoms, suggesting that cerebellar dysfunction may play a crucial role in the etiology of ASD. The cerebellum forms multiple closed-loop circuits with ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： D'Mello AM,Stoodley CJ

更新日期：2015-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been debated whether visual processing is, at least partially, a discrete process. Although vision appears to be a continuous stream of sensory information, sophisticated experiments reveal periodic modulations of perception and behavior. Previous work has demonstrated that the phase of endogenous neural o...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Chota S,VanRullen R

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Developments of new strategies to restore vision and improving on current strategies by harnessing new advancements in material and electrical sciences, and biological and genetic-based technologies are of upmost health priorities around the world. Federal and private entities are spending billions of dollars on visua...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Farnum A,Pelled G

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The central control of energy balance involves a highly regulated neuronal network within the hypothalamus and the dorsal vagal complex. In these structures, pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons are known to reduce meal size and to increase energy expenditure. In addition, leptin, a peripheral signal that relays inform...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Derghal A,Djelloul M,Trouslard J,Mounien L

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: This prospective cohort study explored whether two distinguished sensory parameters predicted acupuncture effects in chronic pain patients; namely high temporal summation of pain (TS) indicating spinal synaptic facilitation as well as a low vibration detection threshold (VDT) indicating a loss of Aβ-fiber ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Baeumler PI,Conzen P,Irnich D

更新日期：2019-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean diffusivity (MD) value has been used to describe microstructural properties in Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) in cortical gray matter (GM). Recently, researchers have applied a cortical surface generated from the T1-weighted volume. When the DTI data are analyzed using the cortical surface, it is important to...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Kwon OH,Park H,Seo SW,Na DL,Lee JM

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Stress-induced cellular changes in limbic brain structures contribute to the development of various psychopathologies. In vivo detection of these microstructural changes may help us to develop objective biomarkers for psychiatric disorders. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an advanced neuroimaging techniq...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Nagy SA,Vranesics A,Varga Z,Csabai D,Bruszt N,Bali ZK,Perlaki G,Hernádi I,Berente Z,Miseta A,Dóczi T,Czéh B

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is associated with degeneration of cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain. Administration of the immunotoxin 192IgG-saporin to rats, an animal model of AD, leads to degeneration of cholinergic neurons in the medial septal area. In the present study, cholinergic cell death was induced by in...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Dobryakova YV,Volobueva MN,Manolova AO,Medvedeva TM,Kvichansky AA,Gulyaeva NV,Markevich VA,Stepanichev MY,Bolshakov AP

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian brain is characterized by orderly spatial distribution of its cellular components, commonly referred to as topographical organization. The topography of cortical and subcortical maps is thought to represent functional or computational properties. In the present investigation, we have studied map transfor...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Leergaard TB,Bjaalie JG

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychiatric disorders represent a great medical and social challenge and people suffering from these conditions face many impairments regarding personal and professional life. In addition, a mental disorder will manifest itself in approximately one quarter of the world's population at some period of their life. Dysfun...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Zuccoli GS,Saia-Cereda VM,Nascimento JM,Martins-de-Souza D

更新日期：2017-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of the functional network of the brain dynamics has become a prominent tool to illuminate novel aspects of brain functioning. Due to its excellent time resolution, such research is oftentimes based on electroencephalographic recordings (EEG). However, a particular EEG-reference might cause crucial...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Ríos-Herrera WA,Olguín-Rodríguez PV,Arzate-Mena JD,Corsi-Cabrera M,Escalona J,Marín-García A,Ramos-Loyo J,Rivera AL,Rivera-López D,Zapata-Berruecos JF,Müller MF

更新日期：2019-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The autonomic nervous system (ANS) has a significant influence on the structural integrity and electrical conductivity of the atria. Aberrant activation of the sympathetic nervous system can induce heterogeneous changes with arrhythmogenic potential which can result in atrial tachycardia, atrial tachyarrhythmias and a...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Carnagarin R,Kiuchi MG,Ho JK,Matthews VB,Schlaich MP

更新日期：2019-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a P300-based brain-machine interface (BMI) developed to control a robotic hand-orthosis. The purpose of this system is to assist patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who cannot open and close their hands by themselves. The user of this inter...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Delijorge J,Mendoza-Montoya O,Gordillo JL,Caraza R,Martinez HR,Antelis JM

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal and cortical mechanisms provide for persistence of visual information across intervals of many hundreds of milliseconds, which supports the integration of partial shape cues. The present experiments displayed unknown shapes in a match recognition task, wherein a target shape was quickly followed by a compariso...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Geoly A,Greene E

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke patients often use trunk to compensate for impaired upper limb motor function during upper limb rehabilitation training, which results in a reduced rehabilitation training effect. Detecting trunk compensations can improve the effect of rehabilitation training. This study investigates the feasibility of a surfac...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Ma K,Chen Y,Zhang X,Zheng H,Yu S,Cai S,Xie L

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional connectivity is conventionally characterized by correlations between fMRI time series, which are intrinsically undirected measures of connectivity. Yet, some information about the directionality of network connections can nevertheless be extracted from the ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Lennartz C,Schiefer J,Rotter S,Hennig J,LeVan P

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Some toxins and drugs can trigger lasting neuroprotective mechanisms that enable neurons to resist a subsequent severe insult. This "pharmacological preconditioning" has far-reaching implications for conditions in which blood flow to the brain is interrupted. We have previously shown that in vitro preconditioning with...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Goulton CS,Patten AR,Kerr JR,Kerr DS

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:An associative brain-computer-interface (BCI) that correlates in time a peripherally generated afferent volley with the peak negativity (PN) of the movement related cortical potential (MRCP) induces plastic changes in the human motor cortex. However, in this associative BCI the movement timed to a cue is not detected ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Mrachacz-Kersting N,Aliakbaryhosseinabadi S

更新日期：2018-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Overview: We model energy constraints in a network of spiking neurons, while exploring general questions of resource limitation on network function abstractly. Background: Metabolic states like dietary ketosis or hypoglycemia have a large impact on brain function and disease outcomes. Glia provide metabolic support fo...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Burroni J,Taylor P,Corey C,Vachnadze T,Siegelmann HT

更新日期：2017-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) is a focal neurodegenerative disease, with a strong genetic background, that causes early onset dementia. The present knowledge about the risk loci and causative mutations of FTD mainly derives from genetic linkage analysis, studies of candidate genes, Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWA...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Ciani M,Benussi L,Bonvicini C,Ghidoni R

更新日期：2019-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It is undisputed that presenting a rhythmic stimulus leads to a measurable brain response that follows the rhythmic structure of this stimulus. What is still debated, however, is the question whether this brain response exclusively reflects a regular repetition of evoked responses, or whether it also includes entraine...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Zoefel B,Ten Oever S,Sack AT

更新日期：2018-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes for endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-shaping proteins are among the most commonly mutated in hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Mutation of these genes in model organisms can lead to disruption of the ER network. To investigate how the physiological roles of the ER might be affected by such disruption, we developed ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Oliva MK,Pérez-Moreno JJ,O'Shaughnessy J,Wardill TJ,O'Kane CJ

更新日期：2020-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial group independent component analysis (GICA) methods decompose multiple-subject functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data into a linear mixture of spatially independent components (ICs), some of which are subsequently characterized as brain functional networks. Group information guided independent compo...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Du Y,Lin D,Yu Q,Sui J,Chen J,Rachakonda S,Adali T,Calhoun VD

更新日期：2017-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several works have demonstrated that visual experience plays a critical role in the development of allocentric spatial coding. Indeed, while children with a typical development start to code space by relying on allocentric landmarks from the first year of life, blind children remain anchored to an egocentric perspecti...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Martolini C,Cappagli G,Luparia A,Signorini S,Gori M

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained using backpropagation are powerful learning architectures that have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various benchmarks. Significant effort has been devoted to developing custom silicon devices to accelerate inference in ANNs. Accelerating the training phase, however, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Mostafa H,Pedroni B,Sheik S,Cauwenberghs G

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research has shown that musical beats are salient at the level of the cortex in humans. Yet below the cortex there is considerable sub-cortical processing that could influence beat perception. Some biases, such as a tempo preference and an audio frequency bias for beat timing, could result from sub-cortical proc...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： Zuk NJ,Carney LH,Lalor EC

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:For safe application of exoskeletons in people with spinal cord injury at home or in the community, it is required to have completed an exoskeleton training in which users learn to perform basic and advanced skills. So far, a framework to test exoskeleton skills is lacking. The aim of this study was to develop and tes...

journal_title：Frontiers in neuroscience

authors： van Dijsseldonk RB,Rijken H,van Nes IJW,van de Meent H,Keijsers NLW

更新日期：2017-12-12 00:00:00