Topological Properties of Large-Scale Cortical Networks Based on Multiple Morphological Features in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment.

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to assess the role of action observation treatment (AOT) in the rehabilitation of upper limb motor functions in children with cerebral palsy. We carried out a two-group, parallel randomized controlled trial. Eighteen children (aged 5-11 yr) entered the study: 11 were treated children, ...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Buccino G,Molinaro A,Ambrosi C,Arisi D,Mascaro L,Pinardi C,Rossi A,Gasparotti R,Fazzi E,Galli J

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most serious public health concerns facing the world. Its characteristic feature is neuroinflammation due to microglial activation. Electroacupuncture is one of the therapies employed to improve the condition of patients with AD, although its mechanism of action is still to be de...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Li Y,Jiang J,Tang Q,Tian H,Wang S,Wang Z,Liu H,Yang J,Ren J

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have associated reduced expression of synaptosomal-associated protein of 25 kDa (SNAP-25) with schizophrenia, yet little is known about its role in the illness. In this paper, a forebrain glutamatergic neuron-specific SNAP-25 knockout mouse model was constructed and studied to explore the possible path...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Yang H,Zhang M,Shi J,Zhou Y,Wan Z,Wang Y,Wan Y,Li J,Wang Z,Fei J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic mechanism is involved in motor behavior. In songbirds, the robust nucleus of the arcopallium (RA) is a song premotor nucleus in the pallium and receives cholinergic inputs from the basal forebrain. The activity of projection neurons in RA determines song motor behavior. Although many evidences suggest that...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Meng W,Wang SH,Li DF

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ample evidence suggests that estrogens have strong influences on the occurrence of stress-related mood disorders, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Through multiple approaches, we demonstrate that the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) is widely distributed along the HPA axis and in brain...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Zheng Y,Wu M,Gao T,Meng L,Ding X,Meng Y,Jiao Y,Luo P,He Z,Sun T,Zhang G,Shi X,Rong W

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the evolution of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion-tensor imaging (DTI) over the first month of life in asphyxiated newborns treated with hypothermia and to compare it with that of healthy newborns. Asphyxiated newborns treated with hypothermia were enrolled prosp...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Kwan S,Boudes E,Benseler A,Gilbert G,Saint-Martin C,Shevell M,Wintermark P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an inheritable neuropsychological disease caused by expansion of the CGG trinucleotide repeat affecting the fmr1 gene on X chromosome, resulting in silence of the fmr1 gene and failed expression of FMRP. Patients with FXS suffer from cognitive impairment, sensory integration deficits, learn...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Yang T,Zhao H,Lu C,Li X,Xie Y,Fu H,Xu H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclothiazide (CTZ) has been reported to simultaneously enhance glutamate receptor excitation and inhibit GABAA receptor inhibition, and in turn it evokes epileptiform activities in hippocampal neurons. It has also been shown to acutely induce epileptic seizure behavior in freely moving rats. However, whether CTZ indu...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Kong S,Cheng Z,Liu J,Wang Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matricellular proteins are secreted, nonstructural proteins that regulate the extracellular matrix (ECM) and interactions between cells through modulation of growth factor signaling, cell adhesion, migration, and proliferation. Despite being well described in the context of nonneuronal tissues, recent studies have rev...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Jones EV,Bouvier DS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory is our ability to store and remember past experiences; it is the result of changes in neuronal circuits of specific brain areas as the hippocampus. During memory formation, neurons integrate their functions and increase the strength of their connections, so that synaptic plasticity is improved and consolidated....

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Colciago A,Magnaghi V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most dramatic progress in the restoration of hearing takes place in the first months after cochlear implantation. To map the brain activity underlying this process, we used positron emission tomography at three time points: within 14 days, three months, and six months after switch-on. Fifteen recently implanted ad...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Petersen B,Gjedde A,Wallentin M,Vuust P

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood emotional trauma contributes significantly to certain psychopathologies, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. In experimental animals, however, whether or not early-life stress results in behavioral abnormalities in adult animals still remains controversial. Here, we investigated both short-term and long-...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Chen LJ,Shen BQ,Liu DD,Li ST

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoforms of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) have been implicated as risk factors in Alzheimer's disease. We have, therefore, examined the possible role of ApoE in memory formation, using a one-trial passive avoidance task in day-old chicks. Birds were trained on the task and then at various times pre or post-training were inj...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Lancashire C,Mileusnic R,Rose SP

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Bilateral arm training (BAT) has shown promise in expediting progress toward upper limb recovery in chronic stroke patients, but its neural correlates are poorly understood. Objective:To evaluate changes in upper limb function and EEG power after a robot-assisted BAT in chronic stroke patients. Methods:In ...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Gandolfi M,Formaggio E,Geroin C,Storti SF,Boscolo Galazzo I,Bortolami M,Saltuari L,Picelli A,Waldner A,Manganotti P,Smania N

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently several lines of evidence demonstrated that methylcobalamin (MeCbl) might have potential analgesic effect in experimental and clinical studies. However, it was reported that MeCbl had no effect on treating lumbar spinal stenosis induced pain. Thus, the effects of short-term and long-term administration of MeC...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Zhang M,Han W,Zheng J,Meng F,Jiao X,Hu S,Xu H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The habituation/cross-habituation test (HaXha) is a spontaneous odor discrimination task that has been used for many decades to evaluate olfactory function in animals. Animals are presented repeatedly with the same odorant after which a new odorant is introduced. The time the animal explores the odor object is measure...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Coronas-Samano G,Ivanova AV,Verhagen JV

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) promotes survival and enhances long-distance regeneration of injured axons in parts of the adult CNS. Here we tested whether CNTF gene therapy targeting corticospinal neurons (CSN) in motor-related regions of the cerebral cortex promotes plasticity and regrowth of axons projecting in...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Hodgetts SI,Yoon JH,Fogliani A,Akinpelu EA,Baron-Heeris D,Houwers IGJ,Wheeler LPG,Majda BT,Santhakumar S,Lovett SJ,Duce E,Pollett MA,Wiseman TM,Fehily B,Harvey AR

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The GABA-withdrawal syndrome (GWS) is a model of local status epilepticus following the interruption of a chronic GABA infusion into the rat somatomotor cortex. GWS is characterized by focal epileptic electroencephalographic discharges and associated contralateral myoclonus. In neocortical slices obtained from GWS rat...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Silva-Barrat C,Champagnat J,Menini C

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional and effective connectivity of cortical areas are essential for normal brain function under different behavioral states. Appropriate cortical activity during sleep and wakefulness is ensured by the balanced activity of excitatory and inhibitory circuits. Ultimately, fast, millisecond cortical rhythmic oscill...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Vanvinckenroye A,Vandewalle G,Phillips C,Chellappa SL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postural problems play a central role in the motor dysfunction of children with cerebral palsy (CP). Therefore, they spend more time in sitting than in standing to perform vital tasks of daily life. The focus of this article is to describe the pathophysiology of postural control in sitting and outline some implication...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Carlberg EB,Hadders-Algra M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramides induce important intracellular signaling pathways, modulating proliferation, migration, apoptosis, and inflammation. However, the relevance of the ceramide metabolism in the reconvalescence phase after stroke is unclear. Besides its well-known property as a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, fluoxetine ...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Brunkhorst R,Friedlaender F,Ferreirós N,Schwalm S,Koch A,Grammatikos G,Toennes S,Foerch C,Pfeilschifter J,Pfeilschifter W

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging is a complex process strongly determined by genetics. Previous reports have shown that the genome of neuronal cells displays somatic genomic mosaicism including DNA copy number variations (CNVs). CNVs represent a significant source of genetic variation in the human genome and have been implicated in several diso...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Villela D,Suemoto CK,Leite R,Pasqualucci CA,Grinberg LT,Pearson P,Rosenberg C

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual learning can be specific to a trained stimulus or optimally generalized to novel stimuli with the breadth of generalization being imperative for how we structure perceptual training programs. Adapting an established auditory interval discrimination paradigm to utilise complex signals, we trained human adult...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Brown DJ,Proulx MJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adverse early life experiences can negatively affect behaviors later in life. Maternal separation (MS) has been extensively investigated in animal models in the adult phase of MS. The study aimed to explore the mechanism by which MS negatively affects C57BL/6N mice, especially the effects caused by MS in the early pha...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Bian Y,Yang L,Wang Z,Wang Q,Zeng L,Xu G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious medical and social problem worldwide. Because of the complex pathophysiological mechanisms of TBI, effective pharmacotherapy is still lacking. The microglial cells are resident tissue macrophages located in the brain and have two major polarization states, M1 phenotype and M2 ...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Xu H,Wang Z,Li J,Wu H,Peng Y,Fan L,Chen J,Gu C,Yan F,Wang L,Chen G

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal stress (PS) has long-term sequelae for the morphological and functional status of the central nervous system of the progeny. A PS-induced proinflammatory status of the organism may result in an impairment of both hippocampal synaptic plasticity and hippocampus-dependent memory formation in adults. We addresse...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Grigoryan G,Lonnemann N,Korte M

更新日期：2019-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about prenatal and perinatal brain injury resulting in subsequent clumsy behavior in children. One candidate motor system is the pyramidal tract. The tract traverses the entire central nervous system and, through direct and indirect connections to the brainstem and spinal cord sensory and motor nuclei,...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Whishaw IQ,Piecharka DM,Drever FR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many studies have investigated the functions of histidine triad nucleotide-binding protein 1 (HINT1), its roles in neurobiological processes remain to be fully elucidated. As a member of the histidine triad (HIT) enzyme superfamily, HINT1 is distributed in almost every organ and has both enzymatic and nonenzy...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Liu P,Liu Z,Wang J,Ma X,Dang Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rise in the aging global population, stroke comorbidities have become a serious health threat and a tremendous economic burden on human society. Current therapeutic strategies mainly focus on protecting neurons from cytotoxic damage at the acute phase upon stroke onset, which not only is a difficult way to am...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Liu W,Wang X,O'Connor M,Wang G,Han F

更新日期：2020-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Most citizen people are exposed daily to environmental noise at moderate levels with a short duration. The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of daily short-term exposure to moderate noise on sound level processing in the auditory midbrain. Sound processing properties of auditory midbrain neurons we...

journal_title：Neural plasticity

authors： Cheng L,Wang SH,Peng K,Liao XM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00