Hyperactivation of the habenula as a link between depression and sleep disturbance.

abstract：:The proposal that dietary docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) enhances neurocognitive functioning in term infants is controversial. Theoretical evidence, laboratory research and human epidemiological studies have convincingly demonstrated that DHA deficiency can negatively impact neurocognitive development. However, the result...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Heaton AE,Meldrum SJ,Foster JK,Prescott SL,Simmer K

更新日期：2013-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:While recent studies have explored the maintenance of the effect of meditation on stress resilience, the underlying neural mechanisms have not yet been investigated. The present study conducted a highly controlled residential study of a 4-day meditation intervention to investigate the brain functional changes and long...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kwak S,Lee TY,Jung WH,Hur JW,Bae D,Hwang WJ,Cho KIK,Lim KO,Kim SY,Park HY,Kwon JS

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Empathy is inherently interpersonal, but the majority of research has only examined observers. Targets of need have been largely held constant through hypothetical and fictionalized depictions of sympathetic distress and need. In the real world, people's response to life stressors varies widely-from stoicism to resili...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Preston SD,Hofelich AJ,Stansfield RB

更新日期：2013-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In multiple sclerosis (MS) functional changes in connectivity due to cortical reorganization could lead to cognitive impairment (CI), or reflect a re-adjustment to reduce the clinical effects of widespread tissue damage. Such alterations in connectivity could result in changes in neural activation as assayed by execut...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Helekar SA,Shin JC,Mattson BJ,Bartley K,Stosic M,Saldana-King T,Montague PR,Hutton GJ

更新日期：2010-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior research suggests that acoustical degradation impacts encoding of items into memory, especially in elderly subjects. We here aimed to investigate whether acoustically degraded items that are initially encoded into memory are more prone to forgetting as a function of age. Young and old participants were tested wi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Thiel CM,Özyurt J,Nogueira W,Puschmann S

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid aiming movements are typically used to study upper limb motor control and development. Despite the large corpus of work in this area, few studies have examined kinematic manual asymmetries in children who have just started formal schooling and until now, none have characterized how children coordinate their join...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bagesteiro LB,Balthazar RB,Hughes CML

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in psychiatric studies has widely demonstrated that cerebral hemodynamics differs among psychiatric patients. Recently we found that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) showed different hemodynamic responses t...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ichikawa H,Kitazono J,Nagata K,Manda A,Shimamura K,Sakuta R,Okada M,Yamaguchi MK,Kanazawa S,Kakigi R

更新日期：2014-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vestibular inputs make a key contribution to the sense of one's own spatial location. While the effects of vestibular stimulation on visuo-spatial processing in neurological patients have been extensively described, the normal contribution of vestibular inputs to spatial perception remains unclear. To address this iss...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ferrè ER,Longo MR,Fiori F,Haggard P

更新日期：2013-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceiving the external spatial location of touch requires that tactile information about the stimulus location on the skin be integrated with proprioceptive information about the location of the body in external space, a process called tactile spatial remapping. Recent results have suggested that this process relies ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Longo MR

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripersonal space, as opposed to extrapersonal space, is the space that contains reachable objects and in which multisensory and sensorimotor integration is enhanced. Thus, the perception of peripersonal space requires combining information on the spatial properties of the environment with information on the current ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Bartolo A,Carlier M,Hassaini S,Martin Y,Coello Y

更新日期：2014-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The feeling of acting voluntarily is a fundamental component of human behavior and social life and is usually accompanied by a sense of agency. However, this ability can be impaired in a number of diseases and disorders. An important example is apraxia, a disturbance traditionally defined as a disorder of voluntary sk...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Pazzaglia M,Galli G

更新日期：2014-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to identify the brain-based mechanisms of uncertainty and certainty associated with answers to multiple-choice questions involving common misconceptions about electric circuits. Twenty-two scientifically novice participants (humanities and arts college students) were aske...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Potvin P,Turmel E,Masson S

更新日期：2014-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional neuroimaging has increased our understanding of human brain function tremendously and has become a standard tool in clinical and cognitive neuroscience research. We briefly review its methodological foundations and describe remaining challenges for translational research. The application of neuroimaging res...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Schleim S,Roiser JP

更新日期：2009-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we examined brain activation in subjects during two music listening conditions: listening while simultaneously rating the musical piece being played [Listening and Rating (LR)] and listening to the musical pieces unconstrained [Listening (L)]. Using these two conditions, we tested whether the sequence i...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Markovic A,Kühnis J,Jäncke L

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Malfunctioning sensory systems can severely impact quality of life and repair is not always possible. One solution, called sensory substitution, is to use another sensory system to bring lost information to the brain. This approach often involves the use of bioengineered devices that electrically stimulate somatosenso...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Moritz J Jr,Turk P,Williams JD,Stone-Roy LM

更新日期：2017-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthy aging is typically accompanied by some decline in cognitive performance, as well as by alterations in brain structure and function. Here we report the results of a randomized, controlled trial designed to determine the effects of a novel cognitive training program on resting cerebral blood flow (CBF) and gray ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Mozolic JL,Hayasaka S,Laurienti PJ

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The present review aims to summarize the debate in contemporary neuroscience between inborn and experience-dependent models of conceptual representations that goes back to the description of category-specific semantic disorders for biological and artifact categories. Experience-dependent models suggest that categorica...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Gainotti G

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of empirical phenomena that were previously interpreted as a result of cognitive control, turn out to reflect (in part) simple associative-learning effects. A prime example is the proportion congruency effect, the finding that interference effects (such as the Stroop effect) decrease as the propor...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Brown SB,van Steenbergen H,Kedar T,Nieuwenhuis S

更新日期：2014-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Group musical improvisation is thought to be akin to conversation, and therapeutically has been shown to be effective at improving communicativeness, sociability, creative expression, and overall psychological health. To understand these therapeutic effects, clarifying the nature of brain activity during improvisation...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Boasen J,Takeshita Y,Kuriki S,Yokosawa K

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An emerging field of research focused on fluctuations in brain signals has provided evidence that the complexity of those signals, as measured by entropy, conveys important information about network dynamics (e.g., local and distributed processing). While much research has focused on how neural complexity differs in p...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： McDonough IM,Nashiro K

更新日期：2014-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory change detection is crucial for the development of the auditory system and a prerequisite for language development. In neonates, stimuli with broad spectral width like white noise (WN) elicit the highest response compared to pure tone and combined tone stimuli. In the current study we addressed for the first ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Muenssinger J,Matuz T,Schleger F,Draganova R,Weiss M,Kiefer-Schmidt I,Wacker-Gussmann A,Govindan RB,Lowery CL,Eswaran H,Preissl H

更新日期：2013-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive neuroscience has recently begun to extend its focus from the isolated individual mind to two or more individuals coordinating with each other. In this study we uncover a coordination of neural activity between the ongoing electroencephalogram (EEG) of two people-a person speaking and a person listening. The ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Kuhlen AK,Allefeld C,Haynes JD

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is associated with deficits in social communication and avoidance of social contact. It has been hypothesized that people with IAD may have an impaired capacity for empathy. The purpose of the current study was to examine the processing of empathy for others' pain in IADs. Event-relat...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Jiao C,Wang T,Peng X,Cui F

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain integrates multisensory inputs coming from the body (i.e., proprioception, tactile sensations) and the world that surrounds it (e.g., visual information). In this way, it is possible to build supra-modal and coherent mental representations of our own body, in order to process sensory events and to plan movem...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Tosi G,Romano D,Maravita A

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance variation is a critical issue in motor imagery brain-computer interface (MI-BCI), and various neurophysiological, psychological, and anatomical correlates have been reported in the literature. Although the main aim of such studies is to predict MI-BCI performance for the prescreening of poor performers, st...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Ahn M,Cho H,Ahn S,Jun SC

更新日期：2018-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The term autism spectrum disorder (ASD) describes a range of conditions characterized by impairments in social interactions, communication, and by restricted and repetitive behaviors. Autism spectrum disorder may also present with symptoms suggestive of autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction. The objective of this...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Casanova MF,Hensley MK,Sokhadze EM,El-Baz AS,Wang Y,Li X,Sears L

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have reported that, when subjects have to judge the laterality of rotated hand drawings, their judgment is automatically influenced by the biomechanical constraints of the upper limbs. The prominent account for this effect is that, in order to perform the task, subjects mentally rotate their upper limb...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Vannuscorps G,Pillon A,Andres M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some types of first-person narrations of mental processes that constitute phenomenological accounts and texts, such as internal monolog statements, epitomize the best expressions and representations of human consciousness available and therefore may be used to model phenomenological streams of consciousness. The type ...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Díaz JL

更新日期：2013-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: We aimed to study the contribution of upper limb movements to propulsion during walking in typically developing (TD) children (n = 5) and children with hemiplegic and diplegic cerebral palsy (CP; n = 5 and n = 4, respectively). Methods: Using integrated three-dimensional motion capture data and a scaled ge...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Meyns P,Molenaers G,Duysens J,Jonkers I

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous dimensions, such as time, space, and numerosity, have been suggested to be subserved by common neurocognitive mechanisms. Neuroimaging studies that have investigated either one or two dimensions simultaneously have consistently identified neural correlates in the parietal cortex of the brain. However, studi...

journal_title：Frontiers in human neuroscience

authors： Skagerlund K,Karlsson T,Träff U

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00