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Neurosciences
Ruixue Xia, Honghong Shao, Lili Cui, Peiying Zhang, Junwei Xue, Aibao Zhou, Shifeng Li
Summary: The study found that participants responded faster to positive traits when presented with a subliminal self-cue, indicating the robustness of self-positivity bias. Additionally, there were significant interactions between name-cue and valence in N400 amplitudes. The earlier N400 latencies and smaller amplitudes were associated with positive traits presented with the self-name cue.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2021)
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Psychology, Biological
Sasa Zorjan, Andreas Gremsl, Anne Schienle
Summary: The study found that mentally imagining crushing M&Ms did not reduce attention to M&M images, instead having the opposite effect. Additionally, sorting M&Ms increased craving but did not affect M&M consumption.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Xing Peng, Xiaoyu Tang, Hao Jiang, Aijun Wang, Ming Zhang, Ruosong Chang
Summary: This study used event-related potentials to investigate how inhibition of return modulates audiovisual integration. The results showed a significant super-additive audiovisual integration effect under the invalid cue condition, and significant integration effects were observed under both valid and invalid cue conditions.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Yan Jin, Lei Zhang, Wei Chen, Xifu Zheng
Summary: This study suggests that identifying safety signals during uncertainty is an important way to relieve anxiety in individuals with anxiety disorders. High trait anxiety individuals show impairments in detecting safety signals during uncertainty, compared to low trait anxiety individuals. Attentional biases and associative learning play a role in this difference.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Jiaqi Wang, Junfeng Sun, Chunbo Li, Shanbao Tong, Xiangfei Hong
Summary: This study investigated factors affecting aging effects on visual spatial attention and found that low pre-cue alpha exhibited similar patterns of alpha activity between older adults and young adults, while significant alpha activity was only observed in young adults with high pre-cue alpha. Age-related deficits in cue-related event-related potentials were relatively independent of pre-cue alpha, but deficits in target-related attentional modulation might depend on both pre-cue alpha and cueing strategy.
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Neurosciences
Jin Li, Nian Xu, Yiping Zhong
Summary: Individuals tend to reciprocate cooperative or aggressive actions based on their reciprocity preferences, which are positively correlated with their reciprocity expectations. Monetary payoffs can heighten expectations of negative reciprocity, particularly at the automatic outcome processing stage.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Psychology, Developmental
Zohar Klein, Gil Shner-Livne, Shani Danon-Kraun, Rivkah Ginat-Frolich, Daniel S. Pine, Tomer Shechner
Summary: This study compared threat learning among anxious and non-anxious youth and found that anxious youth had elevated cognitive and physiological responses, greater threat generalization, and aberrant neural response during delayed extinction, which were associated with poorer treatment outcomes.
JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
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Psychology, Biological
Xiao Zhou, Yuanyuan Gu, Jinxia Wang, Lihui Huang, Yi Lei
Summary: Overgeneralisation, associated with elevated intolerance of uncertainty, is investigated in relation to threat generalisation. The study found that higher intolerance of uncertainty was associated with increased expectancy for generalisation stimuli and heightened attention to ambiguous stimuli, as well as inadequate processing in unpredictable conditions. These findings may contribute to the treatment of mood disorders characterized by high intolerance of uncertainty.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Clinical Neurology
Jennifer R. Lepock, Romina Mizrahi, Cory J. Gerritsen, R. Michael Bagby, Margaret Maheandiran, Sarah Ahmed, Michele Korostil, Michael Kiang
Summary: The study found that N400 semantic priming deficits in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis can predict symptomatic and functional deterioration after one year. This finding is of significance for early diagnosis and intervention of mental illnesses.
PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES
(2022)
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Psychology, Biological
Elkan G. Akyurek, Gulsen Balta
Summary: This study investigated visual temporal integration, specifically how multiple stimuli appearing in rapid succession are perceived as a single event. The results showed that both intrinsic and extrinsic factors have an interactive effect on integration performance, with distinct effects on the event-related potential components. This study provides important insights into the neural mechanisms underlying temporal integration and its impact on perception of longer episodic events.
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Psychology, Biological
Alexandra M. Muir, Addison C. Eberhard, Megan S. Walker, Angus Bennion, Mikle South, Michael J. Larson
Summary: The study showed that uncertainty in feedback led to larger RewP amplitude, and that RewP amplitude was influenced by uncertainty in the presence of a reward, but less affected by uncertainty in feedback timing.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Psychiatry
Tania Moretta, Giulia Buodo
Summary: This study aimed to investigate cue-reactivity to social network site-related visual cues in individuals identified as problematic vs. non-problematic Facebook users. The findings suggest that Facebook-related cues capture attentional resources in all users, with problematic users showing stronger positivity to pleasant cues and reduced emotional experience ability in relation to higher craving.
JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jiayin Chen, Bingqin He, Huiqiu Zhu, Jianghua Wu
Summary: This study used event-related potential technology to explore the influence of pattern, lightness, and color system factors of ceramic tiles on people's preferences and visual attention. The study found that unpatterned, light-toned, and warm-colored tiles were preferred by people, and different features of tiles elicited different brain potential responses. The results provide a new perspective and relevant information for assessing the visual characteristics of tiles for environmental designers and marketers in the ceramic tiles industry.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Fengbo Guo, Ziyang Yang, Tengfei Liu, Li Gu
Summary: Narcissistic individuals exhibit less trust towards strangers, especially after receiving trust feedback. Their EEG results show a larger N2 wave following distrust and a stronger negatively-valanced difference after trustee feedback.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Emily S. Kappenman, Jaclyn L. Farrens, Wendy Zhang, Andrew X. Stewart, Steven J. Luck
Summary: ERP CORE is a resource that includes optimized paradigms, experiment control scripts, data processing pipelines, and sample data for seven common ERP components. This resource enables researchers to use standardized ERP paradigms, apply carefully designed analysis pipelines, rigorously assess the quality of their data, and test new analytic techniques with standardized data from a wide range of paradigms.
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Neurosciences
Song Xue, Feng Kong, Yiying Song, Jia Liu
Summary: This study used resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore the relationship between individual's spontaneous neural activity and social interaction anxiety in a nonclinical population. The results showed that social interaction anxiety was correlated with the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in several brain regions, and that emotional intelligence partially mediated this relationship. This study provides evidence for the neural basis of social interaction anxiety in the normal population and highlights the role of emotional intelligence in this anxiety.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Katsuyuki Yamaguchi, Takuya Yazawa
Summary: This study provides morphometric data on the development of the human medullary arcuate nucleus (AN) by examining the brains of preterm and perinatal infants. The results show that AN morphology demonstrates asymmetry and individual variability during the fetal period. The volume and neuronal number of AN increase exponentially with age, while neuronal density decreases exponentially. The AN may undergo neuron death and neuroblasts production after mid-gestation.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Zhan Zhou, Weixin Dai, Tianxiao Liu, Min Shi, Yi Wei, Lifei Chen, Yubo Xie
Summary: Studies have shown that propofol-induced neurotoxicity is caused by disruption of mitochondrial fission and fusion, leading to an energy supply imbalance for developing neurons. Healthy mitochondria released by astrocytes can migrate to compromised neurons to mitigate propofol-induced neurotoxicity, but the exact mechanisms involved still need further clarification.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
An Chen, Song Hao, Yongpeng Han, Yang Fang, Yibei Miao
Summary: This study explores the efficacy of two forms of BCI attention training games and finds that physical games may be more effective than video games. The research also offers valuable insights for future game design from a neuroscience perspective.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Lina Liu, Luran Liu, Yunting Lu, Tianyuan Zhang, Wenting Zhao
Summary: This study reveals that GDI1 serves as a potential diagnostic biomarker for AD and inhibition of GDI1 can attenuate Aβ-induced neurotoxicity. The findings offer new insights for the treatment of AD.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Zahra Gholami, Ava Soltani Hekmat, Ali Abbasi, Kazem Javanmardi
Summary: This study investigated the effects of alamandine on allodynia in a rat model and found the presence of MrgD receptors in the vlPAG and RVM regions. Microinjection of alamandine resulted in a significant increase in paw withdrawal threshold and could be blocked by an MrgD receptor antagonist. Upregulation of MrgD receptor expression following allodynia induction suggests a potential compensatory mechanism in response to pain.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Mingliang Xu, Lei Xia, Junjie Li, Yehong Du, Zhifang Dong
Summary: This study found that DHF effectively alleviates sevoflurane-induced cognitive impairment in developing mice by restoring the balance between tau O-GlcNAcylation and phosphorylation. Therefore, DHF has the potential to be a therapeutic agent for treating cognitive impairment associated with anesthetics, such as sevoflurane.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Tsubasa Mitsutake, Hisato Nakazono, Takanori Taniguchi, Hisayoshi Yoshizuka, Maiko Sakamoto
Summary: The posterior parietal cortex plays a crucial role in postural stability, and transcranial electrical stimulation of this region can modulate physical control responses. This study found that cathodal stimulation significantly decreased joint angular velocity in multiple directions, while there were no significant differences with transcranial random noise stimulation.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Xishuai Yang, Wei Zhang, Xueli Chang, Zuopeng Li, Runquan Du, Junhong Guo
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of low-dose rituximab (RTX) in patients with muscle-specific kinase antibody positive myasthenia gravis (MuSK-MG). The results showed that low-dose RTX treatment led to significant improvements in clinical symptoms and quality of life for patients with MuSK-MG.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Jian Zhang, Shunyuan Guo, Rong Tao, Fan Wang, Yihong Xie, Huizi Wang, Lan Ding, Yuejian Shen, Xiaoli Zhou, Junli Feng, Qing Shen
Summary: This study established an Alzheimer's disease (AD) model of zebrafish induced by AlCl3 and found that marine-derived plasmalogens (Pls) could alleviate cognitive impairments of AD zebrafish by reversing athletic impairment and altering the expression levels of genes related to oxidative stress, ferroptosis, synaptic dysfunction, and apoptosis.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Lu Li, Jiaqi Ren, Qi Fang, Liqiang Yu, Jintao Wang
Summary: ICU-AW is a common and severe neuromuscular complication in critically ill patients. Electrophysiological examination is essential for accurate diagnosis and early prediction of the disease. This study aimed to establish and validate an ICU-AW predictive model in SIRS patients, providing a practical tool for early clinical prediction.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Ahmad Alipour, Roghayeh Mohammadi
Summary: The present study aimed to investigate the separate and combined effects of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the primary motor cortex (M1) and left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (F3) regions on pain relief in patients with type-2 diabetes suffering from neuropathic pain (NP). The results showed that tDCS had the potential to induce pain relief in patients with type-2 diabetes suffering from NP. The mean perceived pain intensity in the posttest was lower in the M1 stimulation group than in the F3 stimulation group. However, more trials with larger sample sizes are necessary to define clinically relevant effects.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Eduardo J. Fusse, Franciele F. Scarante, Maria A. Vicente, Mariana M. Marrubia, Flavia Turcato, Davi S. Scomparin, Melissa A. Ribeiro, Maria J. Figueiredo, Tamires A. V. Brigante, Francisco S. Guimaraes, Alline C. Campos
Summary: Repeated exposure to psychosocial stress alters the endocannabinoid system and affects brain regions associated with emotional distress. Enhancing the effects of endocannabinoids through pharmacological inhibition induces an anti-stress behavioral effect, possibly mediated by the mTOR signaling pathway.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Giulia Agostoni, Luca Bischetti, Federica Repaci, Margherita Bechi, Marco Spangaro, Irene Ceccato, Elena Cavallini, Luca Fiorentino, Francesca Martini, Jacopo Sapienza, Mariachiara Buonocore, Michele Francesco D'Incalci, Federica Cocchi, Carmelo Guglielmino, Roberto Cavallaro, Marta Bosia, Valentina Bambini
Summary: This study found a general impairment in humor comprehension in individuals with schizophrenia, with mental jokes being more difficult for both patients and controls. Humor comprehension was closely associated with the patients' overall pragmatic and linguistic profile, while the association with Theory of Mind (ToM) was minimal. Another notable finding was the increased appreciation of humor in individuals with schizophrenia, who rated jokes as funnier than controls did, regardless of whether they were correctly or incorrectly completed. The funniness ratings were not predicted by any measure, suggesting a dimension of humor untied to cognition or psychopathology.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
Xiuping Gong, Qi Li, Yang Liu
Summary: This study demonstrates that Sev targets CREBBP to inhibit ALG13 transcription, leading to hippocampal damage and cognitive impairment.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2024)