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A developmental sex difference in hippocampal neurogenesis is mediated by endogenous Oestradiol
(BMC, 2010)Background: Oestradiol is a steroid hormone that exerts extensive influence on brain development and is a powerful modulator of hippocampal structure and function. The hippocampus is a critical brain region regulating ... -
A Molecular Mechanism Regulating the Timing of Corticogeniculate Innervation
(Elsevier, 2013-11-14)Neural circuit formation demands precise timing of innervation by different classes of axons. However, the mechanisms underlying such activity remain largely unknown. In the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN), axons ... -
Active inference and agency: optimal control without cost functions
(Springer, 2012-08-03)This paper describes a variational free-energy formulation of (partially observable) Markov decision problems in decision making under uncertainty. We show that optimal control can be cast as active inference. In active ... -
Activity Dependent Protein Degradation Is Critical for the Formation and Stability of Fear Memory in the Amygdala
(PLOS, 2011-09)Protein degradation through the ubiquitin-proteasome system [UPS] plays a critical role in some forms of synaptic plasticity. However, its role in memory formation in the amygdala, a site critical for the formation of fear ... -
Adaptive Brain and Behavior Across the Lifespan
(Virginia Tech, 2016-05)Our aim is to understand adaptation and improve human lives in various contexts. Inequalities and environments in which people live affect their health and behavior — and their success of remaining healthy for a lifetime. ... -
Aging, resistance training, and diabetes prevention.
(2010-12-15)With the aging of the baby-boom generation and increases in life expectancy, the American population is growing older. Aging is associated with adverse changes in glucose tolerance and increased risk of diabetes; the ... -
Agrin and Synaptic Laminin Are Required to Maintain Adult Neuromuscular Junctions
(PLOS, 2012-10-03)As synapses form and mature the synaptic partners produce organizing molecules that regulate each other’s differentiation and ensure precise apposition of pre- and post-synaptic specializations. At the skeletal neuromuscular ... -
Alexithymia as a Transdiagnostic Precursor to Empathy Abnormalities: The Functional Role of the Insula
(Frontiers, 2017-12-21)Distorted empathic processing has been observed across multiple psychiatric disorders. Simulation theory provides a theoretical framework that proposes a mechanism through which empathy difficulties may arise. Specifically, ... -
The ALS-inducing factors, TDP43A315T and SOD1G93A, directly affect and sensitize sensory neurons to stress
(Nature, 2018-11-08)There is increased recognition that sensory neurons located in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) are affected in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). However, it remains unknown whether ALS-inducing factors, other than mutant ... -
Associability-modulated loss learning is increased in posttraumatic stress disorder
(eLife Sciences, 2018-01-09)Disproportionate reactions to unexpected stimuli in the environment are a cardinal symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, we test whether these heightened responses are associated with disruptions in distinct ... -
Associations between Parental Anxiety/Depression and Child Behavior Problems Related to Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Roles of Parenting Stress and Parenting Self-Efficacy
(Hindawi, 2011-12-13)Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have been shown to experience increases in stress, depression, and anxiety, which are also associated with child behavior problems related to ASDs. Literature-examining ... -
Automated Functional Analysis of Astrocytes from Chronic Time-Lapse Calcium Imaging Data
(Frontiers, 2017-07-14)Recent discoveries that astrocytes exert proactive regulatory effects on neural information processing and that they are deeply involved in normal brain development and disease pathology have stimulated broad interest in ... -
BDNF Val(66)Met Polymorphism Is Associated with Self-Reported Empathy
(PLOS, 2016-02-12)Empathy is an important driver of human social behaviors and presents genetic roots that have been studied in neuroimaging using the intermediate phenotype approach. Notably, the Val66Met polymorphism of the Brain-derived ... -
Beginning A Patient-Centered Approach in the Design of A Diabetes Prevention Program
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Behavioral and neural concordance in parent-child dyadic sleep patterns
(Elsevier, 2017-06-15)Sleep habits developed in adolescence shape long-term trajectories of psychological, educational, and physiological well-being. Adolescents’ sleep behaviors are shaped by their parents’ sleep at both the behavioral and ... -
Belief about nicotine modulates subjective craving and insula activity in deprived smokers
(Frontiers, 2016-07-13)Little is known about the specific neural mechanisms through which cognitive factors influence craving and associated brain responses, despite the initial success of cognitive therapies in treating drug addiction. In this ... -
Belief about nicotine selectively modulates value and reward prediction error signals in smokers
(NAS, 2015-02-24)Little is known about how prior beliefs impact biophysically described processes in the presence of neuroactive drugs, which presents a profound challenge to the understanding of the mechanisms and treatments of addiction. ... -
The Betrayal Aversion Elicitation Task: An Individual Level Betrayal Aversion Measure
(PLOS, 2015-09-02)Research on betrayal aversion shows that individuals’ response to risk depends not only on probabilities and payoffs, but also on whether the risk includes a betrayal of trust. While previous studies focus on measuring ... -
Biosensor Approach to Psychopathology Classification
(PLOS, 2010-10-21)We used a multi-round, two-party exchange game in which a healthy subject played a subject diagnosed with a DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistics Manual-IV) disorder, and applied a Bayesian clustering approach to the behavior ...
