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Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Executive Functioning in Musicians and Non-Musicians
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Executive functions (EF) are cognitive capacities that allow for planned, controlled behavior and strongly correlate with academic abilities. Several extracurricular activities have been shown to improve EF, however, the ...
Comprehensive Evaluation of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration in the Acute Healing Phase Using Tissue Clearing and Optical Microscopy in a Rodent Model
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Peripheral nerve injury (PNI), a common injury in both the civilian and military arenas, is usually associated with high healthcare costs and with patients enduring slow recovery times, diminished quality of life, and ...
4-Phenylbutyrate Attenuates the ER Stress Response and Cyclic AMP Accumulation in DYT1 Dystonia Cell Models
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Dystonia is a neurological disorder in which sustained muscle contractions induce twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal posturing. DYT1 early-onset primary dystonia is the most common form of hereditary dystonia ...
Investigating the Neural Correlates of Voice versus Speech-Sound Directed Information in Pre-School Children
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Studies in sleeping newborns and infants propose that the superior temporal sulcus is involved in speech processing soon after birth. Speech processing also implicitly requires the analysis of the human voice, which conveys ...
Intrinsic Neuronal Properties Switch the Mode of Information Transmission in Networks
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Diverse ion channels and their dynamics endow single neurons with complex biophysical properties. These properties determine the heterogeneity of cell types that make up the brain, as constituents of neural circuits tuned ...
Patterns of Brain Activation when Mothers View Their Own Child and Dog: An fMRI Study
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Neural substrates underlying the human-pet relationship are largely unknown. We examined fMRI brain activation patterns as mothers viewed images of their own child and dog and an unfamiliar child and dog. There was a common ...
Functional Connectivity in the First Year of Life in Infants at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder: An EEG Study
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
In the field of autism research, recent work has been devoted to studying both behavioral and neural markers that may aide in early identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). These studies have often tested infants ...
The Neural Bases of Directed and Spontaneous Mental State Attributions to Group Agents
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
In daily life, perceivers often need to predict and interpret the behavior of group agents, such as corporations and governments. Although research has investigated how perceivers reason about individual members of particular ...
Dopamine Genetic Risk Score Predicts Depressive Symptoms in Healthy Adults and Adults with Depression
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Background: Depression is a common source of human disability for which etiologic insights remain limited. Although abnormalities of monoamine neurotransmission, including dopamine, are theorized to contribute to the ...