Jiang, Ke Wu, Shi Shi, Zhenhao Liu, Mingyan Peng, Maoying Shen, Yang Yang, Juan
Published in
Brain research
Individual self-esteem is dominated more by agency than by communion. However, prior research has mainly focused on one's agentic/communal self-evaluation, while little is known about how one endorses others' agentic/communal evaluation of the self. The present study investigated the associations between trait self-esteem and fundamental dimensions...
Ikenoue, Etsuko Akhter, Fatema Tsutsumi, Yumi Sato, Fumihiko Ohara, Haruka Uchino, Katsuro Furuta, Takahiro Tachibana, Yoshihisa Yoshida, Atsushi
Published in
Brain research
Our motor behavior can be affected by proprioceptive information. However, little is known about which brain circuits contribute to this process. We have recently revealed that the proprioceptive information arising from jaw-closing muscle spindles (JCMSs) is conveyed to the supratrigeminal nucleus (Su5) by neurons in the trigeminal mesencephalic n...
Amengual-Gual, Marta Sánchez Fernández, Iván Loddenkemper, Tobias
Published in
Brain research
Seizures tend to occur following complex and patient-specific patterns despite their apparently random occurrence. A better understanding of these patterns and current technological advances may allow the implementation of closed-loop detection, prediction, and treatment systems in routine clinical practice.
Joshi, Suchitra Kapur, Jaideep
Published in
Brain research
The female reproductive hormones progesterone and estrogen regulate network excitability. Fluctuations in the circulating levels of these hormones during the menstrual cycle cause frequent seizures during certain phases of the cycle in women with epilepsy. This seizure exacerbation, called catamenial epilepsy, is a dominant form of drug-refractory ...
Zhang, Yujing Xu, Dan Qi, Hong Yuan, Yin Liu, Hong Yao, Shanglong Yuan, Shiying Zhang, Jiancheng
Published in
Brain research
Enriched environment (EE) has been shown to promote post-stroke neurogenesis and functional recovery. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remains poorly understood. Male C57BL/6 mice underwent 60-min middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) followed by reperfusion, after which mice were housed in either standard environment (SE) or EE. We f...
Carreras, Isabel Aytan, Nurgul Mellott, Tiffany Choi, Ji-Kyung Lehar, Margaret Crabtree, Leah Leite-Morris, Kimberly Jenkins, Bruce G Blusztajn, Jan Krzysztof Dedeoglu, Alpaslan
...
Published in
Brain research
Gulf War Illness (GWI) is a chronic disease that affects the 1991 Gulf War (GW) veterans for which treatment is lacking. It has been hypothesized that drugs used to protect military personnel from chemical attacks and insects during the war: pyridostigmine bromide (PB),N, N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET), and permethrin (PER) together with stress may h...
Spencer, Nick J Hibberd, Tim J Lagerström, Malin Otsuka, Yoichiro Kelley, Nigel
Published in
Brain research
Painful stimuli arising within visceral organs are detected by peripheral nerve endings of spinal afferents, whose cell bodies are located in dorsal root ganglia (DRG). Recent technical advances have made it possible to reliably expose and inject single DRG with neuronal tracers or viruses in vivo. This has facilitated, for the first time, unequivo...
Cawthon, Carolina R de La Serre, Claire B
Published in
Brain research
Contemporary techniques including the use of germ-free models and next generation sequencing have deepened our understanding of the gut microbiota dynamics and its influence on host physiology. There is accumulating evidence that the gut microbiota can communicate to the CNS and is involved in the development of metabolic and behavioral disorders. ...
Chalazonitis, Alcmène Rao, Meenakshi
Published in
Brain research
Neurological disorders cause gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms that are debilitating and markedly diminish quality of life in patients. The enteric nervous system (ENS), the intrinsic nervous system of the GI tract that is often referred to as "the second brain", shares many features with the central nervous system. The ENS plays an essential role in ...
Karatas, H Eun Jung, Joo Lo, E H van Leyen, K
Published in
Brain research
12/15-Lipoxygenase (12/15-LOX) contributes to the brain damage after middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) in the acute phase of stroke. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a 12/15-LOX inhibitor, LOXBlock-1(LB1), in mice using a FeCl3-induced permanent distal MCAO model and FeCl3-induced ischemia/thrombolysis with tPA. In orde...
