Neural circuits regulating prosocial behaviors

JJ Walsh, DJ Christoffel, RC Malenka - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2023 - nature.com
Positive, prosocial interactions are essential for survival, development, and well-being.
These intricate and complex behaviors are mediated by an amalgamation of neural circuit …

Non-invasive brain stimulation for the rehabilitation of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders: a systematic review

A Finisguerra, R Borgatti, C Urgesi - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In the last years, there has been a growing interest in the application of different non-
invasive brain stimulation techniques to induce neuroplasticity and to modulate cognition …

Altered cerebellar connectivity in autism and cerebellar-mediated rescue of autism-related behaviors in mice

CJ Stoodley, AM D'Mello, J Ellegood… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Cerebellar abnormalities, particularly in Right Crus I (RCrusI), are consistently reported in
autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Although RCrusI is functionally connected with ASD …

Extracellular release and signaling by heat shock protein 27: role in modifying vascular inflammation

Z Batulan, VK Pulakazhi Venu, Y Li… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Heat shock protein 27 (HSP27) is traditionally viewed as an intracellular chaperone protein
with anti-apoptotic properties. However, recent data indicate that a number of heat shock …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging in schizophrenia: current evidence, methodological advances, limitations and future directions

AN Voineskos, C Hawco, NH Neufeld… - World …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Functional neuroimaging emerged with great promise and has provided fundamental
insights into the neurobiology of schizophrenia. However, it has faced challenges and …

Cerebellar neurostimulation for boosting social and affective functions: implications for the rehabilitation of hereditary ataxia patients

A Ciricugno, V Oldrati, Z Cattaneo, M Leggio, C Urgesi… - The Cerebellum, 2024 - Springer
Beyond motor deficits, spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) patients also suffer cognitive decline
and show socio-affective difficulties, negatively impacting on their social functioning. The …

Non-invasive stimulation of the social brain: the methodological challenges

T Penton, C Catmur, MJ Banissy, G Bird… - Social Cognitive and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Use of non-invasive brain stimulation methods (NIBS) has become a common approach to
study social processing in addition to behavioural, imaging and lesion studies. However …

Social prediction in pediatric patients with congenital, non-progressive malformations of the cerebellum: From deficits in predicting movements to rehabilitation in …

C Urgesi, N Butti, A Finisguerra, E Biffi, EM Valente… - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
It has been proposed that impairments of the predictive function exerted by the cerebellum
may account for social cognition deficits. Here, we integrated cerebellar functions in a …

From the group to the individual in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: biomarkers of social cognitive impairments and therapeutic translation

LD Oliver, C Hawco, JD Viviano, AN Voineskos - Biological Psychiatry, 2022 - Elsevier
People with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) often experience persistent social
cognitive impairments, associated with poor functional outcome. There are currently no …

Single-session transcranial direct current stimulation induces enduring enhancement of visual processing speed in patients with major depression

N Gögler, L Willacker, J Funk, W Strube… - European archives of …, 2017 - Springer
Attentional deficits are considered key cognitive symptoms in major depressive disorder
(MDD) arising from abnormal activation patterns within dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) …