This review aims to synthesise a large pre-clinical and clinical literature related to a
hypothesised role of the locus coeruleus norepinephrine system in responses to acute and …

Success in regenerative medicine depends on specific attributes of scaffolds such as
porosity, mechanical strength and biocompatibility. Physical and chemical properties of …

Growth factors in tumor environments are regulators of cell survival and metastasis. Here,
we reveal the dichotomy between TGF-β superfamily growth factors BMP and TGF-β/activin …

Several lines of evidence have suggested for decades a role for norepinephrine (NE) in the
pathophysiology and treatment of schizophrenia. Recent experimental findings reveal …

The intestinal microbiome maintains a close relationship with the host immunity. This
connection fosters a health state by direct and indirect mechanisms. Direct influences occur …

Visual attention is the cognitive process that mediates the selection of important information
from the environment. This selection is usually controlled by bottom-up and top-down …

Food-related impulsivity, ie a food-related attentional bias proposed to be due to increased
reward sensitivity and diminished inhibitory control, has been cross-sectionally associated …

Homotopic connectivity (HC) is the connectivity between mirror areas of the brain
hemispheres. It can exhibit a marked and functionally relevant spatial variability, and can be …

Mental terms—such as perception, cognition, action, emotion, as well as attention, memory,
decision-making—are epistemically sterile. We support our thesis based on extensive …

A history of head injury is common in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures
(PNES). This association has so far been interpreted as either spurious or psychologically …