Current research supports the notion that the apparently innate trait Sensory Processing
Sensitivity (SPS) may act as a modulator of development as function of the environment …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, and therefore an
important health and socioeconomic problem for our society. Individuals surviving from a …

Somatic symptoms include a range of physical experiences, such as pain, muscle tension,
body shaking, difficulty in breathing, heart palpitation, blushing, fatigue, and sweating …

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 …

Executive function entails the interplay of a group of cognitive processes enabling the
individual to anticipate consequences, attain self-control, and undertake appropriate goal …

The serotonergic precursor tryptophan and the dopaminergic precursor tyrosine have been
shown to be important modulators of mood, behaviour and cognition. Specifically, research …

In this chapter, the authors examine how candidate mechanisms of action can be refined
over time, and they present research recommendations that can be used in this iterative …

Behavioral and physiological evaluations of animal models of depression are essential to
thoroughly understand the mechanisms of depression in humans. Various models have …

Down syndrome (DS) has an incidence of about 1/700 births, and is therefore the most
common cause of cognitive and behavioral impairments in children. Recent studies on …

Adaption to changing environments is evolutionarily advantageous. Studies that link genetic
and phenotypic expression of flexible adjustment to one's context are largely lacking. In this …