Neuronal pentraxins as biomarkers of synaptic activity: from physiological functions to pathological changes in neurodegeneration

N Gómez de San José, F Massa… - Journal of Neural …, 2022 - Springer
The diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders is often challenging due to the lack of
diagnostic tools, comorbidities and shared pathological manifestations. Synaptic dysfunction …

[HTML][HTML] Old brains come uncoupled in sleep: slow wave-spindle synchrony, brain atrophy, and forgetting

RF Helfrich, BA Mander, WJ Jagust, RT Knight… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The coupled interaction between slow-wave oscillations and sleep spindles during non-
rapid-eye-movement (NREM) sleep has been proposed to support memory consolidation …

Predicting advertising success beyond traditional measures: New insights from neurophysiological methods and market response modeling

V Venkatraman, A Dimoka, PA Pavlou… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In the past decade, there has been a tremendous increase in the use of neurophysiological
methods to better understand marketing phenomena among academics and practitioners …

Uncertainty and surprise jointly predict musical pleasure and amygdala, hippocampus, and auditory cortex activity

VKM Cheung, PMC Harrison, L Meyer, MT Pearce… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Listening to music often evokes intense emotions [1, 2]. Recent research suggests that
musical pleasure comes from positive reward prediction errors, which arise when what is …

Map making: constructing, combining, and inferring on abstract cognitive maps

SA Park, DS Miller, H Nili, C Ranganath, ED Boorman - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Cognitive maps enable efficient inferences from limited experience that can guide novel
decisions. We tested whether the hippocampus (HC), entorhinal cortex (EC), and …

Bilingualism tunes the anterior cingulate cortex for conflict monitoring

J Abutalebi, PA Della Rosa, DW Green… - Cerebral …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Monitoring and controlling 2 language systems is fundamental to language use in bilinguals.
Here, we reveal in a combined functional (event-related functional magnetic resonance …

Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration

DR Addis, AT Wong, DL Schacter - Neuropsychologia, 2007 - Elsevier
People can consciously re-experience past events and pre-experience possible future
events. This fMRI study examined the neural regions mediating the construction and …

Empathic brain responses in insula are modulated by levels of alexithymia but not autism

G Bird, G Silani, R Brindley, S White, U Frith, T Singer - Brain, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Difficulties in social cognition are well recognized in individuals with autism spectrum
conditions (henceforth 'autism'). Here we focus on one crucial aspect of social cognition: the …

Blunted ventral striatum development in adolescence reflects emotional neglect and predicts depressive symptoms

JL Hanson, AR Hariri, DE Williamson - Biological psychiatry, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Emotional neglect is associated with multiple negative outcomes, particularly
increased risk for depression. Motivated by increasing evidence of reward-related ventral …

Hippocampal and prefrontal processing of network topology to simulate the future

AH Javadi, B Emo, LR Howard, FE Zisch, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Topological networks lie at the heart of our cities and social milieu. However, it remains
unclear how and when the brain processes topological structures to guide future behaviour …