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The aim of the Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science is to publish original research articles and reviews in the general field of behavioural and brain function. Articles dealing with the neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of behavior are especially welcomed. Multidisciplinary contributions from all fields of t…
Manuel Salas, Mirelta Regalado, Carmen Torrero, Minerva Ortiz-Valladares
Play development in juvenile rats depends on specific sensory signals integrated at cortical, limbic and brain stem levels to modulate motoric, metabolic, motivational and social responses. Neonatal undernourishment disrupts the morphological and functional o…
Mikio Danno
The previous research (Danno & Taniguchi, 2015) showed that near-miss incident experience was basically reduced by the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and was disturbed by the Systemizing Quotient (SQ) when the Empathy Quotient was low, based on the Empathizing and Sys…
Wael Gabr, Reda S. Eweda, 1 1, 1 1
Background: There is no proven relationship between back pain and trunk muscle strength, researches in this field yielded conflicting results: some found significant weakness of trunk muscles in back pain patients compared with healthy subjects, however many…
Liumei Luo, Juncheng Guo, Fengxia Chen, Min Guo, Ping Huang
The central nervous system plays an important role in regulating thyroid hormone homeostasis. 5-HT is one of the important neurotransmitters involved in energy balance regulation. 5-HT transporters affect 5-HT function by regulating SERT protein expression an…
Mohamed Saad, Maha Bilal, Wael Gabr, Aymen Abd Elnaby
Background: Cognitive impairment (CI) is a common manifestation of multiple sclerosis (MS), which can severely affect patients’ and their families’ life. Early suspicion and detection of CI can improve general medical management of MS patients. Objectives: To…
Masahiro Toyoda, Yuko Yokota, Midori Kaneko
The purpose of this study was to propose indicators for grasping autistic characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities who were going to engage in agricultural vocational training. We analyzed the data of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) o…
Niki C. Kuin, Erik J. A. Scherder, Hanneke Gijsbers, Erik D. M. Masthoff
The objective of this cross-sectional study was to investigate if Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is related to decision-making deficits as well as to heightened levels of (reactive) aggression and criminal behavior in a group of Dutch male prisoners. Characteri…
Ludmila Zhavoronkova, Sofia Moraresku, Galina Boldyreva, Elena Sharova, Svetlana Kuptsova, Alexander Smirnov, Eugen Masherov, Olga Maksakova, Igor Pronin
Background: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is one of the most common forms of cerebral pathology in young people and disorders involve dysfunctions in cognitive and motor spheres. We would like to examine the structural and functional alterations of the b…
Mylène Legault, Jean-Nicolas Bourdon, Pierre Poirier, 1 1
As recent developments in autism research offer alternative explanations to the mainstream options, it can now be argued that the so-called cognitive deficits in the social domain associated with autism have been mischaracterized or, at least, oversimplified.…
Anderson Norton, Youngmin Seok, Sangsook Choi-Koh
This paper reports on an investigation of mathematics anxiety (MA) among 40 Korean undergraduate students, using cognitive neuroscience. In Spring 2015, we collected data on correct response rates and reaction times from computer-based activities related to q…
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