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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…
Ashok Kumar, Salman Baig, Sana Ansari, Nadeem Rizvi, Huma Sharif, Anwar Ejaz Beg, Ammara Rauf, Faraz Ahmed Baig, Ammara Abdul Majeed
Background: Health care workers are respected in every society and have a strong influence on the behaviour of the community. In order to reduce the shisha dependence in the Pakistani population, it is necessary to evaluate the perspective of future doctors a…
Thomas Kapapa, Melanie Kapapa, Carsten Posovszky, Joachim Gülke, Ralph König, Dieter Woischneck, Christian Rainer Wirtz, Andrej Pala
Objectives: Concomitant injuries play an important role when it comes to clinical management of traumatic brain injury (TBI). We examined the incidence of concomitant injuries and their relevance with respect to hospitalization. Methods: Children aged between…
Hidenori Anami, Yasuo Aihara, Yuki Takano, Kentaro Chiba, Seiichiro Eguchi, Kohji Yamaguchi, Yoshikazu Okada, Takakazu Kawamata
Background: Insertion of an external ventricular drain (EVD) is an important neurosurgical technique. There is a minor risk of misplacement, and complications including infections or hemorrhages have been reported. Transient neurological complications are, ho…
Marina Zettin, Marzia Leopizzi, Domenico Spagnolo, Valentina Galetto
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can often influence the way subjects process and cope with their emotional life. In spite of the huge amount of studies investigating facial emotion recognition in subjects with traumatic brain injury, none of them has examined if…
Deborah L. Snell, A. D. Sandy Macleod, Tim Anderson, 1 1
In this clinical practice review, the controversies and difficulties managing post concussion symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury are discussed. Based on considerable clinical experience in a designated Concussion Clinic, the authors (a neuropsycho…
Bahman Mashood, Greg Millbank
In this article we introduce a large class of optimization problems that can be approximated by neural networks. Furthermore for some large category of optimization problems the action of the corresponding neural network will be reduced to linear or quadratic…
Peter E. Ekanem, Dare S. Sunday, Kidanemariam Gaim
Background: cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) is one of the cellular transcription factors found in neurons. CREB is also important for the survival of neurons, and has an important role in the development of drug addiction. Datura stramonium ( DS…
Atsuo Murata
The aim of this study was to demonstrate that indirect mediation in behaviors leads to insensitivity to unethical behavior through a dictator game and to give some implications for safety management. The indirect involvement in the unethical behavior such as…
Gavin A. Scott, Deborah M. Saucier, Hugo Lehmann
Lesions and temporary inactivation of the hippocampus (HPC) in rodents occasionally lead to discrepant amnesic effects. We directly compared and contrasted the retrograde amnesic effects that small HPC lesions (~50% damage), large HPC lesions (~80% damage), a…
Nataliya A. Krupina, Nadezhda N. Khlebnikova
Emotional and motivational disorders in adults are often considered to be the result of altered neurodevelopment. Clinical and experimental data provide evidence that serine protease dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV, EC 3.4.14.5) is involved in the pathophysio…
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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… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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