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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…
Miriam J. Law Smith, Denis K. Deady, Martin A. Sharp, Emad A. S. Al-Dujaili
Previous research has implicated the involvement of androgens in sex-role orientation in males, from studies of 2 nd to 4 th digit ratio (a purported marker of prenatal testosterone). The present pilot study investigates the relationship between salivary test…
Yuko Mizuno-Matsumoto, Takuto Hayashi, Eika Okamoto, Daisuke Miwa, Tetsuya Asakawa, Ayumi Muramatsu, Makoto Kato, Tsutomu Murata
Hippocampus is crucial for the formation of emotional memory. We found the relationship between hippocampal responses to emotional stimuli and the mental stabilities of people in our preliminary study. In this study, we have also evaluated how the emotional s…
A. C. Nunciato, E. L. Meirelles, Patricia Gardino
Neurogenesis in the adult brain has been a field of growing interest. There are two neurogenic niches in the mammalian adult brain: subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampus and the subventricular zone (SVZ), producing new neurons that use the rostral migrato…
Sarah Lynch, Subbiah P. Sivam
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by degeneration of nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) neurons. The primary drug used to treat PD symptoms is L-DOPA, but side effects such as dyskinesias limit its use. Previous findings show that L-DOPA treatment induces ex…
Arezoo Shomali Oskoei, Vahid Nejati, Bita Ajilchi
Purpose: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation on improving selective attention in patients with mild cognitive impairment. Methods: It was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test. The populat…
L. Zhavoronkova, A. Zharikova, O. Maksakova
There are data about the positive effect of rehabilitation with postural training in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. Brain mechanisms of functional recovery have been investigated insufficiently. In this study, functional recovery was examined in TBI p…
Marisela Hernández-González, Diego Radberto Chapa García Abascal, Miguel Ángel Guevara, Ricardo Alonso Romero Orozco, Mayra Linné Almanza Sepúlveda, Leopoldo Eduardo Flores Mancilla
The estrous cycle is a physiological process modulated by hormonal changes associated, in turn, with alterations of the attraction or sensitivity with which females perceive different sensory stimuli. Auditory stimuli play an important role in the social inte…
Steven Crain, Matthew A. Crain, Stanley M. Crain
While the endogenous opioid system has generally been associated with regulation of pain, it also modulates the experience of distress and may play a central role in many psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Decades of preclinical research on the ana…
Yozo Miyaoka, Ichiro Ashida, Takako Yamazaki, Naoko Ito, Yuko Tamaki, Shin-ya Kawakami, Hajime Iwamori
This study examined the effects of the textural properties and chemical components of foods on masseter activity patterns. Ten healthy young participants (seven men and three women) were asked to chew four gummy candies with different flavors while their mass…
Maria J. Simon, Raquel García, Amadeo Puerto
This study examined the stimulus specificity of external lateral parabrachial (LPBe) rewarding stimulation by using two identical learning procedures that may dissociate conditioned reinforcement to either the place or the flavor stimulus. Animals were presen…
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