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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…
Ramiz M. Salimov, Georgy I. Kovalev
Treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with medications is helpful in less than 60% of cases suggesting the necessity of development of novel drugs. The most accepted animal model of the disease is outbred spontaneously hy pertensive rat strain…
Dora Lopez-Jimenez, Carmen Torrero, Mirelta Regalado, Manuel Salas
Unde rn utrition produces morphological brain alterations and cognitive deficiencies in children of underdeveloped countries. The central nervous system (CNS) alterations mainly interfere with the anatomical organization of areas undergoing a phase of intense…
Masachika Niimi, Wataru Kakuda, Toru Takekawa, Ryo Momosaki, Takatoshi Hara, Hiroshi Ito, Yumi Kameda, Masahiro Abo
Low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (LF-rTMS) applied to the non-lesional hemisphere is re ported to significantly improve motor function of the affected upper limb in adult stroke patients with hemiparesis. For pediatric stroke patient…
Aino M. Pitkänen, Päivi Merjonen, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, Ilkka Seppälä, Terho Lehtimäki, Jorma Viikari, Olli T. Raitakari, Mirka Hintsanen
Background : An association between apolipoprotein E ( apoE ) gene polymorphism and temperament has been found in the Young Finns cohort. Motor activity in childhood and mental vitality, sociability and positive emotionality in ado lescence were associated wi…
Mari Kimoto, Jorge Lopes Zeredo, Zenro Nihei, Hiromi Yamashita, Kei Kaida, Kazuo Toda
A number of studies have demonstrated that sex differentially affects responses to stress and pain. In this study, sex-related differences in pain responding were investigated in a gravity-induced analgesia model, where the effects of stressful high-gravity l…
Hisako Yamamoto, Yosuke Kita, Tomoka Kobayashi, Hiroko Yamazaki, Makiko Kaga, Hideki Hoshino, Takashi Hanakawa, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Masumi Inagaki
Background: Magnocellular deficit theory is among the different hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the pathophysiology of developmental dyslexia (DD). Dysfunction of the magnocellular system in DD has been investi gated using mainly visual evoked p…
Gregory J. Privitera, Brianne K. Moshaty, Frank C. Marzullo, Melissa L. Misenheimer
Background: Brain imaging studies show evidence of selective brain reward responses to high calorie foods. Behav ioral studies extend this research by showing that such foods can enhance emotions, even for sweet-tasting low calorie foods ( i.e. , fruits). In…
Parvin Babaei, Bahram Soltani Tehrani
In this study, the potential for recovery mediated by co-treatment of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and adipose tissue derived stem cells (ASCs) on functional recovery after Ibotenic acid (Ibo) lesion of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) wa…
Marc E. Lavoie, Johannes E. A. Stauder
Stimulus-Response Compatibility (SRC) refers to the fact that some tasks are performed easier and better than others because of the way stimuli and responses are paired with each other. To assess the brain responses to stimulus-response conflicts, we investig…
Taisei Hosoido, Futoshi Mori, Keita Kiyoto, Takashi Takagi, Yukari Sano, Megumi Goto, Katsumi Nakajima, Naomi Wada
Bipedal (Bp) locomotion is one of the most characteristic motor behaviors in human beings. Innate quadrupedal (Qp) four-legged animals also often walk bipedally. The walking posture, however, is significantly different between the two. This suggests that alth…
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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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