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  1. The nucleus accumbens (NAc) plays a principal role in drug reward. It has been reported that metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGlu receptors) play a key role in the rewarding pathway(s). Previous studies have...

    Authors: Nazanin Kahvandi, Zahra Ebrahimi, Seyed Asaad Karimi, Siamak Shahidi, Iraj Salehi, Marzieh Naderishahab and Abdolrahman Sarihi
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2021 17:1
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  2. Novel word acquisition is generally believed to be a rapid process, essential for ensuring a flexible and efficient communication system; at least in spoken language, learners are able to construct memory trac...

    Authors: Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto, Yury Shtyrov, David Beltrán, Fernando Cuetos and Alberto Domínguez
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:11
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  3. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of astaxanthin (AST) on cognition function, inflammatory response and oxidative stress in vascular dementia (VD) mice.

    Authors: Ningwei Zhu, Xiao Liang, Ming Zhang, Xiaolan Yin, Hui Yang, Yajun Zhi, Guizhen Ying, Jialing Zou, Lei Chen, Xiaokun Yao and Hongwei Li
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:10
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  4. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons leading to dopamine depletion and problems of movement, emotions, and cog...

    Authors: Dina M. Monir, Motamed E. Mahmoud, Omyma G. Ahmed, Ibrahim F. Rehan and Amany Abdelrahman
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:9
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  6. Previous studies have shown that seizures can cause cognitive disorders. On the other hand, the Curcuma zedoaria (CZ) has beneficial effects on the nervous system. However, there is little information on the poss...

    Authors: Touran Mahmoudi, Zahra Lorigooini, Mahmoud Rafieian-kopaei, Mehran Arabi, Zahra Rabiei, Elham Bijad and Sedigheh Kazemi
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:7
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  7. Glutamatergic AMPA and NMDA receptors in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) are central for cocaine first exposure and posterior craving maintenance. However, the exact rules that coordinate the synaptic dynamic...

    Authors: Thiago C. Moulin and Helgi B. Schiöth
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:6
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  8. Maternal depression can influence the early activity of a mother reading stories to a young child, as depressed mothers are less likely to read to their children. Here, maternal depression association to neuro...

    Authors: Rola Farah, Paige Greenwood, Johnathan Dudley, John Hutton, Robert T. Ammerman, Kieran Phelan, Scott Holland and Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:5
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  9. Chemokine C–C motif ligand 2 (CCL2) is one of the most widely recognised proinflammatory chemokines in cognitive disorders. Currently, CCL2-targeting drugs are extremely limited. Thus, this study aimed to expl...

    Authors: Jiang-yi Long, Jian-min Chen, Yuan-jun Liao, Yi-jun Zhou, Bing-yu Liang and Yan Zhou
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:4
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  10. Unlike the emphasis on negative results of video games such as the impulsive engagement in video games, cognitive training studies in individuals with cognitive deficits showed that characteristics of video ga...

    Authors: Eunhye Choi, Suk-Ho Shin, Jeh-Kwang Ryu, Kyu-In Jung, Shin-Young Kim and Min-Hyeon Park
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2020 16:2
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  12. Traumatic injury (TI) during pregnancy increases the risk for developing neurological disorders in the infants. These disorders are a major concern for the well-being of children born after TI during pregnancy...

    Authors: Ved Chauhan and Abha Chauhan
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:11
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  13. Age-dependent alterations of hormonal states have been considered to be involved in age related decline of cognitive abilities. Most of the studies in animal models are based on hormonal substitution in adrena...

    Authors: Jovana Maliković, Daniel Daba Feyissa, Predrag Kalaba, Babak Saber Marouf, Harald Höger, Michaela F. Hartmann, Stefan A. Wudy, Gerhard Schuler, Gert Lubec, Jana Aradska and Volker Korz
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:10
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  14. Bisphenol A (BPA), a major endocrine disruptor and a xenobiotic compound is used abundantly in the production of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. Human exposure to this compound is primarily via its le...

    Authors: Hareram Birla, Chetan Keswani, Sachchida Nand Rai, Saumitra Sen Singh, Walia Zahra, Hagera Dilnashin, Aaina Singh Rathore and Surya Pratap Singh
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:9
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  15. Dexterous tool use is considered to be underpinned by model-based control relying on acquired internal models of tools. In particular, this is the case in situations where available sensory feedback regarding ...

    Authors: Sayako Ueda, Hiroyuki Sakai, Kenichi Ueno, Kang Cheng and Takatsune Kumada
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:8
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  16. Our understanding of the networks of genes and protein functions involved in Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) remains incomplete, as do the mechanisms by which these networks lead to AUD phenotypes. The fruit fly (Dros...

    Authors: Gregory L. Engel, Kreager Taber, Elizabeth Vinton and Amanda J. Crocker
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:7
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. Language has the power to shape cognition, behavior, and even the form and function of the brain. Technological and scientific developments have recently yielded an increasingly diverse set of tools with which...

    Authors: Sayuri Hayakawa and Viorica Marian
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:6
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  18. Motor cortex stimulation (MCS) is an effective therapy for refractory neuropathic pain. MCS increases the nociceptive threshold in healthy rats via endogenous opioids, inhibiting thalamic nuclei and activating...

    Authors: Patrícia Sanae Souza Lopes, Ana Carolina Pinheiro Campos, Erich Talamoni Fonoff, Luiz Roberto Giorgetti Britto and Rosana Lima Pagano
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:5
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  19. Difficult cognitive tasks are often associated with negative feelings. This can be already the case for the mere anticipation of having to do a difficult task. For the case of difficult math tasks, it was rece...

    Authors: Elise Klein, Silke M. Bieck, Johannes Bloechle, Stefan Huber, Julia Bahnmueller, Klaus Willmes and Korbinian Moeller
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:4
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  20. Maternal immune activation (MIA) during gestation can increase the later risk of schizophrenia in adult offspring. Neuroinflammation is believed to underlie this process. Postmortem brain studies have found ch...

    Authors: Shuang Ding, Yunqing Hu, Binbin Luo, Yaqi Cai, Keke Hao, Yongfeng Yang, Yan Zhang, Xiujuan Wang, Minli Ding, Hongxing Zhang, Wenqiang Li and Luxian Lv
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:3
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  21. Signs of pervasive developmental disorder and social deficits were reported in toddlers and children whose mothers were exposed to organophosphate pesticides during pregnancy. Deficits in social preference wer...

    Authors: Anat Lan, Daniel Stein, Miguel Portillo, Debra Toiber and Ora Kofman
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2019 15:2
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  23. Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis. This disease affects significantly the overall patient functioni...

    Authors: C. Schiappa, S. Scarpelli, A. D’Atri, M. Gorgoni and Luigi De Gennaro
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:19
    Content type: Review Published on:

  24. Task switch protocols are frequently used in the assessment of cognitive control, both in clinical and non-clinical populations. These protocols frequently confound task switch and attentional set shift. The c...

    Authors: Aquiles Luna-Rodriguez, Mike Wendt, Julia Kerner auch Koerner, Caterina Gawrilow and Thomas Jacobsen
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:18
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  26. Chronic social defeat stress induces depression and anxiety-like behaviors in rodents and also responsible for differentiating defeated animals into stress susceptible and resilient groups. The present study i...

    Authors: Vishwanath Vasudev Prabhu, Thong Ba Nguyen, Yin Cui, Young-Eun Oh, Keon-Hak Lee, Tarique R. Bagalkot and Young-Chul Chung
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:16
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  27. Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a behavioral disorder that mainly refers to a recurrent pattern of disobedient, defiant, negativistic and hostile behaviors toward authority figures. Previous studies hav...

    Authors: Chang-Hong Wang, Qiu-Fen Ning, Cong Liu, Ting-Ting Lv, En-Zhao Cong, Jing-Yang Gu, Ying-Li Zhang, Hui-Yao Nie, Xiao-Li Zhang, Yan Li, Xiang-Yang Zhang and Lin-Yan Su
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:15
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  28. Estrogen deficiency is linked to changes in several physiological processes, but the extent to which it associates with cognitive changes in menopause context is controversial.

    Authors: Sefirin Djiogue, Armando Blondel Djiyou Djeuda, Paul Faustin Seke Etet, Germain Jean Magloire Ketcha Wanda, Rudig Nikanor Djikem Tadah and Dieudonne Njamen
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:14
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  29. With increased social pressure, individuals face a high risk of depression. Subsequently, depression affects cognitive behaviour and negatively impacts daily life. Fortunately, the Traditional Chinese Medicine...

    Authors: Shuhui Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Mingzhu Sun, Qiuping Zhang, Teng Li, Xiang Li, Jia Xu, Xin Zhao, Dongyan Chen and Xizeng Feng
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:13
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  30. Predatory stress as a psychological stressor can elicit the activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, which is involved in the dialogue of the neuroimmunoendocrine network. The brain has bee...

    Authors: Jiacai Yang, Lin Zhang, Jian-ping Dai, Jun Zeng, Xiao-xuan Chen, Ze-feng Xie, Kang-sheng Li and Yun Su
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:12
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  31. Diagnostic guidelines recommend using a variety of methods to assess and diagnose ADHD. Applying subjective measures always incorporates risks such as informant biases or large differences between ratings obta...

    Authors: Theresa S. Emser, Blair A. Johnston, J. Douglas Steele, Sandra Kooij, Lisa Thorell and Hanna Christiansen
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:11
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  32. Adverse early-life experiences have been suggested as one of the key contributors to neurodevelopmental disorders, such that these experiences influence brain development, cognitive ability and mental health. ...

    Authors: Hongyu Xu, Yuqin Ye, Yelu Hao, Fei Shi, Zhiqiang Yan, Guohao Yuan, Yuefan Yang, Zhou Fei and Xiaosheng He
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:10
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  33. Recent research indicates that processing proportion magnitude is associated with activation in the intraparietal sulcus. Thus, brain areas associated with the processing of numbers (i.e., absolute magnitude) ...

    Authors: Julia Mock, Stefan Huber, Johannes Bloechle, Julia F. Dietrich, Julia Bahnmueller, Johannes Rennig, Elise Klein and Korbinian Moeller
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:9
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  34. Interference resolution refers to cognitive control processes enabling one to focus on task-related information while filtering out unrelated information. But the exact neural areas, which underlie a specific ...

    Authors: Yuqin Deng, Xiaochun Wang, Yan Wang and Chenglin Zhou
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:8
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  35. Following a social defeat, the balanced establishment and extinction of aversive information is a beneficial strategy for individual survival. Abnormal establishment or extinction is implicated in the developm...

    Authors: Chu-Chu Qi, Qing-Jun Wang, Xue-zhu Ma, Hai-Chao Chen, Li-Ping Gao, Jie Yin and Yu-Hong Jing
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:7
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  36. Action semantics have been investigated in relation to context violation but remain less examined in relation to the meaning of gestures. In the present study, we examined tool–gesture incongruity by event-rel...

    Authors: Yi-Tzu Chang, Hsiang-Yu Chen, Yuan-Chieh Huang, Wan-Yu Shih, Hsiao-Lung Chan, Ping-Yi Wu, Ling-Fu Meng, Chen-Chi Chen and Ching-I Wang
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:6
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  37. Arithmetic processing in adults is known to rely on a frontal-parietal network. However, neurocognitive research focusing on the neural and behavioral correlates of arithmetic development has been scarce, even...

    Authors: Christina Artemenko, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Ann-Christine Ehlis, Hans-Christoph Nuerk and Thomas Dresler
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:5
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  38. The etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is very heterogeneous. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been described in ASD; however, primary mitochondrial disease has been genetically proven in a small subset ...

    Authors: Noémi Ágnes Varga, Klára Pentelényi, Péter Balicza, András Gézsi, Viktória Reményi, Vivien Hársfalvi, Renáta Bencsik, Anett Illés, Csilla Prekop and Mária Judit Molnár
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:4
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  39. The original version of this article [1] unfortunately contained an error which has since been acknowledged in this Correction article. The URL link in the Reference 19 was broken and it needs to be replaced w...

    Authors: Renee Dufault, Roseanne Schnoll, Walter J. Lukiw, Blaise LeBlanc, Charles Cornett, Lyn Patrick, David Wallinga, Steven G. Gilbert and Raquel Crider
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:3
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    The original article was published in Behavioral and Brain Functions 2009 5:44

  40. 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with deficits in cognitive and emotional processing. This syndrome represents one of the highest risk factors for the development...

    Authors: Leah M. Mattiaccio, Ioana L. Coman, Carlie A. Thompson, Wanda P. Fremont, Kevin M. Antshel and Wendy R. Kates
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:2
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  41. Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex polygenic psychiatric disorder caused in part by abnormal dopamine levels. Cerebral dopamine neurotrophic factor (CDNF) 2 is known to protect and repair the dopaminergic system. Do...

    Authors: Yongfeng Yang, Hongyan Yu, Wenqiang Li, Bing Liu, Hongxing Zhang, Shuang Ding, Yanli Lu, Tianzi Jiang and Luxian Lv
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2018 14:1
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  42. Our previous research showed that 4 h of maternal anesthesia with isoflurane during early gestation in pregnant rats leads to a deficit in spatial memory of adult male offspring. Because spatial memory is pred...

    Authors: Arvind Palanisamy, Gregory Crosby and Deborah J. Culley
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:14
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  43. Most research on motivational processes in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been undertaken in Western Europe and North America. The extent to which these findings apply to other cultural gr...

    Authors: Emi Furukawa, Shizuka Shimabukuro, Brent Alsop and Gail Tripp
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:13
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  44. Previous studies of patients with social anxiety have demonstrated abnormal early processing of facial stimuli in social contexts. In other words, patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) tend to exhibit en...

    Authors: Jianqin Cao, Quanying Liu, Yang Li, Jun Yang, Ruolei Gu, Jin Liang, Yanyan Qi, Haiyan Wu and Xun Liu
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:12
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  45. Attention ability can be subdivided into three functionally independent networks, i.e., alerting network, orienting network, and executive network. Previous literature has documented that deficits in attention...

    Authors: Yi-quan Wang, Yang Pan, Sheng Zhu, Yong-guang Wang, Zhi-hua Shen and Kai Wang
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:11
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  46. Green tea extract (GTE) has various health promoting effects on animals and humans. However, the effects of perinatal exposure to GTE on the behavioral aspects of offspring have not been elucidated thus far. G...

    Authors: Jamaan Ajarem, Gawaher Al Rashedi, Mohamed Mohany and Ahmed Allam
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:10
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  48. Although some effects of gene–gene interactions on nicotine–dopamine metabolism for smoking behavior have been reported, polymorphisms of cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2A6 and catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) have not...

    Authors: Wei-Chih Ou, Yi-Chin Huang, Chih-Ling Huang, Min-Hsuan Lin, Yi-Chun Chen, Yi-Ju Chen, Chen-Nu Liu, Mei-Chih Chen, Ching-Shan Huang and Pei-Lain Chen
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:8
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  49. Insular function has gradually become a topic of intense study in cognitive research. Recognition memory is a commonly studied type of memory in memory research. GABABR has been shown to be closely related to mem...

    Authors: Nan Wu, Feng Wang, Zhe Jin, Zhen Zhang, Lian-Kun Wang, Chun Zhang and Tao Sun
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:7
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  50. Spatial normalization of brain images, a prerequisite for voxel based morphometry analysis, may account for the large variability of the volumetric data in medication overuse headache (MOH); possibly because t...

    Authors: M. Meyer, G. Di Scala, M. Edde, B. Dilharreguy, F. Radat, M. Allard and S. Chanraud
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2017 13:6
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