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  1. Previous studies have shown that KIAA0319 is a candidate gene for dyslexia in western populations. In view of the different languages used in Caucasian and Chinese populations, the aim of the present study was to...

    Authors: Cadmon King-Poo Lim, Amabel May-Bo Wong, Connie Suk-Han Ho and Mary Mui-Yee Waye
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:23
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  3. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs, including alpha, beta and gamma subtypes) and their agonists have a protective role in treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases. The present study ...

    Authors: Ying Luo, Qin He, Ge Kuang, Qingsong Jiang and Junqing Yang
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:21
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  4. Recent studies suggest that Internet gaming addiction (IGA) is an impulse disorder, or is at least related to impulse control disorders. In the present study, we hypothesized that different facets of trait imp...

    Authors: Wei-na Ding, Jin-hua Sun, Ya-wen Sun, Xue Chen, Yan Zhou, Zhi-guo Zhuang, Lei Li, Yong Zhang, Jian-rong Xu and Ya-song Du
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:20
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  5. The neural mobilization (NM) technique is a noninvasive method that has been proven to be clinically effective in reducing pain; however, the molecular mechanisms involved remain poorly understood. The aim of ...

    Authors: Fabio Martinez Santos, Leandro Henrique Grecco, Marcelo Gomes Pereira, Mara Evany Oliveira, Priscila Abreu Rocha, Joyce Teixeira Silva, Daniel Oliveira Martins, Elen Haruka Miyabara and Marucia Chacur
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:19
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  6. The affective personality trait ‘harm avoidance’ (HA) from Cloninger’s psychobiological personality model determines how an individual deals with emotional stimuli. Emotional stimuli are processed by a neural ...

    Authors: Peter Van Schuerbeek, Chris Baeken, Robert Luypaert, Rudi De Raedt and Johan De Mey
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:18
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  7. Methylphenidate is the most commonly used stimulant drug for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Research has found that methylphenidate is a “reinforcer” and that individuals wit...

    Authors: Ike dela Peña, Hee Jin Kim, Aeree Sohn, Bung-Nyun Kim, Doug Hyun Han, Jong Hoon Ryu, Chan Young Shin, Minsoo Noh and Jae Hoon Cheong
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:17
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  8. Working memory, inhibition, and expressive language are often impaired in ADHD and many children with ADHD have lower IQ-scores than typically developing children. The aim of this study was to test whether IQ-...

    Authors: Nina Rohrer-Baumgartner, Pål Zeiner, Jens Egeland, Kristin Gustavson, Annette Holth Skogan, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud and Heidi Aase
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:16
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  9. Reduced physiological arousal in response to breath-holding affects internal clock processes, leading swimmers to underestimate the time spent under apnea. We investigated whether reduced physiological arousal...

    Authors: Franck Di Rienzo, Nady Hoyek, Christian Collet and Aymeric Guillot
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:15
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  10. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a syndrome with a number of etiologies and different mechanisms that lead to abnormal development. The identification of autism biomarkers in patients with different degrees ...

    Authors: Altaf Alabdali, Laila Al-Ayadhi and Afaf El-Ansary
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:14
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  12. While Parkinson’s disease (PD) has traditionally been described as a movement disorder, there is growing evidence of disruption in emotion information processing associated with the disease. The aim of this st...

    Authors: Rajamanickam Yuvaraj, Murugappan Murugappan, Norlinah Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohd Iqbal Omar, Kenneth Sundaraj, Khairiyah Mohamad, Ramaswamy Palaniappan, Edgar Mesquita and Marimuthu Satiyan
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:12
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  13. Human decision-making is often affected by prior selections and their outcomes, even in situations where decisions are independent and outcomes are unpredictable.

    Authors: Guangheng Dong, Xiao Lin, Hongli Zhou and Xiaoxia Du
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:11
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  14. Whether listening to background music enhances verbal learning performance is still a matter of dispute. In this study we investigated the influence of vocal and instrumental background music on verbal learning.

    Authors: Lutz Jäncke, Eliane Brügger, Moritz Brummer, Stephanie Scherrer and Nsreen Alahmadi
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:10
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  15. One form of meditation intervention, the integrative body-mind training (IBMT) has been shown to improve attention, reduce stress and change self-reports of mood. In this paper we examine whether short-term IB...

    Authors: Xiaoqian Ding, Yi-Yuan Tang, Rongxiang Tang and Michael I Posner
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:9
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  16. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) often present with apathy symptoms resembling the decreased motivation observed in depressed patients. Therefore, differentiating the initial phase of AD from late life d...

    Authors: Hisashi Kito, Akiko Ryokawa, Yoshihiro Kinoshita, Daimei Sasayama, Nobuhiro Sugiyama, Tomomi Ogihara, Takehiko Yasaki, Tetsuya Hagiwara, Shin Inuzuka, Tohru Takahashi, Hirokazu Genno, Hiroshi Nose, Tokiji Hanihara, Shinsuke Washizuka and Naoji Amano
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:8
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  18. Neurodegenerative diseases remain a significant unresolved societal burden afflicting millions of people worldwide. Neurons in the brain are highly sensitive to oxidative stress, which can be induced by metal ...

    Authors: Lijuan Yu, Rong Jiang, Qiang Su, Huarong Yu and Junqing Yang
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:6
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  20. Previous studies have found that the processing of repeated targets are easier than that of non-repetition. Although several theories attempt to explain this issue, the underlying mechanism still remains uncov...

    Authors: Guangheng Dong, Hongli Zhou, Xiao Lin, Yanbo Hu and Qilin Lu
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:4
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  21. Forced swimming test (FST) is an animal model which evaluates behavioral despair and the effect of antidepressants such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors; the FST modifies the expression of some r...

    Authors: Rosa-Elena Ulloa, Aliyeri Díaz-Valderrama, Jaime Herrera-Pérez, Martha León-Olea and Lucía Martínez-Mota
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:3
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  23. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a behavioral disorder affecting 3-5% of children. Although ADHD is highly heritable, environmental factors like exposure during early development to various t...

    Authors: Espen Borgå Johansen, Frode Fonnum, Per L Lausund, S Ivar Walaas, Nora Elise Bærland, Grete Wøien and Terje Sagvolden
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2014 10:1
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  24. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common chronic neurodevelopmental disorder with a high heritability. Much evidence of hemisphere asymmetry has been found for ADHD probands from behavioral ...

    Authors: Lu Liu, Li Sun, Ze-Hua Li, Hai-Mei Li, Li-Ping Wei, Yu-Feng Wang and Qiu-Jin Qian
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:48
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  25. Interoception refers to the conscious perception of body signals. Mindfulness is a meditation practice that encourages individuals to focus on their internal experiences such as bodily sensations, thoughts, an...

    Authors: Margherita Melloni, Lucas Sedeño, Blas Couto, Martin Reynoso, Carlos Gelormini, Roberto Favaloro, Andrés Canales-Johnson, Mariano Sigman, Facundo Manes and Agustin Ibanez
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:47
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  26. Human and animals studies support the idea that there is a gender-related co-morbidity of pain-related and inflammatory gastrointestinal (GI) diseases with psychological disorders. This co-morbidity is the evi...

    Authors: Jia Luo, Tao Wang, Shan Liang, Xu Hu, Wei Li and Feng Jin
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:46
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  27. Previous research on serum total cholesterol and suicidality has yielded conflicting results. Several studies have reported a link between low serum total cholesterol and suicidality, whereas others have faile...

    Authors: Subin Park, Ki Kyoung Yi, Riji Na, Ahyoung Lim and Jin Pyo Hong
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:45
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  28. In daily life, we are continuously exposed to temporally regular and irregular sounds. Previous studies have demonstrated that the temporal regularity of sound sequences influences neural activity. However, it...

    Authors: Hidehiko Okamoto, Henning Teismann, Sumru Keceli, Christo Pantev and Ryusuke Kakigi
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:44
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  29. Abstinence from chronic ethanol consumption leads to the manifestation of a variety of symptoms attributed to central nervous system hyperexcitability, such as increased irritability, anxiety, and restlessness...

    Authors: Jaya Kumar, Hermizi Hapidin, Yvonne-Tee Get Bee and Zalina Ismail
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:43
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  30. Poor sleep is common in heart failure (HF), though mechanisms of sleep difficulties are not well understood. Adverse brain changes among regions important for sleep have been demonstrated in patients with HF. ...

    Authors: Michael L Alosco, Adam M Brickman, Mary Beth Spitznagel, Erica Y Griffith, Atul Narkhede, Ronald Cohen, Lawrence H Sweet, Joel Hughes, Jim Rosneck and John Gunstad
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:42
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  31. In some clinical cases, bruxism may be correlated to central nervous system hyperexcitability, suggesting that bruxism may represent a subclinical form of dystonia. To examine this hypothesis, we performed an ...

    Authors: Gianni Frisardi, Cesare Iani, Gianfranco Sau, Flavio Frisardi, Carlo Leornadis, Aurea Lumbau, Paolo Enrico, Donatella Sirca, Enrico Maria Staderini and Giacomo Chessa
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:41
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  32. Genome-wide significant associations of schizophrenia with eight SNPs in the CNNM2, MIR137, PCGEM1, TRIM26, CSMD1, MMP16, NT5C2 and CCDC68 genes have been identified in a recent mega-analysis of genome-wide assoc...

    Authors: Kazutaka Ohi, Ryota Hashimoto, Hidenaga Yamamori, Yuka Yasuda, Michiko Fujimoto, Satomi Umeda-Yano, Masaki Fukunaga, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Masao Iwase, Hiroaki Kazui and Masatoshi Takeda
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:40
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  33. Adolescent social stress is associated with increased incidence of mental illnesses in adulthood that are characterized by deficits in cognitive focus and flexibility. Such enhanced vulnerability may be due to...

    Authors: Andrew M Novick, Leah C Miiller, Gina L Forster and Michael J Watt
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:39
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  34. Behavioral effects of stimulant drugs are influenced by non-pharmacological factors, including genetic variability and age. We examined acute and sensitized locomotor effects of methylphenidate in adolescent a...

    Authors: Leora Yetnikoff and Andreas Arvanitogiannis
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:38
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  35. The lateral entorhinal cortex receives inputs from ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons that are activated by exposure to food-related cues, and exogenously applied dopamine is known to modulate excitatory ...

    Authors: Juliana A Hutter and C Andrew Chapman
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:37
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  36. Astragalus is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine and has been proven beneficial for many aspects of human health. It is important to explore the neuroprotective effect and mechanism of astragalus injec...

    Authors: Guangyi Liu, Jinming Song, Yunliang Guo, Tingting Wang and Zhen Zhou
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:36
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  37. There is significant interest in the generation of improved assays to clearly identify experimental mice possessing functional vision, a property that could qualify mice for inclusion in behavioral and neurosc...

    Authors: Macarena Gil-Pagés, Robert J Stiles, Christopher A Parks, Steven C Neier, Maja Radulovic, Alfredo Oliveros, Alejandro Ferrer, Brendan K Reed, Katelynn M Wilton and Adam G Schrum
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:35
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  38. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of major depression. Individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) have a high prevalence of major depression and low levels of BDNF. ...

    Authors: Jian-Xin Zhou, He-Chao Li, Xue-Jun Bai, Bao-Cheng Chang, Chun-Jun Li, Pei Sun and Li-Ming Chen
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:34
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  39. Although recent studies have clearly demonstrated functional and structural abnormalities in adolescents with internet gaming addiction (IGA), less is known about how IGA affects perfusion in the human brain. ...

    Authors: Qi Feng, Xue Chen, Jinhua Sun, Yan Zhou, Yawen Sun, Weina Ding, Yong Zhang, Zhiguo Zhuang, Jianrong Xu and Yasong Du
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:33
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  40. Ramadan fasting and its attendant lifestyle changes induce changes in the circadian rhythm and in associated physiological and metabolic functions. Previous studies that have assessed psychomotor performance d...

    Authors: Ahmed S BaHammam, Samar Nashwan, Omeima Hammad, Munir M Sharif and Seithikurippu R Pandi-Perumal
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:32
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  41. To analyze the correlation between the pharmacotherapy response and the characteristics of the pre-treatment regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

    Authors: Sheng-lin Wen, Mu-hua Cheng, Min-feng Cheng, Ji-hui Yue and Hong Wang
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:31
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  42. Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) is the enzyme that metabolizes phenylalanine, an essential amino acid required for catecholamine synthesis. Rare mutations in PAH are causal to phenylketonuria (PKU), an autosomal ...

    Authors: Toshiya Teraishi, Daimei Sasayama, Hiroaki Hori, Noriko Yamamoto, Takashi Fujii, Junko Matsuo, Anna Nagashima, Yukiko Kinoshita, Kotaro Hattori, Miho Ota, Sayaka Fujii and Hiroshi Kunugi
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:30
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  43. It has been established that the overall performance of associative memory was disproportionately impaired in contrast to item memory in aMCI (Amnestic mild cognitive impairment) patients, but little is known ...

    Authors: Pengyun Wang, Juan Li, Huijie Li and Shouzi Zhang
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:29
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  44. With the present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study at 3 T, we investigated the neural correlates of visualization and verbalization during arithmetic word problem solving. In the domain of ari...

    Authors: Sabrina Zarnhofer, Verena Braunstein, Franz Ebner, Karl Koschutnig, Christa Neuper, Manuel Ninaus, Gernot Reishofer and Anja Ischebeck
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:28
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  45. In contrast to olanzapine, ziprasidone has been reported to cause minimal or no weight gain. This study aimed to compare the effects of ziprasidone and olanzapine on weight, body composition, appetite, resting...

    Authors: Subin Park, Ki Kyoung Yi, Min-Seon Kim and Jin Pyo Hong
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:27
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  46. A significant debate surrounds the nature of the cognitive mechanisms involved in non-symbolic number estimation. Several studies have suggested the existence of the same cognitive system for estimation of tim...

    Authors: Christian Agrillo, Laura Piffer and Andrea Adriano
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:26
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  47. Chronic stress leads to secretion of the adrenal steroid hormone corticosterone, inducing hippocampal atrophy and dendritic hypertrophy in the rat amygdala. Both alterations have been correlated with memory im...

    Authors: Miguel Á Pérez, Gonzalo Terreros and Alexies Dagnino-Subiabre
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:25
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  48. It has been proposed that an inappropriately conditioned fatigue sensation could be one cause of chronic fatigue. Although classical conditioning of the fatigue sensation has been reported in rats, there have ...

    Authors: Akira Ishii, Masaaki Tanaka, Masayoshi Iwamae, Chongsoo Kim, Emi Yamano and Yasuyoshi Watanabe
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:24
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  49. Pain is a subjective sensory and emotional experience, and it has been reported that many different brain regions are regulated by pain, and that pain can impact attention. Acupuncture is an important treatmen...

    Authors: Gang Liu, Hui-juan Ma, Pan-pan Hu, Yang-hua Tian, Shen Hu, Jin Fan and Kai Wang
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:23
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  50. In animal models, the impact of social and environmental manipulations on chronic pain have been investigated in short term studies where enrichment was implemented prior to or concurrently with the injury. Th...

    Authors: Pascal Vachon, Magali Millecamps, Lucie Low, Scott J Thompsosn, Floriane Pailleux, Francis Beaudry, Catherine M Bushnell and Laura S Stone
    Citation: Behavioral and Brain Functions 2013 9:22
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