neuroscience

Hello. I am new to here and have an interest in critiques of Functional Neurological Disorder. I knew that three "positive" rule-in signs were tremor entrapments, Hoover's sign, and psychogenic seizures, but I also found a table that listed positive signs you will see in the table linked below...

Tamar R Makin MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom John W Krakauer Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...

Abstract Biological research has produced major advances in our understanding of our bodies and, where systems go wrong, is producing remedies to address these, but it has yet to do the same for the mind. This is because no causative biological evidence has been found for the major mental...

SARS-CoV-2 infection and viral fusogens cause neuronal and glial fusion that compromises neuronal activity https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg2248 Abstract Numerous viruses use specialized surface molecules called fusogens to enter host cells. Many of these viruses, including the...

No Free Lunch from Deep Learning in Neuroscience: A Case Study through Models of the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuit Rylan Schaeffer, Mikail Khona, Ila Rani Fiete Abstract Research in Neuroscience, as in many scientific disciplines, is undergoing a renaissance based on deep learning. Unique...

Millisecond neural activation tracking Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has made profound contributions to our understanding of the human brain. However, limitations in the temporal and spatial resolution of the underlying signal have prevented this technique from providing...

Management of traumatic brain injury (TBI): a clinical neuroscience-led pathway for the NHS Lucia M Li, NIHR clinical lecturer,A Michael D Dilley, consultant neuropsychiatrist,B Alan Carson, consultant neuropsychiatrist and honorary professor,C Jaq Twelftree, AHP consultant in...

Mini Review ARTICLE Marta Lombardi1, Martina Gabrielli1, Elena Adinolfi2 and Claudia Verderio1* 1CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Research Labs–University Milano-Bicocca, Vedano al Lambro, Italy 2Department of Medical Sciences, Section of Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara...

Saw this, thought of us. I'm not up to reading the paper (abstract and link below), so haven't assessed its quality, but the article in neuroscience news is interesting. Perhaps this sort of phenomenon might help to explain why an ME brain is particularly prone to falling over with too much...

https://clinicaltrials.ucsf.edu/trial/NCT04362150

Published June 12, 2018 (this article doesn't appear to have been posted before) "Highlights All known multicellular life is colonized by microbes. The gut microbiome is a highly complex and diverse hidden kingdom that inhabits the intestinal tracts. Gut microbes are associated with important...