Publications
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Fragmentation in Sleep and Mind: Linking Dissociative Symptoms, Sleep, and Memory
(2018)
Fragmented, dissociated consciousness can characterize the mind in both wake and sleep states. Dissociative symptoms, during sleep, include vivid dreaming, nightmares, and alterations in objective sleep parameters (e.g., ...
Fungal Jewels: Secondary Metabolites
(2017)
Fungal natural products are friends and foes of humans such as deleterious mycotoxins, cytotoxic, carcinogenic compounds or beneficial compounds such as antibiotics, fungicides, insecticides, antiviral and antitumor ...
Gene Silencing and Editing Strategies for Neurodegenerative Diseases
(2018)
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders affecting the central nervous system. Despite significant differences in their causes, neuropathological abnormalities, and clinical outcomes, some ...
Gene function in schistosomes: recent advances towards a cure
(2015)
Schistosomes are human parasites distributed worldwide in tropical and sub-tropical latitudes, especially in developing countries and impoverished regions. These neglected tropical disease (NTD) pathogens causes debilitating ...
Extracellular Nucleotides in the Regulation of Kidney Functions
(2015)
ATP is normally regarded as the major source of fuel for the energy-demanding processes within cells; however, ATP and other nucleotides (such as ADP, UTP, UDP) can be released from cells, where they act as autocrine or ...
Extinction Learning from a Mechanistic and Systems Perspective
(2016)
Throughout their lifetime, animals learn to associate stimuli with their consequences. Following memory acquisition and consolidation, circumstances may arise that necessitate that initially learned behaviour is no longer ...
Fishing for Human Perceptions in Coastal and Island Marine Resource Use Systems
(2018)
Human perceptions, decision-making and (pro-) environmental behaviour are closely connected. This Research Topic focuses on bringing together perceptions and behaviour for sustainable coastal and island marine resource use ...
Hallucinations: New Interventions Supporting People with Distressing Voices and/or Visions
(2016)
Hallucinations can occur across the five sensory modalities (auditory, visual, olfactory, tactile, and gustatory). Whilst they have the potential to be benign or even highly valued, they can often be devastating experiences ...
Health and Children with Disabilities
(2017)
Articles within this e-book are focused on the health of children with disabilities. Various frameworks have been used to articulate the dynamic interaction of the individual, environment and the task as it relates to child ...
Histamine in the Brain
(2015)
Brain aminergic pathways are organized in parallel and interacting systems, which support a range of functions, from homoeostatic regulations to cognitive, and motivational processes. Despite overlapping functional influences, ...
Global Challenges in Radiation Oncology
(2015)
In the United States, much of the research is focused on developing new and very expensive technologies and drugs - often without a major therapeutic benefit. In resource limited countries, basic oncology care is frequently ...
Glial Plasticity in Depression
(2016)
Major depression is a highly prevalent disorder that poses a significant social burden in society nowadays. The pathophysiology of this disease is still poorly understood but growing evidence suggests that impaired neuron ...
The Global Challenge Posed by the Multiresistant International Clones of Bacterial Pathogens
(2017)
Multiresistant bacterial pathogens pose a serious problem worldwide making the appropriate treatment of patients with healthcare-associated infections a challenge. The spread of antibiotic resistance is either mediated by ...
Global Change, Clonal Growth, and Biological Invasions by Plants
(2016)
There are few more active frontiers in plant science than helping understand and predict the ecological consequences of on-going, global changes in climate, land use and cover, nutrient cycling, and acidity. This collection ...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Multiple Roles of Bacteria in Human Life
(2018)
Bacteria are among the earliest forms of life on Earth. Notwithstanding their small size and primitive origin, bacteria still have a tremendous impact on everyday human life. Over the centuries, research into bacteria have ...
Good News - Bad News: The Two Faces of Immune Privilege
(2014)
Immune privilege was once thought to be the property of a few select sites that include the eye, brain, testis, pregnant uterus and (of all things) the hamster cheek pouch, and was believed to be mainly based on sequestration ...
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Receptor Signaling and Functions
(2018)
This eBook provides a comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on Gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor evolution, structure, signaling and functions. Apart from review articles, it comprises exciting new research, ...
Gram-positive phages: From isolation to application
(2015)
Phage biology is one of the most significant and fundamental aspects of biological research and is often used as a platform for model studies relating to more complex biological entities. For this reason, phage biology has ...
The Grammar of Multilingualism
(2016)
This volume investigates the nature of grammatical representations in speakers who master multiple languages. Since the early days of modern formal approaches to grammar, most work has been based on the language of monolingual ...
Habits: Plasticity, learning and freedom
(2015)
In present times, certain fields of science are becoming aware of the necessity to go beyond a restrictive specialization, and establish an open dialogue with other disciplines. Such is the case of the approach that ...