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Components of the language-ready brain
(2016)
This volume highlights new avenues of research in the language sciences, and particularly, in the neurobiology of language. The term “language-ready brain” stresses, on the one hand, the importance of a brain-based description ...
Cooperative Adaptations and Evolution in Plant-Microbe Systems
(2018)
Ecological and evolutionary genetics of plant-microbe interactions is of high importance for developing the plant science since the plants originated symbiotically (via incorporation of a phototrophic cyanobacterium into ...
The chronic challenge - new vistas on long-term multisite contacts to the central nervous system
(2015)
Have you ever heard of a Hype-Cycle? It is a description that was put forward by an IT consultancy firm to describe certain phenomena that happen within the life cycle of new technology products. As Fenn and Raskino stated ...
Chronic inflammation in conditions associated with a deficient clearance of dying and dead cells, their remnants, and intracellular constituents
(2015)
In multicellular organisms, states with a high degree of tissue turnover like embryogenesis, development, and adult tissue homeostasis need an instantaneous, tightly regulated and immunologically silent clearance of these ...
Chromatin & Transcriptional Tango on the Immune Dance Floor
(2015)
Signaling through the cell surface antigen receptor is a hallmark of various stages of lymphocyte development and adaptive immunity. Besides the adaptive immune system, the innate immunity is equally important for protection. ...
Deciphering serotonin's role in neurodevelopment
(2014)
One of the most challenging questions in neurobiology to tackle is how the serotonergic system steers neurodevelopment. With the increase in serotonergic anxiolytic and antidepressant drugs, serotonin was thought to signal ...
Decision-Making Experiments under Philosophical Analysis: Human Choice as a Challenge for Neuroscience
(2015)
This introduction just aims to be a fast foreword to the special topic now turned into an e-book. The Editorial "Decision-Making Experiments under a Philosophical Analysis: Human Choice as a Challenge for Neuroscience" ...
Decision making under uncertainty
(2015)
Most decisions in life are based on incomplete information and have uncertain consequences. To successfully cope with real-life situations, the nervous system has to estimate, represent and eventually resolve uncertainty ...
Diversity and Universality in Causal Cognition
(2017)
Causality is one of the core concepts in any attempt to make sense of the world, and the explanations people come up with shape their judgments, emotions, intentions and actions. This renders causal cognition a core topic ...
Developments in Bovine Immunology - An Integrated View
(2015)
The world’s population is predicted to hit 9 Billion by 2050, and with it food demand is predicted to increase substantially. The World Bank estimates that cereal and meat production needs to increase by 50% and 85% ...