Publications
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New treatment perspectives in autism spectrum disorders
(2015)
Developing novel and more effective treatments that improve quality of life for individuals with autism spectrum disorders is urgently needed. To date a wide range of behavioral interventions have been shown to be safe and ...
New therapeutic targets for human placental angiogenesis diseases
(2015)
A large number of publications have described impaired angiogenesis and vasculogenesis present in the feto-placental circulation after pregnancy diseases such as pre-eclamptic pregnancies, gestational diabetes, and ...
New Translational Insights on Metabolic Syndrome: Obesity, Hypertension, Diabetes and Beyond
(2016)
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) can be considered as a clustering of several risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, insulin resistance and dyslipidemia, which could lead to the development of diabetes and cardiovascular ...
New Therapies and Immunological Findings in Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers
(2019)
New therapies are currently being developed in the field of skin cancer. In particular, advances in melanoma now represent the frontline of cancer immunotherapy, as immunological findings in the disease have led to the ...
Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions
(2015)
So-called altered states of consciousness (ASC) are an intriguing, still under-researched topic, with profound neuropsychological and epistemological implications. In the last few decades there has been increasing ...
Non-Polysaccharide Plant Polymeric Materials
(2016)
Plants are the most important renewable source of feedstock for polymeric materials. They are a resource of monomers and macromolecules after the appropriate chemical treatment. By analogy with the petrochemistry industry, ...
Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Schizophrenia: How Much Can Be Achieved and How?
(2017)
The introduction of antipsychotic agents in the 1950’s substantially improved the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. However, clinical and functional outcomes are still far less than optimal for ...
Optogenetic Tools in the Molecular Spotlight
(2016)
The rise of optogenetics as a standard technique to non-invasively probe and monitor biological function created an immense interest in the molecular function of photosensory proteins. These photoreceptors are usually ...
Personality and Cognition in Economic Decision Making
(2017)
Psychologists studying cognitive processes and personality have increasingly benefited from the wealth of theory, methodology, and decision making paradigms used in economics and game theory. Similarly, for the economists, ...
Paleoecology of Easter Island: Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change
(2018)
After more than three decades of paleoecological research, the potential role of climatic and anthropogenic drivers on Easter Island's ecological and cultural change is still under discussion. This eBook aims to provide ...
Parasites in the Tropic - A New Paradigm Shift
(2017)
The highlight of this eBook is to bring new insights into parasites in the tropic. To achieve that, much has been discussed about risk assessment, infection rates, disease burden, hormones and mechanism of immune response, ...
Parasite Infections: From Experimental Models to Natural Systems
(2018)
Eukaryotic parasites (including parasitic protozoans, worms and arthropods) are more complex and heterogeneous organisms than pathogenic bacteria and viruses. This notion implies different evolutionary strategies of host ...
Phenotypic screening in the 21st century
(2015)
In the genomic era of 1990s-2000s, pharmaceutical research moved to target-based drug discovery which enabled development of a number of small molecule drugs against a wide range of diseases. In many cases however, drugs ...
Phenomics
(2018)
"Phenomics" is an emerging area of research whose aspiration is the systematic measurement of the physical, physiological and biochemical traits (the phenome) belonging to a given individual or collection of individuals. ...
New Approaches to the Pathogenesis of Sudden Intrauterine Unexplained Death and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
(2017)
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the leading cause of death among infants in the first year of age. The more known definition of SIDS is the sudden unexpected death of an infant less than 1 year of age, with onset ...
New Insights into Microbial Ecology through Subtle Nucleotide Variation
(2016)
The 16S ribosomal RNA gene commonly serves as a molecular marker for investigating microbial community composition and structure. Vast amounts of 16S rRNA amplicon data generated from environmental samples thanks to the ...
New Insights on Basic and Clinical Aspects of EEG and MEG Connectome
(2018)
Recent advances in the neuroimaging field areas allow us to visualize the aggregate of neural connections at the macroscopic level within the brain, the so-called “connectome”. In order to promote the development of the ...
Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Neurology and Psychiatry
(2017)
Brain stimulation techniques, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS), modify brain function through interaction with multiple neurotransmitters and networks. The ...
Non-conventional Yeast in the Wine Industry
(2017)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains that exhibit high ethanol tolerance and excellent fermentative ability are extensively used in winemaking as selected starters. However, a side-effect of the widespread use of these commercial ...
Novel Approaches to the Analysis of Family Data in Genetic Epidemiology
(2016)
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for complex disorders with large case-control populations have been performed on hundreds of traits in more than 1200 published studies (http://www.genome.gov/gwastudies/) but the ...
Novel Aspects of Nucleolar Functions in Plant Growth and Development
(2018)
The nucleolus is a prominent nuclear domain that is common to eukaryotes. Since the nucleolus was first described in the 1830s, its identity had remained a mystery for longer than 100 years. Major advances in understanding ...
Matricellular Receptors as Potential Targets in Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Strategies
(2016)
The invasive character of a primary cancer is greatly dependent on numerous interactions between tumor cells and their extracellular surroundings. Matricellular receptors are defined as (cell-surface) receptors that bind ...
Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Brain Barrier Mechanisms
(2016)
The brain functions within an internal environment that is determined and controlled by morphological structures and cellular mechanisms present at interfaces between the brain and the rest of the body. In vertebrates these ...
Online and Offline Modulators of Motor Learning
(2017)
Both the acquisition of new and the modification of previously acquired motor skills are necessary to achieve optimal levels of motor performance in everyday functioning as well as to attain expert performance levels that ...
Perception-Cognition Interface and Cross-Modal Experiences: Insights into Unified Consciousness
(2017)
The present Research Topic explores closely related aspects of mental functioning, namely an interplay between perception and cognition, interactions among various sensory modalities, and finally, more or less unified ...
Perceptual Linguistic Salience: Modeling Causes and Consequences
(2017)
Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the notion of salience in linguistics and related disciplines. While in top-down salience, perceivers endogenously direct their attention to a certain stimulus, in the ...
Perception, Action, and Cognition
(2016)
Even as simple a task as quenching thirst with a glass of water involves a sequence of perceptions and actions woven together by expectations and experience. What are the myriad links between perception and action, and ...
Perspective Taking: Building a neurocognitive framework for integrating the "social" and the "spatial"
(2015)
Background: Interacting with other people involves spatial awareness of one’s own body and the other’s body and viewpoint. In the past, social cognition has focused largely on belief reasoning, which is abstracted away ...
Perspectives for the Next Generation of Virus Research: Spearheading the Use of Innovative Technologies and Methodologies
(2017)
Infectious diseases are associated with approximately 20% of global mortality, with viral diseases causing about one third of these deaths. Besides newly emerging and re-emerging viral infections will continue to pose a ...
Parochial Altruism: Pitfalls and Prospects
(2016)
A number of recent influential publications have promoted the idea that the high levels of altruism and violent intergroup conflicts observed in humans might be the result of a joint evolution of behavioral traits causing ...
Plant Competition in a Changing World
(2017)
Competitiveness describes a key ability important for plants to grow and survive abiotic and biotic stresses. Under optimal, but particularly under non-optimal conditions, plants compete for resources including nutrients, ...
Plant Glycobiology - a sweet world of lectins, glycoproteins, glycolipids and glycans
(2014)
Plants synthesize a wide variety of unique glycan structures which play essential roles during the life cycle of the plant. Being omnipresent throughout the plant kingdom, ranging from simple green algae to modern flowering ...
Plant responses to flooding
(2015)
Global warming has dramatically increased the frequency and severity of flooding events worldwide. As a result, many man-made and natural ecosystems have become flood-prone. For plants, the main consequence of flooding is ...
Plant Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses: Lessons from Cell Signaling
(2017)
Facing stressful conditions imposed by their environment and affecting their growth and their development throughout their life cycle, plants must be able to perceive, to process and to translate different stimuli into ...
Plant polyamines in stress and development
(2014)
Polyamines are small aliphatic polycations which have been involved in key stress and developmental processes in plants. In the recent years, compelling genetic and molecular evidences point to polyamines as essential ...
The Proceedings from Halophiles 2013, the International Congress on Halophilic Microorganisms
(2015)
The Halophiles 2013 meeting is a multidisciplinary international congress, with a strong history of regular triennial meetings since 1978. Our mission is to bring researchers from a wide diversity of investigation interests ...
Quantum Structures in Cognitive and Social Science
(2016)
Traditional approaches to cognitive psychology correspond with a classical view of logic and probability theory. More specifically, one typically assumes that cognitive processes of human thought are founded on the Boolean ...
Processing Across Languages
(2018)
The Research Topic aims to highlight research on the processing of words, sentences and discourses across languages. Articles representing processing in a wide variety of human languages will be featured. Efforts will be ...
Promiscuous functions of the prion protein gene family
(2015)
The cellular prion protein PrPC is a ubiquitous GPI-anchored protein. While PrPC has been the focus of intense research for its involvement in a group of neurodegenerative disorders known as transmissible spongiform ...
Psychological perspectives on expertise
(2015)
Experts are persons who are very knowledgeable about or skillful in a particular area. The aim of this Research Topic is to advance knowledge in the understanding of the phenomenon of expertise by putting together different ...