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Psychological Issues in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(2016)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal and progressive disease, characterized by progressive muscles weakness, with consequent loss of physical capacities. Patients become relentlessly immobile and, in the late stages ...
Psychological Responses to Violations of Expectations: Perspectives and Answers from Diverse Fields of Psychology
(2018)
From Pavlov's dog expecting food when hearing a bell to stereotypes as expectations about other people’s behaviour, from Bandura’s self-efficacy as expectation for success and failure of one’s own behaviour to the "predictive ...
Post-Exercise Recovery: Fundamental and Interventional Physiology
(2016)
Physiological responses after maximal and submaximal exercise are routinely monitored in a plethora of diseases (e.g. cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, asthma, neuromuscular disorders), and normal populations (e.g. ...
Plants as alternative hosts for human and animal pathogens
(2015)
Many of the most prevalent and devastating human and animal pathogens have part of their lifecycle out-with the animal host. These pathogens have a remarkably wide capacity to adapt to a range of quite different environments: ...
Plants' Responses to Novel Environmental Pressures
(2018)
Plants have been exposed to multiple environmental stressors on long-term (seasonal) and short-term (daily) basis since their appearance on land. However, the frequency and the intensity of stress events have increased ...
Plants; Stress & Proteins
(2017)
Biotic and abiotic stress factors deliver a huge impact on plant life. Biotic stress factors such as damage through pathogens or herbivore attack, as well as abiotic stress factors like variation in temperature, rainfall ...
Probing auditory scene analysis
(2015)
In natural environments, the auditory system is typically confronted with a mixture of sounds originating from different sound sources. As sounds spread over time, the auditory system has to continuously decompose competing ...
Putting the "why" back into bone "archytecture"
(2016)
A large literature exists on trabecular and cortical bone morphology. The engineering performance of bone, implied from its 3d architecture, is often the endpoint of bone biology experiments, being clinically relevant to ...
Re-Enacting Sensorimotor Experience for Cognition
(2017)
Mastering the sensorimotor capabilities of our body is a skill that we acquire and refine over time, starting at the prenatal stages of development. This learning process is linked to brain development and is shaped by the ...
The Reasoning Brain: The Interplay between Cognitive Neuroscience and Theories of Reasoning
(2017)
Despite the centrality of rationality to our identity as a species (let alone the scientific endeavour), and the fact that it has been studied for several millennia, the present state of our knowledge of the mechanisms ...
Reassessing Twenty Years of Vaccine Development Against Tuberculosis
(2018)
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the prime bacterial infection worldwide with 10.4 million infections and a death toll of 1.7 million people in 2016 according to WHO statistics. Tuberculosis is caused by members of the Mycobacterium ...
Programming the HPA-axis by early life experience: Mechanisms of stress susceptibility and adaptation
(2015)
Experiences during early life program the central nervous- and endocrine-systems with consequences for susceptibility to physical and mental disorders. These programming effects depend on genetic and epigenetic factors, ...
Prenatal Beginnings for Better Health
(2018)
Pregnancy has significant short- and long-term health impacts for mother and child, which may lead to pediatric- and adult-onset diseases. Understanding these gestational origins of disease and currently existing platforms ...
Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Approaches for the Investigation of Chemical Systems - Recent Developments and Advanced Applications
(2018)
The QM/MM method, short for quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical, is a highly versatile approach for the study of chemical phenomena, combining the accuracy of quantum chemistry to describe the region of interest with ...
Progenitor diversity and neural cell specification in the central nervous system
(2015)
The central nervous system continuously perceives, integrates, processes and generates information. These complex functions rely on the detailed elaboration of its cellular network and on the myriads of individual, highly ...
Proteomics of Microbial Human Pathogens
(2017)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2012 infectious diseases and related conditions account for more than 70% of premature deaths across 22 African countries and estimated 450 000 people worldwide developed ...
Protein Solubility and Aggregation in Bacteria
(2016)
Proteins suffer many conformational changes and interactions through their life, from their synthesis at ribosomes to their controlled degradation. Only folded and soluble proteins are functional. Thus, protein folding and ...
Protein Phosphorylation in Health and Disease
(2016)
Protein phosphorylation is one of the most abundant reversible post-translational modifications in eukaryotes. It is involved in virtually all cellular processes by regulating protein function, localization and stability ...
The Proteins of Plastid Nucleoids - Structure, Function and Regulation
(2016)
Plastids are plant cell-specific organelles of endosymbiotic origin that contain their own genome, the so-called plastome. Its proper expression is essential for faithful chloroplast biogenesis during seedling development ...
Protein Quality Controlling Systems in Plant Responses to Environmental Stresses
(2018)
Environmental stress factors negatively affect plant growth by inducing proteins dysfunction. As coping strategies, plant have developed a comprehensive protein quality controlling system (PQCS) to keep proteins homeostasis. ...
Plant Silicon Interactions between Organisms and the Implications for Ecosystems
(2017)
In this Frontiers topic, we explore how the functions and fates of plant silicon interact with other organisms and ecosystem processes. By bringing together new data from multiple disciplines and scales, we present a ...
Plant Single Cell Type Systems Biology
(2016)
The phenotype of a plant in response to a stress condition is the reflection of the molecular responses in different cell-types composing the plant. The multicellular complexity represents a challenge when accessing specific ...
Problem Gambling: Summarizing Research Findings and Defining New Horizons
(2018)
In 2003, Rachel A. Volberg wrote: “Why is it that gambling is not even on the radar when we consider the array of risks that adolescents must confront as they move towards adulthood?” Nowadays, after thirteen years, although ...
Python in Neuroscience
(2015)
Python is rapidly becoming the de facto standard language for systems integration. Python has a large user and developer-base external to theneuroscience community, and a vast module library that facilitates rapid and ...
Quantitative Biology: Dynamics of Living Systems
(2017)
With the emergence of Systems Biology, there is a greater realization that the whole behavior of a living system may not be simply described as the sum of its elements. To represent a living system using mathematical ...
Quantitative Assessment and Validation of Network Inference Methods in Bioinformatics
(2015)
Scientists today have access to an unprecedented arsenal of high-tech tools that can be used to thoroughly characterize biological systems of interest. High-throughput “omics” technologies enable to generate enormous ...
Quantitative Systems Biology for Engineering Organisms and Pathways
(2016)
Studying organisms as a whole for potential metabolic(ally) engineering of organisms for production of (bio)chemicals is essential for industrial biotechnology. To this end, integrative analysis of different –omics ...
Quantitative analysis of neuroanatomy
(2016)
The true revolution in the age of digital neuroanatomy is the ability to extensively quantify anatomical structures and thus investigate structure-function relationships in great detail. Large-scale projects were recently ...
Reading Faces and Bodies: Behavioral and Neural Processes Underlying the Understanding of,and Interaction with, Others
(2017)
The aim of this Research Topic was to offer an interdisciplinary forum for researchers interested in the interplay of face, eye gaze, and body perception in the understanding of others, with an emphasis on behavioural and ...
Reaching to Grasp Cognition: Analyzing Motor Behavior to Investigate Social Interactions
(2018)
How humans plan and execute their actions has always been a fascinating topic for neuroscience and psychology. In particular, kinematics studies have contributed to shed light on how very basic actions (e.g. reaching-grasping) ...
Proceedings of the International School on Magnetic Resonance and Brain Function - XII Workshop
(2018)
In the last thirty years, Magnetic Resonance has generated a wide revolution in biomedical research and in medical imaging in general. More recently, the "in vivo" studies of the human brain were extended by new ...
Progress in Ecological Stoichiometry
(2018)
Ecological stoichiometry concerns the way that the elemental composition of organisms shapes their ecology. It deals with the balance or imbalance of elemental ratios and how that affects organism growth, nutrient cycling, ...
Progress in Episodic Memory Research
(2016)
Episodic memory refers to the ability to remember personal experiences in terms of what happened and where and when it happened. Humans are also able to remember the specific perceptions, emotions and thoughts they had ...
The Psychology of Magic and the Magic of Psychology
(2016)
Magicians have dazzled audiences for many centuries; however, few researchers have studied how, let alone why, most tricks work. The psychology of magic is a nascent field of research that examines the underlying mechanisms ...
Psychomotor symptomatology in psychiatric illnesses
(2015)
Psychomotor symptoms are those symptoms that are characterized by deficits in the initiation, execution and monitoring of movements, such as psychomotor slowing, catatonia, neurological soft signs (NSS), reduction in motor ...
Refining Prevention: Genetic and Epigenetic Contributions
(2016)
Currently, most prevention efforts are framed as universal interventions. However, despite the demonstrated efficacy of many prevention programs, variability in response is the rule with some participants responding very ...
Plant Organ Abscission: From Models to Crops
(2017)
Plant organ abscission is a developmental process regulated by the environment, stress, pathogens and the physiological status of the plant. In particular, seed and fruit abscission play an important role in seed dispersion ...
The plant microbiome and its importance for plant and human health
(2015)
The study of plant-microbe associations by new techniques has significantly improved our understanding of the structure and specificity of the plant microbiome. Yet, microbiome function and the importance of the plant’s ...
Plant cell wall in pathogenesis, parasitism and symbiosis
(2015)
The cell wall is a complex structure mainly composed of cellulose microfibrils embedded in a cohesive hemicellulose and pectin matrix. Cell wall structural proteins, enzymes and their inhibitors are also essential components ...
Plant Phenotyping and Phenomics for Plant Breeding
(2018)
As a consequence of the global climate change, both the reduction on yield potential and the available surface area of cultivated species will compromise the production of food needed for a constant growing population. ...