Publications
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Sense of agency: Examining awareness of the acting self
(2015)
The sense of agency is defined as the sense of oneself as the agent of one's own actions. This also allows oneself to feel distinct from others, and contributes to the subjective phenomenon of self-consciousness (Gallagher, ...
Root Systems Biology
(2014)
The understanding of biological complexity has been greatly facilitated by cross-disciplinary, holistic approaches that allow insights into the function and regulation of biological processes that cannot be captured by ...
ROS Regulation during Plant Abiotic Stress Responses
(2017)
Plants are continuously exposed to a wide range of environmental conditions, including cold, drought, salt, heat, which have major impact on plant growth and development. To survive, plants have evolved complex physiological ...
Roots - The Hidden Provider
(2017)
Signal Transduction in Stomatal Guard Cells
(2017)
Stomata, the tiny pores on leaf surface, are the gateways for CO2 uptake during photosynthesis as well as water loss in transpiration. Further, plants use stomatal closure as a defensive response, often triggered by ...
Signaling in the Phytomicrobiome
(2017)
A plant growing under field conditions is not a simple individual; it is a community. We now know that there is a community of microbes associated with all parts of the plant, and that the root associated community is ...
Signaling Pathways in Developing and Pathological Tissues and Organs of the Craniofacial Complex
(2018)
Head formation requires the well-orchestrated and harmonised development of various tissues and organs within the craniofacial complex. A big variety of signaling pathways are involved in this process by controlling cell ...
Sleep Spindles: Breaking the Methodological Wall
(2017)
In the last decade, sleep spindles have attracted steadily increasing attention. This interest is motivated by the many intriguing relationships between spindles and various diseases (e.g., schizophrenia, Parkinson, ...
Sleep and cognition in the elderly
(2015)
Understanding the role of sleep and the mechanisms at play in ageing are among the most exciting challenges in neuroscience. Although our understanding of the mechanisms governing sleep stages and their role in cognitive ...
Sleep and Chronobiology in Plasticity and Memory
(2016)
Chronobiological mechanisms regulating time-of-day mediated behaviors, such as sleep and circadian rhythms, are thought to interact with and/or share cellular and molecular signaling cascades that shape synaptic plasticity ...
Pre-cueing Effects on Perception, Attention, and Cognitive Penetrability
(2018)
Attention has often been likened to spotlights and filters—devices that illuminate or screen out some inputs in favor of others. This largely passive conception of attention has been gradually replaced by a more dynamic ...
Precision Medicine in Oncology
(2019)
The emerging precision medicine approach aims to tailor disease prevention and treatment to each patient on the basis of individual variability, environmental factors and lifestyle. Fundamental achievements in the last few ...
Spores and Spore Formers
(2017)
Bacterial spore formers have been the focus of intense study for almost half a century centered primarily on Bacillus subtilis. This research has given us a detailed picture of the genetic, physiological and biochemical ...
Single-Domain Antibodies: Biology, Engineering and Emerging Applications
(2018)
Single-domain antibodies (sdAbs) represent the minimal antigen binding-competent form of the immunoglobulin domain and have unique properties and applications. SdAbs are naturally produced as the variable domains of the ...
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in human, cattle and foods. Strategies for detection and control
(2014)
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is an important foodborne pathogen associated with both outbreaks and sporadic cases of human disease, ranging from uncomplicated diarrhoea to haemorrhagic colitis (HC) and ...
State-of-the-Art Research on C1q and the Classical Complement Pathway
(2016)
C1q is the target recognition protein of the classical complement pathway and a major connecting link between innate and acquired immunity. As a charge pattern recognition molecule of innate immunity, C1q can engage a broad ...
Structure, function, and plasticity of hippocampal dentate gyrus microcircuits
(2015)
The hippocampus mediates several higher brain functions, such as learning, memory, and spatial coding. The input region of the hippocampus, the dentate gyrus, plays a critical role in these processes. Several lines of ...
Structure-Based Drug Design for Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurological Diseases
(2017)
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) supports the collaboration of nationally-funded science and technology research through the creation of networks. COST is the longest-running European framework enhancing ...
Structure-Related Intrinsic Electrical States and Firing Patterns of Neurons With Active Dendrites
(2018)
Activity of the multi-functional networked neurons depends on their intrinsic states and bears both cell- and network-defined features. Firing patterns of a neuron are conventionally attributed to spatial-temporal organization ...
Social Interaction in Animals: Linking Experimental Approach and Social Network Analysis
(2017)
Understanding the link between individual behaviour and population organization and functioning has long been central to ecology and evolutionary biology. Behaviour is a response to intrinsic and extrinsic factors including ...
Software Architectures for Humanoid Robotics
(2018)
In the past few years humanoid robots have evolved at a rapid pace. Research has made impressive advancements on both mechatronics and cognitive capabilities, including learning, perception and control. At the same time ...
Sound, Music and Movement in Parkinson's Disease
(2017)
Recent years have brought new insights to the understanding of Parkinson’s disease, impact of exercise and sound displays in rehabilitation and movement facilitation. There is growing evidence that auditory signals in the ...
Specialised membrane domains of plasmodesmata plant intercellular nanopores
(2014)
Plasmodesmata (PD) are plant-specific intercellular nanopores defined by specialised domains of the plasma membrane (PM) and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), both of which contain unique proteins, and probably different ...
Third-Generation Neuroimaging: Translating Research into Clinical Utility
(2016)
Psychiatric imaging needs to move away from simple investigations of the neurobiology underling the early phases of psychiatric diseases to translate imaging findings in the clinical field targeting clinical outcomes ...
Thymic stromal alterations and genetic disorders of immune system
(2015)
The pathogenic mechanisms underlying primary T-cell disorders are mainly related to molecular alterations of genes whose expression is intrinsic to hematopoietic cells. However, since the differentiation process requires ...
Thyroid hormone in brain and brain cells
(2016)
Thyroid hormone signaling has been known for a long time to be required for proper neurodevelopment and the maintenance of cognitive functions in the adult brain. As thyroid hormone excess or deficiency is usually well ...
Sub-cellular Proteomics
(2015)
Whilst significant advances have been made in whole organismal proteomics approaches, many researchers still rely on combinations of tissue selection and subcellular prefractionation methods to reduce the complexity of ...
Structural and computational glycobiology: immunity and infection
(2015)
Interest in understanding the biological role of carbohydrates has increased significantly over the last 20 years. The use of structural techniques to understand carbohydrate-protein recognition is still a relatively young ...
The Sociocultural Context of Psychosocial Interventions
(2018)
Across diverse academic fields, scholars and practitioners are engaged in developing interventions to promote outcomes like health and quality of life. Indeed, such is the apparent efficacy of such interventions, that there ...
Society, Organizations and the Brain: building towards a unified cognitive neuroscience perspective
(2015)
This e-book brings together scholars in both the neurosciences and organizational sciences who have adopted various approaches to study the cognitive mechanisms mediating the social behavior that we see within organizations. ...
Spatial and non-spatial aspects of neglect
(2015)
Neglect is one of the most impressive neuropsychological disorder, for both its theoretical and clinical relevance. Besides being very common and disabling, it is highly informative for understanding normal cognitive ...
Spatial memory - a unique window into healthy and pathological ageing
(2015)
The global population aged over 60 is set to rise dramatically in the coming decades. In many countries, the older population now faces the prospect of spending a quarter of their lives aged over 65, and a significant ...
Spiking Neural Network Connectivity and its Potential for Temporal Sensory Processing and Variable Binding
(2014)
The most biologically-inspired artificial neurons are those of the third generation, and are termed spiking neurons, as individual pulses or spikes are the means by which stimuli are communicated. In essence, a spike is a ...
Therapeutic Implications of Circadian Rhythms
(2015)
Circadian rhythms are biological processes displaying endogenous and entrainable oscillations of about 24 hours. They are driven by a group of genes called clock genes that have been widely observed in plants, animals and ...
Thiol-based redox homeostasis and signalling
(2014)
In contrast to the situation in heterotrophic organisms, plant genomes code for a significantly larger number of oxidoreductases such as thioredoxins (TRXs) and glutaredoxins (GRXs). These proteins provide a biochemical ...
Tick-Host-Pathogen Interactions
(2018)
Besides causing direct damage associated with blood feeding and in some cases through the excretion of toxins with their saliva, the main relevance of ticks lies in the wide variety of pathogens that they can transmit, ...
Synthetic Biology: Engineering complexity and refactoring cell capabilities
(2015)
One of the key features of biological systems is complexity, where the behavior of high level structures is more than the sum of the direct interactions between single components. Synthetic Biologists aim to use rational ...
Synthetic biology applications in industrial microbiology
(2014)
Exponentially increasing information on biological organisms coupled with increasing computational power in the past decade have broadened the perspective of fundamental biological research, bringing about considerable ...
Sudden arrhythmic death: From basic science to clinical practice
(2014)
With upwards of 4.5 million deaths worldwide each year, and more than one tenth of these occurring in those with no previously documented heart disease, sudden arrhythmic death (SAD) is both a major public health burden ...
Sudden Death in Epilepsy: Basic and Translational Research
(2018)
Sudden Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) is a major cause of death in people with epilepsy, accounting for up to 17% of all deaths. Research interest is exploding, focusing on epidemiology, basic mechanisms, identification of risk ...