Publications
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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. ...