Publications
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Advances in Virtual Agents and Affective Computing for the Understanding and Remediation of Social Cognitive Disorders
(2016)
Advances in modern sciences occur thanks to within-fields discoveries as well as confrontation of concepts and methods from separated, sometimes distant, domains of knowledge. For instance, the fields of psychology and ...
Biased Cognitions & Social Anxiety: Building a Global Framework for Integrating Cognitive, Behavioral, and Neural Processes
(2015)
Social anxiety (SA) is a common and incapacitating disorder that has been associated with seriously impaired career, academic, and general social functioning. Regarding epidemiological data, SA has a lifetime prevalence ...
Basic and applied research on deception and its detection
(2014)
Deception is a ubiquitous phenomenon in social interactions and has attracted a significant amount of research during the last decades. The majority of studies in this field focused on how deception modulates behavioral, ...
Basal ganglia: physiological, behavioral, and computational studies
(2015)
The basal ganglia has received much attention over the last two decades, as it has been implicated in many neurological and psychiatric disorders. Most of this research - in both animals and humans - attempt to understand ...
Behavioral and physiological bases of attentional biases: Paradigms, participants, and stimuli
(2015)
Attentional biases (ABs) play a prominent role in the development and maintenance of clinically relevant symptoms of, for example, anxiety and depression. In particular, increased attentional orienting and preoccupation ...
Behavioural and Ecological Consequences of Urban Life in Birds
(2018)
Urbanization is next to global warming the largest threat to biodiversity. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly evident that many bird species get locally extinct as a result of urban development. However, many bird species ...
Beyond Borders: Myotonic Dystrophies - A European Perception
(2019)
Myotonic dystrophies (DMs) are pleotropic multisystemic diseases. These dominantly transmitted repeat disorders affect multiple organs of the human body at all ages – from the newborns to the elderly. The present Research ...
Carotid Body: A New Target for Rescuing Neural Control of Cardiorespiratory Balance in Disease
(2016)
The carotid body (CB) is in charge of adjusting ventilatory and cardiovascular function during changes in arterial blood gases. Regardless this essential function, the CB has been implicated in the sensing of other ...
The causes and consequences of microbial community structure
(2015)
The causes and consequences of differences in microbial community structure, defined here as the relative proportions of rare and abundant organisms within a community, are poorly understood. Articles in "The Causes and ...
Central Nervous System Metastases in Lung Cancer Patients: From Prevention to Diagnosis and Treatment
(2019)
Approximately 40% of lung cancer patients will develop central nervous system (CNS) metastases during the course of their disease. Most of these are brain metastases, but up to 10% will develop leptomeningeal metastases. ...
Central control of autonomic functions in health and disease
(2015)
The field of autonomic neuroscience research concentrates on those neural pathways and processes that ultimately modulate parasympathetic and sympathetic output to alter peripheral organ function. In the following ebook, ...
Amyloid-beta clearance in Alzheimer's disease
(2015)
Strong evidence continues to accumulate indicating that amyloid-beta (Aß) is a central part of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis in spite of the negative evidence coming from failed clinical trials. Therefore, mechanisms ...
Autophagy in plants and algae
(2015)
Autophagy (also known as macroautophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved process by which cytoplasmic components are nonselectively enclosed within a double-membrane vesicle known as the autophagosome and delivered to the ...
Advances in Research on Age in the Workplace and Retirement
(2018)
Shifts in the age composition of the workforce coupled with dynamic definitions of retirement represent important issues that influence work processes and, more generally, the experience of working across one’s career. For ...
Awareness shaping or shaped by prediction and postdiction
(2015)
We intuitively believe that we are aware of the external world as it is. Unfortunately, this is not entirely true. In fact, the capacity of our sensory system is too small to veridically perceive the world. To overcome ...
Avoidance: From Basic Science to Psychopathology
(2016)
Coping has a myriad of facets: knowledge concerning the circumstances of threats to emotional and physical well being, the ability to meet immediate needs to mitigate, the potential for recurrence, the ability to apply ...
Better Together: A Joined-Up Psychological Approach to Health, Well-Being, and Rehabilitation
(2016)
Health and well-being is best understood in terms of a combination of biological, psychological, and social factors. But how ‘social’ is the biopsychosocial model when applied to mental health and rehabilitation? Psychology ...
Cell and molecular signaling, and transport pathways involved in growth factor control of synaptic development and function
(2015)
Brain derived neurotophic factor (BDNF) and its receptor tropomyosin receptor kinase B (TrkB) signaling has been extensively studied for its roles in the central nervous system (CNS) ranging from cell survival, axonal and ...
Celebrating Twenty Years of the Brazilian Symposium on Cardiovascular Physiology
(2017)
This e-book is dedicated to the celebration of 20 years of the Brazilian Symposium on Cardiovascular Physiology. In 1996 groups from the School of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo (FMRP-USP) and from the ...