Publications
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Using Stress-Based Animal Models to Understand the Mechanisms Underlying Psychiatric and Somatic Disorders
(2017)
Chronic or repeated stress, particularly psychosocial stress, is an acknowledged risk factor for numerous affective and somatic disorders in modern societies. Thus, there is substantial evidence showing that chronic stress ...
Using Paleolimnology for Lake Restoration and Management
(2017)
This e-book presents state-of-the-art research projects and opinions on using paleolimnology for lake restoration and managment. It illustrates the general idea that proposing adequate restoration and managment solutions ...
Telemedicine in Low-Resource Settings
(2015)
Telemedicine networks to support healthcare workers in resource-limited settings (often for humanitarian purposes) have evolved over the last decade or so in a largely autonomous way. Communication between them has been ...
Wet and Dry Periods in Regions Surrounding the Atlantic Ocean Basin
(2016)
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceanic divisions. It is bounded by the continents of America, Europe and Africa and at its polewards margins by the Arctic and the Southern Oceans. Different climatic ...
Why Have Cortical Layers? What Is the Function of Layering? Do Neurons in Cortex Integrate Information Across Different Layers?
(2018)
This research topic was suggested by Robert Sachdev to bring together a series of articles dealing with the laminar organization of the neocortex. By convention, there are six cortical layers but this number may vary ...
Why and how is the self related to the brain midline regions?
(2014)
What the self is and where it comes from has been one of the great problems of philosophy for thousands of years. As science and medicine have progressed this question has moved to also become a central one in psychology, ...
Visual Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: A View into the Mechanisms of Madness?
(2015)
Research on visual perception in schizophrenia has a long history. However, it is only recently that it has been included in mainstream efforts to understand the cognitive neuroscience of the disorder and to assist with ...
Visual Mismatch Negativity (vMMN) a Prediction Error Signal in the Visual Modality
(2015)
Current theories of visual change detection emphasize the importance of conscious attention to detect unexpected changes in the visual environment. However, an increasing body of studies shows that the human brain is capable ...
Visual perception and visual cognition in healthy and pathological ageing
(2014)
Our understanding of visual perception and visual cognition has advanced considerably over the last decades. The effects of ageing on visual perception and visual cognition are less well understood. This Research Topic ...
Value and Reward Based Learning in Neurobots
(2015)
Organisms are equipped with value systems that signal the salience of environmental cues to their nervous system, causing a change in the nervous system that results in modification of their behavior. These systems are ...
Wheeled Mobility Biomechanics
(2016)
For the manual wheelchair (MWC) user, loss of lower extremity function often places the burden for mobility and activities of daily living on the upper extremities. This e-book on Wheeled Mobility Biomechanics contains ...
Video Games as Tools to Achieve Insight into Cognitive Processes
(2015)
Though traditionally designed for entertainment, video games are being used more and more by psychologists to understand topics such as skill acquisition, cognitive capacity and plasticity, aging, individual differences, ...
The Vascular Niche in Tissue Repair: A Therapeutic Target for Regeneration
(2018)
Tissues and organs have, although sometimes limited, the capacity for endogenous repair, which is aimed to re-establish integrity and homeostasis. Tissue repair involves pro- and anti-inflammatory processes, new tissue ...
Vascular Inflammation in Systemic Autoimmunity
(2017)
Plasticity and dynamism characterize the immune system as a tissue-integrating network with defensive functions. Blood and lymphatic vessel trees constitute the most evident and intuitive physical platform for the development ...
What Is the Role for Effective Pedagogy In Contemporary Higher Education?
(2018)
The number of students entering into Higher Education (HE) continues to grow and as such the sector now stands at the threshold of a major shift in its philosophy. No longer does the academic prerogative belong to a ...
What makes written words so special to the brain
(2015)
Reading is an integral part of life in today's information-driven societies. Since the pioneering work of Dejerine on "word blindness" in brain-lesioned patients, the literature has increased exponentially, from ...
What levels of explanation in the behavioural sciences?
(2015)
Complex systems are to be seen as typically having multiple levels of organization. For instance, in the behavioural and cognitive sciences, there has been a long lasting trend, promoted by the seminal work of David Marr, ...
The Vestibular System in Cognitive and Memory Processes in Mammals
(2016)
Since the beginning of life, all plant and animal kingdoms have been developed or modified based on gravity along with atmospheric composition and solar radiation existing on Earth. Gravity is mainly encoded by the otolithic ...
Vestibular Contributions to Health and Disease
(2018)
This eBook reviews recent developments in vestibular physiology and pathophysiology and covers a range of topics, including diagnostic tests, treatment approaches, central and peripheral vestibular mechanisms, and ...
Viral Interactions with the Nucleus
(2017)
Viruses cause numerous medically important diseases, affecting developing, developed, rich and poor alike. The diseases vary in severity, including chickenpox, smallpox, influenza, shingles, herpes, rabies, polio, Ebola, ...