Publications
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Learning in Social Context: The Nature and Profit of Living in Groups for Development
(2017)
One of the distinctive features of humans is their unique sociality. Humans live in organized societies that are characterized by a high level of interdependence of group members in various aspects of life, ranging from ...
Learning a non-native language in a naturalistic environment: Insights from behavioural and neuroimaging research
(2015)
It is largely accepted in the relevant literature that successful learning of one or more non-native languages is affected by a number of factors that are independent of the target language(s) per se; these factors include ...
M1/M2 Macrophages: The Arginine Fork in the Road to Health and Disease
(2015)
Macrophages have unique and diverse functions necessary for survival. And, in humans (and other species), they are the most abundant leukocytes in tissues. The Innate functions of macrophages that are best known are their ...
Long-Term Consequences of Adolescent Drug Use: Evidence from Pre-Clinical and Clinical Models
(2018)
The purpose of this collection is to provide a forum to integrate pre-clinical and clinical investigations regarding the long-term consequences of adolescent exposure to drugs of abuse. Adolescence is characterized by ...
Lymphocytes in MS and EAE: More than just a CD4+ World
(2017)
Multiple sclerosis is degenerative disease of the central nervous system (CNS) in which myelin destruction and axon loss leads to the accumulation of physical, cognitive, and mental deficits. MS affects more than a million ...
Lyme Disease: Recent Advances and Perspectives
(2015)
The interplay between host and pathogen is a complex co-evolutionary battle of surveillance and evasion. The pathogen continuously develops mechanisms to subvert the immune response in order to establish infection while ...
The Major Discoveries of Cajal and His Disciples: Consolidated Milestones for the Neuroscience of the XXIst Century
(2017)
When Santiago Ramón y Cajal started to unravel the fine structure of the nervous system in the last decades of the XIXth century maybe only his unbeatable soul of brave Spaniard imagined that most of the descriptions were ...
Multiple Identities Management
(2018)
In this ebook, a collection of 18 papers presents empirical research, as well as novel theoretical considerations, on how multiple identities are being managed by the individuals holding them. The papers draw on theories ...
The multiple roles of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in nature
(2015)
Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance have most commonly been viewed in the context of human use and effects. However, both have co-existed in nature for millennia. Recently the roles of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance ...
Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Significance of Organelle Interactions and Cooperation
(2017)
Eukaryotic cells contain distinct membrane-bound organelles, which compartmentalise cellular proteins to fulfil a variety of vital functions. Many organelles have long been regarded as isolated and static entities (e.g., ...