Abstract: Neuroplasticity research in connection with mental disorders has recently bridged the gap between basic neurobiology and applied neuropsychology. A non-invasive method in the gerbil (Meriones unguiculus) - the restricted versus enriched breading ...
Functional Hemispheric Assymetry of Self-ControlAbstract: The conscious control of thought, action, and emotions may be considered as a distinctive feature of human cognition. Moreover, the ability to override immediate urges is not only relevant for ...
Crime Scene BrainThe questions whether and how human behavior is determined or modifiable, influence major portions of current neurocognition. Especially for the field of delinquent behavior, its underlying causes are currently more and more frequently ...
Neurophysiology and neuropsychology of bipolar disordersPatients with bipolar disorder are characterized by cognitive impairments, not only during depressive and manic episodes, but also after remission of clinical symptoms. These cognitive dysfunctions ...
Neurobiological basis of emotion regulationOne of the most central human skills is the ability to regulate emotions that are elicited by external or internal events depending on the situational demands and the organism’s short- or long-term goals. These ...
Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Sport Psychology ResearchAbstract. This article aims at introducing functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) as a neuroimaging technique for the assessment of cortical processes ...
Summary: The involvement of impaired serotonergic functioning in the development of suicidal behavior is one of the best documented findings in biological psychiatry. It is, however, less clear in which way this dysfunction contributes to the occurrence ...
Abstract The experiment reported here was aimed at determining whether the level of brain activity can be related to performance in trained subjects. Two tasks were compared: a temporal and a linguistic task. An array of four letters appeared on a screen. ...
Abstract.Background: Suicide is prevalent in schizophrenia (SZ), yet the neural system functions that confer suicide risk remain obscure. Circuits operated by the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are altered in SZ, ...
Abstract. In the study, the neural basis of emotional reactivity was investigated. Reactivity was operationalized as the impact of emotional pictures on the self-reported ongoing affective state. It was used to divide the subjects into ...
Abstract. Single-neuron studies performed in the primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) revealed that retaining information in working memory (WM) is associated with sustained firing during the delay period in a match-to-sample task. On the other ...
Abstract. A series of distinct event-related potentials (ERPs) have been recorded from the scalp of human subjects as they switch from one task to another. It is possible that task switching may depend on different mechanisms depending on whether the ...
Abstract. The lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) plays a major role in both working memory (WM) and response inhibition (RI), which are fundamental for various cognitive abilities. We explored the relationship between these LPFC functions during childhood ...
Abstract. Neurobiological research indicates that altered reward processing is among the most promising risk mechanisms in alcohol use disorder and depression. To elucidate differences and similarities between both disorders, we ...
Abstract. There is growing interest in the study of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, as an effective intervention to improve memory. In order to evaluate the relative efficacy of tDCS based on ...