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- Pre-Learning Affective States and Trait Anxiety Impact Learning from Error
- Learning from Prediction Error: The Impact of Perfectionism, Anxiety and Perspectives on Learning
- Down the Rabbit Hole: The Self-Perpetuating Properties of Curiosity and Its Influence on Memory
- Multilingualism, Literacy, and Cultural Preservation in Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the Diaspora
- Electrophysiological Analysis of Lifelong Musicianship: a New Approach using Dry EEG
- Brain Activity: A Dry EEG Neuroimaging Approach within a Semiotic Framework
- The Neural Impact of College Athletics: The Effect of Physical Activity on Resting State EEG
- A Multivariate Perspective into Risk for Alzheimer's Disease using Small Animal Models
- Childhood Adversity, Acute Stress and Working Memory in Children and Adolescents
- The Impact of Electronic Input on the Language Learning of Visually Impaired, Hearing Impaired, and Typically Developing Infants
- Intraoperative EEG Pre-Burst Suppression as a Predictor of Postoperative Delirium
- APOE2 Effects on Alzheimer's Disease Biomarkers and Cognition
- Neuroimmune Regulation of Dopaminergic Circuitry throughout Adolescent in the Dorsal Striatum
- The Role of Inflammation in Maternal Diet-Induced Sex-Specific Behavioral Differences
- Impacts of Maternal Mouse Diet
- Healing the Brain by Healing the Gut: Microbiome Modulation Prevents Social Behavior Deficits following Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Stressors
- Cross-Fostering Influences the Effects of Air Pollution and Prenatal Stress on Social Behavior
- The Microglia of the Guy? Maternal Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Stressors Alters Intestinal Macrophage Populations in Male Offspring
- Exploring the Effects of IL34 Knockout on Microglia in Male and Female Adult Mice
- Central MYD88 Signaling and Alcohol Consumption
- The Impact of Ablated Microglial MYD88 Signaling on Neurodevelopment
- Adolescent Social Isolation Impacts the Development of Dopaminergic Circuitry within the Ventral Tegmental Area and Substantia Nigra of Female Rats
- The Effect of Prenatal Toxin, Sleep Deprivation, and Social Stress on Neuroimmune Activation
- Neural Activity Dictates Interleukin-34 Expressions in Brains of Adult Mice
- Impact of Adolescent Social Isolation on Microglia-Dopamine Interactions
- Microglial Gene Network Analysis in the Nucleus Accumbens of Mice Prenatally Exposed to Diesel Exhaust Particles and Maternal Stress
- A Neural Pathway for Microbial Signaling from the Gut
- Exploring the Role of Neuropod Cells in Gut Reward and Obesity
- Learning Behavioral Sequences in a Cortico-Striatal Network using Hebbian and Reward-based Learning
- DYT1 Dystonia Impairs eIF2A Signaling through Nuclear Sequestration of the Proteasome
- Identifying Motor Cortical Neural Ensembles Associated with Habit Learning
- Investigating how the CNS Engages Alpha-Cell GPCRs to Initiate Glucagon Secretion during Counter Regulation of Hypoglycemia
- The N170 in Co-Occurring Autism and Attention-Deficit /Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Investigating Macular Edema in Preterm Infants by Examining Microvascular Patterns using OCT-Angiography
- Exploring the Mechanistic Role of A-synuclein in the Nucleus: Insights from Familiar Parkinson's Disease
- The Role of DNA Methylation at SNCA Intron1 in Gene Regulation: Mechanistic Understanding of Parkinson's and Implications for Gene Therapy
- Autonomous Brain Tumor Boundary Identification in Secondary Brain Metastases
- Transporters in the SAM Cycle: A Possible Mechanism Behind Tau Hyperphosphorylation in Alzheimer's Disease
- How does Cross-Hemispheric Connectivity Impact Cognition in Healthy and MCI-AD Older Adults?
- The Structural Correlates of Moral Foundation in Younger Children and Older Adults
- Investigating Age-Related Differences in Moral Judgments and Resting-State Functional Connectivity
- Eye Tracking the Mental Simulation and Counterfactual Reasoning in Developing Casual Judgment for Children Ages Five to Seven
- Early Motor and Communications Indicators of Autism and ADHD and Prediction of Later Skills Based on Home Video Coding at 12 Months
- The Role of Harsh Parenting and Maternal Depression on Executive Function in Early Childhood
- Behavioral Characterization of Humanized Mice: A Platform to Understand Chronic Graft- Versus Host Disease-Associated Pain?
- STING Signaling in Peripheral Sensory Neurons Confers Protective Immunity against Listeria Monocytogenes Infection
- Oxytocin and Vasopressin 1A Receptor Neuroanatomy in Monogamous and Non-Monogamous Eulemur Species
- Brain-Wide Spatiotemporal Dynamics Underlying Depression
- Neural Evidence of Control State Reinstatement: an fMRI Study
- Influence of Threat and Anxiety on Cognitive Map Learning
- Discovery of a Novel Mechanism in Astrocyte-Microglia Crosstalk
- The Effect of Histone Modification in Regulating Astrocyte Development
- Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Drp1 Regulation in Astrocyte Morphogenesis
- The Impact of AIs-Associated OPTN Mutants on Wild-Type OPTN
- Exploring APoE-Mimetic Peptide CN-105 as a Potential Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury in Mice
- Neurodevelopment Effects of Thyroid Hormone Disruption from PFAS Exposure: The Placental Link between Environment and Fetal Brain
- Assessing the Efficacy of Immunotherapy in Mouse Models of Brain Metastasis
- Asymmetry in Manual Exposures during Naturalistic, Caregiver-Infant Play and Communication Development in 9-24-Month-Old Infants and Toddlers
- Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Ventral Attention Network and Non-Clinical Anxiety in Early Childhood
- Amygdala-mPFC Functional Connectivity and its Relationship to Emotion Regulation in Preschool-Aged Children
- Multiple Identity Mindset, Flexible Thinking, and Cross-Race Interactions
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Levels
- Muscarinic Influence on Cortical Interneuron Excitability
- Automatic Segmentation of Patient-Specific Anatomy for AR-Assisted Neurosurgery
- RSAD1 in Alzheimer's Disease
- Analyzing the Effects of TOMM40 Poly-T Variants on the ApoE-TOMM40 Gene Cluster
- Toward Elucidating Rsad1: Protocol Perspectives
- A Finite Element Analysis Model of Deep Brain Stimulation with Complex Lead Geometry
- Thriving or Declining: Predicting Burnout in College Students
- Is Sleep Reflected in the Brain: Functional Connectivity Patterns and Disordered Sleep
- Graph Theoretical Analysis of fMRI: Test-Retest Reliability of Common and Innovative Approaches to Network Neuroscience
- An Analysis of French and English Indo-Caribbean Literary Depiction of Indentured Servitude and its Associated Neurological Implications
- Cis-Regulatory Elements in HIV-Based Vector Transcription
- Auditory Emotion Recognition in Individuals at High Risk for Psychosis
- Understanding Brain Cancer with RNA Sequencing: A Single-Cell Approach
- Novel In-Vivo Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry Method Quantitates Phasic and Tonic Dopamine, MDPV Simultaneously in Adult and Adolescent Rats
- Emotional Regulation of Moral Memories
- Neurobehavioral Toxic Effect of Cadmium and Benzo[a]pyrene on Rats and Offspring
- Validating a Novel and Language-neutral Neurocognitive Screening Test for Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
- Quantifying the Association between Oculomotor Response and Sub-Concussive Loading among High School Football Players using Deep Learning
- Oculomotor Responses as an Assessment for Subconcussive Loading in the Pediatric Population
- The Neurobiological Relationships among Sleep, Stress, and Physical Activity in College Students
- Peptide Uncoupling of Trkß from Phospholipase Cý1 in the Pilocarpine Model of Status Epilepticus
- Investigating a Potential Mechanism for the Progression of Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood: Age-dependent Na+/K+-ATPase Activity and Behavioral Symptoms in Mashl+/- (Atp1a3Mashl/+) mice
- Impacts of mTBI and Subconcussive Head Injury in Military Veterans
- More than an Increase in Sea Levels: The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Illness Prevalence
- Generation and Validation of a Novel Adipocyte-Specific Adrb3KO Mouse Model
- Development of the Optomotor Response in Dark-Reared Larval Zebrafish
- The Discovery of Novel, Selective Human Olfactory Receptor 51E2 Antagonists: Implications in Olfaction and Beyond
- Neural Dynamics of Phonetic Adaptation under Different Attention Conditions
- The Role of Surveillance MRI in Pediatric-onset NMOSD and MOGAD: a Retrospective Cohort Study
- Tonic Immobility Knowledge, Sexual Assault Related PTSD Symptom Impact, and the Peritraumatic Tonic Immobility PTSD Treatment Model
- Dopamine Modulation of Preferences for Equity in Economic Exchange
- Individual Differences in Grit and Physical Activity
- Drugs, Dopamine, and Dollars: Subjective Responses to Dextro-amphetamine are related to fMRI Anticipatory Responses to Monetary Reward
- Examining the Effectiveness of Neural and Behavioral Predictors of Physical Activity
- Digital Neurointerventions: Self-Efficacy, Subclinical Depression and Motivating Physical Activity
- Childhood Trauma and Memory: Exploring the Time-dependent Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Epidosic Memory Performance
- Neutrophil Dectin-1 Signaling Negatively Regulates T Cell Proliferation
- Investigating ASC Isoforms in Astrocytes
- Studying the Impact of Lung Inflammation on CNS Resident Cells
- A Novel Link between Mitochondrial Energy Metabolism and Ubiquitin Conjugase Rad6
- The Role of Eif4a3 in Axonal Development
- Resilience and Psychological Functioning in the Context of Infertility
- The Neuroendocrinological Underpinnings of Affective Responding within Anhedonia
- Associations between EEG Microstates and Self-Compassion Scores during Meditation and Rest
- Uncovering Protein Localization at Inhibitory Synapses
- Developing Transsynaptic Tracing for Exploring Interneuron Transplantation in a Seizure Model
- The Effects of Adolescent Intermittent Ethanol Exposure on a Memory-Related Hippocampal Circuit
- Hippocampal-Hypothalamic Circuit that Mediates Anxiety-Like Behavior
- Neural Correlates of Social Reward in Smoking and Depression
- The Role of Abelson (ABL) Family Kinases in Medulloblastoma Cell Invasion, Proliferation, and Migration
- Optineurin Attenuates Oxidative Stress in Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration
- Generation of Nuclear-Localized Rabies Virus for Dissection of Adult Cortical Circuits
- The Involvement of IG Superfamily Cell Adhesion Molecules in the Development of Olfactory Circuit Architecture
- Role of SMARCAL1 in Pediatric Malignant Gliomas with ARTX Mutations
- Identification and Characterization of STAT3 Post Translation Modifications in the U251 Glioblastoma Cell Line
- Utilizing Novel Epigenomic Editing Tools to Regulate the Expression of the Immediate Early Gene Arc
- Exploring the Proteomic Implications of Therapeutic Intervention with Physical Activity in a Female Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
- The Role of Arginine Bioavailability and Exercise in a Female Model of Menopause and Alzheimer's Disease
- Neuroprotective Effects of Exercise on Dysfunctional Cognition and Ceramide Metabolism in a Female Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
- Observing the Microglial Response to Alzheimer's Pathology in Chronically Exercised and Menopause Model Mice
- The Effects of Exercise Amount and Type on Behavioral Impairments, Brain Structure, and Connectivity in the Female CVN Model of Alzheimer's Disease
- The Role of Aging and Tryptophan Hydroxylase 2 (TPH2) on Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Depression
- Does Spontaneous Prestimulus Alpha Power Support Conscious Visual Perception? A Meta-Analysis
- Disambiguating the Neural Processes Underlying Expectancy and Reward-Feedback Processing
- Investigating the Neural Mechanisms by which Perceived Value Impacts Prospective Memory
- The Learning of Reward Associations Bases on Spatial Location
- Spatial Learning Differences between Male and Female Drosophila
- Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Use of Sensory Feedback during Fine Motor Behavior
- Regulation of Multimodal Orienting Behavior to Targets in Egocentric Space by the Superior Colliculus
- The Role of Globus Pallidus Externa in Regulating Movement
- Forelimb Receiving Striatal Spiny Projection Neurons Steer Reach Trajectory
- Using Visualization to Reduce Test Anxiety in Collegiate Student Anxiety
- Freshmen Attitudes towards Mental Health Treatment: The Effects of Psychoeducational Dialogues