Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a frequently used recreational drug with significant addictive potential. The ventral tegmental area (VTA) is a key brain region associated with the rewarding effects of drugs of abuse. However, how N2O influences VTA functions to mediate reward-related behavior remains poorly understood. We reported that exposure to 60% N2O, but not 30%, effectively induced conditioned...
Recurrent dream‐enactment behaviours (DEB) and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep without atonia (RSWA) are two diagnostic hallmarks of REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD), a specific prodrome of α‐synucleinopathy. Whilst isolated RSWA (without DEB) was suggested as a prodrome of RBD, the implication of ‘isolated’ recurrent DEB remains under‐investigated. In this cross‐sectional study, we sought to...
Five days of integrative body-mind training (IBMT) improves attention and self-regulation in comparison with the same amount of relaxation training. This paper explores the underlying mechanisms of this finding. We measured the physiological and brain changes at rest before, during, and after 5 days of IBMT and relaxation training. During and after training, the IBMT group showed significantly...
Li Zhou, Qianhan Liu, Shengdan Liu et al.
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Abstract Pain and psychological disorders are two common symptom clusters in patients with herpes zoster-related pain (HZ-RP). Numerous neuroimaging studies have revealed abnormal brain structure and function in patients with HZ-RP. However, very few studies have focused on the functional characteristics of the brain in HZ-RP patients with different levels of anxiety. Fractional amplitude of...