Alzheimer s & Dementia
December 1, 2024
Allen TC Lee
AbstractBackgroundWe previously reported that increasing participation in Chinese calligraphy handwriting, one of the “Four Arts” traditionally mastered by intellectuals in China and currently widely practiced by older adults in the Chinese community, led to better working memory among individuals with subjective cognitive decline (but without mild or major neurocognitive disorder). Given that...
Alzheimer's & Dementia
November 19, 2024
L. Cui, Zhen Zhang, You‐Yi Tu et al.
It remains unclear whether the local amyloid‐beta (Aβ) burden in key regions within the default mode network (DMN) affects network and cognitive functions.
Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science
November 1, 2024
Dhakshin Ramanathan, Jason Nan, Gillian Grennan et al.
10 citations
Interoceptive attention to internal sensory signals, such as the breath, is fundamental to mindfulness. However, interoceptive attention can be difficult to study, with many studies relying on subjective and retrospective measures. Response consistency is an established method for evaluating variability of attention on exteroceptive attention tasks, but it has rarely been applied to...
Brain and Cognition
October 30, 2024
Nicola Sambuco
The Default Mode Network (DMN) is increasingly recognized as a key hub where cognitive and emotional processes converge, particularly through its role in integrating episodic memory and emotional experiences. The current mini-review highlights three distinct patterns of brain activity within the DMN associated with emotional processing. The first pattern indicates that, while the ventromedial...
Imaging Neuroscience
October 22, 2024
Hongkeun Kim
Abstract Recent meta-analytic evidence has underscored the significant role of the default mode network (DMN) in facilitating item word encoding. This study builds on this finding through a comprehensive meta-analysis of fMRI-based subsequent memory studies that use words as stimuli. The results highlight several key functions within the DMN. Firstly, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC)...
Frontiers in Psychology
September 4, 2024
A. Menardi, M. Spoa, A. Vallesi
IntroductionWhile traditional neuroimaging approaches to the study of executive functions (EFs) have typically employed task-evoked paradigms, resting state studies are gaining popularity as a tool for investigating inter-individual variability in the functional connectome and its relationship to cognitive performance outside of the scanner.MethodUsing resting state functional magnetic...
Brain Connectivity
September 1, 2024
Vanessa Scarapicchia, Heather Kwan, Alexis Czippel et al.
Background: Resting-state fMRI analyses have been used to examine functional connectivity in the aging brain. Recently, fluctuations in the fMRI BOLD signal have been used as a potential marker of integrity in neural systems. Despite its increasing popularity, the results of BOLD variability analyses and traditional seed-based functional connectivity analyses have rarely been compared. The...
Neuroreport
August 7, 2024
Ping-Hong Lai, Rui-Yang Hu, Xin Huang
Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is a significant autoimmune eye disease known for causing exophthalmos and substantial optic nerve damage. Prior investigations have solely focused on static functional MRI (fMRI) scans of the brain in TAO patients, neglecting the assessment of temporal variations in local brain activity. This study aimed to characterize alterations in dynamic regional...
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
August 1, 2024
Shengjie Xu, Kezhen Lv, Yuqi Sun et al.
BACKGROUND Obesity, characterized by excessive adiposity, is associated with brain structural abnormalities. Nevertheless, the relationships between altered structural node of default mode network (DMN), body mass index (BMI), general cognitive ability remained unclear in young adults. METHODS In this study, we divided a large sample of young adults into three BMI-based groups. We then...
Brain Connectivity
August 1, 2024
Clara G. Zundel, Samantha L Ely, Cole Brokamp et al.
Background: Air pollution exposure has been associated with adverse cognitive and mental health outcomes in children, adolescents, and adults, although youth may be particularly susceptible given ongoing brain development. However, the neurodevelopmental mechanisms underlying the associations among air pollution, cognition, and mental health remain unclear. We examined the impact of particulate...