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September 2018

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A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies

Fig 2: Results from the working-memory variant of the task paradigm.

September 11, 2018

A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies

To aid in pharmacological-fMRI studies, researchers developed and validated two variants of a novel fMRI control task. Their stimulus code is freely available online for re-use by the scientific community.

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September 20, 2018

Characterization of retinal regeneration in adult zebrafish following multiple rounds of phototoxic lesion

Alexandra H. Ranski, Ashley C. Kramer, Gregory W. Morgan, Jennifer L. Perez, Ryan Thummel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5646 PubMed 30258730

September 4, 2018

GDF11 induces differentiation and apoptosis and inhibits migration of C17.2 neural stem cells via modulating MAPK signaling pathway

Zongkui Wang, Miaomiao Dou, Fengjuan Liu, Peng Jiang, Shengliang Ye, Li Ma, Haijun Cao, Xi Du, Pan Sun, Na Su, Fangzhao Lin, Rong Zhang, Changqing Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5524 PubMed 30202652

September 19, 2018

Parvalbumin expression and gamma oscillation occurrence increase over time in a neurodevelopmental model of NMDA receptor dysfunction

Ben van Lier, Andreas Hierlemann, Frédéric Knoflach

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5543 PubMed 30258707

September 11, 2018

A short, robust brain activation control task optimised for pharmacological fMRI studies

Jessica-Lily Harvey, Lysia Demetriou, John McGonigle, Matthew B. Wall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5540 PubMed 30221091

September 18, 2018

Neural processing of working memory in adults with ADHD in a visuospatial change detection task with distractors

Chao Gu, Zhong-Xu Liu, Rosemary Tannock, Steven Woltering

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5601 PubMed 30245935

September 13, 2018

Cytokine and microRNA levels during different periods of paradoxical sleep deprivation and sleep recovery in rats

Malinalli Brianza-Padilla, Fausto Sánchez-Muñoz, Gonzalo Vázquez-Palacios, Fengyang Huang, Julio César Almanza-Pérez, Rafael Bojalil, Herlinda Bonilla-Jaime

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5567 PubMed 30225174

September 25, 2018

An adaptive scale Gaussian filter to explain White’s illusion from the viewpoint of lightness assimilation for a large range of variation in spatial frequency of the grating and aspect ratio of the targets

Soma Mitra, Debasis Mazumdar, Kuntal Ghosh, Kamales Bhaumik

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5626 PubMed 30294510

September 20, 2018

Gαq and Phospholipase Cβ signaling regulate nociceptor sensitivity in Drosophila melanogaster larvae

Joshua A. Herman, Adam B. Willits, Andrew Bellemer

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5632 PubMed 30258723