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REM sleep in acutely traumatized individuals and interventions for the secondary prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Increasing evidence supports a close link between REM sleep and the consolidation of emotionally toned memories such as traumatic experiences. In order to investigate the role of sleep for the development of symptoms related to traumatic experiences ...
Bublitz, Jan Christoph   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Fear Conditioning and Extinction: Examining the Role of GSK3β ser 389 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
GSK3β is a serine threonine kinase that has been shown to influence numerous biological and psychological interactions, including the regulation of cell survival and cell death, as well as influencing mood disorders such as major depressive disorder and ...
Liebman, Benjamin
core   +1 more source

Impaired contextual modulation of memories in PTSD: an fMRI and psychophysiological study of extinction retention and fear renewal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients display pervasive fear memories, expressed indiscriminately. Proposed mechanisms include enhanced fear learning and impaired extinction or extinction recall. Documented extinction recall deficits and failure
Abelson, James L   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Interval Timing Is Altered in Male Nrxn1+/− Mice: A Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesAutism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired social interactions and communication, and increased repetitive and stereotypical behavior. Neuroimaging shows functional abnormalities in brain areas involved in temporal processing in autistic individuals, and they also show deficits in interval timing.
Kyle M. Roddick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nature against the human species: Science in the apocalyptic novels by James Ballard and Olaf Stapledon [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2019
The paper focuses on the post-apocalyptic novels by J. G. Ballard The Wind from Nowhere (1961) and Last and First Men by Olaf W. Stapledon (1930), by analysing scientific phenomena and discoveries employed in these novels, in which the novum is used as ...
Boyarkina Iren
doaj  

Increasing compliance with wearing a medical device in children with autism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Health professionals often recommend the use of medical devices to assess the health, monitor the well-being, or improve the quality of life of their patients.
Athens E. S.   +22 more
core   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherited tool use specialisation can exhibit flexibility, while tool use that is spontaneously innovated can be limited in its expression and facilitated
Jennifer A. D. Colbourne   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phenotypic characterization of frontal cortex microglia in a rat model of post‐traumatic stress disorder

open access: yesBrain and Behavior, 2021
Introduction Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder induced by psychologically traumatic events. Using a rat model, this study aimed to determine whether psychological trauma alters relative expression between pro‐inflammatory and ...
Thomas S. Cotrone   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

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