Month: April 2019

Decreased Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Is Associated With Cognitive Deficit in Elderly Patients

Decreased Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Is Associated With Cognitive Deficit in Elderly Patients Jadwiga Attier-Zmudka1,2, Jean-Marie Sérot1, Jeremy Valluy3, Anne-Sophie Macaret4, Momar Diouf5, Salif Dao6, Youcef Douadi4, Krzysztof Piotr Malinowski7 and Olivier Balédent2,8 1Department of Gerontology, Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Quentin, Saint-Quentin, France 2CHIMERE, EA 7516 Head and Neck Research Group, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, […]

Published on April 30, 2019

Gamma Oscillations Shape Pain in Animals and Humans

Recent studies (Hu and Iannetti Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2019;116:1782–1791 and Tan et al. Nat. Commun. 2019;10:983) in animals and humans provide converging evidence that gamma oscillations in the primary somatosensory cortex are closely and causally related to pain behavior and pain perception. These findings could help to identify brain-based markers of […]

Published on April 30, 2019

Visceral Signals Shape Brain Dynamics and Cognition

Most research in cognitive neuroscience explores how external stimuli are processed by the brain. However, the brain also receives input from the internal body. We discuss here how the heart and gastrointestinal (GI) tract intrinsically generate their own electrical activity, thereby continuously sending information to the brain. These ongoing ascending signals actively shape brain dynamics […]

Published on April 30, 2019