Month: July 2019

Children’s Sense of Fairness: Respect Isn’t Everything

Recent empirical work has provided new insight into the origins of distributive, procedural, and retributive justice. Engelmann and Tomasello [1] offer an overarching framework that attempts to explain these different aspects of fairness as deriving from a single core process – a desire for mutual respect. While we applaud this integrative attempt, we point out […]

Published on July 6, 2019

3D Reconstruction of the Neurovascular Unit Reveals Differential Loss of Cholinergic Innervation in the Cortex and Hippocampus of the Adult Mouse Brain

Increasing evidence supports a role for cerebrovasculature dysfunction in the aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Blood vessels in the brain are composed of a collection of cells and acellular material that comprise the neurovascular unit (NVU). The NVU in the hippocampus and cortex receives innervation from cholinergic neurons that originate in the basal forebrain. Death […]

Published on July 5, 2019

Early Secure Attachment as a Protective Factor Against Later Cognitive Decline and Dementia

Although genetic factors contribute to neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia, the etiology of these disorders is complex and incompletely understood. Thus, a growing interest in different approaches including a developmental perspective to these pathologies is gaining momentum. Including environmental factors offers the possibility to enhance our understanding of the etiological factors resulting in the emergence […]

Published on July 5, 2019