The concept of death has evolved medically, legally and culturally since the introduction of life support technologies in the middle of the 20th century. The traditional cardiopulmonary and the new neurologically based ...

We study the transition in the functional networks that characterize the human brains’ conscious-state to an unconscious subliminal state of perception by using k-core percolation. We find that the most inner core (i.e., ...

The neural substrate of social behavior has been described as a “social behavior network” (SBN), and each brain area is involved in multiple forms of social behavior which are reciprocally connected, including aggression. ...

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. We studied the effect of gold nanoparticle (AuNP) size, surface charge, concentration and morphology on the integrity of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) in a well-established in vitro model set-up. We ...

We studied the effect of gold nanoparticle (AuNP) size, surface charge, concentration and morphology on the integrity of the blood–brain barrier (BBB) in a well-established in vitro model set-up. We focused on the effect ...

Among the many interesting meta-heuristic optimization algorithms, one can find those inspired by both the swarm and social behavior of human beings. The Brain Storm Optimization (BSO) is motivated by the brainstorming ...

Xenopus laevis oocytes were injected with poly(A)+ mRNA isolated from rat brain and superfused in a medium containing either serotonin, angiotensin II or bradykinin. Applications of serotonin or angiotensin II to injected ...

Lack of dystrophin in brain structures have been involved with impaired cognitive functions. Acethylcolinesterase (AChE) is implicated in many cognitive functions and probably plays important roles in neurodegenerative ...