How learning to read Braille in visual and tactile domains reorganizes the sighted brain.

Learning tactile Braille reading leverages cross-modal plasticity, emphasizing the brain's ability to reallocate functions across sensory domains. This neuroplasticity engages motor and somatosensory areas and reaches language and cognitive centers like the visual word form area (VWFA), even in sighted subjects following training. No study has employed a complex reading task to monitor neural activity during the first weeks of Braille training.

Distinct computational mechanisms of uncertainty processing explain opposing exploratory behaviors in anxiety and apathy.

Background: Decision-making in uncertain environments can lead to varied outcomes, and how we process those outcomes may depend on our emotional state. Understanding how individuals interpret the sources of uncertainty is crucial for understanding adaptive behavior and mental well-being. Uncertainty can be broadly categorized into two components: volatility and stochasticity.

Marginal Bone Loss Around the Implant: A Retrospective Analysis of Bone Remodeling Over Five Years of Follow-Up.

Introduction: Bone remodeling around implants in implant-supported rehabilitation is a continuous debate with no consensus in the literature. This study aimed to investigate the implant- and patient-specific factors contributing to marginal bone loss near the implant.

Materials And Methods: We included patients who had implant-supported prosthetic rehabilitation using one implant system, between 2014 and 2018, who had full follow-up documentation and orthopantomography over five years, and who had no unwell-controlled systemic pathologies that may influence bone metabolism.

[CAN NATURAL SKIN CREASE PREDICT OUR PHALANX JOINT ALIGNMENT?].

Background: Proximal interphalangeal injury may result in malalignment of the phalanx axis of motion. In some instances, these fractures are treated with an external fixation method such as Suzuki-type fixation, during which the surgeon must perform X-rays to preserve the phalanx anatomical axis of motion.

Objectives: To assess the correlation between the palmar skin crease and the joint axis of the proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) of the fingers opposing the thumb to improve the surgeons' perioperative planning procedure.

Pressure-induced giant emission enhancement, large band gap narrowing and rich polymorphism in two-dimensional 1,2,4-triazolium lead bromide perovskite.

Layered lead halide perovskites are attractive materials for optoelectronic applications. In this work, temperature-dependent photoluminescence (PL) as well as pressure-dependent Raman and PL studies of lead bromide comprising small disc shape 1,2,4-triazolium cations (Tz) are reported. Temperature-dependent studies reveal that at room-temperature (RT) TzPbBr exhibits narrow emission at 2.