The Complete Genome Sequences of 37 Bird Species from the Ecuadorian Andes.

We present the complete genome sequences of 37 Ecuadorian bird species widespread throughout the tropical Andes.

Nonverbal behavioral patterns predict social rejection elicited aggression.

Aggression elicited by social rejection is costly, prevalent, and often lethal. Attempts to predict rejection-elicited aggression using trait-based data have had little success. This may be because in-the-moment aggression is a complex process influenced by current states of attention, arousal, and affect which are poorly predicted by trait-level characteristics.

Adolescents and Young Adults With Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor Encephalitis With Excited Catatonia: Literature Review and 2 Illustrative Cases.

Background: Catatonia is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome that can be associated with several underlying etiologies including primary psychiatric and autoimmune disorders. Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis is an autoimmune disorder typically characterized by seizures, movement abnormalities, and behavioral changes. Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate can present with complex neuropsychiatric symptoms including catatonia which can be challenging for clinicians to identify as excited catatonia can mimic delirium and psychiatric disorders such as psychosis and mania.

Reduced Interference and Serial Dependency Effects for Naming in Older but Not Younger Adults after 1 Hz rTMS of Right Pars Triangularis.

1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) was used to decrease excitability of right pars triangularis (R PTr) to determine whether increased R PTr activity during picture naming in older adults hampers word finding. We hypothesized that decreasing R PTr excitability would reduce interference with word finding, facilitating faster picture naming. 15 older and 16 younger adults received two rTMS sessions.

The effect of time since stroke, gender, age, and lesion size on thalamus volume in chronic stroke: a pilot study.

Recent stroke studies have shown that the ipsi-lesional thalamus longitudinally and significantly decreases after stroke in the acute and subacute stages. However, additional considerations in the chronic stages of stroke require exploration including time since stroke, gender, intracortical volume, aging, and lesion volume to better characterize thalamic differences after cortical infarct. This cross-sectional retrospective study quantified the ipsilesional and contralesional thalamus volume from 69 chronic stroke subjects' anatomical MRI data (age 35-92) and related the thalamus volume to time since stroke, gender, intracortical volume, age, and lesion volume.