Elevated Septal Native T1 Time in CMR Imaging Suggesting Myocardial Fibrosis in Young Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Background: Patients after kidney transplantation (KTx) in childhood show a high prevalence of cardiac complications, but the underlying mechanism is still poorly understood. In adults, myocardial fibrosis detected in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is already an established risk factor. Data for children after KTx are not available.

The influence of intentions on dream content.

Study Objectives: The "Zeigarnik effect" refers to the phenomenon where future intentions are remembered effectively only as long as they are not executed. This study investigates whether these intentions, which remain active during sleep, influence dream content.

Methods: After an adaptation night, each of the 19 participants (10 women and 9 men) received three different task plans in the evening before the experimental night, each describing how to perform specific tasks.

Development of slow oscillation-spindle coupling from infancy to toddlerhood.

Sleep has been demonstrated to support memory formation from early life on. The precise temporal coupling of slow oscillations (SOs) with spindles has been suggested as a mechanism facilitating this consolidation process in thalamocortical networks. Here, we investigated the development of sleep spindles and SOs and their coordinate interplay by comparing frontal, central, and parietal electroencephalogram recordings during a nap between infants aged 2-3 months ( = 31) and toddlers aged 14-17 months ( = 49).

Long-term memory formation for voices during sleep in three-month-old infants.

The ability to form long-term memories begins in early infancy. However, little is known about the specific mechanisms that guide memory formation during this developmental stage. We demonstrate the emergence of a long-term memory for a novel voice in three-month-old infants using the EEG mismatch response (MMR) to the word "baby".