Publications by authors named "M J Lundqvist"

This cohort study used prospectively collected data from the Swedish national quality registry, SwedAD, to investigate weight gain as a possible side effect of dupilumab treatment for atopic dermatitis. Patients on dupilumab were compared with patients on other systemic medications, e.g.

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Objective: Previous research points to a role of the brain in the regulation of glucose and pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) via modulation of counter-regulatory hormone secretion and activity in the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The aim of this study was to investigate glucose-dependent responses of catecholamines and ANS activity in individuals with T2D, prediabetes (PD), and normoglycemia (NG).

Design: Cross-sectional.

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Multiple neural mechanisms underlying gating to working memory have been proposed with divergent results obtained in human and animal studies. Previous findings from non-human primates suggest prefrontal beta frequency bursts as a correlate of transient inhibition during selective encoding. Human studies instead suggest a similar role for sensory alpha power fluctuations.

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A core function of the olfactory system is to determine the valence of odors. In humans, central processing of odor valence perception has been shown to take form already within the olfactory bulb (OB), but the neural mechanisms by which this important information is communicated to, and from, the olfactory cortex (piriform cortex, PC) are not known. To assess communication between the 2 nodes, we simultaneously measured odor-dependent neural activity in the OB and PC from human participants while obtaining trial-by-trial valence ratings.

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Article Synopsis
  • Predictive coding helps the brain make guesses about what we will hear or sense next, which involves different brain waves working together.
  • When monkeys were put to sleep with a drug, their brains stopped using these guessing signals, which changed how they reacted to unexpected sounds.
  • This study shows that being aware of things (consciousness) is linked to how well the brain predicts and processes information, and when we’re unconscious, those predictions don’t work like they should.
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