Brain network functional connectivity changes in patients with anterior knee pain: a resting-state fMRI exploratory study.

Background: This study investigates the functional brain connectivity in patients with anterior knee pain (AKP). While biomechanical models are frequently employed to investigate AKP, it is important to recognize that pain can manifest even in the absence of structural abnormalities. Leveraging the capabilities of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), this research aims to investigate the brain mechanisms present in AKP patients.

Impaired recollection and initially preserved familiarity in a patient with bilateral fornix transection following third ventricle colloid cyst removal: A two-year follow-up study.

Objective: Recognition memory is widely accepted as a dual process-based model, namely familiarity and recollection. However, the location of their specific neurobiological substrates remains unclear. Similar to hippocampal damage, fornix damage has been associated with recollection memory but not familiarity memory deficits.

How Our Gaze Reacts to Another Person's Tears? Experimental Insights Into Eye Tracking Technology.

Crying is an ubiquitous human behavior through which an emotion is expressed on the face together with visible tears and constitutes a slippery riddle for researchers. To provide an answer to the question "How our gaze reacts to another person's tears?," we made use of eye tracking technology to study a series of visual stimuli. By presenting an illustrative example through an experimental setting specifically designed to study the "tearing effect," the present work aims to offer methodological insight on how to use eye-tracking technology to study non-verbal cues.

[Transcranial direct current stimulation and speech therapy intervention in people with aphasia: a systematic review of the literature].

Introduction: The recovery of aphasia may require adjuvant therapies to speech therapy rehabilitation. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive neuromodulatory technique that can be used to improve cortical brain activity.

Aim: To offer an overview of the tDCS in people with aphasia from a speech therapy point of view.

Contribution of executive functions to eating behaviours in obesity and eating disorders.

Background: Patients with eating disorders (ED) or obesity show difficulties in tasks assessing decision-making, set-shifting abilities and central coherence.

Aims: The aim of this study was to explore executive functions in eating and weight-related problems, ranging from restricting types of ED to obesity.

Method: Two hundred and eighty-eight female participants (75 with obesity; 149 with ED: 76 with restrictive eating, 73 with bingeing-purging symptoms; and 64 healthy controls) were administered the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, the Iowa Gambling Task, and the Group Embedded Figures Test to assess set-shifting, decision-making and central coherence, respectively.