Live music stimulates the affective brain and emotionally entrains listeners in real time.

Music is powerful in conveying emotions and triggering affective brain mechanisms. Affective brain responses in previous studies were however rather inconsistent, potentially because of the non-adaptive nature of recorded music used so far. Live music instead can be dynamic and adaptive and is often modulated in response to audience feedback to maximize emotional responses in listeners.

The German Revised version of the Niigata PPPD Questionnaire (NPQ-R): Development with patient interviews and an expert Delphi consensus.

Background: Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) is a functional disorder of the nervous system and currently one of the most common types of chronic dizziness. Currently existing questionnaires do not fully assess patients' specific symptoms of PPPD. The Japanese Niigata PPPD Questionnaire (NPQ) was recently developed following consensus-based diagnosis criteria.

Nonverbal memory tests revisited: Neuroanatomical correlates and differential influence of biasing cognitive functions.

The detection of right temporal lobe dysfunction with nonverbal memory tests has remained difficult in the past. Reasons for this might be the potential influence of other biasing cognitive functions such as executive functions or the verbalisability of nonverbal material. The aim of this study was to investigate three classic nonverbal memory tests by identifying their neuroanatomical correlates with lesion-symptom mapping (LSM) and by probing their independence from verbal encoding abilities and executive functions.

Functional brain changes in sarcopenia: evidence for differential central neural mechanisms in dynapenic older women.

Background: The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP2) recently revised its definition and diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia, placing muscle strength at the forefront. The pathogenesis of dynapenia (or low muscle strength) is still not fully understood, but there is emerging evidence that central neural factors constitute critical determinants.

Methods: Our cross-sectional study included 59 community-dwelling older women (mean age 73.

Lesion-symptom mapping corroborates lateralization of verbal and nonverbal memory processes and identifies distributed brain networks responsible for memory dysfunction.

Memory disorders are a common consequence of cerebrovascular accident (CVA). However, uncertainties remain about the exact anatomical correlates of memory impairment and the material-specific lateralization of memory function in the brain. We used lesion-symptom mapping (LSM) in patients with first-time CVA to identify which brain structures are pivotal for verbal and nonverbal memory and to re-examine whether verbal and nonverbal memory functions are lateralized processes in the brain.