Rich Club Reorganization in Nurses Before and After the Onset of Occupational Burnout: A Longitudinal MRI Study.

Background: Studies on potential disruptions in rich club structure in nursing staff with occupational burnout are lacking. Moreover, existing studies on nurses with burnout are limited by their cross-sectional design.

Purpose: To investigate rich club reorganization in nursing staff before and after the onset of burnout and the underlying impact of anatomical distance on such reconfiguration.

Content-based multiple evidence fusion on EEG and eye movements for mild depression recognition.

Background And Objective: Depression is a serious neurological disorder that has become a major health problem worldwide. The detection of mild depression is important for the diagnosis of depression in early stages. This research seeks to find a more accurate fusion model which can be used for mild depression detection using Electroencephalography and eye movement data.

Electroconvulsive Therapy-Induced Changes in Functional Brain Network of Major Depressive Disorder Patients: A Longitudinal Resting-State Electroencephalography Study.

Objectives: Several studies have shown abnormal network topology in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). However, changes in functional brain networks associated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remission based on electroencephalography (EEG) signals have yet to be investigated.

Methods: Nineteen-channel resting-state eyes-closed EEG signals were collected from 24 MDD patients pre- and post-ECT treatment.

The impact of Alzheimer's disease susceptibility loci on lateral ventricular surface morphology in older adults.

The enlargement of ventricular volume is a general trend in the elderly, especially in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Multiple susceptibility loci have been reported to have an increased risk for AD and the morphology of brain structures are affected by the variations in the risk loci. Therefore, we hypothesized that genes contributed significantly to the ventricular surface, and the changes of ventricular surface were associated with the impairment of cognitive functions.

Uncovering the global task-modulated brain network in chunk decomposition with Chinese characters.

Chunk decomposition, which requires the mental representation transformation in accordance with behavioral goals, is of vital importance to problem solving and creative thinking. Previous studies have identified that the frontal, parietal, and occipital cortex in the cognitive control network selectively activated in response to chunk tightness, however, functional localization strategy may overlook the interaction brain regions. Based on the notion of a global brain network, we proposed that multiple specialized regions have to be interconnected to maintain goal representation during the course of chunk decomposition.

Altered temporal reachability highlights the role of sensory perception systems in major depressive disorder.

Background: The latest studies have considered the time-dependent structures in dynamic brain networks. However, the effect of periphery structures on the temporal flow of information remains unexplored in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). In this work, we aimed to explore the pattern of interactions between brain regions in MDD across space and time.

Inter-hemispheric Functional Connections Are More Vulnerable to Attack Than Structural Connection in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Background/aims: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a prevalent functional gastrointestinal disease characterized by recurrent abdominal pain and bowel dysfunction. However, the majority of previous neuroimaging studies focus on brain structure and connections but seldom on the inter-hemispheric connectivity or structural asymmetry. This study uses multi-modal imaging to investigate the abnormal changes across the 2 cerebral hemispheres in patients with IBS.

Calcarine as a bridge between brain function and structure in irritable bowel syndrome: A multiplex network analysis.

Background And Aim: Jointly analyzing structural and functional brain networks enables a better understanding of pathological underpinnings of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Multiplex network analysis provides a novel framework to study complex networks consisting of different types of connectivity patterns in multimodal data.

Methods: In the present work, we integrated functional and structural networks to a multiplex network.

Stretchable Hybrid Bilayered Luminescent Composite Based on the Combination of Strain-Induced and Triboelectrification-Induced Electroluminescence.

High luminescence intensity from materials that are excited by external stimuli is highly desired. In this work, a stretchable hybrid luminescent composite (HLC) that has multiple luminescence modes is reported. The luminescence can be excited either by externally applied mechanical strain or by a moving object that slides against the HLC.