Publications related to Lobotomy

Theta oscillations and minor hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease reveal decrease in frontal lobe functions and later cognitive decline

Cognitive decline and hallucinations are common and debilitating non-motor symptoms, usually occurring during later phases of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Minor hallucinations (MH) appear early in the disease course and have been suggested to predict cognitiv ...

2023

Cortico-muscular connectivity is modulated by passive and active Lokomat-assisted Gait

Silvestro Micera, Fiorenzo Artoni

The effects of robotic-assisted gait (RAG) training, besides conventional therapy, on neuroplasticity mechanisms and cortical integration in locomotion are still uncertain. To advance our knowledge on the matter, we determined the involvement of motor cort ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Cortical and subcortical changes in resting-state neuronal activity and connectivity in early symptomatic ALS and advanced frontotemporal dementia

Alessandra Griffa

The objective of this study was to examine if patterns of resting-state brain activity and functional connectivity in cortical and subcortical regions in patients with early symptomatic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) resemble those of behavioural vari ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Large-scale functional network dynamics in human callosal agenesis: Increased subcortical involvement and preserved laterality

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Anjali Bagunu Tarun, Vanessa Siffredi, Younes Farouj

In the human brain, the corpus callosum is the major white-matter commissural tract enabling the transmission of sensory-motor, and higher level cognitive information between homotopic regions of the two cerebral hemispheres. Despite developmental absence ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2021

Plastic Changes in Pain and Motor Network Induced by Chronic Burn Pain

Chang-Hyun Park

Musculoskeletal diseases with chronic pain are difficult to control because of their association with both central as well as the peripheral nervous system. In burn patients, chronic pain is one of the major complications that cause persistent discomfort. ...

MDPI2021

Methanol Poisoning as an Acute Toxicological Basal Ganglia Lesion Model: Evidence from Brain Volumetry and Cognition

Tobias Kober, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal

Background Acute methanol poisoning leads to optic neuropathy and necrotic lesions of basal ganglia (BG) and subcortical white matter. Survivors of methanol poisoning exhibit long-term executive and memory deficits. Associations between brain volumetry par ...

WILEY2019

GABA and glutamate moderate beta-amyloid related functional connectivity in cognitively unimpaired old-aged adults

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maria Giulia Preti

Background: Effects of beta-amyloid accumulation on neuronal function precede the clinical manifestation of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by years and affect distinct cognitive brain networks. As previous studies suggest a link between beta-amyloid and dysregul ...

2019

Engineering Parallel Transmit/Receive Radio-Frequency Coil Arrays for Human Brain MRI at 7 Tesla

Jérémie Daniel Clément

Magnetic resonance imaging is widely used in medical diagnosis to obtain anatomical details of the human body in a non-invasive way. Clinical MR scanners typically operate at a static magnetic field strength (B0) of 1.5T or 3T. However, going to higher fie ...

EPFL2019

A human cerebral and cerebellar 8-channel transceive RF dipole coil array at 7T

Rolf Gruetter, Özlem Ipek, Jérémie Daniel Clément

PURPOSE: Dipole antennas that provide high transmit field penetration with large coverage, and their use in a parallel transmit setup, may be advantageous in minimizing B 1+ -field inhomogeneities at ultra-high field, i.e 7T. We have developed and evaluate ...

Wiley2019

An intracerebral exploration of functional connectivity during word production

Amandine Grappe

Language is mediated by pathways connecting distant brain regions that have diverse functional roles. For word production, the network includes a ventral pathway, connecting temporal and inferior frontal regions, and a dorsal pathway, connecting parietal a ...

2019

Word pair classification during imagined speech using direct brain recordings

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Stéphanie Martin

People that cannot communicate due to neurological disorders would benefit from an internal speech decoder. Here, we showed the ability to classify individual words during imagined speech from electrocorticographic signals. In a word imagery task, we used ...

Nature Research2016

Crossed somatoparaphrenia: an unusual new case and a review of the literature

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich

Somatoparaphrenia is a delusional misidentification and confabulation of body parts, usually arm or hand, opposite to a cerebral lesion, generally of the "minor" right hemisphere. There is some controversy concerning lesion site ( fronto-parietal; parieto- ...

Springer2015

Lateralising value of experiential hallucinations in temporal lobe epilepsy

Olaf Blanke, Lukas Heydrich, Nathaniel Evans

Objectives Ever since John Hughlings Jackson first described the so-called 'dreamy state' during temporal lobe epilepsy, that is, the sense of an abnormal familiarity (deja vu) or vivid memory-like hallucinations from the past (experiential hallucinations) ...

Bmj Publishing Group2015

Migraineurs without aura show microstructural abnormalities in the cerebellum and frontal lobe

David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Cristina Granziera, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Gunnar Krüger, Alexis Roche

The involvement of the cerebellum in migraine pathophysiology is not well understood. We used a biparametric approach at high-field MRI (3 T) to assess the structural integrity of the cerebellum in 15 migraineurs with aura (MWA), 23 migraineurs without aur ...

Springer US2013

First-order relatives of schizophrenic patients are not impaired in the Continuous Performance Test

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili

Sustained attention deficits measured by the Continuous Performance Test (CPT) have been reportedly proposed as an endophenotype of schizophrenia. One requirement for an endophenotype is that unaffected first-order relatives must show deteriorated performa ...

Taylor & Francis2010

The 'intrinsic' system in the human cortex and self-projection: a data driven analysis

Olaf Blanke

Information received by the human cortex is supplied by two main sources: extrinsic stimuli delivered by the external environment and intrinsic information regarding the body and self. We reanalyzed electrophysiological data involving the same external sti ...

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins2010

A putative implication for fronto-parietal connectivity in out-of-body experiences

Olaf Blanke, Christine Mohr

Self-processing has been related to the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) as well as to their connectivity. So far, out-of-body experiences (OBEs), impressive transient deviations of intact bodily self-integration, could be as ...

Elsevier Masson2009

Metabolic changes in the normal ageing brain: Consistent findings from short and long echo time proton spectroscopy

Objectives: Sixty three healthy subjects were measured to assess dependence of brain metabolites on age using short- and long echo time spectroscopy in different brain regions. Material and methods: Younger and elderly humans were measured with long echo t ...

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