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IntroductionAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive motor neuron disease that leads to severe motor impairment, including loss of communication ability, and ultimately death. Communication brain computer interfaces (cBCIs) have the potential to restore communication without reliance on motor function, thereby improving quality of life, independence, and palliative care. However, stan…

Speech sensorimotor adaptation is typically partial, varies across individuals, and often saturates under large auditory perturbations. While sensory and phonological factors have been proposed to explain this variability, the role of motor effort and its influence on the compensatory response remain largely unexplored. Our study examined whether the physical effort involved in producing compensa…

BackgroundThe potential negative influences of short video platforms (SVPs) usage on mental health have been attracting increasing attention in recent years. This study aimed to investigate the possible effects of SVP usage on brain functions using the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) methods.MethodsResting-state fMRI data were acquired from a total of 55 young healthy a…

IntroductionRisky decision making can involve potential serious harms to the self and other people. Significant work has focused on the former category, illustrating a variety of neural correlates with risk taking, highlighting valuation, outcome uncertainty, and other cognitive processes related to feedback learning. Behavioral evidence suggests people are generally more risk tolerant in decisio…

IntroductionExtended exposure to a microgravity environment has been related to cognitive and neural decrements in astronauts, including changes in brain morphology and connectivity. Future long-duration exploration missions, such as those to Mars, will require the development of new countermeasures to counteract these decrements. Training in virtual reality (VR) has been identified as a promisin…

This paper introduces the pole ratio metric and presents a sphere-based view of symmetric positive-definite matrix rotations on the Riemannian manifold of symmetric positive-definite matrices equipped with the affine-invariant Riemannian metric. The pole ratio quantifies whether data from different users lie on this Riemannian manifold in a way that enables effective transfer learning. The sphere…

Adolescence is characterized by heightened sensitivity to social relationships, emotional experiences, and evaluative contexts, making schools a central developmental environment for motivation, learning, and brain maturation. Although educational research has long emphasized the importance of belonging, teacher-student relationships, and socio-emotional learning, and neuroscience has identified …

Although psychotherapy is the first-line treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD), a substantial set of patients shows limited improvement, underscoring the need for reliable predictors to guide personalized interventions. Neurobiological markers have emerged as promising candidates, yet a comprehensive synthesis of neural predictors is lacking. This mini-review examined six structural…

In today's digital world, we face an overwhelming influx of information daily. Information Visualisation (InfoVis) serves as a promising approach to alleviate this “information overload” issue by providing timely, effective, and adaptive visual representations. Despite its potential, previous research has under-explored the critical role of users' cognitive states in facilitating more natural int…

IntroductionThis study presents the ASME-speller, a novel 30-class auditory brain-computer interface (BCI) speller system that combines auditory stream segregation with the familiar QWERTY keyboard layout to facilitate intuitive and visionfree communication.MethodsIn the ASME-speller, three distinct auditory streams are presented simultaneously, each corresponding to a row on the QWERTY keyboard.…

This study investigated the neural mechanisms underlying spatial navigation expertise in orienteering using a mixed-factorial design with skill level (expert vs. novice) as a between-subjects factor and map orientation (normal vs. rotated) as a within-subjects factor. Forty-eight orienteers participated in the experiment. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) was used to assess behavioral…

BackgroundSensorimotor remapping plays a crucial role in hand function rehabilitation after stroke. While motor remapping has been intensively investigated at various levels, from functional to metabolic, limited attention has been given to somatosensory cortical remapping. This study extends our previous work in stroke, showing functionally relevant metabolic alterations in radiologically normal…

BackgroundHandwriting is a hierarchical cognitive–motor activity requiring the integration of motor execution, visuospatial processing, working memory, and executive control. Digital handwriting technology enables simultaneous assessment of process (kinematics) and product (performance outcomes), offering a theoretically grounded approach to detecting cognitive vulnerability in aging.MethodsThis …

BackgroundCurrent steering with multiple independent current control (MICC) and directional leads has expanded programming options in subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS), but has also increased programming complexity. Manual image-guided programming (mIGP) using patient-specific anatomical information facilitates optimization of stimulation settings. More recently, algorithm-base…

IntroductionDrug addiction is a major global health problem marked by compulsive drug-seeking and profound neuropsychiatric disturbances. This systematic review and network meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of various acupuncture-related therapies for managing drug addiction.MethodsOverall, 10 databases were searched for acupuncture-related therapies for drug addiction from incept…

This paper addresses the problem of integrating phenomenal consciousness with physical laws by seeking to identify and define its function. The central claim is that the hard problem is caused by the same epistemic paradox that makes quantum and classical physics mutually incompatible: the measure-theoretic limit. It is logically impossible to explain the mechanism by which state transitions occu…

BackgroundSpinal cord injury (SCI) causes significant motor, sensory, and autonomic dysfunction, with gait recovery being a primary rehabilitation goal. Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation (tSCS) combined with robotic-assisted gait training (RAGT) represents a promising synergistic approach to enhance motor recovery, though evidence for overground exoskeletal training with tSCS remains limited…

We report a clinical case illustrating rapid, reversible, and reproducible hemispheric differences in subjective experience and autonomic arousal during lateral visual field viewing. A man in his 40s with longstanding anxiety and depression showed repeatable shifts in affective state, self-appraisal, and appraisal of the clinician when alternately viewing through the right versus left lateral vis…

BackgroundFood and alcohol cues are potent motivational stimuli that engage neural systems supporting reward and approach–avoidance behavior. While EEG studies have largely emphasized event-related potentials, less is known about how sustained oscillatory dynamics differentiate appetitive cues with distinct biological and learned significance.MethodsEEG activity was recorded in healthy adults dur…

Post-stroke aphasia recovery is a dynamic process involving neural repair, compensatory reorganization, and behavioral optimization. While diaschisis, a functional disconnection of brain regions remote from the primary lesion, plays a pivotal role in the acute phase of recovery, its resolution and interaction with later stages remain underexplored. This narrative review synthesizes evidence from …