Studies suggest that heightened peripheral inflammation contributes to the pathogenesis of
major depressive disorder. We investigated the effect of chronic social defeat stress, a …

The presence of amyloid‐β (Aβ) plaques in the brain is a hallmark pathological feature of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). Transgenic mice overexpressing mutant amyloid precursor protein (…

Background Fine needle aspiration biopsy is usually performed to evaluate thyroid lesions.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of diffusion weighted imaging to …

Long-term exposure to environmental manganese (Mn) affects not only attention and
neuromotor functions but also olfactory functions of a pre-adolescent local population who have …

Background: Deficits in cognitive function have been demonstrated among workers
chronically exposed to solvents, but the neural basis for these deficits has not been shown. …

Purpose To evaluate the feasibility of using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and single
photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/computed tomography (CT) to visualize the …

Elephants have long been observed to grip objects with their trunk, but little is known about
how they adjust their strategy for different weights. In this study, we challenge a female …

For neuroscientists, the brain, described as a black box by many, has always been a
challenge to study. In the 19th century, brain function was studied in either laboratory animals …

Signal abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) T2-weighted images (T2WI)
have been described in patients with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease; however, the pathology …

The objective of this study was to determine whether using oxygen-enhanced magnetic
resonance imaging (OE-MRI) to assess hypoxia is feasible and whether historical measurements…