Rather than a mental somatic symptom disorder, fibromyalgia patients may have a stress-induced neuropathic pain syndrome. Sexually dimorphic dorsal root ganglia physiology may explain why it is women who more often develop fibromyalgia. Understanding fibromyalgia as a real stress-evoked neuropathic pain syndrome may lead to more compassionate…[Read more]

We propose an automated method for the segmentation of lumen intima layer of the common carotid artery in longitudinal mode ultrasound images. The method is hybrid, in the sense that a coarse segmentation is first achieved by optimizing a locally defined contrast function of an active oblong considering its five degrees-of-freedom, and…[Read more]

In certain modeling approaches, activation analyses of task-based fMRI data can involve a relatively large number of predictors. For example, in the encoding model approach, complex stimuli are represented in a high-dimensional feature space, resulting in design matrices with many predictors. Similarly, single-trial models and finite impulse…[Read more]

(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).To clarify the involvement of the cerebellum in impaired sensory integration in patients with schizophrenia, 52 first-episode patients with schizophrenia and 52 age- and sex-matched healthy controls underwent a verified sensory integration imaging task to examine the whole-brain…[Read more]

After experiencing the same episode, some people can recall certain details about it, whereas others cannot. We investigate how common (intersubject) neural patterns during memory encoding influence whether an episode will be subsequently remembered, and how divergence from a common organization is associated with encoding failure. Using…[Read more]

We also found a ∼25 nm diurnal shift in spectral sensitivity towards longer wavelengths in the evening in both ERG and intracellular recordings. Whether the shift is caused by screening pigment migration or changes in opsin expression remains unclear, but the observation shows the diel dynamism of colour vision in this species. Together, these fin…[Read more]