G Protein–Coupled Receptor Endocytosis Generates Spatiotemporal Bias in β-Arrestin Signaling

Academic News Report: The Temporal and Spatial Bias in β-arrestin Signal Transduction Mediated by G Protein-Coupled Receptor Endocytosis Research Background Among cell surface receptor families, G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest family. Upon activation by ligands, they interact with various signaling proteins to trigger int...

Multisensory Flicker Modulates Widespread Brain Networks and Reduces Interictal Epileptiform Discharges

Multisensory Flicker Modulates Widespread Brain Networks and Reduces Interictal Epileptiform Discharges

Research Report on Multi-sensory Flicker Regulating Extensive Brain Networks and Reducing Interictal Epileptiform Discharges Background Introduction In treating neurological disorders, modulating brain oscillations has great potential. Non-invasive interventions, suitable for everyday use at home, have become the focus of the scientific community, ...

Electrophysiological Signatures of Veridical Head Direction in Humans

Electrophysiological Signatures of Veridical Head Direction in Humans

Electrophysiological Signatures of Veridical Head Direction in Humans Navigation is one of the core components of human complex cognition, where head direction information is crucial for positioning oneself in space. However, due to the requirement of having the head fixed in a specific position during most neuroimaging experiments, understanding h...

Differential Cortical Layer Engagement During Seizure Initiation and Spread in Humans

Differential Cortical Layer Engagement During Seizure Initiation and Spread in Humans

Study on the Differences in Cortical Layers During Epileptic Seizure Onset and Spread Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that severely impacts patients’ quality of life, affecting approximately 1% of the global population. Among all epilepsy patients, nearly one-third are resistant to pharmaceutical treatments, known as drug-resistant epilepsy. Fo...

Beta to Theta Power Ratio in EEG Periodic Components as a Potential Biomarker in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Dementia

Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Treatment Frontiers: Beta/Theta Power Ratio in EEG Periodic Components as a Potential Biomarker Background Introduction Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) is a progressively developing disease, accounting for 60% to 80% of all dementia cases [1]. In the early stages of AD, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) typically occurs, du...

Modulating the Difficulty of a Visual Oddball-like Task and P3m Amplitude

Modulation of P3m Amplitude by Task Difficulty in a Visual Oddball Task Background In cognitive neuroscience research, Event-Related Potentials (ERP) and Event-Related Fields (ERF) are important means to explore the cognitive processing mechanisms of the brain. Among these, the P3 component (referred to as P3m in magnetoencephalography) has garnere...

Increases in Pre-Stimulus Theta and Alpha Oscillations Precede Successful Encoding of Crossmodal Associations

Enhancement of Theta and Alpha Oscillations Prior to Crossmodal Memory Encoding Background Episodic memory is a crucial component of human memory, with one of its core mechanisms being the formation of associations through stimuli from different sensory channels. Current theories suggest that during crossmodal associative encoding, the phase and po...

Macroscale Intrinsic Dynamics are Associated with Microcircuit Function in Focal and Generalized Epilepsies

Macroscale Intrinsic Dynamics are Associated with Microcircuit Function in Focal and Generalized Epilepsies

Study on the Relationship between Macroscopic Intrinsic Dynamics and Microcircuit Functions in Epilepsy Research Background Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by abnormal spontaneous brain activity, involving multi-scale changes in brain functional organization. However, it remains unclear to what extent epilepsy-related sp...

Functional Connectivity Alterations in Patients with Post-Stroke Epilepsy Based on Source-Level EEG and Graph Theory

Research Report on Changes in Functional Connectivity in Post-Stroke Epilepsy (PSE) Patients Based on Source-Level EEG and Graph Theory Research Background Epilepsy has various etiologies, including idiopathic, congenital, head trauma, central nervous system infections, brain tumors, neurodegenerative diseases, and cerebrovascular diseases. Among t...

Biomedical Relation Extraction with Knowledge Graph-Based Recommendations

Research Report on the Integration of Medical Relation Extraction and Knowledge Graph-Based Recommendations Background Introduction In the medical field, the explosive growth of literature makes it challenging for researchers to keep up with the latest advancements in their specific areas. From the perspective of natural language processing (NLP), ...