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Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2022 Aug 3:104810. Epub 2022 Aug 3.

Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address:

Turing inspired a computer metaphor of the mind and brain that has been handy and has spawned decades of empirical investigation, but he did much more and offered behavioral and cognitive sciences another metaphor-that of the cascade. The time has come to confront Turing's cascading instability, which suggests a geometrical framework driven by power laws and can be studied using multifractal formalism and multiscale probability density function analysis. Here, we review a rapidly growing body of scientific investigations revealing signatures of cascade instability and their consequences for a perceiving, acting, and thinking organism. Read More

Physiol Behav 2022 Aug 2:113935. Epub 2022 Aug 2.

RoboCorp Laboratory, i2A, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, 3046-854, Coimbra, Portugal; Centre for Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Processes, CEMMPRE, University of Coimbra, 3030-788, Coimbra, Portugal; Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, 2411-901 Leiria, Portugal.

Understanding the cortical activation and postural control behavior during dual-task (DT) has been an object of study. However, despite the multiple benefits of exercise and good sleep quality, less is known about the correlation between physical activity (PA) and sleep quality (SQ) on postural control and brain activation under dual-task performance. This study aimed to analyze the correlation between PA level and SQ with postural control performance and hemodynamic response in the prefrontal cortex during the DT performance in young adults. Read More

J Exp Biol 2022 Aug 2. Epub 2022 Aug 2.

Cornell University, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Ithaca, New York, USA.

Acoustic behavior is widespread across vertebrates, including among fishes. We report robust acoustic displays during aggressive interactions for a laboratory colony of Danionella dracula, a miniature and transparent species of teleost fish closely related to zebrafish (Danio rerio), which are hypothesized to be sonic based on the presence of a hypertrophied muscle associated with the male swim bladder. Males produce bursts of pulsatile sounds and a distinct postural display-extension of a hypertrophied lower jaw, a morphological trait not present in other Danionella species-during aggressive, but not courtship interactions. Read More

Front Aging Neurosci 2022 12;14:911221. Epub 2022 Jul 12.

Department of Neurology, Tianjin Neurological Institute, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the correlations of plasma neurodegenerative proteins and electroencephalography (EEG) dynamic functional network (DFN) parameters with disease progression in early Parkinson's disease (PD) with different motor subtypes, including tremor-dominant (TD) and postural instability and gait disorder (PIGD).

Methods: In our study, 33 patients with PD (21 TD and 12 PIGD) and 33 healthy controls (HCs) were enrolled. Plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL), α-synuclein (α-syn), total-tau (t-tau), β-amyloid 42 (Aβ42), and β-amyloid 40 (Aβ40) levels were measured using an ultrasensitive single-molecule array (Simoa) immunoassay. Read More

J Interprof Care 2022 Jul 26:1-9. Epub 2022 Jul 26.

James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, United States.

We examined interprofessional collaboration in a pre-service training model which incorporated the merging of three treatments: Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, and Applied Behavior Analysis. We examined the effects of changes in the clinician interprofessional skill repertoire on therapeutic outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Three licensed professionals modeled core techniques from their respective professions to establish benchmark standards for skill demonstration in the treatment of children with autism. Read More