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Graphics are physical or mental images that individuals produce through their perceptual, cognitive, and executive functions. Pertaining to this is the study of implicit behaviors, that is, behaviors consisting of an individual’s interior processes, which are useful for understanding the way they “interpret” the environment as independent variables. The concurrent means of formulating this type of “interpretation”, which is tied to the area of perception, are found in both the behavior and literal and graphical verbal or written narration.

Although natalizumab (anti-α4 integrin) represents an effective therapy for relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), it is associated with an increased risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), caused by the polyomavirus JC (JCV). The aim of this study was to explore natalizumab-induced phenotypic changes in peripheral blood T-lymphocytes and their relationship with JCV reactivation. Forty-four patients affected by RRMS were enrolled.

This article aims at discussing the evolution of Tibetan diasporic cinema in India. Reading every film as a journey in time and space along sites of memory and nostalgia, the chapter raises the question of cinema as a powerful exercise of historiography or, as Hayden White (1988) has aptly called it, “historiophoty”.

Study objectives: To assess spindle activity as possible markers for neurocognitive consequences in children with mild obstructive sleep apnea. Methods: Children aged 6–11 years diagnosed with mild OSA (i.e., an apnea hypopnea index

Over the last decades a decrease in mortality has paved the way for late onset pathologies such as cardiovascular, metabolic or neurodegenerative diseases. This evidence has led many researchers to shift their focus from researching ways to extend lifespan to finding ways to increase the number of years spent in good health; “healthspan” is indeed the emerging concept of such quest for ageing without chronic or disabling diseases and dysfunctions. Regular consumption of natural products might improve healthspan, although the mechanisms of action are still poorly understood.

Abstract In this chapter, we have reviewed an extensive literature supporting the 4 critical role of sleep for several aspects of emotional processing and regulation. In the first part, we discussed the main behavioral and psychophysiological studies that examined how sleep influences the processes of encoding and consolidation of emotional memory. In addition, we examined how sleep modulates emotion regulation, emotional reactivity, and empathy. Further, we discussed the implication of sleep in fear conditioning memory, threat generalization, and extinction memory.

Oggetto di questa rassegna sono alcuni studi recenti dedicati alla deportazione degli ebrei di Roma, che consentono di mettere a fuoco importanti nodi storici della vicenda e di sviluppare la riflessione sul posto da essa occupato nell'identità e nella memoria dell'Italia contemporanea. Secondo l'autore, quattro temi principali emergono da queste ricerche. La necessità di collocare la vicenda romana all'interno della politica complessiva della Germania nazista nei confronti degli ebrei nell'Europa occupata. Il ruolo della Chiesa cattolica in questo specifico contesto.

This essay on colonial identity in post-war
Italian and British Cinema (1945‒1960) traces the common themes in film
representations of colonialism, highlighting the prevalence of key concepts
such as the supposed humanitarian and modernising nature of colonialism,
the celebration of its conquests, and the individual and collective value of
sacrifice.

Alzheimer Disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder characterized by specific patterns of grey and white matter damage and cognitive/behavioral manifestations. The cerebellum has also been implicated in the pathophysiology of AD. Since the cerebellum is known to have strong functional connectivity (FC) with associative cerebral cortex regions, it is possible to hypothesize that it is incorporated into intrinsic FC networks relevant to cognitive manifestation of Alzheimer disease.

Picking-up and exploiting spatial and temporal regularities in the occurrence of sensory events is important for goal-directed behaviour. According to the “Predictive Coding Hypothesis” (Friston Philosophical Trans R Soc B 360(1456):815–836, 2005), these regularities are used to generate top-down predictions that are constantly compared with actual sensory events. In a previous study with the Attentional Blink (AB) paradigm, we showed that the temporal and probabilistic uncertainty of T2s that are presented outside the Attentional Blink period, i.e.