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Understanding human episodic memory in aspects of large-scale brain networks has become one of the central themes in neuroscience over the last decade. Traditionally, episodic memory was regarded as mostly relying on medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures. However, recent studies have suggested involvement of more widely distributed cortical network and the importance of its interactive roles in the memory process. Both direct and indirect neuro-modulations of the memory network have been tried i

Recent human neuroimaging studies have suggested that fibromyalgia (FM), a chronic widespread pain disorder, exhibits altered thalamic structure and function. Since the thalamus has extensive reciprocal connection with the cortex, structural and functional thalamic alterations in FM might be linked to aberrant thalamocortical oscillation. This study investigated the presence of abnormal brain rhythmicity in low- and high-frequency bands during resting state in patients with FM and their relation

Our analysis of resting-state MEG signals shows that altered electrophysiologic functional hubs in mTLE patients reflect pathophysiologic brain network reorganization. Because we detected network hubs in both hippocampal and extrahippocampal areas, it is probable that mTLE is a large-scale network disorder rather than a focal disorder. The hippocampus was a network hub in left mTLE but not in right mTLE patients, which may be due to intrinsic functional and structural asymmetries between left an

These results imply that disabled people will be able to control prosthetic devices without surgery in the near future.

Epilepsy surgery for CD achieved 45.3% seizure-free rate with 10.9% transient postoperative complications in our institute. Worse postoperative seizure outcome was observed in cases with mild CD and frontal lobe resection.

Surgical treatment of tumor-related TLE resulted in long-term seizure control in the majority of patients. Maximal tumor removal can be recommended for tumor-related TLE.

Our study is the first to reveal the correlation between the probability of chord progression and the corresponding neuromagnetic response. The current results suggest that the physiological response is a reflection of the probabilistic representations of the musical syntax. Moreover, the results indicate that the probabilistic representation is related to the musical training as well as the sensitivity of an individual.

Total resection is the treatment of choice for patients with GISS and provides functional improvements, low permanent morbidity, and a low rate of recurrence. Total resection of the intraspinal portion and regular follow-up with consideration of the Ki-67 index is recommended when total resection is not achieved.

We investigated the reliability of nodal network metrics of functional connectivity (FC) networks of magnetoencephalography (MEG) covering the whole brain at the sensor level in the eyes-closed (EC) and eyes-open (EO) resting states. Mutual information (MI) was employed as a measure of FC between sensors in theta, alpha, beta, and gamma frequency bands of MEG signals. MI matrices were assessed with three nodal network metrics, i.e., nodal degree (Dnodal), nodal efficiency (Enodal), and betweenne

In the present study, we characterized within- and cross-frequency power correlations from magnetoencephalography (MEG) data in order to understand how different brain regions cooperate as a network to maintain working memory representations with several features. The working memory items were composed of spatially arranged dots supposedly requiring both the dorsal and the ventral stream to be engaged during maintenance. Using a beamforming technique, we localized memory-dependent sources in the

A histologic grading system based on tumor differentiation was applied in a study of 122 patients with stage IB and IIA squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. In general, the more dedifferentiated the primary tumor, the more bulky the primary lesion and the higher the incidence of pelvic node metastasis. Following treatment, patients with undifferentiated tumors had a higher incidence of tumor recurrence a lower 2-year survival rate than those with well or moderately differentiated lesio

In situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry have been applied to investigate the expression of c-sis/platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-B, insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I, and transforming growth factor alpha mRNAs and their respective receptor mRNAs in three primary human gastric carcinomas and in their adjacent nonmalignant mucosas. Expression of c-sis/PDGF-B mRNA and PDGF-receptor beta mRNA was seen in the tumor cells of the three gastric cancer specimens but not in their adjacent non