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How distinct autism and schizotypal trait dimensions influence neural predictive processing: An Event-related potential study 自闭症和分裂型特质维度如何影响神经预测加工：事件相关电位研究

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106329

Prune Mazer , Rita Pasion , Melissa Fontes , Cristiana Pires , Celeste Silveira , Fernando Ferreira-Santos

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Corrigendum to "Long-lasting pure topographical disorientation due to heading disorientation following left retrosplenial hemorrhage: A report of two cases" [Brain Cogn. 181 (2024) 106211]. “左脾后出血引起的头部定向障碍：两例报告”[脑杂志，181(2024)106211]。

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106317

Nobuko Kawakami, Yuri Okada, Keisuke Morihara, Kazuto Katsuse, Kazuo Kakinuma, Shiho Matsubara, Shigenori Kanno, Kyoko Suzuki

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White matter microstructure and cognitive abilities in 28-year-old offspring prenatally exposed to maternal anxiety: A prospective exploratory multimodal brain imaging study 产前暴露于母亲焦虑的28岁后代的白质微观结构和认知能力：一项前瞻性探索性多模态脑成像研究

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106319

Bea R.H. Van den Bergh , Charlotte Sleurs , Birte Geusens , Louise Emsell , Stefan Sunaert , Thibo Billiet

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The volume paradox: inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus integrity and connectivity in early blindness 体积悖论：额枕下束在早期失明中的完整性和连通性

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106318

Mysa Myers , Gerry Leisman , Amedeo D’Angiulli

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Mindfulness practices and transcranial direct current stimulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of self-reported mindfulness 正念练习和经颅直流电刺激：自我报告正念的系统回顾和荟萃分析

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106307

Steven Wickens , Gummersall Timothy , Brown Trevor

{"title":"Mindfulness practices and transcranial direct current stimulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of self-reported mindfulness","authors":"Steven Wickens , Gummersall Timothy , Brown Trevor","doi":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106307","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is a growing body of evidence investigating the effectiveness of combining psychological therapy and techniques with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for facilitating meaningful change across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical domains. The objective of the current review was to examine mindfulness practices in combination with tDCS on self-reported mindfulness, given the well-established benefits of mindfulness on psychological health as well as the critical role of mindfulness processes as mediators of change in psychosocial intervention. Two databases were searched for sham-controlled studies of combined tDCS and mindfulness that included standardised mindfulness measures. Eight randomised trialsmet inclusion criteria. Results of the random-effects <em>meta</em>-analysis showed that mindfulness-based practices combined with active tDCS intervention revealed a small but significant increase in overall mindfulness as compared to sham tDCS and mindfulness (SMD = 0.24; 95% CI, 0.01, 0.48, p = 0.044). There was heterogeneity in the mindfulness practices, populations and number of stimulations, although there was general consistency in online tDCS location and intensity parameters (i.e., most commonly 2 mA anodal stimulation to the prefrontal cortex). The present findings provide evidence from sham RCTs that tDCS combined with mindfulness practice can augment self-reported mindfulness, lending support to a synergistic multimodal combination.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55331,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Cognition","volume":"188 ","pages":"Article 106307"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144154795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring the impact of white matter hyperintensities on gray matter atrophy and cognitive decline 探讨白质高信号对灰质萎缩和认知能力下降的影响

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106316

Zhongfeng Xie , Qiang Yu , Peiying Chen , Xiereniguli Anayiti , Mengling Tao , Yongsheng Xiang , Xiaowen Xu , Peijun Wang

{"title":"Exploring the impact of white matter hyperintensities on gray matter atrophy and cognitive decline","authors":"Zhongfeng Xie , Qiang Yu , Peiying Chen , Xiereniguli Anayiti , Mengling Tao , Yongsheng Xiang , Xiaowen Xu , Peijun Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106316","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106316","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are linked to gray matter volume (GMV) and cognitive abilities in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the detailed patterns of how WMHs affect brain structure and cognition in AD require more study. We examined 42 AD patients, 54 with mild cognitive impairment, and 59 normal controls. Using various correlation analyses, we explored the relationships between WMHs, GMV, and cognitive function. The findings indicate that WMHs significantly influence brain atrophy in AD, with total WMHs volume, subcortical WMHs volume, and the largest single WMH volume having the most impact. Subcortical WMHs volume notably affected Instrumental Activities of Daily Living scores, while the largest WMH volume influenced cognitive measures. These results highlight that specific WMH subtypes, especially subcortical volume and large lesions, play a pivotal role in GMV atrophy and cognitive decline in AD. our results support a neurovascular mechanism driving neurodegeneration, emphasizing the importance of early interventions targeting vascular issues to slow AD progression.</div><div><strong>Key points:</strong> The study investigated specific subtypes of white matter hyperintensities, revealing their impact on gray matter atrophy and cognitive decline, to identify potential biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease progression.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55331,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Cognition","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 106316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144069716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106306

Arman Deep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, B.H. Swathi, P. Bhargavi, Ashwini Godbole, Subash Khushu

{"title":"Age-related cortical changes and cognitive performance in healthy adults","authors":"Arman Deep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, B.H. Swathi, P. Bhargavi, Ashwini Godbole, Subash Khushu","doi":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106306","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106306","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aging is a continuous process with cortical thinning as a common consequence. This study aimed to evaluate cortical thickness, volume and area differences associated with age in healthy population.</div><div>Seventy-six healthy individuals were divided into three age groups: younger (25–40 years, n = 25), middle-aged (41–55 years, n = 24), and older (56–80 years, n = 27). The elderly group exhibited significantly reduced cortical gray matter in frontal regions (left rostral middle frontal, bilateral lateral orbitofrontal, precentral gyri), temporal (middle temporal, right superior temporal, right inferior temporal), limbic regions (left insula, left posterior cingulate gyrus), occipital (right cuneus, lateral occipital, right lateral occipital), and parietal (precuneus and left postcentral gyri) compared to the younger group.</div><div>Older adults exhibited age-related decline in performance of auditory verbal learning (AVL) and recall memory, working memory, visuo-motor coordination, compared to younger adults. Thinning of the left posterior cingulate gyrus is positively correlated with auditory verbal learning performance in middle and older age groups. Total and bilateral cortical thickness and volumes were found to be negatively correlated with age.</div><div>The present study shows the impact of aging on cortical thickness, volume and cognitive performance and have implications in the management of cognitive decline in the ageing population including prophylactic interventions thereof.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55331,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Cognition","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 106306"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144069717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effect of chronic pain on memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis exploring the impact of nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain 慢性疼痛对记忆的影响：一项系统回顾和荟萃分析，探讨伤害性、神经性和伤害性疼痛的影响

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106305

Kate Kelly , Emily Keohane , Gemma Davy

{"title":"The effect of chronic pain on memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis exploring the impact of nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic pain","authors":"Kate Kelly , Emily Keohane , Gemma Davy","doi":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106305","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106305","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Chronic pain is becoming increasingly prevalent in modern society. Much research to date has focused on the physical symptoms of pain associated with various conditions, yet living with chronic pain is also known to impact an individual’s cognition. Within cognition, memory is particularly vulnerable to outside factors, yet our understanding of the impact of chronic pain on memory is inconclusive. This systematic review and <em>meta</em>-analysis examined the association between chronic pain type and memory performance. Chronic pain samples were classified as nociceptive, neuropathic or nociplastic and were compared to healthy controls. Studies were sourced from Embase, Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO, Scopus and CINAHL databases between December 2023 and July 2024. A total of 15 good – strong studies with 1865 participants were included (106 who experienced chronic nociceptive pain, 315 who experienced chronic neuropathic pain, 589 who experienced chronic nociplastic pain and 855 healthy controls). Results indicated that individuals with nociceptive and nociplastic pain had impaired short-term and long-term memory performance compared to healthy controls. The same was not true for individuals with neuropathic pain. These findings demonstrate that the type of pain one experiences impacts memory performance. This has profound implications both clinically and with regard to research and offers a new lens for how we can consider chronic pain when trying to understand the impact on cognition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55331,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Cognition","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 106305"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143947077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Socioeconomic deprivation, brain morphology, and body fat among children and adolescents 儿童和青少年的社会经济剥夺、大脑形态和体脂

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106315

Anting Yang , Hui Jing Lu , Lei Chang

{"title":"Socioeconomic deprivation, brain morphology, and body fat among children and adolescents","authors":"Anting Yang , Hui Jing Lu , Lei Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106315","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106315","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given mounting literature linking environmental adversity with neurobiological alterations, other evidence has shown association between excess adiposity and attenuated brain development, leading to our current question of how the developing brain interacts with change in body composition in response to environmental challenges. Using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD®) Study, we conducted mediation analyses and demonstrated that socioeconomic deprivation (SED) was associated with lower total brain and cortical volumes via the mediation of higher waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and that WHtR likewise mediated the association of SED with global brain structures. The prefrontal structures showed region- and direction-specific pathways, with bilateral superior and middle frontal gyrus being most consistently related with WHtR in addition to the impact of SED. These findings reveal a functional trade-off between brain development and fat deposition in response to environmental deprivation, and may have implications for understanding neurocognitive and somatic development among children and adolescents in different socioeconomic contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55331,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Cognition","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 106315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cognitive efficiency and expertise-dependent automaticity in the working memory performance of bilinguals 双语者工作记忆表现中的认知效率和专业依赖自动性

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Brain and Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106308

Federico Gallo , Liliia Terekhina , Jubin Abutalebi , Yury Shtyrov , Andriy Myachykov

{"title":"Cognitive efficiency and expertise-dependent automaticity in the working memory performance of bilinguals","authors":"Federico Gallo , Liliia Terekhina , Jubin Abutalebi , Yury Shtyrov , Andriy Myachykov","doi":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106308","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.bandc.2025.106308","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The concepts of cognitive efficiency (CE) and expertise-dependent automaticity are central to the understanding of cognitive adaptations related to bilingual experiences. This study examined their behavioral manifestations in bilingual young adults by manipulating the cognitive load of a working memory task; the possibility to manipulate the difficulty of a cognitive task is necessary to observe behavioral outcomes associated with CE and automaticity. To this end, participants completed an n-back task ranging in difficulty from 0-back to 3-back, with the 3-back condition being commonly recognized as being a highly cognitively demanding one. We aimed to determine whether degree of bilingual experience could predict performance outcomes – accuracy, reaction times, and the speed/accuracy tradeoff – reflecting bilingualism’s putative dynamic impact on CE and automaticity in working memory. The results showed a positive relationship between degree of bilingual experience and working memory performance, particularly when the task-induced cognitive load increased. More experienced bilinguals demonstrated a smaller decline in performance when task difficulty intensified, a behavioral manifestation compatible with increased CE. Additionally, a relationship with expertise-dependent automaticity emerged, with the speed/accuracy tradeoff trajectory unfolding differentially across varying task difficulties at different degrees of bilingual experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55331,"journal":{"name":"Brain and Cognition","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 106308"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143936648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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