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    Correction to: Antifungal Stewardship in Invasive Fungal Infections, a Systematic Review

    Cataldo Procacci, Luisa Marras, Leonarda Maurmo, Grazia Vivanet, Luca Scalone (2024)

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    Perceptual Dysfunction in Eating Disorders

    Eating disorders (EDs) are characterized by abnormal responses to food and weight-related stimuli and are associated with significant distress, impairment, and poor outcomes. Because many of the cardinal sympt...

    Erin E. Reilly, Tiffany A. Brown, Guido K. W. Frank (2024)

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    Visual Perceptual Processing Abnormalities in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

    Phenomenological observations of individuals with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), coupled with evidence from neuropsychological, psychophysical, and neuroimaging studies, support a model of aberrant visual per...

    Joel P. Diaz-Fong, Jamie D. Feusner (2024)

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    Integrating the Physical Environment Within a Population Neuroscience Perspective

    Population neuroscience recognises the role of the environment in shaping brain, behaviour, and mental health. An overview of current evidence from neuroscientific and epidemiological studies highlights the pr...

    Lindsey Smith (2024)

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    Plant Hormone Crosstalk Under Abiotic Stress Conditions

    Plants are constantly challenged by a wide range of adverse conditions in their ever-changing environment. Abiotic stresses, including drought, heat, cold, and salinity, are among the main stress cues that neg...

    Adrián González Ortega-Villaizán, Eoghan King, Manish K. Patel, Stephan Pollmann (2024)

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    The Neurophysiology of Interoceptive Disruptions in Trauma-Exposed Populations

    In the aftermath of psychological trauma, many individuals experience perturbations in interoception, a term that broadly references the ability to accurately detect body signals and integrate these signals wi...

    Negar Fani, Travis Fulton, Boris Botzanowski (2024)

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    Emerging Theories of Allostatic-Interoceptive Overload in Neurodegeneration

    Recent integrative multilevel models offer novel insights into the etiology and course of neurodegenerative conditions. The predictive coding of allostatic-interoception theory posits that the brain adapts to ...

    Daniel Franco-O’Byrne, Hernando Santamaría-García, Joaquín Migeot, Agustín Ibáñez (2024)

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    Halophytes and Climate Change: Elucidation of Salt-Tolerance Mechanisms and Biodiversity Conservation

    The progressive secondary salinisation of irrigated farmland, mostly caused by accumulation in the soil of toxic ions dissolved in the irrigation water and accelerated by climate change, is a major contributor...

    Sara González-Orenga, Monica Boscaiu, Oscar Vicente (2024)

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    Population Neuroscience: Principles and Advances

    In population neuroscience, three disciplines come together to advance our knowledge of factors that shape the human brain: neuroscience, genetics, and epidemiology (Paus, Human Brain Mapping 31:891–903, 2010)...

    Tomáš Paus (2024)

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    Population Neuroscience: Understanding Concepts of Generalizability and Transportability and Their Application to Improving the Public’s Health

    In population neuroscience, samples are not often selected with equal or known probability from an underlying population of interest; in other words, samples are not often formally representative of a specifie...

    Katherine M. Keyes, Diana Pakserian, Kara E. Rudolph, Giovanni Salum (2024)

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    Large-Scale Neuroimaging of Mental Illness

    Neuroimaging has provided important insights into the brain variations related to mental illness. Inconsistencies in prior studies, however, call for methods that lead to more replicable and generalizable brai...

    Christopher R. K. Ching, Melody J. Y. Kang, Paul M. Thompson (2024)

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    Marine Natural Products as Novel Treatments for Parasitic Diseases

    Parasitic diseases including malaria, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis have received significant attention due to their severe health implications, especially in developing countries. Marine natural products...

    Wenbing Cheng, Yanbing Huang, Haijun Gao, Bolor Bold, Ting Zhang, Dengfeng Yang (2024)

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    A Review of the Papaveraceae Family Based on the Multidisciplinary Study of Pollen Grain: Ultrastructure and Ontogeny

    In this paper, the Papaveraceae family is analyzed from the perspective of molecular phylogeny and pollen ultrastructure carried out by our research group and new data is added until all its subfamilies and tr...

    Ana Teresa Romero-García, María Carmen Fernández (2024)

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    Sex and Gender in Population Neuroscience

    To understand psychiatric and neurological disorders and the structural and functional properties of the human brain, it is essential to consider the roles of sex and gender. In this chapter, I first define se...

    Daniel E. Vosberg (2024)

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    Natural Products Derived from Cannabis sativa for Pain Management

    Cannabis sativa is one of the oldest medicinal plants in human history. Even ancient physicians from hundreds of years ago used Cannabis sativa to treat several conditions like pain. In the modern era, the resear...

    Erika Liktor-Busa, Tally M. Largent-Milnes (2024)

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    Large-Scale Population-Based Studies of Blood Metabolome and Brain Health

    Metabolomics technologies enable the quantification of multiple metabolomic measures simultaneously, which provides novel insights into molecular aspects of human health and disease. In large-scale, population...

    Zdenka Pausova, Eeva Sliz (2024)

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    Population Neuroscience: Strategies to Promote Data Sharing While Protecting Privacy

    Population neuroscience aims to advance our understanding of how genetic and environmental factors influence brain development and brain health over the life span, by integrating genomics, epidemiology, and ne...

    Adrian Thorogood (2024)

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    Area-level Measures of the Social Environment: Operationalization, Pitfalls, and Ways Forward

    People’s mental health is intertwined with the social environment in which they reside. This chapter explores approaches for quantifying the area-level social environment, focusing specifically on socioeconomi...

    Marco Helbich, Yi Zeng, Abeed Sarker (2024)

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    Exploring the Metabolic Response of Pseudomonas putida to L-arginine

    Beyond their role as protein-building units, amino acids are modulators of multiple behaviours in different microorganisms. In the root-colonizing beneficial bacterium Pseudomonas putida (recently proposed to be ...

    Chiara Scribani-Rossi, María Antonia Molina-Henares, Manuel Espinosa-Urgel (2024)

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    Natural Products and Diabetes: (−)-Epicatechin and Mechanisms Involved in the Regulation of Insulin Sensitivity

    Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a disease that occurs when cells do not respond normally to insulin, a condition called insulin resistance, which leads to high blood glucose levels. Although it can be treated pharmac...

    Cesar G. Fraga, Eleonora Cremonini, Monica Galleano, Patricia I. Oteiza (2024)

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