Do you wonder how movies–sequences of static frames–appear to move, or why 3-D films
look different from traditional movies? Why does ventriloquism work, and why can airliner …

Premature infants in the NICU are often exposed to continuous loud noise despite research
documenting the presence and damaging effects of noise on the preterm infant's …

Background Exposure to mixture of neurotoxic metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium
occurs at a specific point of time. When exposed to metal mixtures, one metal may act as an …

Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) permits study of the brain's functional networks without
requiring participants to perform tasks. Robust changes in such resting state networks …

The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Preschool Version (BRIEF-P; Gioia,
Espy, & Isquith,) was developed to assess executive function (EF) behaviors in children …

Human behavior is shaped by social learning to an extent that is unrivaled in the natural
world. What neurobiological changes have occurred in human evolutionary history that have …

The primary objective in this paper is to present a framework to understand the structure of
consciousness. We argue that consciousness has been difficult to define because there are …

Background: Millions of neonates undergo anesthesia each year. Certain anesthetic agents
cause brain cell death and longterm neurocognitive dysfunction in postnatal day (P) 7 rats …

To examine executive processes in young children with traumatic brain injury (TBI), we
evaluated performance of 44 children who sustained moderate-to-severe TBI prior to age 6 …

In addition to short-term benefits such as reduced gas-trointestinal infections and
pneumonia, 1 the long-term benefits of having been breastfed in infancy are of great interest …