PREFERENTIAL NEURONAL RESPONSES TO SNAKES IN THE MONKEY MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX SUPPORT AN EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN FOR OPHIDIOPHOBIA

Preferential Neuronal Responses to Snakes in the Monkey Medial Prefrontal Cortex Support an Evolutionary Origin for Ophidiophobia

Ophidiophobia (snake phobia) is one of the most common specific phobias.It has been proposed that specific phobia may have an evolutionary origin, and that attentional bias to specific items may promote the onset of phobia.Noninvasive imaging studies of patients with specific phobia reported that the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), especially the

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Quantitative Gait Feature Assessment on Two-Dimensional Body Axis Projection Planes Converted from Three-Dimensional Coordinates Estimated with a Deep Learning Smartphone App

To assess pathological gaits quantitatively, three-dimensional coordinates estimated with a deep learning model were converted into body axis plane projections.First, 15 healthy volunteers performed four gait patterns; that is, normal, shuffling, short-stepped, and wide-based gaits, with the Three-Dimensional Pose Tracker for Gait Test (TDPT-GT) U-

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Elevated CO2 Altered Rice VOCs Aggravate Population Occurrence of Brown Planthoppers by Improving Host Selection Ability

It is predicted that plant volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are affected by the atmospheric CO2 levels rising globally, which further affects the interaction between plants and herbivorous insects, especially the host selection behavior of herbivorous insects.In this study, the effects of elevated CO2 on the host-selection behavior of the brown pl

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Multiomic Analysis Provided Insights into the Responses of Carbon Sources by Wood-Rotting Fungi Daldinia carpinicola

Daldinia carpinicola is a newly identified species of wood-rotting fungi, with substantial aspects of its biology and ecological Sleeping Mask function yet to be clarified.A Nanopore third-generation sequencer was employed for de novo genome assembly to examine the genetic characteristics.The genome consisted of 35.93 Mb in 46 contigs with a scaffo

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Spatial and phenotypic heterogeneity of resident and monocyte-derived macrophages during inflammatory exacerbations leading to pulmonary fibrosis

IntroductionGenetic mutations in critical nodes of pulmonary epithelial function are linked to the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) and other interstitial lung diseases.The Whips slow progression of these pathologies is often intermitted and accelerated by acute exacerbations, complex non-resolving cycles of inflammation and parenchymal dama

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